(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;

And then into Bishoprick where there were ʌfew steeple-|houses but friends
were moved to go to them, Nay I ʌmay say few in England but friends
were moved to go to them to warn them of y:^e mighty day of y:^e lord; to tel them
where their true teacher was; and a great people there was convinced; and
brought to their teacher; and out of the false worshipps to worshipp god in
y:^e spirit and truth w^ch the divell is out of; and came to own the light of
Christ Jesus w^ch hee had enlightned them w^thall; w^ch lett y:^m see all the evill
deeds they had done; and all the evill thoughts they had thought; and all
the ungodly words they had spoken; and that was y:^e light which Christ had
enlightned them w^thall w^ch is Christ the great Prophett, w^ch tells every one
all y:^t ever they have done ______

                              & 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:

The first sentence here precedes the passage about ‘Bishopric’ in the Short Journal.
                        And then I passed into
Northumberland where I had great service for y:^e truth there and had many meettings ___

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:

                          And I went to Newcastle for there | are many
professors who had reported y:^t Quakers would fly like butterflies, they
would not come to great Townes, so when I came there I sent for them being
some of them the Aldermen of y:^e Town; but they would not come at mee
so I went to one of their houses; whose name was Thomas Ledger; and
reasoned w^th him, and hee said the scriptures was above y:^e spirit and was
above angells, and was the word of God; and I told him y:^e word

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was god and the spirit gave forth Scriptures and y:^t hee must know in
himselfe both the word and spirit w^ch reconciles to y:^e Scriptures to god &
to one another; and that hee must know it in his heart and Mouth w^ch divides
his good words from his bad and his good thoughts from his bad, and so
I passed away after I had a meetting w^th friends and had spoken in
their streets;

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

and so I had great meettings upp and down in y:^e Countrey
and many friends went to steeplehouses, and was sore abused, but
truth was sett over all ___