could send to my Relations. But I soon Convinced them of their
Mistake in that, and they let me forth; and would have had me to
stay there: But I was not to stay there. Then having exhorted them
to Repentance, and directed them to the Light of Christ Jesus, that
through it they might come unto him, and be saved; I passed from
them, and came in the Night to a little Ale-house on a Common,
where there was a Company of Rude Fellows drinking. And be-
cause I would not drink with them, they got up their Clubs, and
were striking at me: but I reproved them, and brought them to be
somewhat Cooler; and then I walked out of the House upon the Com-
mon in the Night. After some time one of these drunken Fellows came
out, and would have come close up to me, pretending to whisper to
me: but I perceived, he had a Knife; wherefore I kept off from
him, and bid him Repent, and fear God. So the Lord by his Power
preserved me from this Wicked Man; and he went into the House
again. The next Morning I went on through other Dales, Warning
and Exhorting People every where, as I passed, to Repent and turn
to the Lord: and several were Convinced. At one House, that I came
to, the Man of the House (whom afterwards I found to be a
Kinsman of John Blakelin’s) would have given me Money; but I
would not Receive it.

As thus I traveled on through the Dales, I came to another Man’s
House, whose Name was Tennant: And I was moved to speak to
the Family, and declare God’s Everlasting Truth to them. And as I
was turning away from them, I was moved to turn again, and speak
to the Man himself: And he was Convinced, and his Family, and
lived and died in the Truth. Thence I came to Major Bousfield’s,
who received me, as did also several others; and some that were
then Convinced, have stood faithful ever since. I went also thro’ Gryse-
dale, and several other of those Dales; in which some were Con-
vinced. And then I went into Dent, where many were Convinced also.
But from Major Bousfield’s I came to Richard Robinson’s, and decla-
red the Everlasting Truth to him.

The next day I went to a Meeting at Justice Benson’s, where met a
a People, that were separated from the publick Worship     This was
the place, that I had seen, where a People came forth in white Rai-
ment. A large Meeting it was, and the People were generally Con-
vinced; and continue a large Meeting still of Friends near Sedburgh:
Which was then first gathered through my Ministry in the Name
of Jesus.

In the same Week there was a great Fair, at which Servants used
to be hired: And I went and declared the day of the Lord through
the Fair. And after I had done so, I went into the Steeple-house-
Yard; and many of the People of the Fair came thither to me, and
abundance of Priests and Professors. ‘There I declared the Ever-
‘lasting Truth of the Lord, and the Word of Life for several Hours;
‘shewing, that the Lord was come to Teach his People himself, and
‘to bring them off from all the World’s Ways and Teachers, to Christ
‘the true Teacher, and the true Way to God. I laid open their
‘Teachers, shewing, that they were like them, that were of Old con-
‘demned by the Prophets, and by Christ, and by the Apostles: And I
                                                                              ‘exhorted

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