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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93732	Because that in the following discourse the reason is recited and answered, why my ministry is rejected and not received by this ignorant, but more especially corrupt world; therefore I thought it expedient and necessary to publish the same.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5107G; ESTC R184555	29,991	44

his Danger then he will be certainly Drowned and Perish Just so is the Condition of all People in this World We are by Nature the Children of Wrath as well as others And as such Death and Hell followed with him Rev. 6. 8. Like a cruel and devouring Dog doth run after and pursue us So that the same Word which the Angel spake unto Lot doth belong to ●…ery one of us Arise and escape for thy Life And truly unless we do arise and escape for our Life and unless we are warned as the Preaching and Ministry of the Word gives the warning and unless we take the warning which the Obedience to the same word doth As it is written By Faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet prepared an Ark to the Saving of his House Heb. 11. 7. But if it were not for this we should certainly fall into the Damnation of Hell And those People who like Brutes Beasts go blindfold through the vale of this Life without any sence apprehension or fear of the Damnatino of Hell they will more certainly fall 〈…〉 The Reason why any are so fearless and unconcerned as to this as too many are is because they see it not But if Hell Fire was evidently set f●…h before their Eyes They would be at their wits ends and think they could never get far enough off from so terrible a thing Even as Lot did arise and escape for his Life to avoid the Flames of Sodom and Gomorrah So where they see it by Faith will reasonable people arise and escape for their Life to avoid the Fire and Damnation of Hell all one as we now see they do whatever they can to run from an Inundation of Water of from the Sword of a devouring Enemy In this last Instance when people fly from the Sword from the drawn Sword and from the greiousness of War Are they then without fear In no wise unless they shut their Eyes or are stupid and then such are soonest knocked on the Head Even so again it is here The last Enemy Death dogs us at our heels And as it is said in the Book of Revelations Hell follows with him And can then people live without fear And yet for all they who live most without fear of Hell will soonest fall into it I have read of Damocles sitting at a Table feeding upon Dainties and good Chear but directly over his Head there did hang a drawn Sword by a single and weak Thread Such an one as long as he did not see it might be without fear but if he did look up and behold it then he can be no longer heartily and really merry No more then Belshazzar could when he saw the hand writing upon the Wall In like manner The Wrath of God which in Scripture is called the Sword of the Lord is revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousness of Men and it hangs directly over all the Children of Disobedience and all the Sinners and Transgressours of the Earth by the single Thread of their uncertain Lives For this same Wrath of God will be really executed upon and sensibly felt by them after that their Breath is gone out of their Nostrils and their Souls are departed from their Bodies How then can any Live in pleasure upon the Earth and be wanton and nourish their hearts as in a day of Slaughter Unless to compleat the Paralel in this also Herein they become Like th●… Beasts that Perish As to be quite insensible and ignorant thereof Alas Notwithstanding the Brute Beasts are thus insensible and ignorant in the m●…n while they must at length come to the shambles and then they smell Blood and they would fain not go but they are pushed in Even so those who by multitudes are going on in the way to Death and Hell when they come near to the first then they begin to know and are sensible of the other also but then it is too late And the door was shut Mat. 25. 16. Time past cannot be recalled in a Thought neither will a Desire at the last gasp be accepted for a godly and well spent Life They who in the midst of Life and Health go on securely without the fear of God and of his Threatnings and in unmindfulness of their Latter End Even these will not be without fear when the Time is come that they must Die But the Soul will indeed Shiver and Tremble as She is taking her flight forth into the invisible World Or if she should be hardened and rendred insensible through a foregoing Deadness in Trespasses and Sins or through Bodily Pain and Sickness which take up and employ all her Faculties at that time yet after she is actually dissolved from this Tabernacle of Clay then if she is loaden with Sin and Guilt will succeed A certain fearful looking for of Judgment and fiery Indignation which shall devour the Adversaries Heb. 10. 27. For in the World to come there is no hardening against God or the sence of his Judgments Therein the Devils believe and tremble All people must and will fear one time or another But as the Wise Man saith Happy is he that feareth always who fears most in this World that he may fear least in the World to come For from this kind of fear that is a fear of God and a fear to Sin against him doth proceed a good Conscience thence is no fear that is slavish or hath torment Then comes Perfect love which casteth out fear But as it is written When the Sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon Abram and loan horrour of great darkness fell upon him So now the Sun of our Life is going down let it be both our Desire and Prayer and also Endeavour that a Filial and Reverential fear a great Aw and Dread of the invisible Lord God may fall and always remain upon our Souls and Spirits That for these very few now they are fewer then ever they were yet remaining Days of our Pilgrimage we may Walk in the fear of the Lord and in the Comfort of the holy Ghost against the time comes when we are to fall severally Asleep in the Lord Jesus and from thence ever to awake after his likeness It hath been fulfilled already as to the Inhabitants of this Nation and Generation The same is now fulfilling whilst I am Publishing these things and it will be yet fulfilled as to their ●uture kind of behaviour towards my Ministry For all will not believe though a Man declare it to them whilst I go in and out amongst them But especially it will be more evidently clearly and illustriously fulfilled after that we are all departed off from this Earth Behold I have told you before And they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Why do not some hear and others forbear For they are a Rebellious House Notwithstanding now they call themselves Christians but as All are not Israel who are of Israel Rom. 9. 6. So all are not Christians at this Day who hold fast the Name thereof Yet They shall know that there hath been a Preacher among them who hath Preached the Words of God and of eternal Life Consider what hath been said and the Lord give you understanding in all things So Witnesseth RICHARD STAFFORD a Scribe instructed in the Law of GOD and in the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST As Paul was in the City of Jerusalem brought up at the Feet of Gamaliel So I was for the space of Six Years Educated at Magdalen Hall in Oxford FINIS LONDON Printed in the Year 1700. And are to be Sold unto such who Will receive the Love of the Truth that they might be saved 2 Thes 2. 10. And who will Consecrate their gain unto the Lord and their substance to the Lord of the whole Earth Micah 4. 13. and towards the outward labour and charge of Making known his Truth 38. 19.

beat upon this house of our Body when Dangerous and Tormenting Diseases are upon us and grim Death approaches nigh to Arrest and Carry our Souls into another place then we know and are indeed sensible that as God doth Good so he can also Punish and make the Creature really Miserable As when we are Hungry or Cold or Sick we would willingly do those things and use those means to be full and satisfied and warm and well again So we being By Nature Children of Wrath and liable unto Misery and Destruction which will at length certainly come upon us unless in God is our help in God is our Salvation Life and Happiness so that from hence the Word of Exhortation doth arise and run most forcible to actually persuade us to do those things and so to walk that we may please God that he may do these great and good Things on our behalf Namely that when Death hath done its worst and utmost upon us he may raise us up again and give us the Blessing which the Lord hath commanded even Life for evermore That he Who hath filled the Hungry with good things would fill our Hungry Souls with satisfaction I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness Psal 17. 15. There is all contained in this Word Satisfied what we can think of or desire or would have for then it will be returned to our unspeakable rejoycing Now it is as we would have it What Man is he that desireth Life and loveth many Days that he may see good Psal 34. 11. So the question may be a little reversed and altered What Man is there that doth not desire Life and many Days that he may see Good For 't is evident That if any one doth not desire many Days it is because he doth not see Good in them and all this Life and all this Good and all this Satisfaction if I should express it by more words it is all but the same still is had by Obedience Saith God to his reasonable Creatures Obey my Voice and Live As for the other Branch of this our Third Use and Application Namely That we should be of an Humble Lowly and Trembling Spirit It is a part of and comprehended under Obedience to those Commands of our God What doth the Lord require of thee but to walk humbly with thy God Micah 6. 8. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with Trembling Psal 2. 11. Verily verily we poor mortal Creatures can never be in too low and humble a State neither can we have too mean an Opinion and Conceit of our selves For verily every Man at his best State is altogether vanity Selah Psal 39. 5. There is the Ratification and Confirmation of it And as every one of us at our best State are altogether Vanity even so we should know and be sensible of as much our selves as to lay it deeply to Heart Humble your selves in the sight of God and he shall lift you up James 4. 10. Confess your selves as nothing and altogether unworthy and unprofitable Then it was when David was Little in his own sight That God exalted him to be King over all Israel and what was Ten Thousand Times better he gave unto him his holy Spirit and the Spirit of God spake by him and his word was in his tongue But he giveth more Grace Wherefore he saith God resisteth the Proud and giveth grace to the Humble Here if they would be still Humble therewith and use it well he would increase even that More Grace for he would give exceeding Gifts unto Men if they would remain still Low and Little in their own sight But if once they are lifted up then he hinders or witholds or takes away the Qualifications wherein they boast or some way defeats and spoils them that no Creature should glory in his Presence My self am a sad Example and Warning of this for I speak this 〈◊〉 my shame I have perceived from within my self drawings of God upon the account of my Spiritual Pride and Affectations of gentility and such like It is my present Testimony and I declare it of mine own miserable Experience for hereby I shall lose so much of that Full Reward which I might have had for all Eternity if I had all along remained Little in mine own sight and such as a Creature should be Take heed and beware of Pride and of the least giving way unto the lifting up of Mind I mean that which no Man seeth but it is known only between God and thine own Conscience As afore said No Man can be too Low and Humble So here it is No Man can keep too far off from Pride so as not to give way unto the Thoughts and Dictates thereof in the least it being a deadly and dangerous Evil. And then for what belongs to this for fear and humility commonly go together that we should always be in a fearful and trembling State according to what Paul saith And I was with you in Weakness in Fear and in much Trembling 1 Cor. 2. 3. It is Observed That in very Cold weather how little and contracted we are within our selves When we are Cold or Hungry or in Pain or in Affliction then commonly we least stand upon and do not care for nor value the nicities of Pride But we are Humble viz such as frail and miserable Creatures should be Even so for the very same Reason we should Pass the time of our sojourning here in fear For the most Brittle Glass is not more subject and liable to be broken then we are in all times and places subject to Destruction and Misery For what is our Life It is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away It is but a puff of Breath in our Nostrils And what is more fluid and uncertain then that Suppose a Man were to tread on a Rope an Hundred Yards high from which if he should fall he would certainly break his Neck or suppose we were to pass over a wide River or deep Pit on a Bridge no broader than just the Soles of our Feet and we had nothing at all to hold by How carefully and fearfully should we walk thereon So is our Case and Condition in the Body and in this Life For though the Eye of Sence seeth it not yet the Eye of Faith and the Eyes of our Understanding being enlightened do discern and know That we are as yet it is but for a very little while kept from the dreadful Things of the invisible World only by this thin vail of Flesh which we carry about us We are but for a very short respite preserved from drowning by this tottering and ruinous Ark of the Body which will not preserve us always Now if a poor Creature was to swim for his Life he would not be without fear in the midst of his Swimming if he hath any sense or apprehension of his Danger And if he hath no sense nor apprehension of