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declared to ye people; and all was quiet; and one man said; there was no
old learned man to dispute wth mee there; I told him I came not to
dispute but to declare truth to them, that they might come out of all the false
Teachers, Shepherds wayes and to bee taught of god who was come to teach
his people himselfe, and to bring them out of all false wayes and teachers
an and that they might come off all false wayes and worshipps, and
to bee guided by the spirit of God in themselves to God who was a
spirit; for y:e mighty day of the lord was Comming upon all sin and wicked
nesse; and so had a larg time to declare the truth and the light of Christ
in their hearts; and the word that letts them see their thoughts and their words
that Divides asunder y:e pretious from
the vile and so passt away
in peace to
another Steeple house some two Miles of from the Town; and being
A Thirsty I spoke spyed a Brooke I went down to drinke; and being hote as
I came back, I mett y:e priest of y:e parish, hee asked mee whether I had any
thing to say to y:e People that day; and If I had hee would neither oppose mee in
words nor thought, so I told him opposse if hee would I had something to speak to y:e
people; and how hee had made a foole of himselfe, and had spoken contra=
ry to y:e witnesse of God in his Conscience two or three dayes before; for hee be=
ing the same priest of that steeplehouse where I had spoken before the other day
and also in this, and hee knew that the people was taken wth truth in
the Countrey; and they would have com’ed to have heard mee rather then him __
And so I went upp to the steeplehouse, being a great place and a great people
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