(62) hee was soe full of filth
ffor hee saide hee was aboue John: & made as though: hee knew
all thinges but I tolde him howe yt death reigned from Adam
to Moses & hee was vnder y.t death & knew not Moses: for Moses
saw ye paradice of God & soe hee neither knew Moses nor ye prophet[ts]
nor John: for yt wcrooked nature: stoode in him & ye rough
& ye mountaine of sins & corruptions:
And ye way was not prepared in him for ye Ld soe hee confest
hee had beene vnder a crosse in thinges but now hee coulde singe
psalmes: & doe any thinge; & I tolde him now hee coulde see
a theife & Join hande in hande with him: & hee coulde not
* preach moses: nor ye prophetts nor Xt Jnor John: except hee was
in ye same Spiritt as they was in:
And soe Margarett fell had beene abroade & att night when shee
came home: her children tolde her yt preist Lampitt & I dis=
agreed: & Itt strucke somethinge att her because shee was in
a profession with him: though hee hidd his dirty actions from
them: soe att night wee had a great deal of reasoninge & I
declared ye truth to shee & her family:

And ye next day lampitt came againe & ʌI had a great deale

              with him

of discourse ʌbefore Margarett fell: whoe soone then discerned ye

preist cleerely: & a conuincement came vpon her & her family
of ye Lds truth: & on ye first there was a fast humiliation day

shortly after     within a day or two

    ʌkept att Vluerston; & m: ff: askt mee to goe to ye steeplehouse

                                            I must doe as I am ordered of ye Lorde

with her: for shee was not wholely come off: & I saide ʌ wee

butt I walked in ye feilds & then ye worde of ye Lorde came

                                                                when I came

to mee to goe to ye steeplehouse after y.m & ʌ ye preist lampitt
                        singinge with his people

was blustering on xx his preachinge & his spiritt & his stuffe

was soe foule yt I was moued of ye Ld to speake to him &
ye people: after they had donne singinge: & ye worde of ye Lorde was to ym:
hee was not a Jew yt: is one outwarde: butt hee was a Jew yt: is one inwarde
whose praise was not of man but of God: & howe yt God was come to teach

his people by his spiritt & to bringe y.m off all there ʌolde ways religions churches & | worshipps; for all there religions & worshippes & ways was but talkeinge of others | mens words: but they was out of ye life & spiritt

      yt gaue ym foorth     one

yt they was in: ʌ & Justice Sawrey | cryed take him away: & Judge ffells wife saide to y:e officers lett him alone why | may not hee speake as well as any other: & Lampitt saide forIn decepte lett him speake | & soe att last: ye when I had declared a pretty while y:e constable tooke putt mee out




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