ioE 6f M^or '^^ Bonnet. 



thority to fupprefs you, and put a Stop to thofe 

 Rapines that ydu daily aft^d. 



And however you may fancy that that was killing 

 Men fairly in open Fighty yet this know, that the 

 Power of the Sword tiov being committed into ybur 

 Hands by any lawful Authority, you were not em- 

 powered to ufe any Force^ or fight any one ;^ and 

 therefore thofe Perfbns that fell in tliat A£fcioh, in 

 doing their Duty to their King and Country, were 

 murdered y and their Blood now cries out for Ven- 

 geance and Jufiice 2i^2Lin^ you : For it is the Voice of 

 iV^^z^r^, confirmed by the Z,<^n? of God, That whofoever 

 peddeth Man s Bloody by Man jh all his Blood be fljed. 

 Gen. 9. (J. 



And confider that Death is riot the only Punifh- 

 ment due to Murderers \ for they are threatened to 

 have their Fart in the Lake which burneth with Fire and 

 Brimfioney which is the fecond Deaths Key* 21. 8. See 

 thap. 22. 15. Words which carry that Terror 

 with them, that confidering your Circumftances 

 and your Guilt, furely the ;SQuiid of them muft 

 make you tremble for who can dwell with everlaft^ 

 ing Burnings? Chap. 33. 14. 



As the Tefiimo^y of your Confcience mufl convince 

 you of the great and many Evils you have com- 

 mitted, by which you have highly offended God, 

 and provoked rnofl juftly his Wrath and Indigna- 

 tion againft you, fo I fuppofe I need not tell you 

 that the only Way of obtainidg Pardon and Remif- 

 fionof your Sins from God, is by ia true and un- 

 feigned and Faith in CHrift, by whofe 

 me'ritorious Death ariH Paflion, you can bnly hope 

 for Salvation. . ' 



You being a 'Gentleman that have had the Ad- 

 vantage of a liberal Education^ generally 

 efleemed a Man of tetter s^ i believe it will be need- 

 lefs for me to explain to you the Nature of Repen- 

 tance 



