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A quaker, who one day came to hear me, asked me home with him. When I entered his house I said, God has brought salvation to this house. At prayer, in the evening, his daughter was struck under convie. tion, and soon after, the old man, his wife, three sons, and two daughters, were all brought to experience religion; so that we had a considerable society.

A baptist preacher, who lived about twenty miles distant, hearing what was going on in the neighbourhood, went thither and preached the necessity of water baptism, and was so successful as to get six of my sheep into the water, who left us and followed him. Elated with this success, he followed me from place to place, but all in vain, for he was not able to turn another out of the way.

But to return to my appointments. In Mannington great congregations attended. The man and his wife were both awakened and under strong convictions, and many others were stirred up to enquire the way to Zion. At the second place, the minister thereof attended, I felt at first a great cross to preach before him, he being a learn ed man, and I supposed he had come to hear me with an evil design, as appeared afterwards to be the case. However, I prayed to the Lord not to let me bo con

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founded. After I began, my cross was but light, and the minister who set before me was no more than another sinner. The power of God rested upon us, and several eried out aloud, and two fell to the floor agonizing for salvation. I tarried all night, and the minister and five or six of the heads of the presbyterian meeting spent the evening with me, in order to dispute and pick me to pieces if possible. The minister asked me if I was a Weslian. I answered yes. Then said he "You deny the perseverance of the saints." God forbid, said I, for none can be saved unless they persevere to the end. Then said he, you believe the possibility of falling from grace; I answered yes. He then, in a very abrupt manner, gave me the lie; but when I told him that I could prove the doctrine by the word of God, he very passionately gave me the lie again. I quoted sundry scriptures, particularly that of David's fall, and turned to Ezek. chap. iii. ver. 20 and 21, and wished him to read and explain the passage; but he would not touch the bible. His elder said, it read as I said, and he ought to explain it. He, in a passion, said he was brought up at college and certainly knew; but I was a fool, and he could cut such a fellow's throat; then turned to his elder and said, "If there was a dog's head on your shoulders I would out

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"it off. Be not you know the articles of "your own church? I will teach you bet"ter." I told him the curse of God was upon all such watchmen as he was, who did not warn the people against sin; that if they lived and died in sin they could not be saved, and by his doctrine souls might fall away and perish, but their blood would be found in his skirts. He replied, I could cut such a fellow's throat; it makes my blood boil to hear the perseverance of the saints denied. I then handed him the bible, and desired him to clear it up; but, said he, "you are a fool, you know nothing at "all. I was brought up at college and I "will have you before your betters." He got so angry that he could say but little more. I told him that if we were ambassadors for Christ, we ought to go on hand and heart to attack the devil in all his strong ́holds. And then asked the man of the house if I should preach there again; but the answer was no. So this place was shut against me through the influence of the minister. But glory to God, there were doors opened in Mannington, so that I was at no loss for places to preach at.

I accordingly preached at William Harvey's where the people came out pretty generally, and the Lord wrought powerfully among them. And on my return home, I

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went with one of my old companions who asked me if I would preach at his house in Woods-Town. I told him I would, accordingly an appointment was made, and we had a crowded house. While I was speaking, a mob of soldiers came with their guns, and bayonets fixed, and one rushed in, while the rest surrounded the door. The people fled every way, and he presented his gun and bayonet as though he would run me through it passed close by my ear twice. If ever I preached the terrors of the law, I did it while he was threatening me in this manner, for I felt no fear of death, and soon found he could not withstand the force of truth; he gave way and retreated to the door. They endeavoured to send him back again, but in vain, for he refused to return. However I went on and finished my discourse, and then asked the man of the house, if I should preach there again, he said no, for they will pull down my house. But Doctor Harris told me I might preach in his house. In two weeks I attended at the Doctor's, and found about one hundred men under arms. When I began to preach, they grounded their arms, and heard me in a quiet, orderly manner.

About this time, the government was drafting the militia to go into the service of their country: Among others, the lot

fell on me to go; but as I had a call to preach, I could not think of going out to fight; however, I had to pay a sum of money sufficient to procure another man to go in my place.

I told my wife that we must move from that neighbourhood, for we should be ruined to stay among a set of people, who, from their enmity, were determined to do me all the injury they could. Accordingly I rent ed a place in Mannington, near Salem, where the people were more friendly and not so full of the spirit of war. Here I had many doors opened for me to preach, and a powerful work of religion took place, attended with several remarkable conversions, which I think worthy of notice. One was a woman, who after returning home from preaching, under great conviction, applied herself to prayer; and while she was about her house-work, and as she walked across the floor, with her heart lifted to God in penitential supplication, the Lord applied these words to her. Go in peace and sin no more; and at that instant she was brought into liberty, and cried out, "I have got the Lord! I have got the Lord!" Her children asked what was the matter. To whom she repeated the same words. They then told her some one was coming she replied, "I do not care; for

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