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A47188	The true copy of a paper given in to the yearly meeting of the people called Quakers at their meeting-place in Grace-Church-street, Lonon, 15 day of the 3d. month 1695. By George Keith, which was read by him in the said meeting, by their allowance. With a brief narrative of the most material passages of discourse betwixt George White-head, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, and the day following, betwixt George White-head, William Penn, and Francis Canfield on the one side, and George Keith on the other; ... Together with a short list of some of the vile and gross errors of George Whitehead, John Whitehead, William Penn, their chief ministers, and now having the greatest sway among them (being of the same sort and nature with the gross errors charged on some in Pensilvania) most apparently opposite to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion ... And a proposition to VVilliam Penn, to prove his charge, that G.K. is an apostate.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing K220; ESTC R220379	30,855	34

them which Friends well received and encouraged me therein and yet after all this to pretend to be Ignorant what was meant by the Body of the People called Quakers was to him very strange But however he would tell me what they meant by the Body First they meant none who had broke themselves off from Friends by their evil Contentions and Strivings and walked not in Charity and Peace with Friends But by the Body they meant all who walked in Unity with Friends in the same Profession with them and were Charitable and Peaceable and here he spake much in Praise of their Unity that had been preserved among them notwithstanding of the endeavours of many to break it To this I replyed thou mistakes the Case George Whitehead I refused not to hearken to the Advice of Friends so far as it was a Command of God but so far as it advised me to do what is contrary to God's Command I own I ought to Live in Unity Charity and Peace with sound and Faithful Friends but it is no breach of that Unity to reprove Errors publickly Preached in our Meetings and to rescue many places of Scripture from the Perverse and Corrupt Glosses of Ignorant Men and if contending for Truth and hard words be an Argument of want of Charity none have been greater contenders than many of the People called Quakers not only amongst other Professions but even among themselves before they disowned one another The Advice given me to clear the Body of that People of all gross Errors when I know so many guilty even such among you as are owned most to be in Unity is a most unjust thing to require of me and if for this I must be disowned I shall rest well satisfied Next as to the sense of the Word Body of the People called Quakers I have been a Preacher and Writer among that People and a Labourer among them these thirty years past and I never understood that all deserved to be called the Body that did but outwardly profess Unity with Friends I am not such a Novice as not to know that it was the Sense of many Friends as well as my sense that many Professed Truth with us and made a Profession of Unity that were not in it and were not in the Possession of the Life and Power of Truth whereof they made an outward Profession And as for the Unity of them here away that some so much boast of there is no such great cause so to glory and boast of Unity One thing G. VVhitehead much insisted upon of my being changed or at least so appearing since the last Yearly Meeting for then I seemed to be very much concerned and desirous not to be broken off and disjoynted from Friends but now it appeareth to him and others that it is a very indifferent thing with me to be disowned by Friends To this I replied That he did in that as in other things mis-represent the Case it is no matter of indifferency to me now but of great weight and moment both with respect to you and me first with respect to you if God should permit you to be so blinded as to disown me without any just cause on my part but simply my bearing my Faithful Testimony to the Doctrine of Christ and against the gross Errors of some among you this to me is no indifferent thing on your Account next as to me That is no matter of indifferency for if I be disowned by you for well doing as I shall be very sorry for you so I shall greatly rejoyce on my Account because of the Spiritual Advantage I hope to receive thereby relying on the Faithful Promise of Christ Matth. 5. 11 12. About this time there being a great Commotion in the Meeting by reason of my free and bold Speech which some are pleased to call Passion and Railing VVilliam Penn stood up desiring Friends to keep down to the Sense for by that they were to judg of this Disorderly Spirit or Person who had accused George Fox and other Antient Friends Writings and may be said he he may pick up some things here and there in them to Criticise upon After he had done I said to him William Penn Thou may be ashamed so falsely to Accuse me in the face of the Meeting I said nothing of George Fox nor had I him at present in my Remotest Thoughts I only mentioned some here present but George Fox is not here at least visibly present and for your pretending to Judg me by your sense without giving me any fair Tryal or bringing any New matter against me either in Doctrine or Practise to prove against me Face to Face by plain external Evidence in you so doing ye will make your selves Ridiculous in the face of the World we are here set as upon a Stage before God Angels and Men and if ye pass any Judgment against me by your pretended inward Sence ye will be sufficiently discovered what unjust men ye are And I say to thee William Penn it became thee not so to abuse me in an open Meeting at Ratcliffe calling me an Apostate and an open Adversary to Truth and Friends I am thy Elder Brother and was a Preacher among the Quakers before thou was a Quaker though thou and some others of latter years have lifted up the Heel against me William Penn replied Thou boastest of thy Antiquity which I should not do were I in thy case I Answered I boast not of my Antiquity but by thy own words and the words of G. W. Antient Brethren should be Regarded and not run down by others of latter years as thou and others seek to do though ye have nothing justly against me I intend not to let it pass thy publickly accusing me to be an Apostate but to put thee to make it good in the Face of the Nation that is his own Character not mine for I can prove him in the Apostacy from some of the chief Fundamentals of the Christian Doctrine VVilliam Penn Replied He would Answer me in the Face of the Nation So let this his promise be remembred the event I hope will prove it how badly he will acquit himself I told him he had sufficiently shown his prejudice against me and how unsit he was to be my Judg. Then he began to tell in great heat what he had born of me even more than what he might have born of Fifty Persons of my greatness But I contend not with him in Greatness but in the cause of Truth which is greater than all his Greatness not only Fifty Fold but Infinitely and how much he had Laboured to qualify Friends towards me in order to a Reconciliation and how he had Writ in my Favour to them in Pensilvania This last I acknowledged to be True but how real he was in his favour either then or since time has sufficiently discovered having Opposed me and Accused me in several Private Meetings as well as of late Publickly at

the Perverse Glosses that some put upon them in Publick Meetings If for this my conscientious performance of my Duty both to God and also to the Souls of People I shall be disowned by any Party among you or among that People called in scorn Quakers for I believe I shall never be disowned by the most Faithful and Conscientious of that People for my Faithful and Zealous Testimony to the Truth against vile Errors and that I shall never by the Grace of God give any Just Occasion to any against me though I cannot but be very sorry on their Account who shall so unjustly judge me and cast me out yet I shall rejoyce and have great Cause so to do that it hath pleased God to give me a Lot amongst others his dear Servants who have suffered the like Evil Treatment by men of high Pretences and I rely upon God's Faithful Promises who hath promised a great Reward to such in Heaven who suffer for his Name 's sake on Earth an Earnest of which I now enjoy by his blessed Spirit in my heart John 16. 1 2 3. Isa 66. 5. Job 31. 34 36. George Keith A Brief Narrative of the most Material Passages c ON the 14th of this Iustant the 3d month 1695. I came to the Meeting-house Door at Grace-Chureh-street where the Yearly Meeting was sitting which was carefully kept shut by Three or Four Persons they refusing to let in but Friends of the Ministry and others Commission'd from the several Counties and Meetings or any other persons whom they thought fit and I offering to enter in was stopt by the Keepers I enquiring their reason they told me I was not in Unity with Friends I replied I know no Meeting as yet in England that hath disowned me But one of the Keepers proffered to go in and acquaint the Meeting that I desired to have entrance which he did and a little after some came out and told me I was not to have entrance but if I had any Paper they would carry it in to the Meeting I told them I had a Paper but not having a Copy of it I would not give it out of my Hand and though I had another Copy yet I was resolved to give no Paper to them to be read in their Meeting unless I were present so that Evening two of the Meeting came to my House and told me the Yearly Meeting agreed I should come next day about the sixth hour in the Evening and have entrance to read my Papers or hear it read providing I would withdraw when dersied which I promised so at the time appointed I came and was allowed to sit at the great square Table among the Ministers and Commissioners that can hold about it either fully or near double to the number 24 whether by allusion to the 24 Seats and Elders mentioned Rev. 4. But doubling the Numbers I do not determine only I think it suits not with their crying out so much as they were wont against chief Seats in the Synagogues to erect such a stately Fabrick in their Meeting-House at that time it little differing from the manner of a Throne but that it is low upon the Floor covered with green Cloath yet few take liberty to sit there but the chiefest in respect among them After some time of Universal silence I stood up and declared that I had brought a Paper which I desired they might suffer to be read among them Jasper Batt much opposed its Reading but George Whitehead stood up and made a Speech the substance of which was That I had the Advice of the last Yearly Meeting given me but instead of hearkening to it I Printed a Paper reflecting on the Yearly Meeting the last year and no wise answering the mind of the Meeting and though I mention not the Yearly Meeting in that Printed Paper called The Causless Ground yet it is apparent I meant them for I recite some of their words and by that which Robert Hannay that came over with me and owned our Proceedings in America had Printed of Vile Reflections against the Last Yearly Meeting it is evident I did mean the Yearly Meeting for his Printed Paper is a Commentary upon mine And now said G. W. if thou hast any Paper to offer to this Yearly Meeting to give Friends satisfaction that thou will hearken to the Advice of the Last Yearly Meeting and disown what thou Printed in that called The Causless Ground Reflecting on Friends the Meeting will hear rhy Paper Otherwise I think it ought not to be heard To which I replied As in that Printed Paper I mentioned not the Yearly Meeting so there are no words in that Paper answered by me but were spoke by other Persons before and after the Yearly Meeting therefore ye cannot prove that I Reflected on the Yearly meeting Beside I do not own that that Paper called A True Account of the Proceedings c. was the Yearly Meetings Act but of a Prevailing Party or Faction in it and I do not own Robert Hannay's Paper to be any Commentary upon mine he is of Age to answer for himself I desired him he would not Print it and had no hand in Printing it as I have oft formerly declared which Th. Elwood wrests as if my Sence were I did not work it at the Press But this is one of his many other gross Perversions of my words And as to my Paper giving satisfaction to the Meeting I cannot say whether it will actually satisfie the Meeting but I judge there is enough in it to be just Cause of Satisfaction to them but whether it will satisfie I know not the Event will best prove that therefore I desire ye will permit it to be read I claiming their Promise without any condition to suffer it to be read so after some time they allowed me to read it After I had read it and some time of silence interveened Charles Marshal one that abounds with his Prophecies and Predictions but I know not if ever any of them came to pass but surely many have failed apparently stood up and said He had some few words of Exhortation to me from God and they were so weighty on his mind that he was minded to come to my House and deliver them but finding me there he would communicate them which was To exhort me to come down to the Witness of God in my Heart and return to that which convinced me at first and gathered me out from among the Professors and leave all these Imaginations and bury them and be reconciled to Friends After he had ended I stood up to reply but there was a great Opposition in divers to hinder me they saying There was no need of a Reply to a few words of Exhortation I answered I hoped I might have the like Liberty to Exhort him as he had to exhort me so way being made I replyed That I was come down to the Witness of God in my Heart and was not departed from that