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(81) goe as farr as Kendall: soe wee sett ye houre & mett & ab
aʌundans of rude people was gathered to it: & some of his
members baptised people: & they Intended to haue donne
mischeife yt day butt God preuented ym:
And when wee were mett I declared ye day of ye Ld to ym: & turned
ym to Xt Jesus: & heee out with his bible & saide Itt was
ye worde of God: & I tolde him it was ye words of God but
not God ye worde: his aunswer was hee woulde proue ye
scriptures to bee ye the God before all ye people: soe I had
a man
yt coulde write to tak doune both what hee saide & ʌwhat I saide
as may bee larger seene in my booke of letters
spoaken
Butt when hee had toylde ʌa great while: & coulde not proue it for I
kept him to ye scripture for chapter & verse for it: & keepinge
him to proue yt: one thinge hee had asserted: & in goeinge to proue
yt one error hee runn Into 20: & ye people gnashed there
teeth & saide hee woulde haue mee anon:
Butt when hee culde not proue it: then hee saide hee woulde proue
it a god: & thus ye Baptist preist tened himselfe till hee sweate
& broiled himselfe & his company: all beinge full of wrath
& I hept his assertions one ye heade of him: & ym all soe
yt at last they went away confounded & coulde proue
nothinge yt they asserted:
ffor I tolde ym what ye scriptures saide of y mselues: they
was ye words of God but Xt was ye worde
& confounded there mischeife wch: they Intended agst mee
And soe ye Lds power came ouer all ʌ& freindes was esta
blished in Xt: & they people saw the folly of there teacher
& ye people his ʌyt were his followers:
And
After this I came through ye country visitinge ffreindes: & preist Bennett
of Cartmell had sent a challenge to dispute with mee: & vpon ye first
day I came to his steeplehouse & there found him preachinge
& when hee had donne I spoake to him & ye his people but ye preist
woulde not stande to tryall butt went his ways: & a great deale
of discourse I had with ye people: & when I came foorth Into
with
ye steeplehouse yarde: & was discourseinge ye professers & declare
inge of ye truth vnto y.m: one of ym: setts his foote behinde mee
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