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A47118	An account of the great divisions, amongst the Quakers, in Pensilvania, &c. as appears by their own book, here following, printed 1692, and lately came from thence, intituled, viz. The plea of the innocent, against the false judgment of the guilty : being a vindication of George Keith, and his friends, who are joined with him in this present testimony, from the false judgment, calumnies, false informations and defamations of Samuel Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, an others, joyned with them, being in number twenty eight : directed, by way of epistle, to faithful friends of truth, in Pensilvania, East and West-Jersey, and else-where, as occasion requireth.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing K136; ESTC R14385	22,843	26

Condemnation for his Blasphemy for about ten Months and now they permitted any Accusation to be made against him without Witnesses which gave him just cause to tell them he declined their Judgment because they had manifested themselves to be his opposite Party and prejudiced against him And yet after all this for them to abuse Friends by writing to them such a gross falshood that they had tenderly and orderly dealt with G. K. is abominable Hypocrisie 8thly Nor are they more fair and just in accusing G. K. for traducing and villifying the two Old Engl. Friends T. W. J. D. But they cannot prove that G. K. either said or did any thing but what was just and christian concerning them and it is too manifest that they were abused deceived and byass'd by them of the other Party with Flattery and false Insinuations they gave against us letting us have scarce any of their Company and they being thus deceived concerning us used many indirect Reflections mentioning Haman Baal Saul and Aaron which the Hearers generally understood they did intend G. K. and when he asked them If they did mean him and in pronouncing Woes c. they were not positive to clear him yet G. K. was exceeding sparing towards them until after they had openly blamed him and his Friends for the Separation and prophesied against us which caused G. K. to tell them they were deceived concerning us and for their better understanding desired them appoint a meeting for that end which they not embracing and J. D. comparing our Differences here which are as great as ever any was among any professing Christianity to Childrens falling out about trifles caused G. K. and some others to go away to their own Meeting but G. K. put not on his hat till he was out of the Gallery and out of the hearing of J. D. 9thly Whereas they say they would have G. K. cease to offer his Gift among them What great Non-sence Confusion and Contradiction is this in them to suppose that G. K. hath a Gift to offer after they have render'd him as bad as the worst of men possibly can almost be as fallen on the sorring Mountains slain in his high Places gone into a spirit of enmity wrath self-exaltation c. and as a Person without the Fear of God before his eyes in his Anger and Envy being Cruel against them with much more Surely if all this be true G. K. cannot be said to have the least grain of true Piety for he who hateth his Brother is a Murtherer and no Murtherer hath eternal Life abiding in him and according to Friends Doctrine and Principle No Impious or Wicked man hath any ministerial gift to offer as this Paper supposeth or alloweth him to have This Confusion and Self-contradiction of their Paper showeth with many other things in it what a false Spirit it hath come from And many hundreds have a true judgment and sence of G. K. that he continueth in a living sence to God and hath a living Ministry which hath a living Seal from the Spirit of God in the Hearts of hundreds and that he is no such man as they in their Prejudice and Ignorance describe him to be And for their blaming us for the Separation in that they have given false Judgment against us for it lieth at their Door as appeareth by our Book Some Causes of the Separation c. which they have not taken notice of nor can they contradict for all the matter therein is truth only there was a mistake of one mans name viz. Simercy Adams who was not at the Meeting but we could have set down many others to make them up sixty at least and the matter in that Book lieth at their door to answer if they be able 10thly Whereas they say G. K. at Meetings since the Separation like an open Adversary hath reviled several Friends by exposing their Religious Reputations in mixt Auditories of some hundreds c. This is altogether false for it is no reviling to speak the Truth and they cannot prove that G. K. hath spoke any thing of them but what is true altho' they have reported both publickly and privately many false things and among the rest their late defamatory Paper of Condemnation and it 's but just and reasonable he should defend himself and his Testimony And now in the Conclusion we do first solemnly Appeal to God the Righteous Judge of all men from the false judgment of these prejudic'd men against us and next to all faithful Friends and Brethren here in America and in Old England Scotland and Ireland or elsewhere to judge betwixt us and them as the unerring and infallible Spirit shall be found and known to give then a true judgment and discerning and with great Assurance Peace and Joy in the Lord to him we commit our Righteous Cause G. K. T. B. Some brief Observations on their seeming Condemnation of Will. Stockdale which is rather as to the main a clearing of him and condemning him only as to some Circumstance and more severely and unchristianly and most falsly condemning G. K. First WHereas they say They being prevented in their Meetings of late to proceed orderly in business by reason of a turbulent and unsubdued Spirit meaning without all doubt in G. K. but having respite at this time have considered c. This is great Hypocrisie and Deceit in them why were they prevented in their Meetings of late did G. K. by his Spirit lay violent hands either on their Tongues or Pens that they might not have given true judgment against W. S. in a case so plain that a company of Children well instructed in the first Principles of Christianity the eldest of them not exceeding 15 years could have given a just decision in less than one quarter of an hour But hew could G. K's Spirit hinder them at the Yearly Meeting when he went out at their desire tho' there was no cause for his so doing more than for any of them for it was not G. K. but Christ Jesus that was mainly concerned in this Affair for whom and for his Glory if they had any Zeal for him they ought to have been as much concerned as G. K. but it is fulfilled in them what is writ in Scripture of some that loved the praise of Men more than the praise of God But why did they take no time since the Yearly Meeting Why did they not take a quiet time to do 't in G. K's absence when he was almost six Months absent in N. England betwixt his first Complaint and that Meeting at Burlington last first Month having gone twice into N. England and was each time absent about three Months And why did they nothing at the Meeting at Burlington against W. S. but heard false Accusations without all Proof against G. K. Why are they so partial and hypocritical to pretend they had not time till now the 41. 4. mo 92. for about 15 Months past Why did

If this be a Guiltiness That the Light within doth not save us or is not sufficient without the Man Christ Jesus and his Death Resurrection Ascension Mediation for us in Heaven I own my self guilty but by their thus condemning G. K. for his sound Doctrine and clearing T. F. they have declared openly their being no Christians and therefore it is no Railing nor Ungodly Speech to call them Ignorant Heathens for it is their proper Name due to them seeing they will not own any thing else not the Man Christ Jesus but only the Light in them to be sufficient and necessary to their Salvation but for a more full account of their thus publickly renouncing the Man Christ Jesus we refsr to two Papers of Minuts writ by G. K. of what passed at the last Quarterly and Monthly Meetings about this matter But whereas some of them say They have not cleared T. F. let all impartial men who read their act recorded in their Monthly meeting Book a copy of which with great difficulty we have at last obtained judge whether their words in the said Act doth not clear him when they say The Meeting saw no Reason to give Judgment against him in this particular above-mentioned as much as when the Grand-Jury bringeth in their Verdict of an Ignoramus into the Court doth not clear the Person accused for that time and whether this their clearing of him is not further confirmed by their allowing and countenancing him to preach and pray in their Meetings and the last clause of their Paper concluding that T. F's Charge in it self wes true 2dly Whereas in their Epistle they use a great many words in Commendation of what formerly G. K. was and how once he walked in the Counsel of God and was little in his own Eyes and his Brethren honourable in his esteem and that he was lovely in that day when the Beauty of the Lord was upon him and his Comliness covered him and other high words of Commendation scarce given to many far more worthy than he It is very apparent that all this is but on purpose first to raise him up as it were on high that they may seem the more to throw him down into their deep Pit of Infamy false Judgment they have given against him together with their deceitful hypocritical Lamentation over his Fall from the kigh places of Israel as a man slain in his high places this is not unlike to their Predecessors the Persecuting Clergy of the Church of Rome who before they burnt that worthy Servant of Christ John Huss they caused be put on him his Priestly Robes then afterwards stript him of them on purpose the more to defame him and render him vile before the People the which as they were doing that worthy Servant of Christ called to remembrance that White Vesture which Herod put upon Christ to mock him withal as Fox doth relate it in his Book of Martyrs pag. 739. Tom. 1. But we would have these men to know that G. K needs none of their hypocritical and mock Lamentations but rather let them in good earnest weep for themselves and for their great Ignorance Error and Unbelief that some if not all of them have sufficiently discovered themselves guilty of and most of them of their great Prejudice and Hypocrisie and all of them of their Folly and rash and false Judgment which will be their own burden and for which we wish them true Repentance And seeing their Accusations against G. K. lie much in bare generals we see no cause further to take notice of them as they contain bare generals as his being guilty of Anger Envy Cruelty Treachery and other false and reproachful Speeches they give out against him but to show that for want of particular matter against him they thus labour to defame him so much in bare Generals a way common to all Sophisters and false Accusers And for the hard words they alledg he used to call some of them as Fools ignorant Heathens Infidels silly Souls Lyars Hereticks Rotten Ranters Muggletonians c. G. K. saith and that in the uprightness of Heart that he never gave such Names to any of them but to such as he can prove did deserve them and for which he can appeal to all impartial men that profess Christianity whether they to whom he gave such Names did not deserve them as when one of them said to him in his own house in the hearing of some present That seeing to preach Faith in Christ without did give Offence to his Brethren and was like to make a Division among Friends it was best to let it alone as Paul said concerning eating of Flesh if it did offend his weak Brother this W. Gabitas said to him whereupon G. K. said as he solemnly declareth and as some do witness Thou silly Soul or little Soul dost thou compare the preaching of Christ Crucified to eating of flesh And to call Men Fools and Sots yea blind and dark Sots that deserve it hath been the practice of some very eminent Friends for no greater cause than some have given who have openly renounced the Faith of Christ without them as necessary to their Salvation as we can sufficiently prove some of them have done who deservedly may be called Ignorant Heathens Infidels and Hereticks and if G. K. did call some of them Lyars he can prove they were such and that is no Railing to call a Lyar by his true Name so did Christ call such as deserved it and so did Paul and divers of them that have signed that Epistle have called G. K. openly in a Meeting Lyar and other unworthy and base Names without all just ground and therefore it is base Partiality in these men to condemn G. K. for that which they are guilty of themselves some of them having not only called him Lyar but Apostate and worse than Prophane as particularly S. Jenings in the hearing of divers credible Witnesses and Arthur Cook who is of their side tho' his hand is not at their Paper being absent at the School-house-Meeting did openly call him Muggletonian for affirming That Christ had the true Body of Man in Heaven the which Body was not every where of this many can bear witness and at the same time the said A. C. would not acknowledge that Christs appearance to Paul mentioned 1 Cor. 15. 8. was without him alledging it was Only within and put G. K. to prove Where we read in Scripture of Faith in Christ within and Christ without as also to prove that Cornelius was faithful to the Light within or had the Light within And T. Lloyd hath used very uncivil Expressions to G. K. in some of those Meetings one time saying No Man could differ with G. K. but he was in danger of the Life of his Soul by him which G. K. was greatly offended with and judged the most uncharitable saying that ever any of his greatest Enemies gave him this T. L. knoweth

pretended Friend of G. K. and who hath greatly owned in words G. K's Doctrine and came to that called our separate Meeting at least one first day as joyning with us and yet now hath joyned with these false Judges against us and yet but a few days before he told G. K. That he believed e're long they would thrust him out from among them for it lay on him to preach among them what that something else was that was necessary to their Salvation besides the Light to wit the Man Christ Jesus without us Let none be offended that we name these mens Names for seeing they have named G. K. in their Paper containing false Judgment and put their Names to it we hope none can justly blame G. K. or us that love him to name their names to things we can prove sufficiently against them besides some of them have complain'd that in our Book Some Causes of Separation we named not Names and therefore seeing it is desired we have named some and it were an easie matter to give such a Character of every one of them that have signed that Paper of false Judgment as may render them unqualified men to give Judgment in such a weighty case not only for the Ignorance of most of them as well as their Prejudice but for the great suspicion that some of them lie under of a scandalous Life as Drunkenness Uncleanness c. and as for W. Yardly and N. Walne as we can prove them both very ignorant men so they are not of a very good Fame among their Neighbors and for that distaste some stay from Meetings as we are informed And one George Gray from Barbadoes almost wholly a stranger to these matters of difference taking all no trust from them except what hath lately happened in some late Meetings hath showed himself too foolish and rash as well as ignorant And the like may be said of H. Willis of Long-Island wholly a stranger to our Differences but what he had by report and who lately before divers Witnesses at the House of W. Bradford openly declar'd himself an Unbeliever as concerning Christs coming without us to judge the quick and the dead which is a great Article of the Christian Faith 4thly As concerning their blaming G. K. for objecting against their Discipline and his preparing a Draught which he presented them G. K. gave no just cause to be offended at this hundreds here-a-way of the more sincere sort of Friends do object as well as G. K. against the too-great laxness of Discipline amongst us and that there is but little inspection into the good Lives and Manners of them that profess Truth among us far less into their Faith so that men may almost believe any thing and yet be owned if they come to Meetings and use plain Language and plain Habit and be not grosly scandalous And as to his Draught that he prepared and presented to the Yearly Meeting 1690. he was very moderate in it and did not press it on them and he is so far from being ashamed of it that he has now sent it to Friends in Old England to consider of 5thly Their blaming G. K. for his earnest desiring that they and we might agree to draw up some Principles and Doctrines of Faith in the most necessary things to qualifie our Church-Members and distinguish Believers from Unbelievers has no just ground but is rather worthy of commendation for hundreds see the necessity of such o thing among us especially here-a-way And for his saying That he knew none given forth by the body of Friends it is true he hath so said and if they know any entire Confession or Declaration of Faith in all necessary things and sufficient to end the present Differences let them produce it we know that particular accounts of Principles and Doctrines have been given forth by divers particular Friends as G. F. G. W. E. B. J. C. and divers others but not by the Body of Friends or any yearly Meeting so far as we know except the Rhode-Island Sheet which they do so much oppose For their offering to give a Confession in Scripture-words when they have given us to know they have a sence contrary to Scripture no more can satisfie us than when Papists Socinians Muggletonians c. say they will give us a Confession of their Faith in Scripture-words They have greatly blamed G. K. for imposing unscriptural words and terms on them and yet when asked what these terms are they never did or can show unless that some of them have said to preach faith in Christ within and without us is unscriptural And what else can it be but gross Unbelief and Pagauism to find fault so much with preaching Faith in Christ without us and his being in Heaven in the same Body that suffered being necessary to our Salvation for tho' the words without us or the same Body be not express Scripture-words yet seeing they are according to the true sence of Scripture who can blame G. K. or any other to preach them viz. That Faith in Christ as he dyed for us and rose again is necessary to our Salvation and that Christ's Body that was crucified and buried rose again and is gone into Heaven Surely none but Infidels and Ranters but no sincere Christians will deny these things and yet all the Imposition they can alledge on G. K. is That he did preach Faith in the Man Christ without them as well as Faith in Christ the Light in them and that Christ hath the true Body of Man in Heaven and in that Body he will come and appear without us to judge the quick and the dead And the 27. 4th Mo. at Frankford Mo. Meeting in discourse without door before many Friends T. Lloyd blamed G. K. for imposing unscriptural words on them G. K. pressed him again and again to show in any one particular but he would not give one instance then G. K. desired him to answer one Question viz. Whether to believe that Christ died for our Sins and rose again was necessary to our Salvation but T. L. waved it saying I will prove out of thy Books thou wast not of this Faith some time ago which G. K. denyed well knowing what is in his own Books And it may be noted that T. Lloyd S. Jenings J. Delavall and S. Richardson came to the said Meeting to countenance the reading of their Paper of false Judgment against G. K. and his Friends having put it into the Hands of W. Preston to read who offering to read it the far greatest part of the Meeting forbad the reading of it declaring That nothing ought to be read in their Meeting without the general Consent of the Meeting but this unruly and disorderly man who hath otherwise showed his Prejudice against G. K. and particularly that when G. K. was declaring at another Meeting W. P. interrupted him and called him Lyar when yet it was proved that he was the Lyar himself at that very