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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29494	An account of some of the travels and sufferings of that faithful servant of the Lord, Thomas Briggs and also several testimonies concerning his faithfulness to the Lord and diligence in his service till death.	Briggs, Thomas, ca. 1610-1685?	1685 (1685)	Wing B4665; ESTC R1011	14,848	20

AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE TRAUELS AND SUFFERINGS Of that Faithful Servant of the Lord Thomas Briggs And also several Testimonies concerning his Faithfulness to the LORD and Diligence in his Service till DEATH Revel 14. 13. Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord that they may rest from their Labours and their Works follow them Printed in the Year 1685. An Account of some of the Travels and Sufferings of that Faithful Servant of the Lord Thomas Briggs IN my Youth and tender Years I sought after the Lord God of my Life with Weeping and Crying after him that I might know the way to everlasting Peace and Salvation and run up and down among those People called Ministers twenty years together in a Profession that was called Puritans who were the Ministers that were then called Puritans But they never could direct me to my teacher within which was the cause of my wanting Peace and Satisfaction to my immortal Soul and I went under many heavy Burdens because of my sin and iniquity that separated me from the God of my Life And in an acceptable time it pleased the Lord God to send his dear Servant George Fox into the North Country who was a Messenger of the everlasting Gospel of Peace and did direct me and others to the true light of Jesus Christ that doth lighten every Man that cometh into the World And I with many more did believe his Message and received and joined to the Light and in that which shined in a dark place I believed and waited And the mighty power of the Lord God did appear and was manifested in me and did shake terribly the Earthly part that was above the Seed in which I held the profession of God and Christ but did not know him and in that power of God that did shake the Earthly part the Lord God did give me faith to believe And so the judgments of the Lord God I felt to be come in me And I waited in the way of his Judgments in Patience on the Lord God and his power had brought down that which was for Judgement and the door of Mercy was opened and my understanding by the Light of Christ was opened and I saw all the Teachers of the World that were not sent of God that they were in the Scribes and Pharisees way And I was moved to bear a Testimony against them all and to go to Steeple Houses and to cry against them and to exhort People to turn from them to the true Light of Christ Jesus and to hearken to the Light of Christ within them that they might know the Lord to be their Teacher And I was commanded of the Lord to go from my House and dwelling Place to Manchester to Preach repentance to that Town that was high in Profession The Lords power and presence did wonderfully accompany me and these were the sum of the Words that I was moved to speak through the Town Repent Repent for the mighty terrible day of the Lord God of power is appearing wherein no worker of iniquity shall stand before him who is of a purer eye than to behold iniquity for he wills not the death of a Sinner and if ye repent and turn to him he will abundantly Pardon And this Message the Lord God did lay upon me to go through many Towns and Cities in England through Preston in Lancashire and Gaerstang and through many Villages and Places up and down thereaway the Lord God required me to go through Cambridge streets with the same Message among the Scholars that they might repent and turn to the Lord and also this was my message to them The Lord God was never known by all the Learning that is got at Cambridge and Oxford In Manchester I was moved to go to the Steeple-house to declare against the Priest and they haled me out and put me in a Dungeon on the top of their Bridge and when I was put into that hole the Lords power and presence did so fill my heart that I Sung for joy to the admiration of those that put me in And on the Morrow they brought me out before a Man called a Justice and he said I must go out of the Town I told him I had been without Victuals all that Night and a Piece of the other day and I had done nothing worthy of being thrust out of the Town and I told him that I was one that believed in the name of Jesus Christ and it were better for him that a Milstone were hanged about his Neck and that he were cast into the Sea then that he should offend one of the Little ones that believed in his Name He said if he knew that I were such a one he would not offend me for all the World the Lords blessed power and presence was with me and some of his Servants were convinced But to please the People he sent a Man with me and put me out of the Town over the Bridge and so left me and I followed him into the Town again and got a deal of Friends that were convinced to settle a Meeting in that Town And in Warrington in Lancashire I was moved to go to the Steeple-house with another Friend and the Friend spoke a few words after the Priest had done and his People fell upon us violently and many blows they laid upon us with all their strength but that the Lords power did support us we had been destroyed by them for many weighty blows they laid upon my head and I lost my hat and went above a mile bare headed to a meeting of Friends and this was the fruits of a Priest that was called an Independant who since the King came in is turned out of that Place And as I was going in my journey in Cheshire I was moved to speak to a Priest and he was full of Wrath and Indignation against me and one of his Hearers came behind me and with a mighty blow upon my Head he fell'd me down to the Ground and I got up again and I turned unto him my Face and gave it to the Smiter and he Smote me upon the Teeth that I gusht out and Bled exceedingly Then some People standing by cryed exceedingly against him and they were ashamed and fled away After some little time the Man that Smote me fell Sick and Dyed and upon his Death-Bed said Oh that I had not Smiten the Quaker And in Salisbury in Wiltshire I was moved to declare the terrible Day the mighty Day of the Lord God of Power and was carried on by his mighty Power to clear that which was upon me that they might Repent and turn to the Lord. And when I was got through most part of the Town an Officer came and took hold upon me and brought me before many called Justices who profered me the Oath and accused me to be a Jesuit and I said I could not Swear because Christ had commanded not to Swear at all so they made