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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

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