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death_n	dead_a	life_n	raise_v	9,308	5	6.9695	4	true

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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

yet a new name I have received which such knows not Written in the common Goal in Boston the 19th of the 8th month 1659. A Relation from the two innocent Servants of the Lord concerning the bloody Sentence of death passed on them by Iohn Indicott in the Court of Boston ON the 20th day of the 8th Month 1659. I with my beloved companion Marmaduke Stevenson and Mary Dyer of Rhode Island was had into the Court where John Indicott with others of his Councel were assembled and soon after we were come to the Bar before them John Indicott called to the Keeper of the Prison to pull off our Hats which was done accordingly when did John Indicott begin to speak unto us as a man out of the dust whose life is departing from him so faintly did he utter his words unto us to this effect That they had made several Laws and tryed and endeavoured by several wayes to keep us from among them and neither whipping nor imprisoning nor cutting off ears nor banishing upon pain of death would not keep us from amongst them and he said also He or they desired not the death of any of us yet notwithstanding his following words were Give ear hearken now to your Sentence of Death said John Indicott their Governour so after these words were spoken by him he stopt the words being uttered very faintly out of his mouth then I did make way to speak to John Indicott and the rest of the Court which was as I remember to this effect I desired I might read a Paper to them and the people there present which was many which was a Declaration of my Call wherein was declared the Reasons and Causes of my staying in their Iurisdiction with my Companion after banishment upon death which had been pronounced against us and two more friends the one of which is a sufferer now with us on the 8th day of the 7th month last at which words speaking John Indicott their Governour in a furious manner for rage and madness like Nebuchadnezzar was got up in him said I should not read it neither would they hear it read which thing onely at that time I desired before the sentence of death was pronounced against us yet he would not grant it so I seeing and being sensible of their hardness of heart that they are given up to work wickedness and commit murder in labouring to take the lives of the innocent from the earth I said unto them seeing that I could not be suffered to read it in the hearing of the people nor suffered to have it read unto the people that then was present I said I should leave the Paper with them which I did soon cast upon the Table amongst them and the Secretary or some other handed it to the Governour who read it himself but would not let it be read in the hearing of the people and when he had looked a certain time on it he called me by my name and said I needed not have made such ado or desired to have it read for he said I had spoke more then that unto them the day before concerning it which I had not for there is many words in the Paper which I did not then utter unto them so that I desired the thing again that all that was there present might bear it but he would not suffer it but soon after in envy called me by my name and said unto me Hearken unto your Sentence of death which be uttered forth to this effect in which time I was silent he said William Robinson This is your Sentence you shall be had back from the place from whence you came and from thence to the place of Execution to be hanged on the Gallows till you are dead this was the Sentence of death John Indicott their Governour pronounced against me and soon after called to the Goaler to have me away which he did accordingly WILLIAM ROBINSON SOon after my dear Brother W. R. was taken away out of the Court the Governour being partial spoke unto me saying If you have any thing to say you may speak but I was silent and gave him no answer then so that when he saw that I would not speak when he required of me then he pronounced the Sentence of death against me as he had upon my Brother before You shall be had to the place from whence you came and from thence to the Gallows and there to be hanged until you be dead then did these words following run through me Give ear ye Magistrates and all who are guilty for this the Lord hath said concerning you who will perform his promise upon you that the same day that you put his Servants to death shall the day of your visitation pass over your heads and you shall be cursed for evermore the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it therefore in love to you all take warning before it be too late that so the curse might be removed for assuredly if you put us to death you will bring innocent blood upon your own heads and swift distruction will come upon you So after these words were spoken unto them I was had to Prison again where my Brother was MARMADUKE STEVENSON THE like Sentence did John Indicott their Governour pronounce against Mary Dyer after M.S. was had away Mary Dyer you shall go to the place from whence you came namely the Prison and from thence to the place of Execution and be hanged there till you are dead I said the Will of the Lord be done take her away Marshal I said yea and joyfully I go and in the way to the Prison often used such speeches with praises to the Lord for the same I said to the Marshal let me alone for I should go to Prison without him I believe you Mrs. Dyer said he but I must do what I am commanded MARY DYER This is a Copy of M. S. Letter to the Lords People OH my dear and well-beloved ones who are sealed with me in the holy Covenant of our Fathers love my love and life runs out to you all who are chosen of God and faithful for you are dear unto me the Lord knows it and are as seals upon my breast you lambs of my Fathers Fold and sheep of his Pasture the remembrance of you is pretious to me my dearly beloved ones who are of the Holy Seed and bears the right Image which springs from the true vine and off-spring of David and stock of Abraham the Father of the faithful and the redeemed ones who are reconciled to God and one to another in that which Sea and Land cannot separate where you may feel me knit and joined to you with the Spirit of Truth and linked to you as members of his body who is our Head and Rock of sure defence for us to flye unto where we are kept safe in the hour of temptation and in the day of Tryal shall we be preserved in the hollow of