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A Letter From a Clergyman in Town - 6

protected, nor can they expect me to be Obedient; I speak the Truth in CHRIST, I lie not; Is is an Agreement that was necessary to preserve us clear of Hurt, from the Enemies from Abroad and at Home; and  comparitively speaking, that will not join on all Occasions to give Protection, but will not only fight amongst themselves, not against Enemies, to fight me, is cruel, a Servant of the LORD.---To be injured and my Bread taken away by the Wicked, only for founding the Trumpet of Liberty and Truth, and telling my Hearers of their Sins; they magnify themselves against me, and write to scandelize me; but Thanks be to GOD I glory in the Truth, and now hang out the Standard of it; I deny all that they can say against me to be false, when I first came here they muttered many Things to dishonour my Morals, and even called my Duty to my Son (when I attendeded him in London, under his sick State of Body, when Mr. Richy saw me) a Vice; when the Doctors in London recommended him to go into a warm Bathing, I went with him, and as there are no Places of note there, but what wicked People meet, as well as the good, there was some wicked People of the Fair-Sex there, but did not know them to be so.

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