Not only George and Alexander Parker, who were with him, but divers
of the ancient Friends of that country, endeavoured to quiet that
troublesome man and make him sensible of his error, but his unruly
spirit would still be opposing what was said unto him and justifying
himself in that practice. This brought a great weight and exercise
upon me, who sat at a distance in the outward part of the meeting,
and after I had for some time bore the burden thereof, I stood up in
the constraining power of the Lord, and in great tenderness of
spirit declared unto the meeting, and to that person more
particularly, how it had been with me in that respect, how I had
been betrayed into that wrong practice, how strong I had been
therein, and how the Lord had been graciously pleased to show me the
evil thereof, and recover me out of it.
This coming unexpectedly from me, a young man, a stranger, and one
who had not intermeddled with the business of the meeting, had that
effect upon the caviller, that if it did not satisfy him, it did at
least silence him, and made him for the present sink down and be
still, without giving any further disturbance to the meeting.
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