showed only common kindness to me.

Next day we parted, he for London, I for home, under a very great
weight and exercise upon my spirit. For I now saw, in and by the
farther openings of the Divine light in me, that the enemy, by his
false reasonings, had beguiled and misled me with respect to my
carriage towards my father. For I now clearly saw that the honour
due to parents did not consist in uncovering the head and bowing the
body to them, but in a ready obedience to their lawful commands, and
in performing all needful services unto them. Wherefore, as I was
greatly troubled for what I already had done in that case, though it
was through ignorance, so I plainly felt I could no longer continue
therein without drawing upon myself the guilt of wilful
disobedience, which I well knew would draw after it divine
displeasure and judgment.

Hereupon the enemy assaulted me afresh, setting before me the danger
I should run myself into of provoking my father to use severity
towards me; and perhaps to be casting me utterly off. But over this
temptation the Lord, who I cried unto, supported me, and gave me
faith to believe that He would bear me through whatever might befall
me on that account. Wherefore I resolved, in the strength which He
should give me to be faithful to his requirings, whatever might come
of it.

Thus labouring under various exercises on the way, I at length got
home, expecting I should have but a rough reception from my father.
But when I came home, I understood my father was from home;
wherefore I sat down by the fire in the kitchen, keeping my mind
retired to the Lord, with breathings of spirit to Him, that I might