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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61464	A call from death to life and out of the dark wayes and worships of the world where the seed is held in bondage under the merchants of Babylon / written by Marmaduke Stephenson, who (together with ... William Robinson) hath (since the writing hereof) suffered death, for bearing witnesse to the same truth amongst the professors of Bostons jurisdiction in New England ; with a true copy of two letters, which they writ to the Lords people a little before their death ; and also the true copy of a letter ... from a friend in New England, which gives a brief relation of the manner of their martyrdom, with some of the words which they exprest at the time of their suffering.	Stephenson, Marmaduke, d. 1659.; Pearson, Peter, 17th cent.; Robinson, William, d. 1659.; Dyer, Mary, d. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5466; ESTC R16756	29,922	32

true Ministers did to whom the Word of the Lord came saying I have ordained thee a Prophet unto the Nations Mark not to a Town or a City to remain in for many years together but to the Nations and in obedience to the living God he testified against the World that their deeds were evil but they could not bear his words but said he was worthy to die and so the Priests and false Prophets joyned with the Princes and Rulers of the people and cast him into prison and into the dungeon where he did sink amongst the mire that was in it Read in his prophesie and you will find it so and this was that which the true Prophets and Ministers of Christ received from the World where they went stocking whipping and Imprisonments thus were they requited evil for good in all Ages for their love which they did bear to the souls of the Sons of men and the same must we expect from this generation wherein we live we whom the Lord hath called to place his Name in and hath sent us forth in this day of his love to preach his Everlasting Gospel to them which dwell upon the earth in love and pity to their souls but they regard it not though we go thousands of miles for the Seeds sake which lies in death yet the reward of our labour from them is prisons and whips to scourge us withal and knives prepared to cut off ears and Irons hot to burn in the hand thus are we requited evil for good for testifying against the World that their deeds are evil and therefore do they hate us as they did Christ and his Apostles and calls us Deceivers Fools and Hereticks Jesuites and the like because we speak the truth to them and cannot joyn with them in their abominations but stands as witnesses for the Lord God against them therefore do the Priests and Rulers joyn hand in hand together against us as they did against the true Prophets Christ and his Apostles as you may read in the Scriptures of Truth which bear Testimony to these things So dear Neighbours and People where this may come consider my end in writing this unto you the Lord is my witnesse that this is not written as to set up our selves and pull down others but it is written for your sakes that you might come so see the deceit of your own hearts which hath long lodged in you and also the deceit of the Priests in this generation that seek their gain from their quarter and keeps you captive in Babylon and Aegypt where our Lord is crucified as they did many of us in time past where we were bewitched by their sorceries and their smooth words in speaking peace to us w●en our soules lay in death unconverted in our fallen estates as they are at this day so they could not help us out of it being in it themselves Thus were we led by them in blindnesse for many years together ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth by them if the Lord had not looked upon us with an eye of pity we had surely perished under their Teaching because they are out of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles who was sent to open blinde eyes and turn People from darknesse to the light of Christ in them and from the Power of Satan to God but these Priests labour in this generation to keep people in darknesse in blindnesse and in ignorance in Death in their unconverted estate that so they might not see their deceit as we do the Lord open your eyes that you may see how you have been led astray out of the true way which leads unto Eternal Life Oh! my love in tendernesse runs out to you all my dear neighbours and acquaintance in Bowels of compassion and pity to your Souls which lies in Death as mine hath done but the Lord in his Eternal love and pity to my Soul hath redeemed me from my fallen estate and raised my Soul from Death to Life and out of the Pit wherein it lay dead in trespasses and sins and seeing the Lord hath done this for me I cannot but declare it to the Sons of men and praise his Name in the Land of the living who hath done great things for me and when I consider and ponder it in my heart my Soul is ravished with his love and broken into teares to consider his kindnesse toward me who was by Nature a Child of wrath as well as other● Oh! the consideration of his love hath constrained me to follow him and to give up all for his sake if it be for the laying down of my life for none are the Disciples of Christ but they that follow him in the Crosse and through sufferings and they that love any thing more then Him are not worthy of Him Now minde well and consider what I say the true unfeigned love to God doth not break the love from one another but it breakes the bands of wickednesse as Strife Debate Anger and Envie that have lodged in the mind one against another and when these things are destroyed in men and women then comes the love of God to abound in them and encrease one to another and this I witnesse and the Lord beareth me testimony to what I speak that my love is dearer and nearer to those in relation to me than ever it was before and I know some of them feels it so yea the Lord knows my heart whom I serve that I lie not but speak the truth to you all that so you might not stumble nor have any prejudice in your mindes against me without a cause who am a lover of all your Soules and for that cause is this written to you that you may know it is so for the Lord knows I do not forget you though I be thousands of miles from you because of the simplicity that was in some of you who were my neighbours and acquaintance for I am one who have obtained mercy from the Lord through judgement and great tribulation which all must passe through before they come into the Land of Canaan they must be regenerate and born again and know a dying to sin and that which they have delighted in before they witnesse a living to Righteousnesse the Old man must be put off with his deeds before the new man be put on Christ Jesus the Son of the living God who is the expresse Image of his Fathers Glory who is taking his People to himself out of the 〈◊〉 of the Beast and false Prophets who have long made a prey upon them but the day is come that they shall make no longer a prey upon them for the Lord hath said it that he will teach his People himself and under his Government shall they dwell safely from the devourer and venemous beasts which hath long had his seat in the Earth amongst the Sons of men and by him they have been led Captive at his will to