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Show ( ~90 ) him I befeech you, for the Seed's rake, which is o~e in all, and is dear in the fight of God.; which they that touch, touch the Apple of hts Eye and cannot efcape his Wrath, whereof I having felr, cannot but p:rfwade' all Men that I have to do withal, efpect<tlly you who ~a~e the Name of Chrift, to depart from fucb Insqu1ty, as falJetlbing lBlootJ, tllen of tf)e ~afnt~ of tJ)e 9J}o1f l)igJJ : Therefor~ let my l_{equeft have as much Acceptance wuh y_ou ( tf you be Chrifiians ) as Ef!her had Wlth, Abafueras ( whofe Relation is iborr of th~t that s between Chrifiians) and my Requeft ts the fame that hers was ; an he faid not, that he had ma~e a Law, and it would be dilhonourable for htm to Revoke it ; but when he underftood that thefe People were fo prized by her, and fo nearly concerned her (as in Truth ~hefe are ro me ) as you may fee what he dtd for her : Therefore I leave thefe Lines with you, Appealing to the faithful and ~rue Witn~fs of God, which is one in all Confctences, betore whom we muft all appear; with whom I lhall erernaJly Reft, in everlafiing Joy and. Peac~, ~hether you will hear or for~ear : W nh htm IS my Reward, with whom to hve 1s my Joy, and to dye is my Gain, tho· I had nm had y_our forry ~ight Hours warning, for the Preparation to rhe De~th of Mary Dyar. . And know rhis alfo, That if through the En .. miry you iball declare your felves w,o,:fe than Ahafuertts, and confirm your Law, tho 1t were bur by taking away the Life of one of us, That the Lord will ovenhr.ow -both your Law and you, by his righteous Judgments and .Plagues poured jufily upon you, who now whtlfi you are warned thereof, and tenderly fought unro, play ( 2~) may avoid the one, by removing the other : If you neither hear nor obey ~he Lord nor his Servants, yet will he fend more . of his Servants among you, fo that your end fhall be frufirated, that think to reftrain them, you call Curfed Q_uakers, from coming among you by any Thing you can do to them; yea, verily, he hath a Seed here among you, for whom we have fuf. · fered all this while, and yet Suffer ; whom the Lord of the Harvell: will fend forth more Labourers to gather ( out of the Mouths of rhe Devourers of all forts) inro his Fold, where he will lead them iriro frelh Pafiures, even rhe Paths of Righreoufnefs, for his Names fake: Oh r Jet none of you put this good Day far from you, which verily in the Light of rhe Lord I fee approaching, even to many in and about Bofton, which is rhe bitterefi and darkeft profeffing Place, and fo to continue fo long as you ~ave done, that ever I heard of; let the time paft therefore fuffice, for fuch a Profefiion as brings forth fuch Fruits as rhefe Laws are. In Love and in rhe Spirit of Meeknefs I again befeech you, for I have no Enmiry to the Perfons of any ; but y.ou iball know, That God will not be mocked, but what you fow, that lhaH ye reap from him, that will render ro ~very·one a~cording ro the Deeds done in the Body, whether Good or ~vii ; Even fo be it, faith A Copy of this was given to the General Court after lyfarJ .DJttr had receiv'd the Sentence of Death,about the 8th or 9th M~nth, I6S9· • Mary D;·ar~ Ta ; i' |
