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 Sir, if the lord will, are yet ready to do more in onrone [sic] calling, and to uffer more for the ame, if o be it will pleae our God to call us to it, and trengthen us in it, for ourelves we dare promie nothing, but in our God all things.

And for that inturment Spotwood, we are ure the Lord will never bles that man, but a malediction lies upon him, and hall accompany all his doings: and it may be, Sir, your eyes hall ee as great comfuion covering him, ere he go to his grave, as ever did his predeceors. Now urely, Sir, I am far form bitternes, but here I denounce the wrath of an everlating God againt him, which auredly hall fall except it be prevented. Sir, Dagon hall not tand before the ark of the Lord, and thee names of blaphemy that he wears of arch and lord bihop, will have a fearful end, Not one beck is to be given to Haman, uppoe he was as great a courtier as ever he was, uppoe the decree was given out and ealed with the kings ring, deliverance will come elewhere, and not by him, who has been o ore an intrument, not againt: our perons, that were nothing, (for I protet to you, Sir, in the ight of my God, I forgive him all the evil he has done, or can do, to me) but unto chrit's poor kirk, in tamping under foot, o glorious a kingdom, and beauty, as was once in this land; he has helped to cut Sampon's hair, and to expoe him to mocking, but the Lord will not be mocked: he hall be cat away as a tone out of a ling, his name hall rot, and a malediction hall fall upon his poterity after he is gone. Let this, Sir, be a monument of it, that it was told before, that when it hall come to pas, it may be een there was warning given him: And therefore, Sir, eeing I have not the acces myelf, if it would pleae God to move you, I wih you did deliver this hard meage to him not as from me, but from the Lord.

Blacknes, 1605,