day night, at captain Lawrence's; and it was the seventh day night that they said the house was broken up. Now the reader is to be informed, that during the time that I was a prisoner at the Mermaid at Charing-cross (of which an account is given before) this captain Lawrence brought several independent justices to see me there, with whom I had a great deal of discourse, which they took offence at. For they pleaded for imperfection, and to sin as long as they lived; but did not like to hear of Christ's teaching his people himself, and making people as clear, whilst here upon the earth, as Adam and Eve were before they fell. Now these justices had plotted together this mischief against me in the country, pretending an house was broken up; that so they might send their hue and cry after me; so great was their malice against the righteous and the just. They were vexed also, and troubled, to hear of the great meeting at John Lawrence's aforesaid; for there was a colonel convinced there that day, that lived and died in the truth. But Providence so ordered it, that the constable carried us to a justice about five miles onward in our way towards Lynn, who was not an independent justice, as the rest were. When we were brought before him, he began to be angry, because we did not put off our hats to him. I told him, I had been before the Protector, and he was not offended at my hat; and why should he be offended at it, who was but one of his servants. Then he read the hue and cry; and I told him, that that night, wherein the house was said to be broken up, we were at captain Lawrence's house; and that we had several men here present could testify the truth thereof. Thereupon the justice, having examined us and them, said, he believed we were not the men that had broken the house; but he was sorry, he said, that he had no more against us. We told him, he ought not to be sorry for not having evil against us; but rather to be glad for to rejoice, when he got evil against people, as for house-breaking, or the like, was not a good mind in him. It was a good while yet, before he would resolve, whether to let us go, or send us to prison and the wicked constable stirred him up against us, telling him, we had good horses, and that if it pleased him, he would carry us to Norwich jail. But we took hold of the justice's confession, that he believed we were not the men that had broken the house, and after we had admonished him to fear the Lord in his day, the Lord's power came over him, so that he let us go and so their snare was broken. A great people were afterward gathered to the Lord in that town, where I was moved to

speak to them in the street; and from whence the hue and cry came.

Being set at liberty, we travelled to Lynn; whither we came about the third hour in the afternoon. And having set up our horses, we met with Joseph Fuce, who was an ensign and we wished him to speak to as many of the people of the town as he could that feared God; and to the captains and officers to come together: which he did. And we had a very glorious meeting amongst them, and turned them to the spirit of God, by which they might know God and Christ, and understand the scriptures; and so learn of God and of Christ, as the prophets and apostles did. Many were convinced there that day; and a fine meeting there is, of them that are come off from the hirelings' teaching, and sit under the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lynn being then a garrison, we desired Joseph Fuce to get us the gate opened by the third hour next morning (for we had forty miles to ride next day). And by that means getting out early, we came next day by the eleventh or twelfth hour to a town near the Isle of Ely, called Sutton, where Amor Stoddart, and the friends that were with him, met us again. A multitude of people was gathered thither, and there were no less than four priests. The priest of the town made a great jangle; but the Lord's power so confounded him, that he went away: the other three priests stayed; and one of them was convinced. One of the other two, whilst I was speaking, came to lean upon me; but I bid him sit down, seeing he was so slothful. A great convincement there was that day; and many hundreds were turned from the darkness to the light, and from the power of Satan unto God, and from the spirit of error to the spirit of truth, to be led thereby into all truth. People came to this meeting from Huntingdon, and beyond; and the mayor's wife of Cambridge was there also. A glorious meeting it was, and many were settled under Christ's teaching, and knew him, their Shepherd to feed them; for the word of life was freely declared, and gladly received by them. The meeting ended in the power of the Lord, and in peace; and after it was done, I walked out, and went into a garden; where I had not been long, before a friend came to me, and told me several justices were come to break up the meeting. But many of the people were gone away; so they missed of their design: and after they had stayed a while, they went away also, in a fret.

That evening I passed to Cambridge: and when I came into the town, the scholars hearing of me, were up, and

were exceeding rude. I kept on my horse's back, and rode through them in the Lord's power; but they unhorsed Amor Stoddart, before he could get to the inn. When we were in the inn, they were so rude there in the courts, and in the streets, that the miners, the colliers and carters could never be ruder. The people of the house asked us what we would have for supper, as is the usual way of innkeepers Supper!' said I, were it not that the Lord's power is over them, these rude scholars look as if they would pluck us in pieces, and make a supper of us.' They knew I was so against their trade, the trade of preaching, which they were there as apprentices to learn, that they raged as bad as ever Diana's craftsmen did against Paul. At this place John Crook met us. When it was within night, the mayor of the town, being friendly, came and fetched me to his house; and as we walked through the streets, there was a bustle in the town; but they did not know me, it being darkish. But they were in a rage, not only against me, but against the mayor also; so that he was almost afraid to walk the streets with me, for the tumult. We sent for the friendly people, and had a fine meeting there in the power of God, and I stayed there all night. Next morning, having ordered our horses to be ready by the sixth hour, we passed peaceably out of town; and the destroyers were disappointed; for they thought I would have stayed longer in the town, and intended to have done us mischief; but our passing away early in the morning, frustrated their evil purposes against us.

Then rode we through the countries to Bishop Starford, where were some convinced: and so to Hertford, where also there were some convinced; and where now there is a large meeting.

From thence we returned to London, where friends received us gladly; the Lord's power having carried us through many snares and dangers. And great service we had for the Lord; for many hundreds were brought to sit under the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ, their Saviour, and to praise the Lord through him. James Nayler also was come up to London; and Richard Hubberthorn and I stayed some time in the city, visiting friends and answering gainsayers; for we had great disputes with professors of all sorts. Many reproaches they cast upon truth, and lying slanderous books they gave forth against us: but we answered them all, and cleared God's truth, and set it over them all; and the Lord's power was over all.

Amongst other services for the Lord, which then lay upon me in the city, I was moved to give forth a paper to

those that made a scorn of trembling and quaking; of which a copy here followeth.

The word of the Lord to all you that scorn trembling and quaking, who scoff at them, and scorn them, and throw stones at them, and belch forth oaths against them, who are trembling and quaking, threatening them, and beating them; strangers ye are to all the apostles and prophets, and are in the generation that stoned them, and mocked them then in those ages. Now ye are the scoffers which they spake of, that are come in the last times: be ye witnesses against yourselves. To the light in all your consciences I speak, that with it you may see yourselves to be from the life of the holy men of God.

'Moses, who was a judge over all Israel, he trembled, feared and quaked: when the Lord said unto him, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob," then he trembled, and he durst not behold. This which makes to tremble now, ye teachers and people scoff at, and scorn them in your streets, who witness the power of the Lord. Moses forsook the pleasures of the world, which he might have enjoyed for a season: he might have been called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; he refused it, and forsook Pharaoh's house, yet was no vagabond. And David, a king, he trembled; he was mocked, they made songs on him, they wagged their heads at him. Will you profess David's words, and Moses his words, who are in the generation of your fathers, mockers, scoffers, wonderers and despisers, which are to perish? O blush, and be ashamed of all your profession, and be confounded! Job trembled, his flesh trembled, and they mocked him: so do you now mock them in whom the same power of God is made manifest; and yet you profess Job's words. O deceitful hypocrites! will ye not own scripture? O for shame, never profess scripture words, and deny the power, which, according to the scripture, makes the keepers of the house to tremble, and the strong man to bow himself. These things both priests, magistrates and people scoff at ; but with the power ye are judged, and by the power and life condemned.

"The prophet Jeremiah trembled, he shook, his bones quaked, he reeled to and fro, like a drunken man, when he saw the deceits of the priests and prophets, who were turned from the way of God; and they were not ashamed, neither could they blush: such were gone from the light; and such were they that ruled over the people. But he was brought to cry, O foolish people! that had eyes, and

could not see, that had ears, and could not hear, that did not fear the Lord, and tremble at his presence, who placed the sands for bounds to the sea by a perpetual decree, that the waves thereof cannot pass! and he said, "A horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. Shall not I arise for these things, saith the Lord? Shall not my soul be avenged upon such a nation as this?" They were such as did not tremble at the word of the Lord; therefore he called them a foolish people. Hear all ye the word of the Lord, ye foolish people, who scorn trembling, and quaking, and shaking: give over professing the prophet Jeremiah's words, and making a trade of them; for with his words you are judged to be among the scoffers, and scorners, and stockers. For he was stocked by your generation; and you now stock them that tremble at the word of the Lord, at the power of the mighty God, which raises up the seed of God, and throws down the earth which hath kept it down. So you that are in the fall, where death reigneth, enemies of the truth, despising the power of God, as those of your generation ever did. Wo and misery is your portion, except you speedily repent. Isaiah said, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye that tremble at his word." And he said, "This was the man that God did regard, that was of a broken and contrite heart, and trembled at his word. When their brethren hated them, and persecuted them, saying, Let the Lord be glorified; he shall appear to your joy, but they shall be ashamed." Isa. lxvi. 5. Now all ye scoffers and scorners, that despise trembling, you regard not the word of the Lord: they are not regarded by you, that tremble at the word; which are regarded by the Lord; therefore you are contrary to Isaiah's words. Therefore profess him and his words no more, for shame, nor make a trade of his words. Ye that seek for your gain from your quarter, ye greedy, dumb dogs, that never have enough, ye are they that despise trembling; ye are such as Isaiah cried against, who himself witnessed trembling. Here therefore be ye witnesses against yourselves, that with the light in your consciences ye may see ye are out of the prophet Isaiah's spirit, and are haters of them that tremble, whom the Lord regards; but such you regard not, but hate and persecute, mock and rail against them. But it is manifest that you walk in the steps of your forefathers, that persecuted the prophets. Habakkuk, the prophet of the Lord, trembled ; and Joel, the prophet of the Lord, said, " Blow the trumpet in Sion, and let all the inhabitants of the earth trem