Darren-Water, where there were great Meetings : and the Priests
threatned, that they would come ; but none came. The everlasting
Word of Life was freely preached, and freely received ; and many
Hundreds were turned to Christ, their Teacher.

In Northumberland there came many to dispute ; of whom some
pleaded against Perfection : unto whom I declared, That Adam
‘and Eve were perfect, before they fell ; and All that God made,
‘was perfect ; and that the Imperfection came by the Devil, and the
‘Fall : But Christ, that came to destroy the Devil, said, Be ye perfect.
Then one of the Professors said, That Job said, 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 shewed him his Mistake, and let
him see, ‘That it was not Job, that said so ; but one of those, that
‘contended against Job : for Job stood for Perfection, and held his In-
‘tegrity ; and they were called miserable Comforters. Then these Pro-
fessors said, The Outward Body was the Body of Death and Sin. I
shewed them their Mistake in that also ; shewing them, ‘That Adam
‘and Eve had each of them an Outward Body, before the Body of
‘Death and Sin got into them ; and that Man and Woman wiil have
‘Bodies, when the Body of Sin and Death is put off again ; when
‘they are Renewed up into the Image of God again by Christ Jesus,
‘which they were in, before they fell So they ceased at that time
from Opposing further ; and glorious Meetings we had in the Lord’s
Power.

Then passed we on to Hexam, where we had a great Meeting a
Top of an Hill : The Priest threatned, that he would come and Op-
pose us, but he came not ; so that all was quiet : ‘And the Ever-
‘lasting Day, and Renowned Truth of the Everliving God was
‘sounded over those dark Countries, and his Son exalted over all.
‘And it was proclaimed amongst the People, that the Day was now
‘come, wherein all that had made a Profession of the Son of God,
‘might receive him ; and that to as many as would receive him, he
‘would give Power to become the Sons of God, as he had done to me.
And it was further declared, ‘That he, that had the Son of God, he
‘had Life Eternal : but he that had not the Son of God (though he
‘profest all the Scriptures, from the first of Genesis to the last of the
‘Revelations) he had not Life. So after that all were directed to the
Light of Christ, by which they might see him, and receive him ,
and know, where their true Teacher was, and the Everlasting
Truth had been largely declared amongst them ; we passed
away through Hexam peaceably, and came into Gilsland, a
Country noted for Thieving.

Here a Friend spying the Priest, went to speak to him : whereupon
the Priest came down to our Inn, and the Town’s People gathered
about us. The Priest said, He would prove us Deceivers out of the
Bible ; but could find no Scripture for his purpose. Then he went
into the Inn ; and after a while came out again, and brought some
broken Sentences of Scripture, that mention the Doctrines and Com-
mandments of Men, &c. and Touch not, Taste not, &c. for they perish
with the using ; All which (poor Man) was his own Condition :
whereas we were persecuted, because we would not Taste, nor Touch,

nor