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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

owning no Resurrection but Christ and having attained to Christ they reckon they have attained to all the Resurrection they expect as Rob. Owen one of the false Judges and Will Southbe one of the Evidences against G. K. And J. Wilsford another of the false Judges said lately on a first Day Meeting That Christ was a Mediator for no Drunkards nor Wicked Persons but for his own Disciples expresly contrary to Scripture Testimony in many places Isa 53. 12. Psal 68. for it is by the Merits and Intercession of Christ that all men even wicked men of all sorts have a day of Visitation and are inwardly enlightned by Christ and such who improve it not but live and die in their Sins hinder not but that it is a benefit in it self Also the same Person some time ago at a Meeting in East Jarsey said in Prayer Lord that we may not dote on the Body to neglect the Life which was very offensive and is an unsavoury irreverend expression to every Pious Christian for to dote on it is too much to love it but this none can do for we cannot too much love the Lords glorious Body nor any thing of him but the more truly we love his Body the more we enjoy of his Life inwardly and the more we enjoy of his Life in us and love it we love his Body and prise and esteem still more and more all the Sufferings of his Soul and his Bodily Sufferings Death Resurrection and Asscention in that Body hoping that he will change our low Body and fashion it like to his glorious Body All which and other gross Errors being considered some denying Gods Prefence in all his Creatures arguing If God be in Herbs and Grass than who trample on Herbs Grass trample on God Horrid Blasphemy as one argued and charged G. K. of Blasphemy at a Mo. Meeting for saying God was present in all his Creatures even Grass Herbs c. Hence a new dispute hath risen among some Whether God be present in some arguing they are no part of the Creation Are not these things enough to make sober Ears to tingle by all which and much more that can be proved it may sufficiently appear what great reason G. K. had to say No such damnable Heresie c. are tolerated in any Christian Society as are among many here-away called Quakers Another preaches That Christ cureth mens Souls perfectly at once and maketh them free of all sin and when we are perfect we are Kings are not to beggar pray to God for themselves And openly in a Meeting at J. Goodsons S. Jenings accused G. K. as also did J. Simcock for preaching Faith in Christ without us calling it the Professors Faith and the Faith of all Christendom that did not profit them And T. Ducket another great States-man then and Preacher declared at the Meeting at Rob. Ewers when G. K. made the first Complaint to them against W. S. that he could not determine whether that Body that was crucified was in Heaven or not but said he let the Church determine it if the Church determine it we shall I hope submit which was more like a blind Mass-Priest than a judicious Protestant Minister And S. Jenings hath sufficiently discovered his great Ignorance as in some other things and joining with them that say the Light is sufficient without something else and requiring G. K. to give an absolute Submission to their judgment which G. K. calling Rank Popery S. J. took out his Pocket Book and writ it down before G. K. had ended the sentence so in openly declaring in a mens Meeting That to do Gods Business we needed Gods Wisdom and Power but to do our own Business as men we needed it not which G. Keith Geo. Hutcheson Rob. Turner J. Hart and several others publickly testified against but the Meeting gave no Judgment against him And notwithstanding that this S. J. has severely blamed G. K. that he refused to submit to him and his Associates who were joyned in a Faction against G. K. for his faithful Testimony yet he hath refused to submit to the Judgment not only of the Mens Meeting here at Philadelphia in a small worldly matter betwixt T. B. and him but refused to submit to the Judgment of a Meeting of the most eminent Friends viz. G. F. G. W. and others appointed at London to hear the difference betwixt Edw. Billinge and him concerning the Trust committed to him by E. B. as his Deputy-Governor the which tho' he refused to submit to their Judgment yet they judged him guilty of betraying his Trust and he came away for England in disunity with the most faithful Friends at London on that very account and had he had his due Friends here would scarce have suffer'd him to preach and pray in Meetings far less to have ruled in their men and womens Meetings as since he hath done first in West Jersey of whose too severe Government People in that Province were generally weary and of other his proud and lofty Carriages and now here in Pensilvania who hath already shown himself too high and imperious both in Friends Meetings and worldly Courts as is but too well known to many and yet this ignorant presumptuous and insolent man hath been one of the main Opposers and Threatners of G. K. threatning him That they will let him know that tho' he deny their Judgment yet they shall judge him But seeing they have given false Judgment against him as G. K. could expect no better from his declared Opposers and Adversaries both to Truth and him it is no cause of Offence for G. K. to say he trampled there Judgment as Dirt under his feet for Dirt is good for something to fatten the Land but false Judgment is good for nothing except to discover what ignorant and prejudiced men these are against the Truth Another of the false Judges is one W. Walker a Novice who began to preach before he had the outward sober carriage of a Friend known to be a prejudic'd person against G. K. for reproving his false Doctrine first in private then more publickly he having said in a publick Meeting That a man might speak unsound words in the life and at another time in a publick Meeting he bid us wait that the Scepter might depart from Judah c. that Shilo might come and many other most gross and impertinent things he hath spoke in Meetings fathering all upon the Spirit And as for J. Delaval his declining from G. K. and turning most severely against him and his Doctrine of late but formerly preached by him is sufficiently known to many as well as his accusing of G. K. in a thing he could not prove but essayed to do it with a dreadful Oath saying As God was in Heaven it was true which to be sure is as real an Oath as that was under the Law The LORD liveth Another of the false Judges is Paul Saunders very lately a great

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

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