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whom he ſo found, he would drive into the church before him.
He endeavoured likewiſe to ſuppreſs the generally prevailing cuſtom in country places during the ſummer of walking in the fields, on a Lord's Day, between the ſervices, or in the evening, in companies; he not only bore his teſtimony againſt it from the pulpit, but went to the fields in perſon, to detect and reprove them.
The following is an inſtance of this kind, which ſets both his care of his people and his great aſcendency for them. There was a ſpot at ſome diſtance from the village, to which many young people continued to reſort; although he had often warned them in his preaching against this cuſtom; at laſt he diſguiſed him ſelf one evening, that he might not be known till he was near enough to diſcover who they were; he then ſpoke and charged them not to move. He took down all their names with his pencil, and ordered them to attend him on a day and hour which he ap-
