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Show ... ( 288 ) is Chrijl, but to dye, is Gain; for we kn<?w that our Reward is fure, where we lhall enJOY th.e pure Prefence of the living God, and be tn favour witf1 him for ever more. Oh ! how doth my Love abound, and run out in Tender~efs to you all · Oh ! my Tongue cannot exprefs n, nor my M~uth utter it forth as it flows out to you fro!ll the living Streams which Waters the whole Czry .~fGo~: Oh! feel it and be refrelhed. H~trmaJuke Stevenfon~ Here followe~h the Copy of a Letter that Marr ~ Dyar fent to the Rulers of Bo{lon, ~fter fll~ had receiyed the S~ntence of Dead~. ro the Gener,sl 9ourt ~O?P in Bofion. W'Hereas I am by many charged with the Guilrinefs of my owp Blood ; if you· mean, in my coming tO-Bojlon, I am therein clear, and jufiified by the Lor~, in whofe Will I came, who will require my Blooq of you, be fure, who have made a Law to take ~way the lives of the Innocent Servants of God, if they come among you, who are callep PY you, C~rfed ~aker1· ; altho' I fay, apd am a li· ving Wimefs for them and the Lord, tha~ he hath Bleffed them, and fent them unto you: Therefore be nor found Fighters againft God, but let my Counfei and . Requeft be accepted ·with you, To· Repeal all fuch Laws, that the rrQth ancl Serv~nts of th~ Lord Ulay have fr~~ · · ~ · · · · ~a(fa~e ( 289 ) Paffage among you, and you be kept from 1bedding Innocenr Blood, which I know there 4re many among you would nor do, if rh~y knew it fo to be: Nor can the Enemy that fiirreth you up thus to dellroy this Holy Seed, in any meafure countervail the great Damage that you will by rhus doing procure : Therefore, feeing the Lord hath not hid it from me, it lyerh upon me, in Love to your Souls, thus to perfwade you : I have no felf-ends, the Lord knoweth, for if my Life were freely granted by you, it would not avail me, nor could I expect it of you, fo long as I 1bould daily hear or fee the Sufferings of thefe People, my dear Brethren and Seed, with whom my Life is bound up, as I have done rhefe two Years ; and now it is like ro encreafe, even unro Death, for no evil Doing, but coming among you : Was ever the like Laws heard of, among a People that profefs Chrifi come in the Flefh ? And have fuch no ocher Weapons, but fuch Laws, to fight againft Spiritual Wickednefs with all, as you call it ? Wo is me fqr you! Of whom take you Counfel ? Search wirh the Light of Chrift in ye, and ir will thew you of whom, as it hath done me and many more, who have been difobedienr and deceived, as now you are ; which Lighr, as you come into, and obeying what is made manifeft to you therein, you will nor Repenr, lhat you were kept from lhedding Blood, tho• it were from a Woman: It's not mine own Life I feek (for I cbufe r11ther to fujfer 'UJith the People of God, than to enjoy the Pleafutes of' Egypt) bur lhe Life of the Seed, which I know rhe Lord hath Blelfed ; and therefore feeks the Enemy thus vehemenrly the Life thereof co Dellroy, as in all Ag~ he ~vet· did : Oh ! hearken not umo J1im, |
