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. 107To 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.

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