Some of the whites who heard it, said that such preaching would raise an insurrection among the negroes.

Two of them told him that if he would prove his doctrine by Scripture, they would let him go, but if he did not, he should have nine and thirty lashes.

He accordingly preached another sermon and spoke with a great deal of boldness.

The two men who were in favor of having him whipped, left before the sermon was over; those who remained, acknowledged that he had proved his doctrine, and preached a good sermon, and many of them came up and shook hands with him.

The two opposers, Scott and Brockley, forbid my brother, after this, to come upon their estates.