Upon this mountain he was moved of the Lord to sound out his great and
notable day, as if he had been in a great auditory; and from thence went
north, as the Lord had shown him. And in every place where he came, if
not before he came to it, he had his particular exercise and service
shown to him, so that the Lord was his leader indeed. For it was not in
vain that he travelled; God in most places sealing his commission with
the convincement of some of all sorts, as well publicans as sober
professors of religion. Some of the first and most eminent of those that
came forth in a public ministry, and who are now at rest, were Richard
Farnsworth, James Nayler, William Dewsberry, Thomas Aldam, Francis
Howgil, Edward Burroughs, John Camm, John Audland, Richard Hubberthorn,
T. Taylor, T. Holmes, Alexander Parker, Wm. Simson, William Caton, John
Stubbs, Robert Withers, Thomas Low, Josiah Coale, John Burnyeat, Robert
Lodge, Thomas Salthouse, and many more worthies, that cannot well be here
named; together with divers yet living of the first and great
convincement; who, after the knowledge of God's purging judgment in
themselves, and some time of waiting in silence upon him, to feel and
receive power from on high to speak in his name, (which none else rightly
can, though they may use the same words,) felt its divine motions, and
were frequently drawn forth, especially to visit the public assemblies,
to reprove, inform, and exhort them: sometimes in markets, fairs,
streets, and by the highway-side: calling people to repentance, and to
turn to the Lord with their hearts as well as their mouths; directing
them to the light of Christ within them, to see, examine, and consider
their ways by, and to eschew the evil, and do the good and acceptable
will of God.
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