n
Blaykling and others came to me and desired me not to reprove
them publicly, for they was not parish teachers but pretty sober
men, but I would not tell them whether I would or no, though I
had little in me to declare publicly against them, but told them
they must leave me to the Lord's movings. The chapel was full of
people and many could not get in. Francis Howgill (who was
preaching) said he thought I looked into the Chapel, but I did
not. And he said that I might have killed him with a crab-apple,
the Lord's power had so surprised him.

'So they had quickly done with their preaching to the people at
that time, and they and the people went to their dinners, but
abundance stayed till they came again. And I went to a brook and
got me a little water, and so I came and sat me down atop of a
rock, (for the word of the Lord came to me that I must go and
sit upon the rock in the mountain, even as Christ had done
before).

'And in the afternoon the people gathered about me with several
separate teachers, where it was judged there was above a
thousand people. And all those several separate teachers were
convinced of God's everlasting truth that day, amongst whom I
declared freely and largely God's everlasting truth and word of
life about three hours. And there was many old people went into
the chapel and looked out of the windows and thought it a
strange thing to see a man to preach on a hill or mountain, and
not in their church as they called it. So I was made to open to
the people that the steeple-house and the ground whereon it
stood was no more holier than that mountain ... but Christ was
come who ended the temple and the priests and the tithes, and
Christ said, "Learn of me," and God said, "This is my beloved
Son, hear ye Him."

'For the Lord had sent me with His everlasting gospel to preach,
and His word of life so that they all might come to know Christ
their Teacher, their Counsellor, their Shepherd to feed them,
and their Bishop to oversee them, and their Prophet to open to
them, and to know their bodies to be temples of God and Christ
for them to dwell in.... And so, turning the people to the
Spirit of God, and from the darkness to the light, that they
might believe in it and become children of light.'

III

'Now, it is our turn,' insisted ruddy-faced Joh