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Show ( ·~0 ) ' Spiric I have received, and the Prefence of rhe ' Lord, and his heavenly Life dorh accompany ' me, fo that I can fay in Truth, and from an ' Upright Hearr, Blej]ed be the Lord God of my ' Life, who hath counted me Worthy, .tnd called me ' hereunto, to bear my Tejlirnony t~gainfl Ungodly and ' Unrigbteom Men, who feek to take away the Life ' of the RighteotH without a Caufe, as the Rulers of ' Malfachufets Bay do intend, if the Lord flop them ' not from their Intent. Oh ! hear ye Rulers, ~nd ' give ear and Iiflen all ye that have any hand ' herein, tO pur rhe Innocent to Death : For, in ' che Name, and Fear, and Dread of the Lord ' God, I here decJare the Caufe of rny flaying ' here among you, and cominuing in the 1 u. ' rifdiCl:ion afrer there was a Senrence of Ba- ' nithment upon Death, as ye faid, pronounced ' againft me wirhout a jufi Caufe, as ye all ' know, that we that were Banithed, commir- ~ ted noching worthy of Banithmenr, nor of ' any Punithmenr, much lefs Banithmenr upon ' Death. And now ye Rulers, ye do inrend ' ro put me to Death, and my Companion, unro ' whom rhe Word of the Lord God came, ' faying, Go to Bofton, with thy Brother W. Ro- ' binfon : Unto which Command he was Obe- ' dient, who had faid umo him, he had a ' great Work for him to do : Which thing is ' ~now feen, and rhe Lord is now a doing of ' it ; and it is in Obedience to the Lord, ( the God of the ·whole Earth, that we conri- ' nued amopglt ye, and that we came to the · ' Town of Bofton again, in Obedience to the ' Lord, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, in ' whofe Hand your Breath is : And will ye ' put us to Death for Obeying the Lord, the ' God of the whole Eanh ? Well, if ye do 'this ( ljl ) ' rhis ACt, and puc us to Dearh, Know rhis. 'and be it known unro you all, ye Rulers and ' People within this 1 urifdiCl:ion, That whofo' ever bath a Hand herein, wilt be Guilty of Inno' cent Blood. And not only upon your (elves wia 'ye bring Innocent Blood, but upon the Town anJ ' the Inhabitants thereof, and every 'JNhere 'Jvitbin 'your JurifdiBion, that had the leaft hand therl'' in. Therefore be infiruCl:ed, ye Rulers of chis 'Land, and rake Warning berimes, and Learn ' Wifdom before ic be hid from your Eyes. Written in the Common-Gaol, the 19th of the 8th Month, 1659· in Bofton. By one who feareth the Lord, who is by Ignorant People -called d. 0faka , and unto fuch am I only knowu by the Name of William R.!}bi11[on, yet a 11ew Name ha ve I received) which iuch know not. _________ __:_ _______ M.Stc:vr:n· Jo·n>:. A cMarmaduke Stevenfon's Paper of his Call to c~mnr of t J'. le .U,, ?o r k ~n d S e~vt·c e o{ t he L or d• Gz.v en Bhotsf tocall to 11 , for forth by hzm a ltttle before he was put to w~ich h~.: Dtath and a~t~r he h4d received his Sen· la.1cl cL~_wn ' '1 hts Ltk tence, tobe upon R ecord ~ IN t he be gm· m· ng o f t he Year 16;;. I was at fkonro awll thtoe ' the Plough in the Eafi-parrs of Yorkjhire . in Grountl : 011-Engl~nd, near the place where my out- thcre?f,& ward Bemg was, and as I walked after th rherero re ,' Pl oug l fi e wrote by 1, I was l~c: ~ wich the ~ovt .and r~ c: him, and Prefence of rhe Ltvmg God, wluch dtd Ravt n: lett in rbe ' my Hearc when I felc ic; for ir did increa( · wunh ' ~1~ flbound in me like a Living Scream, fo w i_~h i~ . I 3 , d.id WlttLen. |