That your Heart might not be as a stone but be moved with Compassion and on hearing of the more then barbarous Treatment your Brethren ° the English in Pensylvania & parts. adjacent have met with.

And as to the Cognawaghes who are of your Blood, let them know that it would have been 100 Times' better for them, to have accepted your Generous offer of Peace and Friendship then to Reject' Iton so frivolous Excuses; as; their having been washd with the same Water as the French Since there is but one Baptism, and you are washd with the same Water as they. Since even the Papists do not even repaptize those of the protistants that imbrace their superstitions Way of Worship.

I let you know also beloved, that if you are good spiritual Warriors who manfully fight under the Banner of your Chief Captain Jesus, against your Spiritual Enemies} vidz' wicked

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Spirits & men as also your own bad Inclinations and Habits : That then the Great God, who is calld Immanuel, that isto say : God with us will be with you & fight your Battles.

Lastly my Brethren, Let my tears be wipd of, for the Death of my Brother Henry, by a letter to Great King George, wich i beseech you to subscribe in my Behalf, lest i might loose the Fruit of so many years' toil, trouble and charges. And i assure you, as soon as the Lord shall enable me, you shall not find me ungratefull. And as I have not been unmindfull hitherto, but remembered you at the Throne of Grace, so i shall in Times to COME: j4 |