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Loving Brother,
ALthough it hath been very long, yet I could not help it, by reason some of the Testors live many Miles distant. But here I have sent you a True Relation of the Discourse, and in short what passed betwixt me, and the Quaker, the Heads of every particular that I can justly remember; and as concerning your desires, why so Eminent a thing was not made known sooner, it had been published at that present, but that a Slavish Feare possessed me, think∣ing that Friends and others that had seen it, would have thought that I had gloried in it: for, when that it was come to light by Brother Stanley, as having some ac∣count of it from one of my Men, and then questioning of me, I was very much possessed with fear in the Telling of it, as if, that if I should tell it, I should have it thought I glory'd in it, and so hath discouraged me, that when I have been telling of it, I have told it but in part; so that as it was wrought by the hand of God, so it is now brought to light by the same hand of God. As for your desire for several friends hands to attest the truth of this Relation, I returne you this answer; First, you have Thomas Baldock, who was an eye and eare-witness of every particular where we sought God, he hath sign••d it with his hand. And then you have Peter Stacy an Indepen∣dant, who had the Relation from the Quakers own Mouth, before several other Witnesses, and also John Laming, whose Sick Child the Quaker said he had a Command from God to Cure; who doth attest that the Assertion is true: And, as for my Brother and my self, we went to him the 29th of Febru••ry last, viz. Richard Ander∣son, and examined him again, and he confessed what is in the Assertion to be true; as for the Man, he never went to the Quakers more, but came to our Meetings, till a Warrant came to break them up, and then he went away▪ his Wife and that Childe that was all over spotted is dead: