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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61693	A word to the well-inclin'd of all perswasions together with a coppy of a letter from William Penn to George Keith, upon his arbitrary summons and unjust proceedings, at Turners-Hall, against the people called Quakers.	Story, Thomas, 1662-1742.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1698 (1698)	Wing S5755; ESTC R19987	4,300	10

A Word to the Well-Inclin'd OF ALL PERSWASIONS Together with A Coppy of a Letter from William Penn to George Keith upon his Arbitrary Summons and Unjust Proceedings at Turners-Hall against the People Called Quakers THis following Paper is intended for an Answer to George Keith's Notice of another Meeting at Turners-Hall the 21. of the Month call'd April 1698. We hope that the Wise and Judicious of all Perswasions will both Approve our past Absence from such sort of Meetings and our not Bowing to the like Proceedings since their Tendency being rather to Prophane than to Promote Piety and Charity which ought to be the Chief End of all Truly Religious Assemblies Which being said as an Advertisement to them that Read this Paper we now apply our selves to you chiefly that frequent Turners-Hall on these Occasions since 't is for your Sakes that we are Concern'd to take this Publick Notice of what is done there that it may appear to you and such as may yet have a better Opinion of G. K. than he deserves that we are in the Right not to gratifie him in complying with such Publick Meetings of Strife and Confusion And we must tell you freely if you have any Just and Serious Regard for the Honour of Religion in general we cannot see how you can do less than Discourage them instead of Censuring us for declining them and that for these Reasons following 1. That such Meetings are rarely to Edification when even That is intended But these are manifestly for Abuse and to stir up Levity and Prejudice against us and look more like a Bartholomew-Fair or Stages of Buffoonry than Religious Assemblies and as such are understood and disown'd by Impartial and Sober People 2. It is at the Instigation of a Man who hath of late breathed out Revilings and Threatnings against us since his Defection from his Ancient Principles Practice and Society and is now become not only Ungrateful but Rude and Deceitful as we have manifested in our Printed Answers to him Unanswered by him 3. He began with Printing and there we have followed him from step to step hitherto leaving nothing material Unanswered which we take to be the fairer more substantial and edyfying Method 4. He is a Stray to this Day that no known Religious Party Owns or lays Claim to that we know of and therefore not of W●ight enough for our Notice after the Long-Suffering and Kind-Treatment we have exprest towards him the Persecution we have suffered from him and the many Books that have been written in Answer to his repeated and new-vampt Cavils against us 5. His Offers were not nor now is for Meeting by Agreement of both Sides but for one upon his own Terms He must Summons Dictate and Impose Time Place Matter and Judges also or it will not do with him 6. There could be no Reasonable and Just End proposed for such Meetings that might induce our Compliance all Circumstances considered since there was no Intimation of any Persons to be there whose Tender Consciences wanted Satisfaction from us And as for the Vindication of our selves from such Exceptions as are made against us it hath been fully done already in our Printed Answers to him Wherefore it must only have been to have gratified the Envy and Levity of G. K. and a few other Prejudicate Persons And we Value Religion our Publick Liberty and Reputations at another rate than to expose them after such an Ill and Trival manner But yet again that you may farther see what a Man G. K. is and how little reason we have to take any more Notice of him we Intreat you weigh these following Considerations c. 1. There is no need that we Defend our selves against his Charges and Exceptions since himself has so often and so well done it when made by other Enemies Pray see his Books i. e. Immediate Revelation c. those against R. Gourdon Scholars of Aberdeen Baptists of London and Priests and Professors of New-England and others 2. And as he hath repeatedly Vindicated our Doctrines as Scriptural Primitive and Christian so has he Pledged his Inward Sense to Vouch for us as the People of God at divers times pleading his Inward Sense of God's presence with him in maintaining our Religion as Christian and us as True Christians in walking up to it After which what is to be said for such a Man or what-more against him with respect to his present Practices For what greater Evidence of Union Satisfaction and Concurrence can any Man give than to declare from an Inward Sense given as he said by the Spirit of God that we are the People of God Which he hath often affirmed And what greater Levity and Enmity than to run Counter to us and to Rally and Excite all sorts of Enemies against us for only believing and adhering to the same Principles and Preaching the same and no other Doctrines than such as we Believed and Preached when he declared he had that Unity with us and Inward Evidence for us 3. He has Endeavoured to render us as a People Divided and as if the better part of us were with him that he might expose them the more he chiefly strikes at while he is Divided from us for we know not of one in the Three Kingdoms that was accounted in Unity with us at the time of his coming for England which is now about Four Years that does adhere to him notwithstanding the Clamour and Noise he has made and the Dust he has raised to cloud the Reputation of our Profession 4. He Insinuates Mighty New Discoveries to Vilifie and Debase others and as such his Work is Entertained and Improved by some Busie and Restless Adversaries whereas in reality he is chiefly a Copy not an Original in that he says little material but what has been said already by other Publick Adversaries many Years ago and as often particularly Answered So that here is in substance no new thing but what our Bitter Opposers threw at us above Twenty Years past and which is now lick'd up by G. K. and again spit out at us to his own Shame and Confusion 5. But it seems the Force and Credit of this Pretended New Discovery has been his Antiquity amongst us which we say is the Aggravation of his Folly or Insincerity For no Man of Common Sense can think that one of his Pretentions to Learning and Religion should be Thirty Years in finding out what the Quakers were or whether himself was a Quaker Nor is it probable That any Man in his right Mind would Imbrace so Decry'd so Despis'd and so Suffering a Perswasion as the World knows ours has been and yet be Ignorant of what he Ioined with Preached up Writ and Suffered for 6. The Two Persons Living whom he mostly Vilifies viz. G. W. and W. P. were his Orthodox Christians and Dear Brethren about Five Years past in America and then and there he urged the Orthodoxy of their Writings to Justifie himself