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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

spirit of persecution in whomsoever it appears to which spirit we exhort all men that love their Soules to beware of joyning and so in love to all People we rest by Faith chusing rather to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a Season John Whitehead Marmaduke Storre William Padley Gregory Milner Thomas Leemin Written in York-shire the 23d day of the 3d. Month. 1660. 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 M. S. OH you my dear Neighbours and People in the Town of Shipton and Wighton and elsewhere where this may come who have been spending long your mony for that which is not bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfie as I have done Oh come buy wine and milk without mony and without price while it is held forth to you least the day come that you be deprived of it for long hath the Spirit of the Lord been striving with you as it did with me but you have resisted it time after time because it testified against you when you went on in sin and reproved in secret for the evil of your doings therefore you do not regard it but flies from it So in bowels of tender love to you all do I speak and in love and pity to your souls prize the love of God and his tender mercy and forbearance to you that he did not cut you off in the height of your iniquity but hath spared you until this day though you have long taken pleasure in sin not regarding God that made you yet hath his Spirit been striving with you many dayes years as it did with me and hath reproved you time after time for the evil of your doings but you regarded it not though it often called upon you in love meekness to depart from your iniquity and that which you have been addicted to it hath reproved and called you that have been addicted to drunkenness lying and swearing to depart from these things for they are evil and it hath called upon you that are proud and covetous to depart from them and hath reproved you that have been wild and wanton and given to sports and pleasures to depart from them and run on no longer in vanity but you did not regard it but took pleasure in sin Oh consider dear Neighbors and People what you have been doing ever since you came to years of maturity and let the witnesse of God which is faithful and true in you all arise and answer to which I speak and it will let you see that you have provoked the Lord and vexed his righteous soul from day to day and have pressed him with your sins and iniquities as a cart is pressed with sheaves yet hath he born it with patience and hath suffered long not willing that you should perish and dye in your sins but still he hath waited year after year upon you to be gracious to you but you have refused to return and hearken to his Call and Counsel but have run on in the broad way as your Forefathers have done so do ye and follow their Customs and Traditions which are vain and will not profit you at all in the day of the Lord when he comes to call you to an account how you have spent your time so consider and lay it to heart before the evil day come upon you least the Spirit of the Lord cease striving with you for verily the day is coming on apace that the Spirit of the Lord will cease striving with man who puts the Day of God far from him then it will be said He that is Righteous let him be Righteous still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still So dear Friends and People young and old prize your time while you have it and do not slight the Counsel of the Lord any longer least the day of your visitation passe over your heads at unawares which cannot be called again and as I said before Spend your mony no longer for that which is not bread in following Diviners of lyes for they cause you to erre and go astray by their lyes and by their lightnesse like sheep without a shepherd for they are blind Watchmen which leads you out of the way like troops of Robbers to devour you Hos. ch. 6. v. 9 and makes merchandize of your souls as they did upon me and thousands besides which the Lord hath delivered as birds out of the Fowlers net so being escaped from them we see their deceit and subtle hypocrisie which long hath lodged in them and therefore we cannot but declare against them because they are seen to be such as devour widows houses for dishonest gain and makes a prey upon you as they have done upon us for they seek their gain from their quarter and feeds themselves with the fat and clothes themselves with the best of the wooll as the false prophets did of old which the true Prophets declared against and with the same light that the true Prophets saw the false prophets of old do we see these Priests in this generation for their fruits makes them manifest what trees they are For they sue men at the Law for Tithes and take them by force false Prophet like and who cannot put into their mouths for conscience sake they prepare War against them and with cruelty oppression cause their goods to be taken from them to satisfie their wits and greedy desires so they make themselves manifest to be of that generation and to walk in their steps that the true Prophet spake of who were greedy dumb doggs that can never have enough as thousands do witnesse at this day and you may see it to be so with the Priests of this generation for in Balaams steps they are walking who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse as they do in this generation but they exceed him in cruelty for though he loved it he did not sue for it but these Priests do in this generation of which I am a witnesse and thousands besides who have suffered by them to the spoiling of their goods and estates Oh it is seen it is seen in this our day that the filthy and abominable thing is committed in the land as it was of old the Prophets prophecy falsely and the Priests bear Rule by their means and the people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof saith the Lord Almighty for they have dawbed you up with untempered morter and are Physicians of no value to you for they have long been sowing pillows under your arm-holes and have spoken smooth things to you in healing that in you which is for destruction and seeks to kill that which should live that so they might rule over you as Kings in the Earth and you to worship the Beast and his Image who is making war with

the Lamb but the day of their downfal is at hand and the Lamb shall have the victory and Rule and Reign in his People for ever and ever for now he is arisen in the Power of his Spirit with great Dominion and Authority to slay the wicked and cut down his enemies that resist him in his way And they that will not have him to Reign over them must fall before him who is our Head who will render vengeance in flames of fire upon all his enemies So dear People be awakened and stand up to Judgement and live no longer in carelesnesse and Carnal security but own the Light of Christ to be your guide for a measure of it is given to every one of you to profit withall and it is nigh you in your hearts and in your mouths the word of Faith which is able to save your Souls so all to it take heed that by it you may be quickened and revived again out of your fallen estate wherein you lie by reason of your transgressions which have made a separation between you and your Maker and verily I say unto you except ye be regenerate and born again you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God So dear People young and Old I speak to you all as one consider how you have spent your time and let a true search passe through you all that you may see whom you have been serving all your time for Servants you are to whom you do obey So dear People be not deceived for God will not be mocked such as you sow such you must reap from the hand of the Lord and receive according to your deeds whether they be good or evil who will give a reward to every man according as his works shall be for he is a God that will not wink at wickedness nor let the transgressor go unpunished to whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confesse him Lord who created Heaven and Earth whom we serve and Worship who is our Lord and King and Captain of our Salvation Our Leader and Guider and our Preserver night and day our Mighty and Strong One the Mighty God of Israel is his Name the wonderful Counsellor and Prince of our Peace whose presence is with us to the confounding of our Enemies that rise up in opposition against us for he goes before us who is our Life to tread down our Enemies under his feet who is terrible to the wicked and all that forgets him must be turned into Hell where the worm dies not and the fire never goes out the swearer and the lyar must go thither that is their portion the Drunkard and the Whore-monger must go thither the proud and Covetous cannot escape the damnation of Hell and all they that lives Dives like must pertake of Dives torment which is coming upon them from which they cannot escape nor flie from and all such must go into the lake with the Beast and the false Prophet which have long born rule by their means in England and in the Nations abroad for they have devoured my Flock and the Sheep of my pasture saith the Lord Almighty who will be avenged on them for the wounded they have not healed nor comforted those who were sick neither have they brought back again that which was driven away but with force and cruelty have they ruled but the Lord God is now come in his Mighty Power to take their power from them and deliver his People out of their hands which have long been made a prey upon by them and reward them double for their doings So you my dear neighbours do not uphold them any longer in their sin in satisfying their greedy desires least you pertake with them of their plagues and of the wrath of God that is coming upon them from which they cannot escape for they have grieved the Spirit of the Lord from day to day to see what havock they have made in the Nation of England by spoyling and causing spoyl to be made of Peoples Goods and Estates Oh! their sin is great and grievous to be born and the cry of their oppression and their iniquity is entered into the eares of the Lord that he is even grieved and sore vexed at them for they have trampled upon his witnesse in them and have pressed him with their sin as a Cart is pressed with sheaves so that he can bear no longer with them because their iniquity doth abound Oh! search the Scriptures and see if they do not go beyond and exceed the fal●e Prophets of old in deceit and subtile hypocrisie Oh! they might even blush for shame to consider what they have done and caused to be done which will fall sad and heavy upon them when the Lord calls them to an account and requires his flock at their hands then shall they roar and weep bitterly and wish they had never been Born when Calamity Anguish of Spirit overtakes them which they will certainly meet withal for the Lord hath spoken it who will perform his promise that the Beast and the false Prophet shall go into the Lake together and for ever be tormented with the Devil and his angels for thither must they go and all that joyns with them must partake of their punishment So dear Friends and People take heed what you do in joyning with such who leads you to destruction for in the broad way they are walking themselves and leads you after them into the Pit of Perdition where they must remain for ever for they will not enter into the Kingdom themselves nor suffer you if they can hinder And will not the Lord arise for the Redemption of his Seed Yea surely he is arisen already to shake the Nations that resist him and hath given the Power to his Son which shall rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron and they that will not bow to his Government must be destroyed and broken to pieces the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it So dear Friends and People young and old mind well what is written and ponder it in your hearts for in love to you all do I speak the Lord is my witnesse that this is not written in any prejudice of mind to any mans person neither in prejudice or envy against the Priests or the false prophets but against their evil actions which we see in them which we loath and detest for never did the true Prophets of the Lord seek their gain from their Quarter as these Priests now do in this generation nor ever did they sue men at law for Tithes as these Priests do now neither did they the Lord sent forth to declare his mind and will make bargains with people for so much a year or abide in one Town for many years together as these Priests do now nay they went from one place to another from City to City and from Country to Country in obedience to the Command of the Lord as Ieremiah and the rest of the