Being returned home, I waited in daily expectation of a command from
the Justices to appear again before them; but none came. I spoke
with those Friends who had been with me when I was before them, and
they said they had heard nothing of it from them, although they had
since been in company with them. At length the assize came, but no
notice was given to me that I should appear there: in fine, they
never troubled themselves nor me any further about it.
Thus was a cloud, that looked black and threatened a great storm,
blown gently over by a providential breath, which I could not but
with a thankful mind acknowledge to the All-great, All-good, All-
wise Disposer, in whose hand and at whose command the hearts of all
men, even the greatest, are, and who turns their counsels,
disappoints their purposes, and defeats their designs and
contrivances as He pleases. For if my dear friend Guli Penn had not
fallen sick, if I had not thereupon been sent for to her, I had not
prevented the time of my appearance, but had appeared on the day
appointed; and, as I afterwards understood, that was the day
appointed for the appearance of a great many persons of the
Dissenting party in that side of the country, who were to be taken
up and secured on account of the aforementioned plot, which had been
cast upon the Presbyterians.
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