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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Dr. <HI>HEWIT'S</HI>
LETTER
TO
Dr <HI>WILDE</HI> on <DATE>Monday, <HI>June</HI> 7. 1658.</DATE> being the day before he &s;uffered
Death, and read by Dr. <HI>Wilde</HI> at his FUNERALL.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Deare&s;t Brother,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Have no cau&s;e to think that you have not at any time taken me along with
you in the daily walk upon your knees to Heaven, but I be&s;eech you and
all my Brethren to be (now e&s;pecially) very mindfull to call upon God
for me. The more company I go withal, the more welcom I &s;hall be made.
I &s;hould be loath either to leave out of my Creed, or to be left out of the
benefit of the Communion of Saints Two are better then one. Two or three have the ad|vantage
of a Promi&s;e; but to go with a multitude to the Hou&s;e of God, where all commers
are welcome, is to be a&s;&s;ured before-hand of good entertainment. Admi&s;&s;ion will hardly
be denyed to any, for whom there is great importunity of many: If the Gate be &s;hut,
much knocking will open it; or if that would not doe it, united Forces would offer an
Holy violence. Many will prevail, where one alone can do but little good. <HI>Woe un|to
him that is alone.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore dear Brother, &s;ith it is the infirmity of our nature, that we live not without
the occa&s;ions of giving and taking of offence. And 'tis the corruption of our nature that
the offences we give, we write in the du&s;t; Tho&s;e we take, we engrave in Marble. If you
know, or &s;hall heare of any one either of my Brethren, or other per&s;ons whom by any act
of &s;candall I have tempted, or provoked, or le&s;&s;ened or di&s;turbed, to exclude me the be|nefits
of their charitable prayers or wi&s;hes I be&s;eech you beg of them from me, for me,
their pardon. And let not any private wild-fire of pa&s;&s;ion put out the holy flames of a
diffu&s;ive charity: And as for my &s;elfe, I doe here prote&s;t before God that I doe heartily
de&s;ire to forget the injuries of who&s;oever has tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed again&s;t me, either by word or
deed. And if God &s;hould have been plea&s;ed to have granted a longer life, I would not re|fu&s;e,
(yea I am &s;tedfa&s;tly re&s;olved to &s;ollicite termes of Reconciliation with them that
have done me the wrong) And if my owne heart doe not deceive me, I would give my
life to &s;ave the &s;oule of any of my Chri&s;tian Brethren, and would be content to want
&s;ome degrees of glory in Heaven, &s;o that my very greate&s;t Enemies might be &s;o happy
as to have &s;ome. The God of Mercy &s;hed forth his Bowels for them that &s;hed my blood,
and the blood of Chri&s;t &s;ave, &amp; the Spirit of Chri&s;t &s;anctifie, and &s;upport him who de&s;ires
to live no longer then to honour the Father, Son, and holy Gho&s;t, and both living and
dying craves yours, and the prayers of the whole Church for her unworthy Child, and</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Deare&s;t Brother</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t affectionate Friend, Brother and Servant in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, <HI>John Hewit.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Tower, <DATE><HI>June</HI> 7. 1658.</DATE></DATELINE>
Morning 7 a Clock.</CLOSER>
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