THE LIFE AND Approaching Death OF WILLIAM KIFFIN.  
Extracted out of the VISITATION BOOK BY A Church Member.  
LONDON: Printed for Thomas ●●●man, 1659.   

THE LIFE and approaching DEATH of William Kiffin.  
NOt to rak dunghills for his extraction, or speak of him in the state of Nature; we will consider him abstractedly from the World and the Flesh, as a Regenerate person born to do miscief, and get money.  
'Tis hard tracing such mischievous Kirk-Pedlars from their Original: ●et it suffice your curiosity, that the first discovery of this New Light, was when the three Kingdoms were all in a flamme; for till that time he truckled under John Lilburn, and was learning the Profession of lying and hypocrisy, a 'vice he might have spared by reason of his impudence.  
He was as to Temporal Concernments, the bound Servant of a Glover, where he and his Mistris so prick-seamed it, that the Sheriffs Officers excommunicated his Master, and delivered him over to a gaoler.  
Having thus laid his future Advancement upon Private rvinas, he wisely projected, that it could be no difficult work, to raise himself upon the Publiques, since all the women( and most of the men too) were as mad one way or another as his Mistris. And after two or three Conferences with Pa●ience and the Devil, he was by instinct and Revelation, appointed to the Work, and ordained mufti of all heretics and Sectaries.  
But this was not without great heart-burnings of other Gifted-Brethren, who upon his Assumption to the Pontificacy and Primacy, began to separate and divide from the Congregation, and to set up for themselves in their particular Conventicles, intending to weak. K●ff●●s design and party: but the Wenches s●uck close unto him, and he prevailed as we see unto this day.  
Having th●● lifted up himself above Ordinances either of God of man, he was graciously Complemented by that precious man Oliver, to best is himself in the procuring or setting of hand● towards the death of the King, wherein he was a most diligent and painful instrument, both by Doctrine and Example, and was therefore in exceeding great repute and estimation with No●● unto his death.  
I do not red of any great preferment the Rump conferred upon him for it, because I suppose they had not time enough in four years and a half to gratify themselves for th●ir desert in that business: but he was a Fac totum to Snou●, & his right hand of villainy, and was every thing he would be; viz. From a stitche● of sheep skins by the dozen( if he was ever trusted then with so many) though a thousand dic●er would scarce pallia●● or cover his wolfishness, he rose to be a M●rchant of ●●l skins, his correspondence first laid upon that account with th● of Amsterdam, who upon ob●●●rance of the Good Old Cause, ●●●●●●ned 〈◇〉 yearly the two Busses againgst Queen-hithe.  
Next, the grand Cou●t Spy, Olivers Emissary, The Betrayer of the Brethren, the great Ear-wig of that transitory State, an able profound Divine, that could distinguish betwixt ( Great Man) and ( Highness) and supplant Feak and Sympson, by their dissenting to substitute the Usurper as Deputy to their Millenary Reign and Government.  
Room for a Knight of Middlesex, with his sword gird about his middle: Don John Barkstead and this valiant famous Knight,( by the help of a fearful Sheriff, & the uncontrollable directions of the Tyrant, with the pious and devout suffrage of the rascality of the Town) were returned the Representatives of the County. The one bore for his imp●ese a shield called a Thimble, and our Quixot● was offensively armed with a Spanish Pike, that would pierce any leather but Buff ▪ and if you compare his Speeches in that mock-Parliament, with his Exercises and Lectures at ●e● Bedlam, you would wonder one and the same man could be so silent and clamorous; but he was Will the Whisperer to the one, and the Bawler to the other.  
This fitted and suited him for a Command in London, forsooth a Lieut. Colonel, that for prowess and considerable estate( gained by the roguery aforesaid) ought to be entrusted with such a share of the Militia. I remember I heard his Neats tongues praised and well spoken of by the well-affected that tasted them at Finsbury Camp; and let that suffice for a Monument and Chronicle of all his marshal exploits.  
And now come we to talk of his end: 'Twill be accounted Flattery to praise the living, and 'twill be injustice that the Hangman should not have his due. However for once, let him choose Bradshaws Ague or Impenitence, Cromwels ston or Blasphemy, Hoyls halter, or desperation, Knipper-doling, and John a Leyd●ns frenzy or deserved punishment, & I'll assure you he shal make as godly an end as he did a beginning.  
FINIS.