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21 he went of the stage; knowing that my day is far spent, being long since I was his fellow-prisoner, and taught him from my own experience, how to manage the great weight of irons that was upon his legs; and wishing that all the Lord's people, who have any zeal for the sworn to and sealed testimony, and savoury remembrance of the names of Christ's slain witnesses for the same, and of the Lord's signal manifestations of his faithfulness and all sufficiently to them in their life and death, would give me all encouragement in such a piece of good and great generation work, which may be useful and edifying, when he and I would be mouldering in the dust.

LETTER,

Mr. ALEXANDER PEDEN,

To the Prisoners in ,

July 1685.

I long to hear from you, how you spend your time, and how the grace