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 ſo to me Go up to Tower Hill and die there. Iſaac ſaid to himſelf, that he was old, and yet he knew not the day of his death but I cannot lay ſo, I am young and yet I know the day of my death, and I know the kind of my death, and the place of my death alſo. I am put to ſuch a kind of death at two famous preachers of the goſpel were put to before me, John the Bapiſt, and Paul the apoſtle, they were both beheaded. I read alſo in Rev. xx. the ſaints were beheaded for the word of God and teſtimony of Jeſus. Pu h rain it the diſadvantage which by under in the thoughts of many: they judge that ſuffer not for the word of God or for conference, but for meddling with ſtate matters. To this ſhall briefly ſay, there is an old trick of Satan to impure the cauſe of God's people's ſufferings to be contivements; againſt the ſtate when in truth it is their religion and conſcience they are perſecuted for The rulers of Iſrael would have put Dremy to death upon a civil account, though indeed it was only the truth of his prophecy that made the rules angry with him; and yet upon a civil account they pretended he muſt die, becauſe he fell away to the Childrens and would have brought in foreign forces to invade them. The ſame thing is ſaid to my charge of which I am as innocent as Jeremy was. So Paul, though he did but preach Jeſus Chriſt, yet his enemies w d him put to death, under pretence that he was a mover of fecition. Upon a civil account my life is pretended to be taken away; whereas it is, becauſe purſue my covenant, and will not proſtite my principles and conſcience to the ambition and luſt of men I had rather die a covenant keeper than live a covenant breaker. Beloved, I am this day making a double exchange; I am changing a pulpit or a ſcaffold and a ſcaffold for a throne; and I taught add a third, I am charging the preſence of this numerose m on Tower Hill, for the innumerable company of ſaints-