"What may thy message be ?" And willing to gain a character for courage, though it was wholly foreign to his nature, he motioned those around him to keep back.

"Thy message, fellow!" he repeated.
"Hear, then, what Heaven saith to thee," the Puritan replied.

"Have I not brought thee out of a land of famine into a land of plenty?
Thou oughtest, therefore, to have judged my people righteously! But thou hast perverted justice, and not relieved the oppressed.

Therefore, unless thou repent, I will rend thy kingdom from thee, and from thy posterity after thee! Thus saith the Lord, whose messenger I am.".