My friends set me to Augusta, where I had a
favoured
meeting, but was obliged to go into the woods, for the
house
would not hold the people collected from various
motives. I sat in silence
for some minutes, and then
stood upon the stump of a tree, and looking
steadfastly at
a well dressed man, I pronounced those words, If they
hear not Moses, and the prophets, neither will
they be
persuaded though one rose from the dead. I
signified
there are such present, who neither believed in Moses,
nor the
prophets; and although my soul was risen from
the dead spiritually, they
would not give credit to it unless
they believed in the outward Record,
which testified of
Him who was the Resurrection of soul, as well as
body,
and who was beheld by the children of Israel, when Moses
lifted up
the brazen serpent on a pole, for those stung by
serpents to behold, as
though they beheld the Son of Man,
the Son of God lifted up, who should Cure
the deadly
wound of the old serpent, even satan, who brought a
spi-
ritual death into the souls of all, since the day that Adam
fell by
disobeying the Righteous Commandment of the
Living God. I labored until I
had no more strength,
either to pray or preach, as I thought, and therefore
gave
over; and the man whom I particularly addressed, when
he could no
longer stand the Truth, slipped off out of my
sight. i was told, He
had been educated a Quaker; but
had not been at a meeting for religious
worship for twenty
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