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My very good Friend,

received yours the 13th of April, N. S. I was not a little overjoyed, even in my ſufferings, to hear you are well ſettled in a country, where you have the freedom of enjoying the exerciſe of the true religion, a thing to be valued above all other earthly bleſſings; and not only that, but I am much more glad to find you inform me, that the climate ſo well agrees with you and your family, that you have been healthful ever ſince you departed from me and the reſt of your dear friends here; though many of us, and particularly myſelf, labour under many ſufferings and afflictions; I having (with many others) languiſhed a long time in priſon, for the fake of a good conſcience, afflicted with much ſickneſs, by reaſon of my cloſe confinement, which (bleſſed be the name of God for enabling me) I have borne with patience; tho’ many have died unpitied of their cruel perſecutors, yet the cry of innocent blood may in time make them cry, 'How hard is it to kick againſt the pricks:' yet my prayers are, that inſtead of defending any fearful judgement on theſe Popiſh adverſaries, God would turn their hearts, enlighten their underſtandings, make them ſee the errors of their ways, and repent of the many evils they have done to the poor Proteſtants, without any manner of cauſe or provocation, to whom their rage and malice extend even beyond death; for they ſtill continue their old way of denying them a Chriſtian burial. But this is all Rh