cannot be now of a long time lingering. For there seems to be a whispering that the angels <​of heaven​> who have been intrusted with the council of these matters for the last days have taken council together and among the rest of the general affairs that have to be transacted in there honoable council <​they​> have taken cognisance of the testimony of those who were murdered at and also those who were martered with . and <​else where and​> have pased some desisions peradventure in favor of <​the saints and​> those who were called to suffer without cause. These desisions will be made known in there time and <​they will​> shall take into concideration all those things that offend. We have a fervant desire that in your general that evry thing should be discused with a grate deal of care and propriety lest you grieve the holy spirit which shall be poured out at all times upon your heads when you are exercised with those principals of ritiousness that are agreeable to the mind of God. and are properly affected one toward another and are carefull by all means to remember those who are in bondage and in heaviness and in deep afliction for your sakes and if there are any among you who aspire after their own aggrandisement and seek their own oppulance while their brethren are groning in poverty and are under sore trials and temptations they cannot be benefeited by the intersesions of the holy spirit which maketh intersesion for us day and knight <​with groning’s that cannot be uttered​>. We aught at all times to be verry carefull that such highmindedness never have place in our harts but condesend to men of low estate [p. 2]