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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

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from any kind of Slaughter This seems to be the very Reason why at this day they do not cease from but they go on still in the Prosecution of the War notwithstanding it hath been declared unto them that the Lord will make Inquisition for Blood Psal 9.12 And He will require at the hands of such who have the outward Power to proclaim War or treat of Peace the life of every man Gen. 9.5 which hath been already or shall yet be lost in these unnecessary Wars For so they are in as much as they might have been avoided at first and even now or at any time an End may be put unto them Nevertheless Our chief Men and Rulers do not regard the Word of God nor what is here truly alledged from thence concerning the Future Account themselves must give for the same but they go on still in their own ways after their own Wisdom and Will and they think or say We will venture the Consequent thereof Some of them know that their own heart is disobedient to the Law of God in other things and so they are as it were blinded and do not throughly understand what this means Others brave it off with a high hand of Presumption Contempt and Disobedience It is a sad and marvellous thing to consider that now The Sword the Sword is drawn the Holy Ghost ●…th twice Repeat it because of the continuance and succession thereof for Slaughter it is fourbished to ●…sume because of the glittering Whiles they see Vanity unto thee whiles they Divine a Lye unto thee to ●…ing thee upon the Necks of them that are slain of the Wicked whose day is come when their Iniquity ●…ll have an End Ezek. 21.29 This again is to be applied to our Bishops Priests and Deacons and to the other Writers and Teachers for these exactly like the false Prophets there intended do sute and model their Doctrine and Discourse which they deliver in their Pamphlets Sermons and Personal Conversation according to the Corrupt Will and Doings of the Rich and Mighty People But now be it known unto you all which yet ye will not believe though a Man declare it unto ye That God hath sent forth a Word and published a Truth by his Servant Richard Stafford which if throughly understood and universally received It would cause the Sword to return into his Sheath Ezek. 21.30 and preserve Life Gen. 45.5 according to that Expression of the Patriarch God doth send out his Truth by some Instrument or other to save the lives vers 7. of those who are not yet killed Now in that Case if they had Imprisoned Joseph a second time for Prognosticating evil Things to their Country and if they had given no heed to his Words then all or most of the Egyptians had perished in the seven Years of Famine Mark this well But this the Heathen did not do whereas contrariwise the People of this Generation and Nation have done both with Me for when they ought to have obeyed the Truth of God which I wrote down and published They did by the Instigation of the Dev●… cast me into Prison for the same And thus They are of their Father the Devil and the Lusts of their Father they will do Observe that He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth because their is no Truth in him When He speaketh a Lye He speaketh of his own for He is a Lyer and the Father of it John 8.44 For the making and averring of a down right Lye was the Pretence whereby they held Me almost Eight Months in Bethlehem-Hospital During all which time I was for a Stone of Stumbling and for a Rock of Offence to both the Houses of England for a Gin and a Snare to the Inhabitants of London God permitting it so to be for a Proof and Tryal whether They could know and put a difference between the certainty of the Words of Truth and the Imaginations of a disordered Understanding But it was therefore thus pervertly done with Me of set purpose That the Residue of the People who are Men of War might be consumed because they Obeyed not the Voice of the Word of the Lord. And then by putting Me down into a dark lowermost Room That the Sound and Voice of my Words should not be heard distinctly and clearly was that Scripture fulfilled It cast down the Truth to the Ground and it Practised and Prospered Dan. 8.12 Which word Prosper though it is harped upon so mightily and in their way of Blasphemy and evil Speaking ascribed to God's Blessing wherein they think him to be altogether such an one as themselves Psal 50.21 imports to be further enabled to shed more Blood For who gets the Victory but he that kills most and then by committing further Sin and Transgression They do only heap upon themselves more Guilt sad Account and Misery for the last days Shall the Sword devour for ever know We not it will be bitterness in the End Now the Sword is as certainly a Judgment of God as the Fire Plague or Famine When a Fire is broken out People do whatever lies in their power to extinguish it again as soon as they can They provide against a Famine and seek Remedies for Prevention or Cure of the Plague But wherefore do they not in like manner endeavour to stop the People from pursuing to follow their Brethren and Fellow-Creatures and to cause the drawn Sword to be put up and that the Grievousness of War might cease The Reason of this great Diversity may be hence conceived and understood because Satan the Executioner of God's Wrath and Judgments doth here make Men themselves the Instruments for carrying on the Destruction of one another and in order to that he doth instil such and such things into the Minds of Men to the contrary And whereas some say Let it alone till that day comes or we will venture the Consequent thereof Would ye know ye vain deceivers of your own selves That day will as certainly come as it is certain that ye now live or shall one day die There is no great daring in all this for through their Ignorance and Unbelief every Persecutor Oppressor Murtherer Robber Yea all the Sinners and Transgressors thoughout the Earth do run the venture of their own Damnation But I must tell ye all in sober truth and sadness That this is the most dreadful Adventure in the World for any one to run either God must love a Lier or those that do such and such things shall go into Hell They might as safely throw themselves into the Fire to try if it will not burn for our God is a consuming Fire and so He will at length appear to devour his Adversaries A Word to all Soldiers There are many People who fulfil the Scriptures when they know not that they do so and even whilst they Act perversly against God and disobedient to his Law It comes so upon them according