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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<P>_WE the Servants and faithfull Witne&s;&s;es of the mo&s;t high God, called and Cho&s;en of him, and Redeemed out of Nations, Kindreds, Tongues, and People; who are Mini&s;ters of the word of Life and Reconciliation; and Me&s;&s;engers of glad tidings, and &s;alvation unto Captive and weary Soules; (our glorying is only in the Lord, and not in our &s;elves) who are by the world in &s;corn called Quakers; who are at this pre&s;ent in outward Bonds for the te&s;timony of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: in Dublin; and who have been in the labour and Travell of the Go&s;pell of God this &s;ix moneths and upward, in the Nation of <HI>Jreland</HI> according to the will of God ordained here unto; and moved and Commanded by his Eternal Spirit, into this his worke for the &s;eeds &s;ake which is not of this World, to the gathering of it into the fold of everla&s;ting Peace; &amp; to the clearing of the Lord from the Blood of his Enemies, that they may be le&s;t without excu&s;e, by his powerfull word given unto Us and uttered by Us, (and herein we are a good &s;avour to God both in them that peri&s;h, &amp; in them that beleeve) and for this cau&s;e have we denied our deare&s;t and neare&s;t Relations; and loves not our lives unto Death, that our te&s;timony we may fini&s;h, which is Committed to Us of the Lord, and becau&s;e of this are we Labourers under many burthens, &amp; Travellers in many afflicti|ons, and &s;ufferings, and are abundantly reproached, and our Lords truth of which we bear witnes, greatly Infamed by many Slandering and Backbiting Tongues; e&s;petially by the Thachers and Profe&s;&s;ed Mini&s;ters in the eares of their People and Hearers; &s;landering Us with being <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> and Deceivers, and Seducers, and Heriticks, and Bla&s;phemers, and Witches and &s;uch like: and we of tho&s;e fal&s;e accu&s;ations being clear, and our Lords truth (the te&s;timony which we hold) wholy Innocent; and are wiling to be tried and proved, &amp; made manife&s;t to the Inhabitants of this City &amp; Nation, in the &s;ight of God; this therefore are we moved to give forth; &amp; hereby in the Name of our Liveing eternal God; of Heaven, and Earth (whom we &s;erve, &amp; wor&s;hip in that way which is called Heri&s;ie) doe &s;end it a|broad, as a Challenge to all you Teachers, and pretended Mini&s;ters, of what &s;ort &amp; form &s;o-ever, and to all you People whom it may really Con&s;cerne; and e&s;pecially to all you, in the City of Dublin, &amp; places el&s;e where in <HI>Jreland</HI> to whom this may come. That you meet Us, in the City of Dublin, at &s;ome publique place at a convenient time appointed by you; at which place &amp; time, if the Lord permit, (by the permi&s;&s;ion of the Coun&s;el of <HI>Jreland</HI> who&s;e Pri&s;oners we are) we &s;hall you meet then, and there to have a faier and &s;ober di&s;pute, in the pre&s;ence of all people, who may de&s;ire to be Informed or &s;atisfied concerning Us, and You, in the&s;e things whereof you can accu&s;e Us, and al&s;o of tho&s;e things, by way of &s;ober Que&s;tions, which we have to propound to You, not for any end to our &s;elves, nor to &s;et up a Kingdome of our own, God is our witnes, but that the way of our God may be made manife&s;t, and all deceit, and error Di&s;covered, and all People may be informed the way to Salvation, and as you are true to your God and will an&s;wer for him; and are willing to be made manife&s;t in your way of Wor&s;hip, and Doctrin, and Mini&s;try, You are not to neg|lect; but here-in to an&s;wer our De&s;ires, and the De&s;ires of many hundreds; that you and we may be made manife&s;t in the &s;ight of God, to all mens Con&s;ciences, who are in truth and who are in error: That &s;hame and Condemnation may come upon the guilty, &amp; Truth may be exalted over all Deceit.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Sent forth <DATE>the 23 of the 12 m</DATE> from the Sarjent at Armes his hou&s;e in Dublin.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Given under our hands who are Pri&s;oners for the Te&s;timony of Je&s;us, who&s;e Names in the fle&s;h are <HI>Francis Howgill,</HI> &amp; <HI>Edward Burrough.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>YOU are de&s;ired to &s;end your an&s;wer of the&s;e Propo&s;itions to Us, and if you Con&s;ent to meet Us, Let &s;ufficient notice be given abroad; that the Jnhabitants of the City and Countrey may know five or &s;ix dayes time before.</P>
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