of my spirit, the exceedingly great wickedness, perversity, and tyranny of the world, the great and powerful sects, the subtlety of many minds, and the woefully heavy cross that would weigh on me not a little should I comply. On the other hand I saw pitifully great hunger and need of these God-fearing, pious children, for I saw plainly that they erred as do harmless sheep which have no shepherd. At last, after much prayer, before the Lord and His church I gave these conditions: that we should pray