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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93761	A word to both houses of Parliament.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5150; ESTC R184567	7,112	4

as He hath ●…re spoken of in his Word As by those at this day who are employed in carrying on the War It is found 〈◊〉 what is written And thou Son of Man thus saith the Lord God speak to every feathered Fowl and to every Beast of the Field Assemble your selves and come gather your selves on every side to my Sacrifice that I do Sacrifice for you even a great Sacrifice upon the Mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink blood Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the the Blood of the Princes of the Earth Ezek. 39.17 18. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me Take the Wine cup of this fury at my ●…nd and cause all Nations to whom I send thee to drink it And they shall drink and be moved and be MAD because of the Sword that I will send among them 25.15 16. For the Indignation of the Lord is upon all Nations and his Fury upon all their Armies He hath utterly destroyed them he hath delivered them to the slaughter Their slain shall be cast out and their stink shall come up out of their Carcases and the Mountains shall be melted with their Blood Isa 34. 2 3. The Kings Princes and Rulers of the Earth do not Read and Consider throughly of all this as they are raising Men making Pre●…tions for War and forming out their Camps Therefore I will number you to the Sword and ye shall ●…w down to the slaughter Isa 65.12 For so is the Eternity Prescience and Omniscience of Almighty God that He speaks of as already past what is yet to come And He knows before hand those Persons by their Names with the other Circumstances of Time Place and Manner who have been already and shall yet be killed in War And they shall go forth and look upon the Carcases of the Men that have transgressed against me and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh Isa 66.24 The Prophet here seeme to allude unto a Field after a pitcht Battel hath been Fought therein where is to be seen a great number of Corpses every way mangled and defiled with Blood and Excrements which cause a stink and noysomeness and then they are but little weak vile Bodies made of dirt and clay and covered over with that ghastly look Death hath cast upon them All this put together raises an Abhorring And this happens unto them of both sides as to the Cause and Occasion of their Fighting and Murdering one another because they have transgressed against the Lord. As commonly the Actors herein are trained on disciplined and led blindly to this kind of End by gross Ignorance of the Things of God Vain Swearing Whoredom Drunkenness Pride Revenge and Quarrelling Which do more chiefly abound in them than in other People For as throughout the whole Book of the Lord War is let forth by way of his Indignation Isa 34.2 upon the Inhabitants of the Earth so his reasonable Creatures would not willingly make choice of this kind of Employment unless such as are given up to these or the like Sins and Abominations Another short Warning to him hereafter Named Whereas it is said in Page 6 of my Printed Book Entituled The Mastery of Iniquity somewhat l●… Open c. That though God had rejected Saul from that day forward see 1 Sam. 15.26.28 in which Samuel spake after this manner Yet he continued King over all Israel until the day in which he was s●… in the Battel against the Philistines And therefore from what is there further said and alledged 〈◊〉 Lords and Counsellors if they be his real Friends should even weeping beseech whom ye call K●… William Yea Those near about him should take hold of the Skirt of his Garment as not to suffer 〈◊〉 to go out any more to Battel nor adventure himself therein by Sea or Land least it should be not 〈◊〉 with the certain hazard but yet greater danger of his Life For it is said in the Proverb The Pitcher 〈◊〉 not go so often to the Well but it is broken at last and Himself may learn by the Examples of Schom●… Walker and several others of his own Knowledge and Experience who escaped as many near immi●… Dangers as ever he did and yet were at last killed in War That the Sword devoureth one as well as other and the Bullets fly promiscuously amongst them all and therefore he only is safe who doth meddle with nor come near them And here if it should so happen whereof He is again hereby wa●… As He hath hitherto lived therein so He would die in his Sin and Iniquity But rather let him co●… Repentance and seek for Peace only by Righteousness See Psal 72.3 the Bible Translation 〈◊〉 7.2 for there is no other way under Heaven whereby we may come to it In this Case it is thought that it is vain to give Warning For say what we will The Destiny wh●… they are Worthy will bring them to their End and as Josephus the Historian saith Destiny is such a 〈◊〉 which the Wisest Man cannot avoid But certain I am it is not so much their Destiny as their and their Ignorance and their 〈◊〉 Folly which lead them For the foregoing Things are manifestly in●… own Power as in the present Instance He of whom we speak may go out to War or He may go out He may 〈◊〉 break off his Sins by Righteousness and thus lengthen yea secure his own Tranq●… if He will The Wrong getting and Unjust keeping of an Earthly Kingdom or of the greatest Worldly Profit few Months or Years longer cannot be a sufficient Compensation for the Loss of Heaven and falling Hell for all Eternity Most of this Testimony was finished March 25. 1692. and if it had then been made known unto and Obeyed by them whom it doth more especially Concern the Truth contained herein would have saved those Lives which have been lost in War this Summer and it would preserve them for the time to come if they will do accordingly FINIS

A Word to both Houses of PARLIAMENT THERE is a very great Malignity considering which see Rom. 1.29 for it arises from all Vnrighteousness Covetousness Maliciousness Envy Murder Debate Deceit there mentioned when people will not Obey God and they refuse to come into the way of his Commandments And this is so much the more provoking and worthy of sorer Punishment by much the longer and more continued it is So that Let none hence think that we recede or go aside from what we have received of God nor do we hereby make that part of his Word which is committed to our Ministration low and precarious Nor yet do We use it as an artifice or trick to get them off sooner from their Rebellion when we make that Proposal and Overture of a General Act of Oblivion and Indemnity to all the Workers of Iniquity See my Books Entituled Things Plain and Weighty c. The Mystery of Iniquity somewhat laid open c. That they shall be every one forgiven for whatever They have done as to Man's Punishment Which offer they think that we therefore make because we have not Power or Numbers to subdue them But this is to suppose and talk after the manner of Men for strong is the Lord God Almighty who will Judge them Nevertheless because Sentence against an evil Work is not executed speedily therefore the Hearts of the Sons of Men are fully set in them to do evil and they do in the mean while take up Proud Pharaohs Method and Resolution as to lay more Burden and Oppression on the true Israelites that they may Suffer if they will not sin and cast in their Lot among us and they think or say Let us not regard vain words Exod. 5.9 But they are not vain Words for though the Kingdom of God is in Word and is called the Weakness of God 1 Cor. 1.25 It is also in Power and in the Holy Ghost and in much Assurance that it shall be all found me For whatever some would imagine or desire not one tittle thereof shall fail until all be fulfilled Hereby is evident and also seen that God is stronger for He doth continually send forth his Messenger u●…on the Pale Horse whose name is Death which notwithstanding all their Multitude and Power doth●●…est them severally to bring them before his Judgment Seat Is not this laid up in store with me 〈◊〉 sealed up among my treasures To me belongeth Vengeance and Recompence their foot shall slide in du● time observe that for the day of their Calamity is at hand and the Things that shall come upon them make haste Deut. 32.34 35. Dearly beloved Avenge not your selves but rather give place unto Wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Rom. 12.19 In these things Man hath nothing to do to take Vengeance or proceed to Punishment and yet if any should be so Presumptuous as to intermeddle with this sealed Treasure and Prerogative of Almighty God He will again recompence to such Person or Persons accordingly So that whereas the People of this Nation did call their King to Account and punish him with Depri●…tion for those unlawful things He is supposed and charged to have committed which yet by the La●… God and of this Realm they ought not to have done I thought at that very time He was driven a●… from his Kingdom That this Act of theirs would somewhat take off and lessen from what He 〈◊〉 unto in the Future Account in that God would so over-rule this Malice and Rebellion of M●… to change it into a Temporal Chastisement and Punishment of his Iniquity if He hath accepted it as such Levit. 26.41 As indeed to live in outward Mirth and Recreations or to seek to recover his Kingdom again by Blood is not consistent with that state of Humiliation and Waiting on the Lord He should have been in all along and He should be in yet Our God doth once more seem to shew forth th●… shedding of Blood is not his Way and Method of bringing back his Anointed as appears somewhat b●… the late Victory had over the French Fleet. But if still God is pleased to devise other means that h●… banished be not expelled from him 2 Sam. 14.14 and He cause Judgment to return to Righteousness And this be done not by Power nor by Might but by his Spirit and the Manifestation of his Truth which every Son and Daughter of God ought to strive to the utmost that it go forth continually and every Soul that will not yield Obedience unto it shall be Miserable for ever Here again great heed is to be taken that the last Errour be not like unto the first for the Wrath of Man worketh not the Righteousness of God and therefore this hath nothing to do or inflict And though our Nature as it is Corrupt may meditate of Vengeance and as it is wise according to the Flesh It may think some Punishment necessary as to Future Security and Prevention of the like Things yet the Language of Faith and the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord saith on this wise that the more We let alone and refrain from these Men they will meet a more severe Judgment from the Lord and there can be no such sure Establishment for the time to come as by Righteousness and to Order it with Judgment and with Justice according to the Rules and Directions of God's Word If any part hereof doth seem somewhat strange or unintelligible so may any any Truth when it is first brought to our sight and apprehension or when that is throughly and clearly manifested which was but imperfectly and confusedly Thought of before A Word to the Members of the Privy Council as they do Sit to Advise and give Orders in Matters of War It is written that after Herod killed James He proceeded further to take Peter also Acts 12.2 3. and of one who strengthened himself in his Wickedness Psal 52.7 Which is done only by committing the several successive and repeated Acts thereof for thus they are the more confirmed and hardened yet and encouraged in an evil Matter There is in Men by Nature an awful Apprehension of God and they are at first fearful to offend againg him But when they see others provoke him and no harm happen unto them Yea commonly These Vngodly do prosper in the World They increase in Riches then they take heart by little and little to Sin against him especially if they find no hurt upon themselves as presently they do not and when they are some what habituated and accustomed to it They go on to Transgress more and more As it is said in the Proverb Over Shoes over Boots when once they are throughly in they think that must and they do go on in the same When an Army is once blooded as we say then they are more desperate and cruel and they having been used to so much Murther already they do not refrain