Perhaps our brethren may say because we thus write, that we are offended at these those Characters! If we are it is not for a word neither because they reproved in the gate, but because they have been the means of shedding innocent blood. Are they not murderers then at heart, are not their consciences seared as with a hot iron, We confess we are offended, but the saviour said, it must needs be that offences come, but wo unto them by whom they come, and again [“]blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil falsly for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.” Now brethren if any men ever had reason to claim this promise, we are the men, for we know that the world not only hates us, but they speak all manner of evil of us falsely for no no other reason than that we have been endeavouring to teach the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, After we were bartered away by and were taken into the Militia camp, we had all the evidence we could have asked for, that the world hated us. If there were Priests among them of all the different sects they hated us, and that most cordially too, If there Generals they hated us, If there were Colonels they hated us, and the soldiers and officers of all classes hated us, and the most profane blasphemers and drunkards and whoremongers hated us, they all hated us most cordially and now what did they hate us for, purely because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;

Was it because we ar liars, We know that it is report [p. 103]