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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93745	The mystery of iniquity somewhat laid open: in a letter to the present Governour wherein is also contained an history and recital and proposal of sundry things to be made known and remembred, and to be done accordingly. In that letter which I carried to thing house at Kensington on November 3. 1691. which was there burnt (as near as I can remember) the words contained therein was to this following effect, viz.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5124; ESTC R232302	23,922	25

Guilt is stirred up and from hence doth arise Conviction Shame Anguish of Spirit all which are very troublesome and fearful Expectation of what all the present Trouble is but a little Earnest and Transient Forerunner of that Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish which shall for ever abide and remain upon your Immortal Spirits which shall be in worse Pains than that of Dying and yet they shall never Dye Consider It is good for ye now to be troubled in order to the Saving of your Souls And ye had better be warned of it that ye may flee from the Wrath to come than to be kept Ignorant unmindful or holden under strong Delusions unto your Dying Day and so fall Eternally under it These strong Delusions are sent unto those who receive not the Love of the Truth and they are outwardly administred by your Mealy mouthed Priests who do deliver in these smooth things and Deceits both in their ordinary Preaching and Personal Conversation to the Intent that they may Please and not Offend and they call this Falseness and Per●idiousness to their Holy Ministry Good Humour and Breeding But as to speaking the things which become ●ound Doctrine they are in the Language of the Spirit Dumb Dogs for so they are through Fear Corruption and Sloth And because of the Multitude of them who do neglect and leave undone those things which they ought to do I am Persecuted as one Singular and am as a speckled Bird the Birds round about are against me Jer. 12. 9. and they do Chatter or put forth the Bill And whereas I do like another John Baptist warn the People of this my Generation to flee from the Wrath to come and I do mention the Law of God which saith that such and such things are not Lawful that is they ar● not consistent with but contrary or otherwise than such a Law Commands or Requires But ye are more to be blamed and ye are worthy of soarer Punishment who do offend this Law than I am thought an Offender only for making mention of this Law for I do according to what is commanded Lev. 19. 17. Rebuke ye and I would not suffer Sin upon you But for this doing only ye do put and shut me up in Prison for which doing to me his Servant God will answer ye again as to thrust ye down to the lowermost Hell For a common Swearer Drunkard or Whore-monger will receive a Reproof and he will acknowledge his Fault and make excuses for it but he will not strike him in the Face who shall give the Admonition There doth indeed rise up a greater degree of Rancor Malice and Hatred against him that Rebukes for the Sins of Fraud and Injustice But when a who●e Nation do despise and falsifie an Oath when they establish Iniquity by a Law When by a pretended Law of their own making they would make void God's Law Psa●m 119. 126. and his Fifth Commandment of none effect Mat. 15. 6. by their sayings Tradition and Practice for as the Pharis●es did of old so do both our Rulers and Pharisees at this day when the Nations would Reign only themselves and would not have God Reign over them ●or his Law and Word mentioned among them if it should contradict their doings and Actions Then they do imprison punish and p●t to death him who s●●ll do it But the very 〈◊〉 Wickedness and Rebellion would also imprison punish put to death if either was in their power the Living Almighty and Eternal God They would lift him off from his Throne which is established of old Psalm 93. 2. if they could reach up and do it for the Floods have lifted up that is they do think and lift up their Voice that is speak against God yea there is yet a third ascending step of Rebellion they do li●t up their Waves that is they act against God to the utmost of their power as high and as far as they can reach The Lord on h●gh is mightier than the noise of many Waters yea than the 〈◊〉 Waves of the Sea Psal 93. 4. He is above all the Thoughts Words and Actions of Mortal and Rebellious Creatures And he is not as the Idols of the Heathen to be taken Captive slain or thrown down Nevertheless herein he doth prove the Wickedness and Rebellion of Men against him for he sends his Servants into whom he instils his Truth and Goodness and what is done against them he doth interpret and receive it as done immediately against himself And so when he sent his only begotten Son into the World who was the Word and the Word was God yet they did slay him the Prince of Life And as Christ said He that hateth me ●ateth my Father also John 15. 23. so if such a thing may be supposed with Reverence the same Wickedness that did slay his Christ would if possible have killed God himself And so for the Governors whom he hath set over us and calls his Anointed the very same Rebellion that doth depose and remove the Government off from their Shoulders because it is in Mens power so to do would likewise pull down God from Heaven and remove the Government off from his Shoulders if that was in their power also For in all these Cases the Murmurings and Speeches the Actions and Doings are not against the Creature but against the Lord our Creator and our Governor our Law-giver and our King Ye should quarrel not with me his Servant but with him because he hath given such Laws to Mankind but indeed he is displeased with you and will punish you for not Obeying keeping and observing them or will ye Arraign his Justice and Goodness in givings Laws to Mankind to which are annexed such exceeding great Rewards and Penalties of Eternal Life and Death and ye say that they are penned so dark intricate and obscure that ye know not when ye do observe them or not But this is to utter Error against the Lord Isa 32. 6. which is naturally Consequent when your heart doth work Iniquity and practice Hypocrisie for all this hardness or doubtfulness doth only come to pass through the Perplexity and Confusion of Disobedience or Transgression It is because ye do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand 12. 10. whereas if ye would turn from your Iniquities ye might understand his truth Dan. 9. 13. which ye do not ●are but ye are unwilling to do and therefore like the Slothful and Wicked Servant to excuse your selves ye would think God to be unrighteous or an hard Master which he is neither but ye are Perverse and Disobedient The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God Psalm 14. 1. But they which are corrupt and have done abominable Works the Wicked Disobedient and Hypocrite do wish and desire that there was no God and they would not have God Reign over them In the Language of Moses David and Isaiah they are called Rebels which is

that Kingdom which contains Riches Honor and Power unto him whose Right it is which he unduly took away by Force Subtlety Wrong and Falshood But here again the Pride of Heart doth struggle That it would not be for his Honour and Credit to be so easily perswaded out of Three Kingdoms one whereof he got by the Sword by a Cripple Beggar Mad Person a strange look'd Fellow whose Visage is marred more than other Men and in a word by him who hath undergone almost all the Indecencies and Shame that are incidental to Humane Nature Whereas it is not I but the Grace and Truth of God which appear forth through me which is able and also will if trial be but once had do all this here spoken of And how know we but in very deed for this cause hath God raised him up for to shew in him the Power of his Word and Truth which can and also will bring this Stranger down Isa 25. 5. 26. 5. from that State into which he is as yet exalted into that Station he was in before and that the Name of God may be declared throughout all Europe and that his Truth may be manifested and cleared throughout all the Reformed Churches thereof as it hath been delivered and all along asserted by me his unworthy Instrument The Devil did at first tempt him to this Sin and Transgression by promising him more Happiness Good and Pleasure but now having had experience of it He is wearied in the greatness of his way and he knows and is sensible that he did before live as Happily as now and that all his Devices which he hath brought to pass are not worth the exposing himself to so much Sin and Danger as he hath done and he would as easily give it all up for the real Contentment he doth find it to yield ● But then the same Tempter doth continue him still in the same Sin and Transgression by such and such Thoughts or Devices Pleasure and Pain are the Hinge upon which all our Actions turn and as with Desire of the first he was led into this Transgression so he being now filled surfeited and wearied with that his Soul is now become Restless Yet he is afraid to cease turn from and to put away the Evil of his doings for fear of Pain and Inconvenience as of Temporal Death or Disgrace Which last seems to be somewhat the more because of the Prosperity of his Arms and he hath such a vast Multitude of People of all Ranks and Degrees of his side Which again is the more increased by reason of such an one his Opposite whom if the People have not altogether hated without a cause yet sure I am They have cast Iniquity upon him and in Wrath they have hated him more than there is Truth and real cause for There are many li●e Thoughts in the Heart of the Present Governour whereunto I or the Reader may give a satisfactory Answer as they do arise But as for his being afraid least his Father-in-Law should put him to Death for Rebellion and Treason I my self have proposed that way in Page 12. of my Reprinted Book Entituled Things Plain and Weighty c. That our Rightful King be Restored and admitted upon these Terms That the most General Act of Oblivion and Indemnity might pass without any Exception to any manner of Person whatsoever and not so much as One Man be put to Death and I my self by reason of whose publishing of Truth he doth the more fear will therefore stand Hostage or Guarranty for him or his Friends to answer Body for Body Life for Life Member for Member so to procure and effect it that there shall not be the least harm done to his outward Person But only he shall be in Stata Quo with all the Advantages he was in before his Debts and the Charge of his Expedition paid either to return into Holland or to live at Kensington and none shall molest or hurt him Indeed this thing of Temporal Death is very Terrible unto a Man that hath led a sinful Life to fall by a violent and shameful way and then to appear before God unto whom he must give account for all the Actions of his past Life and then to have a final irreversible Sentence pass upon him of eternal Blessing or Condemnation So that Men had rather though it is with the Addition of more Sin and Guilt go on towards the day until they come to die or descend into Battel and Perish not considering that then also there must be the same yea and worse account to be given by reason of more Sin committed and longer Impenitency which is Treasuring up Wrath against the day of Wrath and involving themselves into more Stripes and greater Misery For if it should be so as here surmised it is better to truly and un●eignedly Repent of Sin and venture the Temporal Danger here supposed than to live longer only to disobey and provoke God the more But thou who art as yet called King William shalt be as much assured and ascertained as that thou now Livest and Breathest that thy most ●ull Pardon shall be had And if thou dost further doubt thereof to make things as sure as possible thou mayest with the Forces under thy Command remove into Holland or into some distant Parts of this Island until thou hast his Word ratified into a Law that all things shall be done according to thy reasonable Desire and agreeable to this Great Time which is now drawing on Of the Reconciliation of all Things for Like Prince like People this is what hinders them also from returning to their Due Allegiance unto their Rightful King They have acted so many things against him that they are afraid if he should be again instated and put into the Actual Administration of the Regal Power Office and Authority that he would be Revenged on them and pr●ce●d to Punishment which may extend to Life Member or Estate but none of them shall suffer in the lea●● and they are Adversaries to the King Who Dicta●e otherwise which thing must be included as a great necessary and essential Term of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this must be made as sure firm an● rati●●●● unto them as any thing in the World can be N●● it shall be made much more sure than now it is that they shall not lose their Lives and Estates in opposing a Powerful Forreign Enemy whom they have made to be their Enemy and they have provoked and drawn him in upon themselves It they will now before the more severe Decree come forth yield unto and accept of these Terms of Mercy and Reconciliation it shall be made more certain unto them that they shall be every one forgiven for whatever they have done in this Matter then now they have false reason to think that they shall escape by Iniquity that is by making the Government as they call it as secure and strong as ever they can by Imprisoning