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 to uppres you, and put a Stop to thoe Rapines that you daily acted.

And however you may fancy that that was killing Men fairly in open Fight, yet this know, that the Power of the Sword not being committed into your Hands by any lawful Authority, you were not impowered to ue any Force, or fight any one; and therefore thoe Perons that fell in that Action, in doing their Duty to their King and Country, were, and their Blood now cries out for Vengeance and Jutice againt you: For it is the Voice of Nature, confirmed by the Law of God, That.

And conider that Death is not the only Punihment due to Murderers; for they are threatened to have. See ''Chap. . ''. Words which carry that Terror with them, that conidering your Circumtances and your Guilt, urely the Sound of them mut make you tremble; Chap. 33. 14.

As the Tetimony of your Concience mut convince you of the great and many Evils you have committed, by which you have highly offended God, and provoked mot jutly his Wrath and Indignation againt you, o I uppoe I need not tell you that the only Way of obtaining Pardon and Remiion of your Sins from God, is by a true and unfeigned and  in Chrit, by whoe meritorious Death and Paion, you can only hope for Salvation.

You being a Gentleman that have had the Advantage of a liberal Education, and being generally eteemed a Man of Letters, I believe it will be needles for me to explain to you the Nature of   tance