share therein; for I felt some of that divine power working my
spirit into a great tenderness, and not only confirming me in the
course I had already entered, and strengthening me to go on therein,
but rending also the veil somewhat further, and clearing my
understanding in some other things which I had not seen before. For
the Lord was pleased to make His discoveries to me by degrees, that
the sight of too great a work, and too many enemies to encounter
with at once, might not discourage me and make me faint.

When the meeting was ended, the friends of the town taking notice
that I was the man that had been at their meeting the week before,
whom they then did not know, some of them came and spoke lovingly to
me, and would have had me stay with them; but Edward Burrough going
home with Isaac Penington, he invited me to go back with him, which
I willingly consented to, for the love I had more particularly to
Edward Burrough, through whose ministry I had received the first
awakening stroke, drew me to desire his company; and so away we rode
together.

But I was somewhat disappointed of my expectation, for I hoped he
would have given me both opportunity and encouragement to have
opened myself to him, and to have poured forth my complaints, fears,
doubts, and questionings into his bosom. But he, being sensible
that I was truly reached, and that the witness of God was raised and
the work of God rightly begun in me, chose to leave me to the
guidance of the good Spirit in myself (the Counsellor that could
resolve all doubts), that I might not have any dependence on man.
Wherefore, although he was naturally of an open and free temper and
carriage, and was afterwards always very familiar and affectionately
kind to me, yet at this time he kept himself somewhat reserved, and