I kindly thanck you for your loving inclination to receaue my late protestation concerning my selfe ignorant of Mr. Greenes letter etc.2 I desire vnfeignedly to rest in my Appeale to the most high in what we differ as I dare not but hope you doe: it is no small griefe that I am otherwise perswaded, and that some times you say (and I can say no lesse) that we differ: the fire will try your workes and mine, the Lord Jesus helpe vs to make sure of our persons that we seeke Jesus that was crucifyed: howeuer It is and euer shall be (the Lord assisting) my Endeavour to pacifie and allay where I meete with rigid and censorious spirits who not only blame your actions butt doome your Persons: and indeede it was one of the first grounds of my dislike of John Smith the miller especially of his wife viz: their iudging of your persons as Divells 3 etc.

I allso humbly thanck you for that sad relation of the monster etc. The Lord speakes once and twice: he be pleased to open all our Eares to his Discipline.

Mrs. Hutchinson (with whome and others of them I haue had much discourse) makes her Apologie for her Concealement of the monster, that she did nothing in it without Mr. Cottons advice, though I can not belieue that he subscribes to her Applications of the Parts of it. The Lord mercifully redeeme them, and all of vs from all our delusions and pitie the desolations of Zion and the Stones thereof.

I find their longings great after Mr. Vane although they thinck he can not returne this yeare: the Eyes of some are so earnestly fixt vpon him that Mrs. Hutchinson professeth if he come not to New she must to Old Engl.

I haue endeavoured by many Arguments to beate of their desires of Mr. Vane as General Governor 4 and the chiefe are satisfied vnles he 26come so for his Life but I haue endeavoured to discover the Snare in that allso.

Sir concerning your intended meeting for reconciling of these Natiues our friends and dividing of the Pequts our Enemies I haue ingaged your name, and mine owne; and if no Course be taken the name of that God of Truth whome we all profess to honour will suffer not a little, it being an ordinary and common thing with our neighbours if they apprehend any shew of breach of promise in my selfe thus to obiect: doe you know God and will you lye? etc.

The Pequts are gathered into one, and plant their old fields: Wequash and Okace carying away the people and their treasure which belong to your selues: I should be bold to presse my former Motion or else that with the next Convenience they might be sent for other parts etc.

I hope it will never be interpreted that I press this out of feare of any revenge vpon my selfe by any of them: I euer yet (in point of reason to say no more) conceaved this place the safest of the land, and can make it appeare etc. but out of desire to cleare your names and the name of the most High which will be ill reported of in case (according to so many Promises) an honourable and peaceable Issue of the Pequt warr be not established.

Sir the bearer hereof (not daring either to bring my letter or attend for an Answere) I must request you to send your letter to Rich: Collicuts that so a natiue may convey it or els to Nicholas Vpshalls: and I should be bold humbly to propound to the Countrey whether in case there be a necessitie of keeping leauge with the Natiues and so consequently many occasions incident, (and some which I will not write of) as allso a Conveniencie of Informacion this way how matters may stand with you on the sea shoare, as I say whither it be not requisite so farr to dispence with the late Order of Restraint as to permit a messenger freely.5

Tis true I may hire an Indian: yet not alwayes, nor sure, for these 2 things I haue found in them: sometimes long keeping of a letter: 2ndly if a feare take them that the Letter concernes themselues they suppresse it, as they did with one of special Informacion which I sent to Mr. Vane.

Sir there will be new Heavens and a new Earth shortly but no more Sea (Revel. 21.2.) The most holy God be pleased to make vs willing now to beare the Tossings Dangers and Calamities of this Sea and to seale vp to vs upon his owne grounds, a great Lot in the glorious State aproaching So craving Pardon for Prolixitie, with mine and wiues due respect to Mrs. Wintrop Mr. Deputie Mr. Bellingham etc. I rest Your Worships desirous to be ever yours vnfeigned

my humble service presented vnto yow etc.; these are to let your worship vnderstand how it hath pleased god wonderfully to provide for vs and to preserve and keepe vs all alive, and in good health vntill this present, blessed bee his name for it, but how long it may be thus continued I know not, but this I am sure our sinns have long agoe cried lowd, for bitternes woe and desolation, but he who is pleased many tymes to be found of those which seeke him not, and made manifest vnto those which never enquired after him, may of his grace be pleased through his grace in his owne good time, to exspell those clowdy mists of gloomy darkeness; and let in the soonne shine of his love vpon the soules of all his elect in Christ, and that in his owne good time, and at his owne good will and pleasure. It hath pleased god of his owne free grace, in some measure to make mee the vnworthiest of all creatures less then the least of all his mercyes (sensible) not only of the want which wee are now in for provisions and sustenance for the outward man, but also of the want, yea and inevidable and irrecoverable pitt which euery soule is ready euery moment to fall into, that hath not their sines pardoned their persons accepted and freely iustefied and that in and through and by the blood of the lord Jesus, who will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whome he will he hardens,2 so that it is out of thes riches of his free grace, and out of the abundant compassion pitty and good will vnto any pore soule that he is pleased to call whome vnto himselfe acording to that in the 16 of Ezekell, 28behold whilest thow wast in thy blood and no eye pitied (I said) vnto thy sowle live, which as it hath pleased the lord to give mee some poore weake vnderstanding I conceive it thus. If there is nothing in heaven nor nothing on earth that can speake lyfe vnto any poore soule who lyes wallowing in the blood and mire and clay of his sinns and corruptions, but only the lord Jesus Christ takeing of the soule vnto him selfe, and that while it is in its blood when no eye pittyes it, then he out of the riches of his free grace towards the soules of his elect, is pleased to redeme them from death to lyfe and that by the shedding of his pretious blood vpon the Cross once shed for all his elect, and so by his stripes wee are healed, yea even by the death of him who came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; As for this Iland vpon which wee are; as I conceiue it may in some measure be compared to Philadelphia; though it is not subiect to earthquakes, yet it is somtimes so shaken with stormes of wind and seas that one would wonder, and so various for alterations and changes of winds and weather that I stand amazed somtimes to see it. I will not trooble your worship with any further intelligence of the Iland, because our Comander Lieftenant Morris can certefie your worshipp of all things how they stand, and in what a condition we are now in, and what short allowance wee are brought too, our provisions being almost spent, and had not god wonderfully provided for us above and beyond our exspectations for ought I know, wee might have bin many of us dead ere now, for want of food. Sir I should request your worshipp yf yow thinke meete, after the 10 monthes are exspired, for to give me that remainder of my time that I am to serve your worship which is till michalmes day it being the 29th as I take it of September. I should be very thankefull to your worship for it; I should likewise desire your worship to send mee some shirts and some other cloathes I have a desire to stay a while longer vpon the Iland yf there bee any probability of doeing good vpon the horse,3 which I question it not, only I desire to have your worships advise in the thinge and yf I have any letters come from any of my freinds I should desire your worship would be pleased to send them mee James Yelke remembers his humble service to your worship, and Daniell Hendrick. James is vnwilling to stay any longer then till the 10 months be exspired. thus with our harty prayers to the lord for yow and yours I rest Your humble servant to his power