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Restored & comforted: & for your selves that grace & peace from God our

father & y^e lord Jesus X^st may be multiplied: In whom (craving continuall In

=terest in your prayers) we Rest your brethren & servants in y^e fayth & fellowship

of y^e gospell

                          Nathaniel Collins  John Hall

                          Nathanial White}   William Harrian

                          Samuel Stocker     Daniel Harrian

Revren^d & dear S^r: I have not to ad but to informe you y^t y^e premises are not a

ch: act onely a subscription by some I desired to meet at my home for y^t end: And y^t

besides those known to your self amongst us: The rest of y^e subscribers are our comis

sioners with y^e two Deacons hands; men of approved fidelity among us, who fully &

freely subscribe the premises                     yours N: Collins.

 

The Church was stayd upon the Lords day at noon 6 Septemb (74) to hear the

letter from Middletown and to heer more breifly Goodm Millers acknowledgm^t

which he made w^th some broakenness iudging himself for the great evills that he had com

mitted . an account of which we give in the following letter together w^th his dismission to

The Church of X^st at Middletown

  Reveren^d beloved in y^e Lord & saviour Jesus X^st The Church of Christ at Middle

  Towne grace & peac be multiplied to you

By these you may be pleased to understand That Tho: Miller who for soe many years

has bin under y^t awfull sentence of excomunication out of y^e church of X^st at Rowley

is now received into brotherly relation with the say^d church, their acceptance of him

being manifested by a full & unanimous vote

His confession of his great Evills was something weak & confused yet soe farr as we

could judg sincere & hearty; he has in those particulars wherin he foremerly fell

Short Shoun some measure of true Repentance soe farr as we can iudg

He has acknowledged his Evill in rending away from this church against counsell

and that he went away not contented w^th what accommodations he had heer to seek in

largements in worldly matters which he fears his heart was then more upon then

things not seen

And that after his setling in those parts wher he now has his dwelling he minded little

Els but Eerthly things, was unwatchfull, regardless of gods word, which had he kept god

would have kept him in all houres of temptation

Having thus forsaken god; The lord (as he did Express with tears) forsook him, so

that he fell into foul iniquity, which sometimes he could not have beleeved (if it had

bin told him) he should ever have comitted, but God heerby had showne him something

more of y^e evill of his corrupt nature then Ever he discerned before

Upon the consideration also of his carriage to his foremer wife, he has acknowledg’^d

that he sined greviously filling her heart with much greif to the shortning of her

life as may be justly feared; & as he had desired her pardon (& obtayned it) soe he beg^d

prayers that God would pardon his breach of y^e 6 comand as well as of other comands

violated by him

He acknowledged y^t upon the consideration of all those great evills of his & those scrip

tures w^ch some faythfull Christians did put him in mind of viz 2 Prov 19. & 22 14

    great

he had fears both that ther never was a thorow work upon his heart & that y^r

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was noe hope for him, but the lord was pleased to hint to him that 89 Ps That

                                                         Though