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cld well read & understand, 3d A School or college built of brick at Cambridge at the charge of the Ret. Hon. Corporn. in London 4th Churches & Church officers are settled among them. 5th Divers are baptised both men, women & children. 6th In judg[['e" crossed out]ment of charity several of them are believers. A 2d head taken from a covenent made with those Inds. & their predecessors, about 30 years since, recorded ^in the gen. court records of the Mas. wherein the Inds. subjection & the Eng. protectn. is mutually agreed. Now a covenant tho' made with the Gileconites is a very binding thing & the breach of it Sorely punished by the Lord as may appear in 2 Sam. 21: 1.2.3. A third consideration taken from our laws which carefully provides for the encouragement & Security of the pray. Inds. See the law, title Inds. p. 74. A 4th reason taken from the many pub. letters & printed papers sent from N. Eng under a stamp of authority, both from the comsrs of the Cb. Cols. to the hon Corn. at London, & from the gen. cort, declaring the good Success of the gospl. among them particularly to mention only that passage in the address & petition of the gen. ct., Sitting at Bostn. in N. Eng. to ye high & mighty prince Charles II, & presented to his most gracious notice, Feby 11th, 1660, in page 7 line 25th. Royal Sir, If according to our humble petition & good hope in the god of ye Spirits of all flesh, ye father of mercies ( who comforteth the abject) shall make the permission of that all for which we have & do Suffer the loss of all, precious yea, so precious in his Sight, as that your royal heart shall be inclined to shew unto us that kindness of ye Lord in your majestie's protection of us in those liberties for wh we hither came, & wh hither to we have enjoyd, upon Hezekiah speaking comfortably to us, as to Sons. This orphan shall not continue fatherless,
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