To the in , and all the Saints who are scattered abroad, and are persecuted, and made desolate, and are afflicted in divers manners for Christ’s sake, and the Gospel— And whose perils are greatly augmented by the wickedness and corruption of false brethren, may grace mercy and the peace of God be and abide with you, and notwithstanding all your sufferings, we assure you, that you have our prayers, and fervent desires for your wellfare and salvation both day and night We believe that that God who seeth us in this solitary place, will hear our prayers and reward you openly; know assuredly, Dear Brethren that it is for the testimony of Jesus, that we are in bonds and in prison. But we say unto you, that we consider that our condition is better, (notwithstanding our sufferings,) than those who have persecuted and smitten us, and borne false witness against us, and we also most assuredly believe that those who bear false witness against us, do seem to have a great triumph over us for the present. But we want you to remember Haman and Mordacai, you know Haman could not be satisfied so long as he saw Mordicai at the King’s gate, and he saught the life of Mordicai and the people of the jews. But God so ordered, that Haman was hanged upon his own gallows, So shall it come to pass with poor Haman in the last days, those who have saught by their unbelief and wickedness, and by the principle of mobocracy to destroy us, and the people of God, by killing and scattering them abroad, and willfully and maliciously delivering us into the hands of murderers, desiring us to be put to death, thereby having us dragged about in chains and cast into prison, and for what cause? It is because we were honest men, and were determined to defend the lives of the Saints at the expence of our own, I say unto you that those who have thus vilely treated us like Haman, shall be hanged upon their own gallows, or in other words, shall fall into their own snare gin and snare and ditch and trap which they have prepared for us, and shall go back [p. 101]