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A47162	The plea of the innocent against the false judgment of the guilty being a vindication of George Keith and his friends, who are joyned with him in this present testimony, from the false judgment, calumnies, false informations and defamations of Samuell Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, and others joyned with them, being in number twenty eight : directed by way of epistle to faithful friends of truth in Pennsilvania, East and West-Jersey, and else-where, as occasion requireth.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing K189; ESTC R14187	22,743	25

the false Judges said lately on 〈…〉 day Meeting That Christ was a Mediator for no Drunkards non Wicked Persons but for his own Disciples expresly contrary to Scripture Testimon in many places Isa 53. 12. Psal 68. for it is by the Merits and Intercession of Christ that a●● m●n 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 dte in their sins hinder not but that it is a benefit to it self Also the same Person some time ago at a Meeting in East-Jersey 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 〈◊〉 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 enioy 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 a● the Sufferings of his Soul and his Bodily Suffering Death Resurrection Ascention in that ●ody hoping that he will charge our low Body and fashion it like to his glorious Body All which and other gross Errors being considered 〈◊〉 denying Gods Presence in all his Creatures arguing If God be i● Herbs and Grass than who trample on Herbs Grass trample on God Horrid Blasphemy as one ar gued charged G K of Blasphemy 〈◊〉 Mo. Meeting for saying God was present in all his Creatures even Gross Herbs c. Hence a new dispute hath risen among some W●etner God be present in Li●e 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 Heresies c. are tollerated in any Christian Society as are among many 〈◊〉 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 beg or pray to God for then selves And openly in a Meeting at J. Goodsonn's S. Jenings accused G. K. as also did J. S●mcoak for preaching Faith in Christ without us calling it the Prosessors Faith and the Faith of all Chris. endom that did not profit them And T. Ducket another great States-man the● and Preacher declared at the Meeting at Rob. Ewer's when G K. made the first Gomplaint to them against W. S. that he could not determine whether that Body 〈◊〉 was crucified was 〈◊〉 on 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 joyning with them that sa● the Light is sufficient without something else and requiring G. K. to give an absolute Submission to their judgment which G. K. calling Ra●k 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. 〈◊〉 Rob. Turner J. Hart and several others publickly testified against but the Meeting gave no judgment against him And notwithstanding th●● this S. J. hath 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. B●utno● and him concerning the Trust committed to him by E. B. as his Deputy Governo● the which tho' he ref●sed to submit to their Judgment yet they judged him guilty of betraying his Trust and the came away 〈◊〉 England in dis-unity with the most faithful Friends at London on that very account and had he had his due Friends here would scarce have suffered him to preach and pray in Meetings far less to have ruied 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 Pennsilvania who hath already shown himself too high and impe●ious both in Friends Meetings and worldly Courts as is but too weit known to many and yet this ignorant presumptuous and insolent man hath been one of the main Opposers Threatners of G. K. threatning him That they will let him know that though he deny their Judgment yet they shall judge him but seeing they have given false Judgment against him a G. K. could expect no better from his declared Opposetrs and Adversaries both to Truth and him it is no cause of Offence for G. K. to say he trampled their Judgment as Dirt under his sect for Dirt is good for something to fatter the Land but false Judgment is good for nothing except to discover what ignorant and prejudiced men these are against the Trut● Another of the false Judges is one W. Walker Novice who began to preach before he had the outward sober carriage of a Friend known to be a prejudiced 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 L●●e and at another time in a publick Meeting he bid us wa●t that the Scepter might depart from Judah c. to at Shilo might come and many other most gross impertinent things he hath spoke in Meetings fathering a●● upon the Spirit And a for J. Delavall his declining from G. K. and turning most severely against him and his Doctrine but of late formerly preached by him is sufficient●● 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 sately a great pretended Friend of G. K. and who hath greatly owned in words G. K. Doctrine and came to that called our seperate 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 f●w

da●s before he told G. K. That he believed ere 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 Seperation we named not Names and therefore seeing it is desired we have named some 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 Vnuleanness c. and as for W. Yardly N. Wal●e as we can prove them both very ignorant men so they are not of a very good Fame among their Neighbours 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 on 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. Wi●is of Long-Istand wholly a stranger to our Differences but what he had by report and who lately before divers Witnesses at the house of W. Brad●ord openly declar'd himself an Unbeliever as concerning Christs coming without as to judge the quick and the Dead which is a great Article of the Christian Faith 4 thly 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-away of the more sincere sort of Friends do object as well as G. K. against the too great laxness of Disciplire 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 ●e 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 for from being ashamed of it that he has now sent it to Friends in Old England to consider of 5 thly 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 Vnbelievers has no just ground but is rather worthy of Commendation for hundreds see the necessity of such a thing among us especially here-away And for his saying That he knew none given forth by th● Body of Friends it is true he hath so said and if they know any intire 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 Sh●●● 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 u● than when Papists Socintans Muggleton●an● c. say they will give us a Confession of their Faith in Scripture words They have greatly blamed G. K. for imposing unscriptural words 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 sath in Christ within and without us is unscriptural And what else can it be but gross Vnbelief Paganism to find fault so much with preaching Faith in Christ without us 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 Christs Body that was crucified and buried rose again and is gone into Heaven Surely none but Infidels and Ranters but no lincere 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 〈◊〉 them that Christ hato 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. 4. mo at Franksord Mo. Meeting in discourse without door before many Friends T. Lloyd blamed G. K. for imposing unscriptural words ō 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 dyed 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 o that Faith sometime 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 S. Richardson came to the said Meeting to countenance the reading of their Papaer 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. particularly that when G. K. was declaring at another Meeting W. P. interrupted him and called him Lyar when yet it was preved that he was the Lyar himself at that very time did presume to read the Paper against the mind of most of the Friends present and T. L. S. J. S. R. J. D. and A. M. were so far from giving any check to this disorderly proceeding and Imposition upon the true