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A46824	The state of the case, briefly but impartially given betwixt the people called Quakers, Pensilvania, &c. in America, who remain in unity, and George Keith, with some few seduced by him into a separation from them as also a just vindication of my self from the reproaches and abuses of those backsliders / by Samuel Jennings.	Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708.	1694 (1694)	Wing J670; ESTC R3996	38,369	87

Appeal c. As being of a tendency to weaken the hands of the Magistrates and we present William Bradford for Printing of the said Seditious Paper c. I shall not Comment on the Sessions Paper nor Presentments they speak plain enough for themselves and do sufficiently demonstrate that the persons exclaming so much of Persecution were but under a just Prosecution of Law for their contempt and abuses of the Magistrates and Government c. But G. K. c. have a new devise to get off of that after they have traduced and exposed them at their pleasure to tell them if charged with it that they speak not then to them nor of them as Magistrates How then do they speak to them Why to some as Ministers and to others by profession Quakers and do declare they do it conscientiously too Causeless grounds c. p. 12 and 13. But how can any believe that this is done conscientiously or with an intent or desire to reclaim the persons so exposed by them supposing they were guilty but rather to recriminate such as have been engaged in a testimony against them Have they no better way to discharge their Consciences to such as they suppose to have erred than to publish their defects if they were so to the World before ever they have spoken to the parties th●● abused by them What Conscience is in this I shall leave to any but a seared Conscience to determine But G. K. had like to have spoiled all by an implicite acknowledgment that some words spoken or written by him and T. B. by way of charge against me did respect my Magistiacy See Causeless grounds c. p. 12th Where repeating what they had before charged me with viz. That I was too high and imperious both in Friends Meetings and Worldly Courts and of being an Ignorant Presumptuous and Insolent Man which la●● words saith he did no ways respect his Magistracy Then I hope he will grant that some part of those words did which is too plain t●● be denied for they tax my carriage in Worldly Courts in the exercise of my Office as a Magistrate and this is that for which G. K. and T. B. were Presented and Prosecuted which I think will take away all pretences that ●● was on a Religious and Conscientious account and that instead of being persecuted by the Government they were the persecutors of th● Government if there be such a thing as Tongue and Heart persecution as G. K. falsly insuates he and his party were the object of Reasons and Causes c. p. 3. But how much he and his party were guilty of what they charged on others in that respect their own late Book will shew in a great part but such as were Eye witnesses and immediately concerned did see and feel more nor will G. K's Certificate from the Deputy Governour and Council of Philadelphia which he says clears him of all these charges amply declaring his innocency and peaceable behaviour towards the Government and them in Authority at that time do him much service nor weigh much with thinking People For who is it that doth not know the propensity that commonly appears on any turn or change in those that succeed in place and power to censure and expose such as were before under the same charge and trust they are called to especially where there hath been any emulation or former grudgings on that account But I shall now touch upon some words and behaviour of G. K's after which I shall submit it to the Judgment of the Impartial how far that Certificate deserves to be credited or G. K. excused I have been told by several Friends that were in a Meeting in West-Jersey where they heard G. K. say That they should hear before it was long that he were either whipt or imprisoned and rather than he would appear a false Prophet he did what he could to procure it and hundreds can witness that he did in an open Meeting at Philadelphia say to the Deputy Governour Tho. Lloyd Thou art a pitiful Governour why dost thou not send me to Prison or order me to be whipt my back itcheth for a whiping and hath long itched for it And what language he gave to Tho. Lloyd Telling him he was an impudent Man c. And how he called a Magistrate Impudent Rascal you have an account before Now what thinkest thou Reader Is this the Innocent person whose peaceable behaviour towards the Government deserved to be so amply declared and he cleared of all charges to the contrary by a Certificate from a Deputy Govern our and Council Should I enumerate all his abuses to Government 't would be tedious but as all indifferent People must needs judge him much to blame from what is already said so I think he is most of all to blame after all this to justifie such practices abusively 〈◊〉 proclaim to the World that he is persecute● for Conscience sake and when all is done What did he or Tho. Budd suffer Were they or either of them Whiped or Imprisoned No such matter they were only presented and had a tryal at Court were adjudged Guilty and had a Fine of Five Pound each set upon them which was never levied for which if they had gratitude enough they ought to acknowledge the Clemency of the Government and particularly such as might have exacted it But suppose they had been as hardly and rigorously dealt with as they would have the World to believe What were all that to me the abuse was not taken as done to a singular or private Person but to the Government and accordingly they were Presented by the Jury and Impleaded by an Attorney such as the Court was pleased to allow But they say I was upon the Bench when they were Fined which is also a mistake for though I were there when the Judgment of Court was delivered yet I neither delivered it nor was I concerned in agreeing what it should be but as is usual ●n such Cases the Justices consult and agree that in their Chamber and order it to be delivered by the Clerk in Writing at the close of the Court. The next thing I take notice of is that of Peter Boss who in that Book of the Tryal c. p. 10. is represented to be in Church Fellowship with me at the time when he wrote that Letter to me shewing his dislike of the judgment of the Twenty Eight and telling me as he saith of some Scandals I lay under c. I believe the occasion and reason of his sending that Paper to me at that time is truly given viz. That he was offended with the Judgment of the Twenty Eight Friends against G. K. c. For this indeed I take to be the chief ground of all their quarrel with me but that he was in Church Fellowship with me I deny for the judgment given forth against G. K. and his adherents included him who hath given sufficient proof how closely he

now against Water-baptism than formerly And that he saw now that Hicks and Fald● had more reason to write as they did concerning the Quakers than he then thought they had And that if he should appear in Opposition to Friends he could do more hurt than all that yet had appeared against them All these things will be proved against Him if he deny them and much more of a like Tendency Which shews how little his heart was with us whilst he Hypocritically seemed to be one of us And its plain from hence he had entertained Thoughts if not fully designed to break off from us and do what mischief he could against us which I think none can question that reads his malicious Pamphlets against us Printed since he made that Breach in America or that hath observed his Carriage here since his Arrival I am now come to my last Part viz. A just Vindication of my self from the Reproaches and Abuses cast upon me by Geo. Keith c. in which if I have been too dilatory is hath been because I preferred the Reputation and Peace of the Church of Christ above my own for which I shall make no other Apology than in the Apostle's Words Forgive me that wrong For upon our Arrival here though G. K. in the very first Meeting he came to gave Evidence enough of his Spirit and Temper yet I found a desire and Travel in Friends if possible to reclaim and restore him In which if it could have been I should have had my share of satisfaction with others Which rather than I would do any thing to obstruct by kindling fresh Coals I chose rather to suffer in silence But since he hath now left so little room to hope for his Repentance and Return having dealt so treacherously with the Yearly Meeting by appearing in Print as he ha●● done against them instead of submitting 〈◊〉 their Advice and Judgment And expecti●● my Time not to be long in this Nation I se● no reason longer to forbear the doing th●● Common Right due to my self How much 〈◊〉 have been Calumniated by Tongue and Pr●● by Geo. Keith and his Party is known to many in this and other Nations But how the● shrunk from the Charge when called upon i● the last Yearly Meeting in London to make 〈◊〉 good is also very well known and none 〈◊〉 them had Courage enough to own or stand by that Malicious Sca●dalous Libel called N●● England Spirit of Persecution c. only G. K. did say That part that concerned his on● Trial was his nor would any of the● acknowledge or declare who was the Author or Authors of the rest of it 〈◊〉 giving this for one Reason of their Concealment That if the Author or Authors were known to me I might take the Advantage of Law against them I Confess this was a safe Consideration but how Manly or Honest not to say Christian I leave to be judged by all Will they to Defame a Person do that which shall subject them to the Correction of the Law yet do it Clandestinely to avoid the Stroke of Justice and plead Conscience and Christian Constraint for it too Surely This is to set Christianity beneath the Morality of Infidels who many of them would loath and detest a thing so Execrable and Vile But though I cannot commend the Justice of these Persons yet I may their Policy who knew at least one of them that I was provided of Evidence upon the place to detect their Falshood if they should insist upon the Matters suggested in that Libel and not only so but that G. K. himself knew before it was Printed that divers Matters of Charge against me therein were false and so far as he hath had a hand either as the Author or Publisher thereof so far hath he sinned against Knowledge and ma●iciously and premeditatedly abused me If he will deny himself to be the Author I shall ●eave that to be believed by as many as can but who knows how much that Party were influenced by him may safely conclude they did nothing of that kind without him However That he hath Published and spread them False as they are is certain and and goes a great way to Entitle him to them But waving that at present I shall take notice 〈◊〉 such passages in their other Pamphlets as concern me so far as there is occasion for it but to regard every silly Flirt thrown out against me were to waste Time and too much gratifie my Adversaries I find in his Book called Plea of the Inocent c. p. 9. to palliate the Ill Language he had given to Friends He complains of Partiality in others Condemning that in him 〈◊〉 which themselves are Guilty Some of th● says he having not only called him Lyar be Apostate and worse than Profane as particularly S. J. in the hearing of divers Credible W●●nesses That ever I called him Lyar I deny not but that I know him to be guilty of it but I like not the Expression And as to be Apostasie to that degree as to render h● worse than Profane is so evident that to about to prove it were a work of super arrogation Plea c. p. 13. He accuseth me of R●● Popery for requiring as he saith an Absolute Submission from him to the Judgment of the Meeting By calling of this Rank Popery 〈◊〉 sheweth the Rancour of his Spirit He wi●● then allow that a Conditional Submission in Matters of Diff●●ence is due to the Society 〈◊〉 Meeting we belong to but what is that Condition in his Sense I could never find it another than this If the Party or Parties concerned like the Judgment they will yield to it but 〈◊〉 otherwise And this his Opinion he hath confirmed by Practice in his Spurning against the Judgment of the Yearly Meeting in London 1694. But this is so Trifling and Endless that if his method of Gospel Order and Discipline which he would fain have been Propagating in America be no better than this he may spare his Pains in further pressing it upon us Further he says I declared openly in a Mens-Meeting That to do God's business we needed God's Power and Wisdom but to do our own business as Men we needed it not which he saith himself Geo. Hutcheson Robert Turner and John Hart publickly testified against How truly he hath related my words I know not but do remember I said something to that effect and I wonder not at their Disatisfaction who are all since gone into the Separation But ●e much perverts my intention therein and would suggest as though I thought we had Self-Sufficiency to do our own Business as Men. ● know that all our Strength and Abilities are from God my intent was only to shew that ●n Church-Affairs even the outward part of them are to be undertaken and managed in the Power and Wisdom of the Word of Life And if there be not a greater necessity to wait or it at such times and in