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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.
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Briggs, Thomas, ca. 1610-1685?
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1685
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Wing B4665; ESTC R1011
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of time and he bore Testimony for the Truth a full hour or more on the first day before he departed which was on the 4th day after which is all from thy loving Friend John Kennerley NOw concerning our Dear Friend and Brother in the Lord Thomas Briggs who travelled in the Service and Work of God above thirty years and bore Witness both of Christs Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension and to the pure Religion that keeps from the Spots of the World and to the Worship of God that Christ set up in the Spirit and Truth and had a zeal for the living God against all Loosness and Debauchery and Deceit and Hypocricy and all unrighteousness and Ungodliness and Profaneness and such as made a profession of God and Christ and did not walk according to their Profession and was zealous for a pure holy life against all Profaneness in Professors and Profane and could not sow Pillows under the Arm-holes of Hypocricys Apostates Backsliders Disemblers and Flatterers with their fair Speeches that had got a form of Godliness but denied the power thereof for such to lie soft upon But from such he always turned away according to the Apostles Doctrine and gave Gods Judgment upon them that such might not deceive the Simple being an upright hearted Man for God and Christ and his pure holy Truth and sounded and declared the pure holy day of Christ in whose day no workers of the Night nor Darkness cometh without Repentance and he preached Christ in his days in most Countrys in England and Wales and in Ireland and in Bardados and some of the Cariby Islands and was faithful to the end in the service and work of Christ and finished his service for the Lord in Cheshire where he dyed in the Lord and his works follow him Being a Man of a Blameless life and Conversation which preached to people as well as his Doctrine of Salvation who turned many from the Darkness to the Light and from the power of Satan to God And likewise turned many from their vain Conversation to the Spirit of Grace that brought their Salvation and so to serve God in newness of Life and Spirit and to walk in the new and living way Christ Jesus in whom they have peace with God He was a Man that went through great Sufferings and Imprisonments and Afflictions Especially in the other Powers Days and since for I have seen the Butchers and the Tanners set their Masty Dogs at him when he bath declared to them the Truth of Christ at Salisbury in Suffolk and the Lord chained up the Dogs Mouths that never a one fastened upon him and the outward professors have been worse then the outward Dogs against him But none of all these things could separate him from the Love of God which he had in Christ Jesus who esteemed the reward of Righteousness in Christ Jesus his Crown of life above all his Afflictions and Sufferings who loved the Lord Jesus Christ and his Son and was valiant for his name and pretious truth upon the Earth who laid down his head in peace and is entered into Christ Jesus his everlasting rest in whom he hath peace with God And so blessed are they that die in the Lord as this Faithful Servant of the Lord hath done London the 2d of the 8th Month 1685. G. F. NOw as in Relation to Thomas Briggs deceased before he was convinced of Gods blessed Truth he was in the Notion of outward Profession amongst the Presbiterians and Independants without life and power but after the Lord opened his understanding he came to see the emptiness of it and the Lord brought him very low and bowed him by his power and made him subject unto his will and mind and he was obedient to the Lord as a Child unto a Father and the Lord gave unto him his good Spirit to inable him in his service and to clear his Conscience at Steeple-houses and Market Places to them and all People and then they rose up in great Rage against him as the Jews did against Paul he was a Man of Sorrows and was in several Prisons and fastings often yet he gave Bread to the Hungry Milk unto the Babes and stronger Meat to them that were of ripers years he had still in the word and Doctrine of Christ Jesus who made him a Minister of Righteousness Peace and Good Will He was a man for Peace among his Brethren a true Labourer in the work of the Lord and did continue to the end steadfast in the Faith without wavering and he rejoyced to see the increase of Labourers in the Vine-yard of the Lord he brought up his Children to be good servants who were not accused of Riot nor of ill Carriage and when they grew to riper age they marryed with equal Yoak fellows and partners in the Truth and grace of God and he hath left them a blessing behind him and a good example he was to them and to the Flock and Family of God In life and Conversation in Sufferings and Afflictions whom the Lord was with and bore him up in all his Tryals and now hath taken him unto himself where no unclean thing can come to rest from all his Labours and his works follow him for a sweet savour hath he left behind him as many can testify who hath been refreshed and comforted by him and a good report he had of them that were without for his life was pure and harmless and they are blessed that follow the Lord in Faithfulness and Truth as he did to receive a Kingdom that is Eternal and never fades away as the Lord in his Love hath made him partaker of London the 3d. of the 8th Month 1685. Thomas Robertson THE END So he was seventy five Years Old when he wrote this So he Laboured in the Gospel of Christ Jesus 37 Years In Cheshire for worshipping God Namptwhich in Cheshire