Religious Conversion
In 1696, his life was changed. At this time he was apprenticed to Samuel Parrott, a Friend from Briggflatts meeting in Sedbergh. Attending meeting for worship, another Friend, Anne Wilson rose in worship and accused him of being no better for his attendance of meeting for worship, and that would prove perilous for him "in the end." Afterwards he felt called to preach and read the Bible with greater ease. His famous book A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister was first printed in 1750.
Having first journeyed to Scotland, he sailed for America aboard the Josiah, John Sowden, master. He landed two months later in Potuxant River, Maryland, about 29 May 1702, and continued his work.
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