(96) baptists & professers in Scotland had sent to mee to haue a
dispute & I sent to y^m: y^t I woulde meete y^m: in Cumberland
att Tho: Bewleys: where I went but none came: X ☞

And after I had visited y^t country & freinds I went through
ye countryes Into Bishopricke: & had large meetinges &
had a very large meetinge att Justice Pearsons house where
many was convinced; & soe I passed through Northumber
land to Dalʌrran water where there was great meetinges
& ye preists threatned to come but none came: & ye
euerlastinge worde of life was freely preacht & freely receued
& many hundreds were turned to Xt there teacher:

And there came many to dispute in Northumberland: & pleaded
agst perfection but I declared Ivnto y^m: y^t Adam & eue was
perfect before they fell & all y^t God made was perfect:
& ye Imperfection came by ye Deuill & ye fall: & Xt
y^t came to destroy ye Deuill saide bee yee perfect
butt one of ye professors saide: y^t Job: saide what shall
mortall man bee more pure than his maker: ye heauens
are not cleere in his sight God charged his angells
with folly: but I shewed him his mistake y^t Itt
was not Job w^ch: saide soe but those w^ch: contended
agst Job: for Job stoode for forperfection & his Integrity
& they was caled miserable comforters: & they saide
the outwarde body was ye body of death: & sin: butt
I lett y^m see: there mistakes & howe y^t Adam & Eue
had a body: before ye body of death & sin gott Into y^m

And man & woman woulde haue a dbody when ye body
of sin & death was putt off: againe: when they were
renewed vppe Into ye Image of God againe by Xt Jesus
as they was in before they fell:

Soe many a glorious meetinges wee had in ye Lords
powr & soe wee passt to Hexam: where wee had

(96) Baptists, & professors in Scotland had sent to me to have a
dispute & I sent to them that I would meet them in Cumberland
at Thomas Bewley’s, where I went but none came. X ☞

And after I had visited that country & Friends I went through
the countries into Bishopric: & had large meetings &
had a very large meeting at Justice Pearson’s house where
many was convinced; & so I passed through Northumberland
to Derwent Water where there was great meetings
& the priests threatened to come but none came, & the
everlasting Word of Life was freely preached & freely received
& many hundreds were turned to Christ their teacher.

And there came many to dispute in Northumberland: & pleaded
against perfection but I declared unto them that Adam & Eve was
perfect before they fell & all that God made was perfect:
& the imperfection came by the Devil & the Fall: & Christ
that came to destroy the Devil said, ‘Be ye perfect’:
but one of the professors said, that Job said, ‘What, shall
mortal man be more pure than his maker? the heavens
are not clear in his sight. God charged his angels
with folly’: but I showed him his mistake, that it
was not Job which said so, but those which contended
against Job: for Job stood for perfection & his Integrity,
& they was called ‘miserable comforters’: & they said
the outward body was the body of death: & sin, but
I let them see: their mistakes & how that Adam & Eve
had a body before the body of death & sin got into them
And man & woman would have a body when the body
of sin & death was putt off again when they were
renewed up Into the image of God again by Christ Jesus
as they was in before they fell.

So many glorious meetings we had in the Lord’s
power, & so we passed to Hexham: where we had