that they might be of one heart and one minde and that knowledge might cover the earth as water the sea and that Jew and Gentile-fulness might be brought in and the Kingdom restored to this old Israel which was the first married Wife as it 's recorded in Scripture And that Judges and Rulers might be as at the beginning as Moses and Joshua and as Samuel and Gideon and other faithful ones as is made mention of in Scripture And I besought the Lord for these things and for the reign of Christ in and by which these things should be brought forth and for this every one professing the Lord ought to pray And thus I spent the second day and it was very sweet to me and fitted me for what I was to suffer in those parts And after that second day my heart was carried on very chearfully in the apprehensions of the Lords presence still with me and I had a great deal of tenderness from my friends I went down with who were as a tender Father and Mother to me at all times and in suffering their tenderness and care of me exceeded it abounded as my sufferings abounded and many that were at the first strange in their carriages to me after I had been there a while they were very loving to me and I had great kindness from the whole family where I abode till the wills of men fetcht me away with their Souldiers Further I shall give people to know that after I had been a week and a few dayes there I was desired to go to Truro to hear the Lecture that was kept there every third day so I did and that morming before we went there came a Letter which after we had prayed was read wherein a Gentleman at Truro invited Captain Langdon and his Wife and my self to his house the which invitation we looked upon as answer of prayer it coming so suitable to those requests put up to the Lord that morning And we went to Truro and heard the Sermon and that day there preacht one Mr. Allen a young man who spake of many things from the I verse of the 8 of the Romans And when the Sermon was ended we went home with Mrs. Hill to dinner her husband having invited us by writing the which I mentioned And after dinner there came many to see me some out of good-will and love to what they had heard was of God in me and others came to gaze and others to catch at my words so as to reproach me but the Lord taught me how to speak before them all as in the presence of the great God I spake who is my Father who alwaies shewed me kindness and did then before those several sorts of people I seeing many come into the room and Mr. Powel a Teacher in those parts came in with his Wife and another woman so that being there I thought to be silent but some desiring to have me speak I said I was loth to speak before that critical-pated man who would take my words and put his own sence upon them and so insnare me and it proved according as I said but when I had sat a while and saw so great a room full of people who desired I should give an account for their edification and satisfactions what God had done for my soul there having gone such a rumour abroad concerning me some saying one thing and some another it was therefore thought convenient to speak something among that great company of people that was come to my friends house and the Lord bringing that word also which is recorded by the Apostle 1 Pet. 3.15 which is to be ready to give an account at all times when required of the hope that is in me And I being desired to speak I thought it my duty though at the first I refused and when I began to speak I said to Captain Langdon who was then discoursing with that Mr. Power I mentioned I said I remember a word from Mr. Bridges of Yarmouth which was That we must still either be doing or receiving good And said I here is neither of these among us and I repeated a word I told them Mr. Greenhil once said to one whom he desired with many of that Congregation then present who desired experiences to be imparted to them using that word of David's who said Come you that fear God and I will tell you what God hath done for my soul and then I took up Paul's speech he used before Agrippa having been falsly accused by many he declares the manner of his life from his youth Acts 26. And so to others he said How he had walked in all good conscience before the Lord unto that day he then spoke it Acts 23. I used these words of the Apostle and said This was his practice when false rumours had gone concerning him and being that people had reported many things which were very contrary concerning me I thought it requisite to acquaint them there present with the Lords dealings concerning me from my Childhood And I told them the first conviction I had at nine yeers old and how I remained under a formal work and then how I was brought into a despairing condition and was so a while and then I told them the Work of Free-grace on me and the Testimony of the Spirit bearing witness to my Spirit that I was in union with the Father Son and Spirit and I told them of my desertions and temptations and of Satans many cunning wiles and of freedom many times therefrom and I related my fit of sickness which was cured in believing that I had eight yeers ago and I related the time and manner of my coming into Church order and likewise I told them the first bringing of my Spirit into this extraordinary praying and singing and visions was six weeks before Dunbar-fight in Scotland which was a beginning three yeers before but did not so much appear to the view of others and I told them how I prayed against this publick-spiritedness and how the Lord silenced me from those words in 1 Cor. 1.27 28. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are wights and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are I could be contented to be made use of under these terms as a fool and base and despised and as a thing that is not The Lord knows I then stooped to his will to do with me as he pleased when he set home this Scripture to my soul And this I told them and a great deal more largely then I will relate for brevities sake I gave a Relation of my horrible fit I was in a yeer ago and Sarans tyranny over me in that time and the great freedom the Lord afforded me after that storm and the
his was a vision from the Lord to go to Macedonia so as sure had I a call and true vision to go to Cornwal then singing triumph was given me concerning the journey thither how filled I should be by the way which was so And then after I had thus sang and prayed I rode to see the Lords two Embassadours which were imprisoned in Windsor-Castle for the testimony of Jesus Mr. Simpson and Mr. Feak who were filled with the Spirit abundantly and when I a while beheld their courage for King Jesus I departed with other friends back to my friends house at Hillington and the next day rode to a friends house six miles off where I abode two nights And as I was walking in the fields I was suddenly very hoarse and I could not well speak but softly and I was greatly tempted as I walked in the fields that I should be hoarse while I lived like as a woman of the Congregation was with whom I walk so should I be not able to speak but hoarsly And therefore go not thy journey said Satan for that extraordinary dispensation of prayer and singing shall not be with thee then they will not regard thee whom thou goest with for they look at that and not at thee and that departing from thee thou wilt not be regarded by them and being in a strange place how sad then will it be with thee and they are but strangers to thee Acquaintance with them hath been but a little while therefore don't go Thus Satan and my fearful nature joyned together to frustrate what I had spoken from the Lord concerning my going being sealed up for the journey always after sealing unto any work of the Lord Satan tempts me but such is the goodness of the Lord to me who lets not out Satan till he hath first established me and then before I have the mercy the sentence of death is put upon what is in order to the bringing it forth to view so that the Lord thereby strengthens me the more and makes me live by faith which is the life of the just it 's a lovely life the life of faith But further as for Satans temptations they lasted but for half a day and a little part of the night and they were removed for in the night in my sleep the Lord refreshed me with many Scriptures as being my refuge stay and defence and strong Tower guide and succourer And at break of day I awoke out of sleep refreshed as one with new wine and indeed I had that night such well-refined wine as Scripture makes mention of And hearing the birds cherup in the morning early about my chamber-window I had this saying given into my heart Thou hearest those birds in their notes and motion which pleaseth thy ear And doth the great Creator take care of birds still maintaining them with a supply of food suitable for them that so they may live and be lively in their service to man And doth God take care of fowls that not a sparrow shall fall to the ground without the Fathers providence or ordering it to be so then what care and provision doth he make for rational created pieces which the whole Trinity was in the make thereof as for other pieces he said Let it be and it was so but as to mans make the whole Trinity gave their judgement And said the Lord to me hath God honoured thee with this first honour in making thee a rational peice and also giving thee a share and interest in the death and resurrection of his Son and hath made thee partaker of the divine nature of that heavenly-born state of that second creation in Christ spoken of in Eph. 2.19 Art thou thus provided for to be made a possessor of two creation-works a first and a second and also hast thou the Spirit of adoption whereby thou canst cry Abba Father then having done thus much for thee will he withhold any thing that 's good for thee he will not And I felt my hoarsness removed from me presently and all my temptations which I told you the day before did so seize upon my Spirits and the Lord renewed my faith concerning my journey and made me to rejoyce over Satan And I arose and rode that day to meet with some of the Lords servants where a day of thanksgiving was kept for many special favours received from the Lord and for his upholding comforting presence in sufferings and there I stayed till night in which day I beheld much of divine presence and glory coming towards the Saints and great ruine unto the enemies which were presented to me like a tottering house that stands shaking and ready to fall And I had that saying So doth and shall totter all the towers and Babels builded and rear'd up in contempt to King Jesus who will confound all such builders and their work as the Apostle saith They that build hay or wood or gold or silver or any thing of their own materials it shall be burnt 1 Cor. 3. this foundation will admit of nothing of mans corruptible stuff to be joyned with it for it is compleat and will compleat his servants that build upon him Then when this thanksgiving-day was ended I rode to my friends house at Hillington where I was filled with joy and singing most part of that night and the next day I rode to another friends where I stayed the next day being the first day of the week that day I went to hear a Minister which preacht a mile off in whose ministery the Spirit much warmed my heart and refreshed my Spirits and though I was ill in my outward man all that day yet the matter I heard was so reviving being spiritual that at night thinking of it and walking in a curious garden where I saw the pleasant trees and plants and walks and fish-ponds and hearing the birds pleasant notes all this begat such an harmonious apprehension of God in my heart that I began to sing forth his praises and continued while it was so late in the evening that my friends that walked with me thought it convenient to lead me into the house which they can best give an account of for I minded not the time nor those that were with me neither can I tell whether I felt the ground I walkt upon my Spirits was so much in divine rapture and my Spirits so heat with Spirit-fire which produced singing-melody while midnight the which singing speech was directed to the whole family and those belonging to it at that time which family consisted of many persons grave and judicious and learned understanding persons before whom I thought my self unfit to speak when I was in an ordinary capacity but being filled extraordinarily I wanted not words composed and orderly and learning for the learned Herein I don't boast but in the rich free love of God who gives to whom he pleaseth Then after that singing I was put to bed being weak in body and
all conditions and that saying made my heart revive presently and then the Lord gave me that Scripture-saying This he requires of thee To deal justly love mercy and walk humbly with thy God Micah 6.8 then I said Lord what am I to do here The Lord said I require this that thou holdest out a just upright walk with God before all people and in these parts thou shalt manifest the free justification received of the Father by the Spirit through Christ to poor souls telling them thy experiences there and thou shalt declare the mercy of thy God and thy love to it by shewing thy experiences thereof which thou hast had in divers maners discovered to thee Here are some tempted souls said the Lord that must be comforted through thy temptations the mercy thou foundst therein tell them love mercy in every kinde of it This saying I had also from the last words of the verse Walk humbly with thy God these things he requires of the just doing and walking mercy loving and a humble deportment in all thou doest then I said Lord make me humble said the Lord I will make thee humble through sufferings the Lord thy God begun it in thee when he manifested thy salvation to thee to be freely given thee making thee see thy self the worst of sinners and he humbled thee more in Satans prison and he hath brought thee here to humble thee more for he will teach thee much of his secrets Then my heart was melted as I was thus under divine speakings in the Garden and I said Lord if thou wilt make me a partaker of more of that lovely clothing of humility then then Lord I will not matter what I suffer here in this world below then the Lord said Thou must suffer many wayes then I said Lord balance me with thy word the Lord said What word wouldst thou have I said What thou pleasest then the Lord said Thou shalt have the same word as I gave to my servant Abraham I told him when he went he knew not whither that I would be his shield and exceeding great reward Gen. 15.1 And as I was said the Lord to the father of the faithful so I will be to the children they having the same faith as faithful Abraham had I will give such the same promises then I said Lord I fall short of his faith said the Lord I look not on the quantity so much as at the quality I looking at the truth of it it bearing the same stamp with that of Abrahams which was the stamp of divine power and Spirit therefore take the same promise thou art come into a strange country among many that don't affect thee and thou art like to suffer by them but fear not I thy God have not onely given thee faith as ashield but I am thy shield and exceeding great reward I am a double shield to thee said the Lord so I was to Abraham a shield within a shield therefore fear not any enemy but look unto thy shield and buckler and defence for so Jehovah is to thee And the Lord brought to me those Scriptures that he gave me when he made me willing to go the journey as that saying He would go with me and that bis Spirit and presence should accompany me and that he would uphold me with the right hand of his righteousness which Scriptures were much enlarged on my Spirits as I thus walked alone in the Garden and I had such sweetness from the Lord through the Scriptures that it made my heart much affected with my journey and my Spirit leapt within me and rejoyced that I was come into a country where I should suffer for the testimony of Jesus and I had at that time such cordials from the Lord that I could have walked many hours in that Garden but Captain Langdons man came and desired me to walk into the room where his Masters acquaintance were For it may be they would not take it well he said if I did not come and sit in the room with them I was very unwilling for my communion in the Garden was so delightful to me yet through much entreaty by him I went I told him I could the better bear their sowre countenances and girding expressions now I had drunk of divine cordials then I could before when I first saw them at my coming into the house So I went into the room among them that did not care for my company and I heard many expressions concerning visions I perceived what and who they aimed at I sate silent among them there was Major Bawden and his Wife they were strangers then to me but they spake very friend-like to me and it was not in Tongue but in Heart as afterward appeared and there was Mr. Vinson and his Wife my very loving friends they declared themselves to be Mrs. Vinson came to me then and said Pray come to my house for I entertain you upon a Scripture-a count which adviseth to be kinde to strangers and what gain they had in old time that in entertaining strangers they entertained Angels unawares Thus she instanced the Scripture which made her to speak to me a poor undeserving creature to be thus taken notice of and indeed I felt humility in my heart springing up much when she thus spoke I lookt on my self unworthy of such a word or loving expression to me but my Father caused that friend though a stranger to shew me kindness Again further This evening being spent I went to my lodging where the Lord smiled on me and made it a lovely night and I was no whit weary after so long a journey but had refreshing rest and in the morning Mrs. Langdon came to see me but I had no minde to rise out of my bed and that day the Lord fill'd me with much joy and singing and I was in the Spirit with my friends at London who broke bread that day and I was filled with apprehensions of Christ the eternal Sabbath and the glorious Rest and the first-day-Resurrection how glorious all this was meeting in Christ the Saviour and Deliverer from all bondage and inthralment and my heart was much with my friends in that Ordinance of breaking bread I partook of that sweet supper with them in the Spirit And thus I spent that first day that I came to Tregasow which was the first day of the first week that I took up my abiding there much of Christs Death and Resurrection was lively presented to me and I sang forth his praises And the second day my heart was heat also with the flame of love which many waters cannot quench as the spouse saith in the Canticles so I felt it for all that day I had the Spirits flame as I had the day before it being their meeting day those particulars they first thought upon in their beginning that meeting which were the uniting of Saints in that bond of love as those were in formerly in the primitive times and
pourings out of the Spirit that hath been on my heart ever since I declared visions I had seven yeers ago concerning four sons of horns presented to me which related to four several changes of Powers one more fierce and sharper still then the other and the little Horns worst of all more in its pushings then the former I spake of so many things and so largely that it took up the afternoon for the most part so that before I spake much of my going to White-Hall and praying and singing there I broke forth into singing my heart being so thorowly heated with discoursing of God goodness so many hours And I sang and prayed a great part of that night and when I gave over my friends carried me in a chair into my chamber and put me into bed where I lay the remaining part of the night and the next day sang and prayed many hours and many souls were much taken in that speaking concerning the preciousness of Christ to them that believe 1 Pet. 2.7 from this Scripture and many others relating to Saints and to sinners not changed brought in to Christ which day was so glorious to me that Satan stirr'd up many against me afterwards because many were convinced that were prejudiced before by their teachers and some carnal ones were judiced before by their teachers and some carnal ones were awed convincing Scriptures came with such authority as that Behold ye despisers wonder and perish and that word in Isa 28.22 Be ye not mockers left your bands be made strong Many other Scriptures were spoken upon largely that day to sinners and some said afterwards Which of all our Ministers can hold out thus many hours without a cordial Now when their Ministers thought they should lose their fleece they began to stir like that maids masters spoken of in Acts 16.19 When her masters saw what was done they caught Paul and Sitas and drew them into the marker-place into the Rulers this was for the gift of healing and calling out that unclean Spirit All people observe how they loved sooth-saying in those times and I would they did not in these dayes of more light But I pray minde the Relation That after that day wherein I was thus carried forth to speak for Christ's interest the Clergie with all their might rung their jangling bells against me and called to the Rulers to take me up that I heard was the speech of Mr. Welsted and others said The people would be drawn away if the Rulers did not take some course with me They were extremely afraid of losing Diana's repute And after these two days spent at Truro I returned to my place of abode at Tregasow but the Clergie gate information in many places of the Country what an impostor and a dangerous deceiver was come into Cornwal that the people wondred what strange kinde of creature was come into their Country and thus they spit forth venome against me but it did me no hurt because my Father made it work for good my joy was not lessened but increased And after a little while I was invited again to Truro and I went to visit Mrs. Hill her husband being gone to London she prayed me to carry and bear her company And after that I had sat down a while word was brought me that there were two Warrants out for to take me either at Captain Langdons or at Major Bawdens as for Major Bawdens I was but once at his house for I kept at my friends house I went down with though the report was I went from place to place aspersing the Government I did not the one nor the other I was but twice at Truro I have told all the places I went to while I remained at Tregasow This report of theirs is as false as the rest But I will come to tell you how they acted against me after I heard Warrants were out for me I looked when they would come in to the house where I was to take me And many people came to see me And one Haulbow a Minister with whom I had some converse and he said I had fully satisfied him in his request And for his part he said what he asked me it was not so much for his own satisfaction as for others whom he could now satisfie and he invited me to his house and said I should be welcome and he told me He would satisfie those that had spoken against me which were set on by false reports And all these words and many other more amounted to just nothing it was but Clergie-puff which soon was gone like a puff of winde that is almost at an end as soon as it riseth and so was his fair speech to me for I understand since he hath reproached me and other friends that are of more worth then I and yet this man spoke me so fair but so much shall suffice as to him I come again to tell you that this day wherein I expected the Warrant for me it came not I that day found my timorous fearful nature work against me what I should do and say before the Magistrate having never been before any in that kinde to be accused by them but the Lord seeing me not prepared to go before them nor strong enough he would take me first into the Mount and give me the preparations of the Sanctuary and so he did before I was called before them That night following this day that I have been speaking of there came about a dozen men and women to see me and one Mr. Paul a minister who had rode ten miles to that Town to understand aright concerning me for that he had heard so many reports and he desired to be satisfied from my own mouth so I related the Lords dealing with me and what he had freely given me for my own particular and for others benefit and when I had done speaking I told him how I was like to suffer through false rumouts raised against me I desired him to pray with me but he said He would joyne with me if I would pray I said I rather would hear him pray and have a caste of the cluster he had received of the Vine Christ so he prayed very sweetly and spiritually and when he had ended it was about twelve a clock at night and afterwards I spoke a little by way of discourse and was a little silent Then the Lord made his Rivers flow which soon broke down the Banks of an ordinary capacity and extraordinarily mounted my Spirits into a praying and singing frame and so they remained till morning-light as I was told for I was not capable of that but when I had done and was a while silent I came to speak weakly to those about me saying I must go to bed for I am very weak and the men and women went away and my friend that tended me and some other maids helpt me to bed where I lay till the afternoon they said silent And that time I