A
VERY HUMBLE
SUPPLICATION
OF THE
POOR, DESPISED CHRISTIANS,
TO ALL THE PIOUS, KIND AND REASONABLE MAGISTRATES; CONCERNING
THE ABOMINABLE CHARGES, UPBRAIDINGS, BACK-BITINGS AND
CLAMOR OF THE LEARNED, WHEREBY THEY ARE, ON
EVERY HAND, SLANDERED AND TROUBLED, AS
MAY BE HEARD AND SEEN.
BY
MENNO SIMON.
"If a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not
vex him," "He shall be
unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love
him as thyself," Levit.19:33, 34.
ELKHART, INDIANA:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN F. FUNK AND BROTHER.
1871.
To all the pious, kind and reasonable magistrates, lords, princes, regents and commanders, we, poor, despised and scattered children wish eternal happiness, a happy reign, and every blessing of God our heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Amen.
"Amend your ways and your doings;" "For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt, then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever," Jer. 7:3, 5-7.
"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out, to thy house? when thou seest the naked; that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning," Isaiah 58:7, 8.