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A29355 To the mayor, aldermen, majestrates and officers of the military force in the city of London and county of Middlesex for you to receive and in patience to consider. Brewster, Humphrey. 1662 (1662) Wing B4435; ESTC R31628 3,985 8

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of God in your selves and see what ye think it is that we thus suffer for for if our hope were only in this life we were of all men most miserable for how has many of us left our native Countries some leaving their Wives and Children and travailed into strange lands receiving when they have come there Imprisonment or Whipping or Banishment yea some has been put to death and what has it been for but for the sake of that Life Immortal which no man could take from them And what is it that we keep up our Meetings for when some of us are haled to Prison some cruelly beaten some in jeopardy of our lives what is it we war for is it 〈…〉 an earthly Kingdome is it earthly riches honour or preferment Nay nay it is for that life Immortal it is for that treasure which will never corrupt and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal Therefore take counsel of Gamaliel that juditious Lawyer and let us alone least ye be found fighters against God and also consider what Spirit that is that persecutes and how it differs from that spirit that gave forth the Scriptures of Truth Cain murthered his Brother Abell and if I should declare through the Scriptures and through the persecutions of the Christians unto this day I might make a large description of that spirit of Cain which hath been persecuting the true Abells in many Generations and suppose that we were Hereticks as it may be some of you may deem us to be Yet consider that to murder an Heretick were the way to cast him into Hell and see how this is contrary to the Apostles Doctrine where he saies in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgeing of the Truth 2. Tim. 2. chap. and in the 4th chapter of the same Epistle it is said reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine mark with all long suffering And many examples I might bring out of the Scriptures to prove that that spirit that seeks to destroy mens lives is the spirit of Antichrist not of Christ who came to destroy sin and to save the life But if nothing will satisfie you but our blood fill ye up the measure of your Fathers that ye may have blood to drink and that we may fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of our forefathers and of the sufferings of Christ in our flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church And now see what is it that ye thus pursue what am I or what are we are not we the weakest of all men that is to say of our selves for we are made low in our own thoughts and contemptible in our own eyes that the power of the Lord alone may be exalted in us for by the grace of God we are what we are it is not of our selves it is the gift of God and to him only I do commit our cause for we have none other to fight for us but only the Lord who alone by the right arm of his power hath made thousands willing this day I do believe in England rather to have their outward Tabernacles of flesh torn in pieces then to yeld to that wil of man that is contrary to the righteous Law of God for we know that the utmost of your power is but to kill the body and then you can do no more Therefore hath the Lord brought us into the pure fear of him that can both kill and cast into hell and these things do I lay before you that ye may take heed of pulling innocent blood upon your own heads for the Lord hath made me a plain man and in plainness I write unto you and I leave what I have here written to that of God in you and in all people to see whether the Magistrates sword be not be born in vain this day in England By one that is a true lover of all your souls being known amongst men by the name of Humphrey Brewester The 2d of the 7th month called September 1662. THE END