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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

his hand where his Banner of love will be over us to compass us about where we shall have recourse to the living springs which comes from the pure fountain and well-spring of life which issues forth abundantly to refresh the hungry and strengthen the feeble minded where you may feel me my beloved ones in the green pastures among the lillies of the pleasant springs where our Souls are bathed and refreshed together with the overcoming of Gods love the vertue of his presence which is as pretious oyntment poured forth giving a pleasant smell So my dear Friends let us alwayes wait at the Altar of the Lord to see the Table spread that so we may sit down and eat together and be refreshed with the hidden Manna and living food of life which comes from him who is our life our peace our strength and our preserver night and day Oh! my beloved ones let us all go on in his strength who is our Prince and Saviour that his Image we may bear who is meek and lowly in heart and minde the true and sure foundation of many generations the chief Corner-stone elect and pretious the Rock of Ages on which the Saints were built and if we all abide thereon we shall never be moved but stand for ever as trees of Righteousness rooted and grounded in him who will be with us in all our Tryals and temptations which we may meet withal and here will the Lord our God be honoured by us all that are faithful unto death we shall assuredly have a Crown of life which will never be taken from us Oh! my beloved ones what shall I say unto you who drinks with me at the living Fountain where we are nourished and brought up as twines in the womb at the breasts of consolation where I do embrace you in the bond of peace which never will be broken Oh! feel me and read me in your hearts for I am filled with love when I think upon you and broken into tears for the remembrance of you who are faithful doth refresh my Soul which makes me often to think upon you and have you in remembrance you Iewels of my Father and first fruits of his encrease if I forget you then let the Lord forget me nay verily you cannot be forgotten by me so long as I abide in the vine I am a branch of the same nature with you which springs from the good Tree which the Lord hath blessed where we do grow together in his life and Image as members of his body where we shall live to all eternity and sit down in the Kingdom of rest and peace with Abraham Isaac and Jacob to sing the songs of deliverance to the most high that sits on the Throne who alone is worthy of all honour and living praises to whom it is due novv and for ever Amen And this vvill be the portion of our Cup if vve all stand stedfast to that vve have received and be faithful in our measures in doing the Will of God vve shall find peace and unity vvith the Lord vvhich is joy unspeakable and glorious vvhich vvill never be taken from us So dear hearts let us all press forvvard to the mark of the High Calling so shall vve obtain the Crovvn from him vvhere our lives are hid vvith Christ in God vvhere vve shall remain for ever vvith him after our Testimony is finished 〈◊〉 shall lay dovvn our heads vvith joy and peace and receive the reward of everlasting life vvhich is laid up for us in Christ Iesus Oh! my beloved ones vvho are of the Royal Seed vvhich the Lord hath blessed my life 〈◊〉 bound up vvith you in the Holy Covenant vvhere vve are linked together as in a Chain and moulded into one mould vvhere nothing must remain that is not good for it must be purged out that vvould defile that so so vve may appear like the fine Gold vvhich is tryed in the fire to shine forth in the Image of the Father as lights to the world and as Cities set on a Hill vvhich cannot be hid so vvill the Lord have praise to vvhom it is due by our upright vvalking and honest conversation so shall vve all be a svveet smell and a good savour in them that are saved and in them that perish Oh! my dear Friends and Brethren hovv doth my love abound tovvards you Oh! feel it and let it fill your hearts for verily you are dear to me the Lord knovvs it vvhom I 〈◊〉 that you are often in my remembrance though my body be far beyond the Seas separated from you yet doth my Soul and life remain vvith you in the Holy Covenant sealed by the Spirit of Promise vvhere vve shall remain together in rest and svveet peace for evermore after our Testimony is finished So all you vvho are upright in heart feel my love and receive my Salutation vvhich springs from the Fountain of love where I am vvith you as by the vvaters of Shilo vvhich runs softly vvhere we are watered and refreshed together day by day that so we grow as Plants of Righteousness in the true vine where we are reconciled to the Father and one to another in that which Sea and Land cannot separate where you may all feel me and read me in your hearts with that which was before words were and if I never see your faces more in the flesh the will of the Lord be done for verily my life is not dear to me to lay it down for his sake who hath called me out of darkness into his marvellous light and hath counted me worthy to bear witness of his truth amongst a blood-thirsty people whose hearts are removed far from the Lord that so I may finish my Testimony with joy as the rest of my Brethren have done which are gone before me for I am freely given up with my dear Brother called William Robinson wh●se love is dear to you all to lay down our lives as a witness against this people for us to live is Christ but to dye is gain for we know that our reward is sure where we shall enjoy the pure presence of the living God and be in favour with him for evermore Oh! how doth my love abound and run out in tenderness to you all Oh! my tongue cannot express it nor my mouth utter it forth as it flowes out to you from the living streams which waters the whole City of God Oh! feel it and be refreshed M. S. This is a Copy of W. R. his Letter to the Lords People THe streames of my Fathers love runs daily through me from the Holy Fountain of Life to the Seed throughout the whole Creation I am overcome with love for it is my life and length of my dayes it s my glory and my daily strength I am swallowed up with love in love I live with it I am overcome and in it I dwell with the Holy Seed to which the blessing of love is given from God who is

end of all such that depart from the living God Oh! is not the unclean spirit entered into them again and become worse then he was before so none rejoyce at the hearing of those that turnes from the truth which they were once in for verily it will not ease you of your misery and torment which will come upon you if you go on in sin and dispise the day of your visitation So to you all I have cleared my conscience in the sight of God From a Friend of the Truth and a s●ferer for the Seeds sake which is ke●pt in Bondage under Pharaoh and his Task-masters my Name in the fl●sh is Marmaduke Stephenson Written in the Common Goal of Boston in New England in America in the beginning of the seventh Moneth 1659. These are Copies of Letters sent from William Robinson and Marmaduke Stephenson after they were Banished unto Christopher Holder a Prisoner in Boston Common Prison Christopher Holder O My dearly beloved of my Father my Soul and Life salutes thee for thou art dear to me in the love which changeth not but doth indure for ever am I one with thee in the Life and Power of Truth where we are joyned together as members of his Body who is our Head and our preserver night and day where we are kept safe under the shaddow of h●s Wings where we feed together in the green pastures by the pleasant springs where thou may feel me my beloved one at the livin● Fo●ntain which doth refresh the whole City of our God where we are daily re●reshed together in the banqueting House where we do receive ●tr●ngth and nourishment from him who is our Life and fi●● us with his l●ving vertue day by day which is as precious Oynment powred forth giving a pleasant smell and is pleasant to behold for it hath ravished whereby we are constrained to leave all to follow it who gathers our hearts in one where I am joyn●d and sealed with thee in the Covenant of Life where we shall or ever rema●●e in the bo●om of t●e Father after our Testimonies are finish●d then shall w● lay d●wn our head● in peace with all the Faithful ev●n so the Lord k●ep us as witn●sses of his Truth that so we may be armed with his P●wer and 〈◊〉 in the hour of T●mptation and in the day of tryal to s●pport ●s and bear us ●p in his armes that so he may be hono●red by us who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all Glory and Honour to whom it doth bel●ng now and forever Amen So with my love to thee I rest who am thy dear brother in the Truth Marmaduke Stephenson C. Holder DEarly beloved Brother whom my Soul dearly loves and my Spirit and Life doth dearly embrace in Gods Love and Life Power and Truth thou may feel me with thee in the armes of the Lord where we are kept who is our Strength and the portion o●our Cup for ever God knows how my life doth flow forth unto thee from the River of our God which dayly runs through us wherewith we are dayly refreshed and whereby our strength is daily renewed for surely the Lord is with us and who shall be able to stand against us Dear heart in the sweet and pleasant habitation of our God in the Mansion House of my Father and thy Father feel me with thee for surely we have all one God to our Lord who is our King and our Law-given for truly out of one Womb have we all come and at one Fountain do we all drink and are daily nourished Dear heart where thou may feel me with thee in the life where we are sealed together for evermore Oh! my dear beloved my soul doth greatly love thee Oh! I cannot expresse it but thou may feel it in the Covenant of everlasting love where we are united by the Spirit of Truth Holinesse in the Power and Heavenly Peace of God feel me with thee where neither length of time nor distance of place can seperate us nay all the powers nor strength of darknesse it cannot break it in the same life and love and Authority of God the Lord for ever keep us and grant that it may be with us for evermore Amen Which I know the Lord God will perform even so be it saith my Soul Dear heart the remembrance of thee doth ravish my soul and by it is my heart filled with pure love and joy Oh! the Lord God knows how greatly I long to see thy face but dear heart I have not yet freedom in the Lord to accomplish it for I see some service I have to fulfil before I come to Boston if the Enemie hinder not for truly hitherto I have seen the Hand of the Lord greatly with us William Robinson DEar Brother my spirit and life dearly Salutes thee feel my love in thy own bosom how my life issues forth unto thee wherein I am bound up with thee in the bowels and love of God sealed with thee in the Eternal Covenant in the life and power of the Lord Iesus wherewith we are covered and where we feel each other in the Heavenly Life and Kingdom of our Lord Iesus Christ dear heart feel how near I am unto thee in the quiet and peaceable Union and Habitation of our God where we cannot forget one the other where we are sealed together in the fear and Dominion of God Dear heart the Lord knowes how greatly I long and desire to see thy Face and I know the Lord will grant it dear heart we were and are gladly received here and the seed hath been reached in many and the life hath answered to us in many we have had two fine meetings Thy dear Brother William Robinson The 15th 7th Moneth 1659. DEarly beloved unto whom I am united in the Spirit of Truth Love and Everlasting Peace where I believe our dwelling shall be for ever in Heavenly joy and true Peace in our Fathers Kingdom where we rejoice together and sweetly enjoy one anothers presence under our Fathers Banner in heavenly Paradice where we meet each other in our Father love in the Unity and Life of Christ Jesus where my dearly beloved I am with thee dear heart thou maist feel me and see how I am united unto thee W. R. The 26th of the 7th Month 1659. C. H. MY dearly beloved my life is often refreshed by thee the remembrance of thee is like the new Wine whereby my spirit and soul is refreshed and like the Oyl wherewith we are annointed even bread in time of need and water in time of thirst Oh! what shall I say unto thee I am overcome with thy life and ravished with thy beauty and thy love doth often melt in me and I am broken with the remembrance of thee Oh! that thou didst but know it how full I am of the Fathers love Oh! dear heart bear part with me of what I bear until I see thy face surely the Power of the Lord that is with me and upon me doth

often break me in pieces and often melt me into tears when he rises in his strength within me Oh! I am overwhelmed with it Oh! feel my dear heart how strong and mighty the Lord God is with me Oh! though thousands of the Philistins doth compass me round yet surely the God who is with me will work by me for truely I see them all before me as a Potters vessel which the Lord God will with his hand dash in pieces dear heart I am present with thee in the spirit and heavenly life and if the Lord permit we shall behold one another in the outward man to the comfort and joy of the spirit my dearly beloved on next fifth day we intend if the Lord will to come to Boston with several Friends with us which was so done Thy dear Brother in the Heavenly life and Spirit of Truth W. R. This was written by William Robinson to the Court of Boston ON the 8th day of the 4th Month 1659. in the after part of the day in travelling betwixt Newport on Rhode Island and Daniel Goulds house with my dear Brother Christopher Holder the Word of the Lord came expresly to me which did fill me immediately with life and power and heavenly love by which he constrained me and commanded me to pass to the Town of Boston my life to lay down in his Will for the accomplishing of his service that he had there to perform at the day appointed to which heavenly voice I presently yielded obedience not questioning the Lord how he would bring the thing to pass being I was a Child and obedience was demanded of me by the Lord who filled me with living strength and power from his Heavenly presence which at that time did mightily over-shadow me 〈◊〉 my life did say Amen to what the Lord required of me 〈…〉 commanded me to do and willingly was I given up from that time to this day the will of the Lord to do and perform whatever becomes of my body for the Lord hath said unto me My Soul shall rest in Eternal Peace and my life shall enter into rest for being obedient to the God of my life I being a Child and durst not question the Lord in the least but rather willing to lay down my life then to bring dishonour to the Lord and as the Lord made me willing dealing gently and kindly with me as a tender Father towards a faithful Child whom he dearly loves so the Lord did deal with me in Ministring of his life unto me which gave and gives me strength to perform what the Lord hath required of me and still as I did and do stand in need he ministred and ministreth more strength and vertue and heavenly power and wisdom whereby I was and am made strong in God not fearing what man shall be suffered to do unto me being filled with heavenly courage which is meekness and innocency for the cause is the Lords that we go in and the Battel is the Lords and thus saith the Lord of Hosts the mighty and terrible God not by strength nor by might nor by power of man but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I will perform what my mouth hath spoken through my servants whom I have chosen mine Elect in whom my Soul delighteth Friends the God of my life and the God of the whole earth did lay this thing upon me for which I now suffer bonds near to death he by his Almighty power and Everlasting love constrained me and laid this thing upon me and truly I could not deny the Lord much less resist the Holy One of Israel Therefore all who are ignorant of the motion of the Lord in the inward parts be not hasty in judging in this matter before you hear the truth of the matter least you speak evil of the things you know not for of a truth the Lord God of Heaven and Earth commanded me by his Spirit and spoke unto me by his Son whom he hath made Heir of all things and in his life I live and in it I shall depart this earthly Tabernacle if unmerciful men be suffered to take it from me and herein I rejoice that the Lord is with me the antient of dayes the life of the Suffering Seed for which I am freely given up and singly do stand in the Will of God for to me to live is Christ but to dye is gain And truly I have a great desire and will to dye herein knowing that the Lord is with me whatever ignorant men shall be able to say against me for the witness of the Spirit I have received and the presence of the Lord and his Heavenly life doth accompany me so that I can say in truth and from an upright heart Blessed be the Lord the God of my life who hath counted me worthy and called me hereunto to bear my Testimony against ungodly and unrighteous men who seek to take away the life of the righteous without a cause as the Rulers of the Mathathusets bay doth intend if the Lord stop them not from their intent Oh! hear ye Rulers and give ear and listen all ye that have any hand herein to put the innocent to death for in the Name and Fear and Dread of the Lord God I here declare the cause of my staying here amongst you and continuing in your jurisdiction after there was a sentence of banishment upon death as you said pronounced against me without a just cause as you all well know that we who were banished committed nothing worthy of banishment nor of any punishment much less banishment upon death And now ye Rulers you do intend to put me to death with my companion unto whom the Word of the Lord God came unto him saying Go to Boston with thy Brother William Robinson unto which Command he was obedient who had said unto him He had a great work for him to do which thing is now seen and the Lord is now a doing of it and it is in obedience to the Lord the God of the whole earth that we continued amongst you and that we came to the Town of Boston again in obedience to the Lord the Creator of Heaven and Earth in whose hand your breath is And will you put us to death for obeying the Lord the God of the whole earth Well if you do this act and put us to death know this and be it known unto you all ye Rulers and People of this Jurisdiction that whosoever hath a hand herein will be guilty of innocent blood and not onely upon your selves w●ll ye bring innocent blood but upon this Town and the Inhabitants thereof and every where within your Jurisdiction that had the least hand therein therefore be instructed ye Rulers of this land and take warning betimes and learn wisdom before it be hid from your eyes Written by one who feareth the Lord who is by ignorant people called a Quaker and unto such am only known by the name William Robinson