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him nor comfortably for them selues & to y' prouiding to a nu setl- 

 ment finely we Judge it the duty of paster and pepel to humbell them 

 selues under the the [sic] ueru sever and Just & holy prouidence of 

 God in per miting saton the Enemy of souls so long to inuad & imbors 

 thare peese & to be uery lavvfuU to in quier into the causes of God 

 anger & holy indignation manifest in so sore & humdling a dispershon 

 of prouidence touerds them and we beleue it their duty to beg that 

 God would shou to Euery of them where in thay haue dun a mis to be 

 waill it be fore God & to ask importinatly his pardoning marsey throu 

 the bioud of a gratious & all mity redemer to hear the fait of these 

 misers of iniquitys which cannot be by ouer most thout full & Cristell 

 Endeuers Come att lyes where not able to determin but the holy god is 

 the sercher of all harts beleue it tis the dudy of all parsons concarned 

 to consider it and to act acording ly that thay may not liue and dye 

 with out indeuers af ter reconceilaton to God in order to v" ob tainins: 

 for giuenes it shall be ouer prayer to god that thay may in gods time 

 which the lord in marsey hasen see a comfortadl eshue of all thare 

 trobles one the acount of which thay haue bin grat thoughts & serching 

 of harts we pray that ouer endeuers touers bringing one of such an 

 ishue may be Exceptable to god whose presence we haue desiered & 

 whoos rules we haue acordingly to ouer light a lowed & to thos whoo 

 here Desiered ouer presens with thaare and ouers result one the perticu- 

 lers laid before us whome we recomend to the mersefull fauer& Conduct 

 of gracous God and subscrid ouer selues youre serunts for Crists sack 



grindall roson mod 



John hancock 



Josef baxter 



John Swift 



John Prentis 



Thomas Wilder 



John houton 



Sameuel Stoon 



Jonathan boydon 



Dauid Ryse mesengers 



Sameuell roocit 



Josheuh hemingway 



Joseph bowman 



John Tyeler 



[Indorsed] the ad uis. of a Counsill of eldrs &mesingers 



