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Dear Heart,
THou hast cleared thy Conscience to∣wards us in the sight of God and man; if here had been many Friends, what could have been done more concerning us than thou hast done? Thou hast stood in great jeopardy ever since, and thy life hath been
sought for much; We have felt it, and cry∣ed night and day to our heavenly Father to preserve thee, and safely deliver thee: Whatsoever we do suffer, we desire the Will of our heavenly Father to be done in all things. If the Lord doth stir up the Earth to help the Woman, it is his own free love; and upon that account we shall receive it, and not upon any other.
This they spake concerning the Money I left with them, and for their necessities: And the Lord did appear unto me in a Vi∣sion of the night, and smote me on the arm, and said, Look, there is the Pope, he will not hurt thée; where he stood in the room as one forsaken of God and man; this was at the English Consuls, when there was some fear upon me concerning him. Now here is a Roman in the Prison which came hither upon some account, he is a Doctor of Law, and differs from them in many things; but they are all of one spirit: He doth constantly affirm, that the Pope hath sent an Order to set us free; and he saith, they are liars and false blasphemers, if they do say the Pope sent any such Order as they speak of. They do meet every day con∣cerning us, we do feel them; some would have it one way, and some another, and so
they cannot agree, because they do act contrary to the Will of God; the Lord sets it all on fire, and hath burned all that they have done these three years concerning us. Now where they will look a Reward of their charges, we do not know; the wise are taken in their own craftiness, and the sub∣tile in their own snare. There have twelve of them sate in Judgement upon us three years, and some have struck hard at our lives, so that we have been even at deaths door. I have lain very weak three weeks at a time. There are many for us, as far as they do dare. The Lord sayes, there were two with the Inquisitor for us, and did plead much with him: I did see it in a Night-Vision. The English Consul which is dead, was with us two several times after we were in the Inquisition; he said he would lend us five pounds when we did want: but when our Money was near done, we were made to rejoyce great∣ly, and could not take any of any one. We did not know the mind of the Lord in it; but had we had Money, we had not known the mighty Power of God. Now we are able to trust the Lord where-ever he shall carry us without money. We do question the Money in the Consul's hand,
it will be hard for him to part with it. Our life is with thee.