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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61226	A supplemental tract of government to be annexed into the Book of happiness, &c. Chap. 3, circa pag. 147 which may be applied to all nations, but this is now particularly referred to the consideration of the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament at Westminster, January 4, 1690/89.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1690 (1690)	Wing S5140; ESTC R15509	3,782	2

A Supplemental Tract of Government to be annexed unto the Book of Happiness c. Chap. 3. Circa Pag. 147. Which may be applied to all Nations But this is now particularly referred to the Consideration of the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament at Westminster January 4. 1689 90. CHrist according to what is written of him Isa 9. 6 7. hath laid down sure and lasting Foundations of Government To order it and to establish it with Judgment and with Justice from henceforth even for ever the Zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this The Lord hath given such Laws Rules and Directions to the World that if they were observed would produce a perpetual Peace and Settlement throughout the whole Earth But by Disobedience and turning aside comes in confusion and every evil Work as may be seen in the fore-going Discourse wherein the Nature o● Government is particularly stated in order to Preservation and outward Peace And having there manifested the Truth and shewed those Relational Duties between King and Subjects I come now to apply it to the People of England viz. In the late Revolution of putting down one King and setting up another in this They are a Nation that have not done Righteousness but they have forsook the Ordinance of their God They have actually departed from that Established and fixed Order of Things he hath set up So they are in danger to dye in their Sins John 8. 24. And shall utterly perish in their own Corruption 2 Pet. 2. 12. Their several Persons shall appear before the Judgment Seat of God to give Account and receive for what they have done concerning this Matter Seeing they despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when lo they had given their Hand and have done all these things they shall not escape Therefore thus saith the Lord God As I live surely mine Oath that they have despised and my Covenant that they have broken even it will I Recompence upon their own Head Ezek. 17. 18 19. This place of Holy Writ is full and direct to the present purpose for it is spoken as to the King of Babylon who was an Heathen and as much an Idolater and Estranged from God as a Popish Prince But the Almighty doth take the more notice when through his own People his Name is prophaned or blasphemed amongst the Heathen He calls it in a Peculiar manner Mine Oath and my Covenant It is yet a greater aggravation to hold the Truth in Vnrighteousness It is worse to give occasion for the Way of Truth to be evil spoken of And therefore when those of the pure reformed Religion had sworn a solemn Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy to a King whom they then knew to be a Papist his lawful Heirs and Successors in so strict and particular manner as Words can well express When they had Crowned him and performed ●ealty which probably was a like Ceremony which the Prophet here calls when to he had given his Hand To despise this Oath and break this Covenant makes Protestanism stink and be evil spoken of throughout the World and offends every one who is zealous for his God and hath a right sence of his infinite Holiness and Uprightness In this Alteration They did take Counsel but not of the Lord Isa 30. 1. They had respect unto what they thought present Conveniency but did not consult his Word nor seek unto him ●or Direction by Prayer and Humiliation But it was done by their own Councils and manner of Vote And afterwards they would cover with a Covering but not of my Spirit that they may add Sin to Sin The Scribes and Pharisees of our Time have found out several Glosses Distinctions Restrictions and Sentiments of their own devising by which they would slubber over Perjury and sanctifie Injustice It is manifest by Deut. 32. 4. Hab. 1. 13 14. Isa 5. 16. 61. 8. Job ●3 7. Psal 33. 4. 111 7 8. 145. 17. Rom. 3. 8. And sundry other places of his Revealed Word That This Revolution is none of God's Work or Doing in which he is well pleased Only what he suffers as he doth all the Sin and Wickedness in the World and so he did the Manners of the Israelites Forty Years in the Wilderness Then they did abrogate the former Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and impose a new one Shall such escape by Iniquity And have done all these Things they shall not escape For my own part I have been as it were retired from the World and know not those particular Proceedings from the very beginning to this Time But yet The Lord looketh from Heaven he beholdeth all the Sons of Men from the place of his Habitation he looketh upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth He considereth all their Works So he knoweth every Thing they have done Day by Day all the several Occurrences all the Lying Stories and False Accusat●ons the close and hidden Acts of Hypocrisie all the tricks of Machiavelian Policy and the several kinds of Sin and Wickedness These things have you done and I kept silence but I will Reprove and set them in order before you As they were committed from Time to Time so will he bring every secret thing into Judgment Therefore thus saith the Lord God as I live surely mine Oath that they have despised and my Covenant that they have broken even it will I Recompence upon their own Head Here the Threatning is confirmed as much as possible As I live which is as sure as he is God which again is as certain as that there is a World and any thing in it so certainly will he Recompence it upon your own Head As you have already despised his Oath so you may here despi●● his Words But beware lest that also come upon you Behold ye Despisers and Wonder and Perish Take heed lest you provoke him yet more and so fall into a greater degree of his Wrath and sore Displeasure It is an easie matter to slight it all off and put away his Statutes from you but you cannot possibly avoid your own Particular Deaths whereby you fall into the Hands of the Living God then he will account with all those who behave themselves stubbornly and contemptuously against him You may now drive these Melancholly Fancies out of your Mind Eat Drink and be Merry have recourse to Company and so forget or harden your selves against what is now offered unto you When the two Prophets shall be slain They that dwell upon the Earth shall rejoyce over them and make merry and shall send Gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the Earth Rev. 11. 10. But it would be some advantage and help for them if they could eat or drink any thing which would make themselves Immortal that they should not dye and so prevent their own coming to Judgment But now as the case standeth they had better hearken and also comply with those who