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ing, and went to the steeple-house; and the governor cast him into prison. On the second-day morning the governor sent one of his officers to the justice's house to fetch me: which grieved the mayor and the justice; for they were both with me in the justice's house when the officer came. So the mayor and the justice went up to the governor before me, and a while after I went up with the officer. When I came in I said, Peace be unto this house; and before the governor could examine me, I asked him why he did cast my friend into prison; he said, For standing with his hat on in the church.' I said, ' Had not the priest two caps on his head, a black one and a white one? and cut off the brims of the hat, and then my friend would have but one, and the brims of the hat were but to defend him from weather.' These are frivolous things,' said the governor; Why then,' said I, dost thou cast my friend into prison for such frivolous things?' Then he asked me whether I owned election and reprobation, 'Yes,' said I, and thou art in the reprobation.' At that he was in a rage, and said he would send me to prison till I proved it; but I told him I would prove that quickly, if he would confess truth. Then I asked him whether wrath, fury, and rage, and persecution, were not marks of reprobation; for he that was born of the flesh, persecuted him that was born of the Spirit; but Christ and his disciples never persecuted nor imprisoned any. Then he fairly confessed that he had too much wrath, haste, and passion in him. And I told him Esau was up in him, the first birth, not Jacob, the second birth. The Lord's power so. reached the man, and came over him, that he confessed to truth; and the other justice came, and shook me kindly by the hand.

As I was passing away, I was moved to speak to the governor again, and he invited me to dinner with him, and set my friend at liberty. I went back to the other justice's house; and after some time the mayor and his wife, and the justice and his wife, and divers other friends of the town went about half a mile out of town with us, to the water-side, when we went away; and there, when we parted from them, I was moved of the Lord to kneel down with them, and pray to the Lord to preserve them. So after I had recommended them to the Lord Jesus Christ, their Saviour and free teacher, we passed away in the Lord's power, and the Lord had the glory; and there is a meeting continues in that town to this day.

So we travelled through the country to Pembrokeshire, and in Pembroke town we had some service for the Lord.

From thence we passed to Haverford-west, where we had a great meeting, and all was quiet, and the Lord's power came over all, and many were settled in the new covenant, Christ Jesus, and built upon him, their rock and foundation; and they stand a precious meeting to this day. The next day, being their fair-day, we passed through their fair, and sounded the day of the Lord, and his everlasting truth amongst them.

After this we came into another county, and at noon came into a great market-town, and went into several inns before we could get any meat for our horses. At last we came to an inn where we did get some meat for our horses, and then John-ap-John being with me, went and spake through the town, declaring the truth to the people; and when he came to me again, said he thought all the town was as people asleep. After a while he was moved to go and declare truth in the streets again, and then the town was all in an uproar, and cast him into prison. Presently after several of the chief of the town came down, with others, to the inn where I was, and said, 'They have cast your man into prison. For what?' said I; He preached in our streets,' said they. Then I asked them, "What did he say? had he reproved some of the drunkards and swearers, and warned them to repent, and leave off their evil doings, and turn to the Lord?" I asked them who cast him into prison and they said, the high-sheriff, and justices, and the mayor. I asked the names of them, and whether they did understand themselves? and whether that was their carriage to travellers that passed through their town, and to strangers that did admonish them, and exhort them to fear the Lord, and reproved sin in their gates? So these went back and told the officers what I said; and after a while they brought down John-ap-John guarded with halberts, to the inn-door, in order to put him out of the town. I being at the inn door, bid the officers take their hands off of him. They said, the mayor and justices had commanded them to put him out of town. I told them I would talk with their mayor and justices anon, concerning their uncivil and unchristian carriage towards him. So I spake to John to go look after the horses, and get them ready, and charged the officers not to touch him. And after I had declared the truth to them, and shewed them the fruits of their priests, and their incivility and unchristian-like carriage, they went away and left us. They were a kind of Independents, but a very wicked town, and false. We bid the inn-keeper give our horses a peck of oats, and no sooner had we turned our backs, but the oats were stolen from our horses. After we had refreshed ourselves a little, and

were ready, we took horse, and rode up to the inn, where the mayor, and sheriff, and justices were. And I called to speak with them, and asked them the reason wherefore they had imprisoned John-ap-John, and kept him in prison two or three hours? But they would not answer me a word, only looked out at the windows upon me. So I shewed them how unchristian their carriage was to strangers and travellers, and manifested the fruits of their teachers; and I declared the truth unto them, and warned them of the day of the Lord, that was coming upon all the evil-doers and the Lord's power came over them, that they looked ashamed; but not a word could I get from them in answer. So when I had warned them to repent, and turn to the Lord, we passed away; and at night came to a little inn, very poor, but very cheap, for our own provision and our two horses, cost but eight-pence; but the horses would not eat their oats. We declared the truth to the people of the place, and sounded the day of the Lord through the countries.

Travelling from thence, we came to a great town, and went to an inn. And Edward Edwards went into the market, and declared the truth amongst the people; and the people followed him down to the inn, and filled the innyard, and were exceeding rude; yet a good service he and we had for the Lord amongst them; for the life of Christianity and the power of it tormented their chaffy spirits, and came over them, so that some were reached and convinced, and the Lord's power came over all; and the magistrates were bound, they had no power to meddle with us.

After this we passed away, and came to another great town on a market-day; and John-ap-John declared the everlasting power through the streets, and proclaimed the day of the Lord amongst them. In the evening many people gathered about the inn, and some of them being drunk, they would fain have had us forth into the street again, but we seeing their design, I told them, if there were any that feared God, and desired to hear the truth, they might come into our inn, or else we might have a meeting with them next morning. So some service for the Lord we had amongst them, both over night and in the morning; and though the people were hard to receive the truth, yet the seed was sown; and thereabouts the Lord hath a people gathered to himself. In that inn also I turned but my back to the man that was giving oats to my horse, and I looked back again, and he was filling his pockets with the provender that was given to my horse. A wretched, thievish VOL. I.

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people, to rob the poor dumb creature of his food. I had rather they had robbed me.

Leaving this town and travelling on, there was a great man overtook us on the way, and he purposed (as he told us afterward) to have taken us up at the next town for highwaymen. But before we came to the town, I was moved of the Lord to speak to him, and what I spake reached to the witness of God in the man, and he was so affected therewith, that he had us to his house, and entertained us very civilly. And he and his wife desired us to give them some scriptures, both for proof of our principles and against the priests. We were glad of the service, and furnished them with scriptures enough; and he writ them down, and was convinced of the truth, both by the Spirit of God in his own heart, and by the scriptures, which were a confirmation to him. Afterwards he set us on in our journey, and as we travelled we came to an hill, which the people of the country say is two or three miles high; from the side of this hill I could see a great way. And I was moved to set my face several ways, and to sound the day of the Lord there; and I told John-ap-John (a faithful Welch minister) in what places God would raise up a people to himself, to sit under his own teaching. Those places he took notice of, and since there hath a great people arisen in those places. The like I have been moved to do in many other places and countries which have been rude places; and yet I have been moved to declare the Lord had a seed in those places, and afterwards there hath been a brave people raised up in the covenant of God, and gathered in the name of Jesus, where they have salvation and free teaching.

From this hill we came down to a place called Dalgelthly, and we went to an inn, and John-ap-John declared through the streets, and the town's-people rose and gathered about him. And there being two Independent priests in the town, they both came out and discoursed with him both together. I went up to them, and finding them speaking in Welch, I asked them what was the subject they spake upon, and why they were not more moderate, and speak one by one? for the things of God, I told them, were weighty, and they should speak of them with fear and reverence. Then I desired them to speak in English, that I might discourse with them, and they did so. Now they affirmed, that the light which John came to bear witness of, was a created, natural, made light. But I took the bible, and shewed them (as I had done to others before) that the natural lights, which were made and cre

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ated, were the sun, moon, and stars; but this light, which John bare witness to, and which he called the true light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, is the life in Christ the Word, by which all things were made and created. The same that is called the life in Christ, is called the light in man; and this is an heavenly, divine light, which lets men see their evil words and deeds, and shews them all their sins; and (if they would attend unto it) would bring them to Christ (from whom it comes) that they might know him to save them from their sin, and to blot it out. This light, I told them, shined in the darkness of their hearts, and the darkness in them could not comprehend it; but in those hearts where God had commanded it to shine out of darkness, it gave unto such the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus their Saviour. Then I opened the scriptures largely to them, and turned them to the Spirit of God in their hearts, which would reveal the mysteries in the scriptures to them, and would lead them into all the truth thereof, as they became subject thereunto. I directed them to that which would give every one of them the knowledge of Christ, who died for them, that he might be their way to God, and might make peace betwixt God and them. The people were attentive, and I spake to John-ap-John to stand up and speak it in Welch to them, which he did, and they generally received it, and with hands lifted up blessed and praised God. The priests' mouths were stopped, so that they were quiet all the while, for 1 had brought them to be sober at the first, by telling them that when they speak of the things of God and of Christ, they should speak with fear and reverence. Thus the meeting brake up in peace in the street, and many of the people accompanied us to our inn, and rejoiced in the truth that had been declared unto them, that they were turned to the light and spirit in themselves, by which they might see their sin, and know salvation from it. And when we went out of the town the people were so affected, that they lifted up their hands, and blessed the Lord for our coming. A precious seed the Lord hath thereaways, and a great prople in those parts is since gathered to the Lord Jesus Christ, to sit down under his free teaching, and have suffered much for him.

From this place we passed to a city like a castle; where when we had set up our horses at an inn, and refreshed ourselves, John-ap-John went forth, and spake through the streets; which were so strait and short, that one might stand in the midst of the town and see both the gates. I 2B2

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