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cause_n	know_v	lord_n	see_v	3,997	5	3.2299	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47129	The causeless ground of surmises, jealousies and unjust offences removed, in a full clearing of faithful Friends, and a sober vindication of my innocency, and the Friends concerned with me in relation to the late religious differences and breaches among some of the people called Quakers in America.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing K149; ESTC R1482	14,639	18

my Opposers who have far exceeded me as appeareth by their three Judgements and other their Papers and Manuscripts against me As also why do they advise me to call in my Printed Books and yet give them of the other side no advice to call in their false Judgements given out against me without all Conviction Hearing or Tryal However let them particularly tell me what the hard Words are that I have given to any that I cannot prove to be due unto them and I shall yield to their Advice And as to my confessing my Humane Imperfections it is not well so to glory over me and thereby to lessen my Reputation and Christian Testimony among Friends while they are silent wholly of some of their own far greater Imperfections and passionate behaviour used towards me before many Witnesses I Judge it is more Christian and a greater Argument of a Mans grouth towards Perfection to achnowledge his sinful Infirmities in the sight of God or men and to be humbled under the sense of them than like the proud Pharisee to justifie ones self when he may be and is really guilty of greater Evils But as I have again and again said unto them For my inward Defects and Infirmities I am only accountable unto God whose tender Mercies and Forgiveness for Christs sake I have humbly sought and obtained and have a firm Faith and Hope in due time to overcome them all and be made more than a Conquerour through him that hath loved me but to Men I am only accountable for my Words and Deeds and as I have not acknowleged unto any nor seen just cause so to do so they have not proved me guilty of either Words or Deeds that the Truth condemneth in relation to these Matters whereof some have accused me and it is not well to misconstrue my sincere and Godly Zeal in my boldly and sharply reproving gross and vile Errours as well as wicked Practices and to call it passion sinful anger and wrath but it is a small thing for me to be Judged of Men seeing he that Judgeth me is the Lord whose Peace Love Favour and Approbation as to the main I enjoy to my unspeakable comfort strength and supporting who knoweth the Righteousness of my Cause and the sincerity of my heart whatever humane Weaknesses have attended me which are greater and more in some that do so accuse me though they have neither the sincerity nor humility to acknowledge it And lastly as to that advise given me by so me to labour to make up the bleach that is already made among them called Quakers in these American parts I hope I shall endeavour it but it can never effectually be done but in Truths Way and on Truths Terms and they who so advise me should advise and admonish them of the other side that they call in the many false Judgements given out against me from divers Provinces in America without all Hearing Tryal or Conviction and particularly that of the 28 false Judges from Pensilvania which is the rotten Basis and Foundation of all the rest and which was given out against me without all Hearing Conviction or Tryal and also they should advise them to give out a Testimony aknowleging their Errour first in giving out a Proclamation against me signed by S.J. and others of their Ministry and Elders which they caused to be cry'd against me by the Common Cryer at the Market place in Philadelphia without all Conviction or Tryal contrary to the Fundamental Laws of all Nations to the danger of my Life as well as of my Reputation wherein they charge me with Words in a Printed Sheet called an Appeal having a tendency to Sedition and disturbance of the peace and subversion of the then present Government in Pensilvania but I produced a Certificate signed by the deputy Governour and Consul of Philadelphia clearing me of all these Charges and amply declaring my Innocency and Peaceable Behaviour towards the Government and them in Authority at that time which was Solemnly read before many Witnesses of the People called Quakers that gave great content and all this only for asserting or rather Querying concerning the Inconsistency of the late Practices of some of them with the professed Principles of the People called in scorn Quakers in these parts as did sufficiently appear when solemnly read before many Witnesses with my answer to the said Proclamation Secondly in Fining Thomas Budd and me each of us Five Pounds a piece for Reproving S.J. his pride in our just Defence in answer to his false defamatory Judgment against us saying concerning him that He was too high and Imperious both in Friends Meetings and Wordly Courts and of His being an Ignorant Presumptuous and Insolent Man which last Words did no wise respect his Magistracy but his being a Minister and by profession one called a Quaker which I do declare we did Conscientiously and have sufficiently proved to be true and is but too well known to be true among the Neighbourhood in that part of the World and which he did most palpably discover when going out of the Court where we were Fined for reproving his Pride in the high Street to the observation and hearing of divers honest persons that have attested it stretching out his hand he said to some of our Friends that were expostulating the case with him If I draw forth my hand I will not pull it in again until I have quelled you all as also for his Committing to Prison two Friends of truth for uttering or publishing the said Printed Sheet called An Appeal now if this be not impartially censured and judged and that he without giving any publick Testimony of his Repentance and owning his Iniquity in these matters be permitted or allowed to Preach and Pray in Meetings after solemn Complaint hath been made against him in an orderly way what will the People in New England say who have formerly Persecuted our Friends there and what will others say that have fresh in Memory the frequent Outcries and Complaints of Friends against Persecution in former days and how oft have many Friends both in Print and otherwise reproved the Pride and Imperious behaviour of Magistrates in former days and yet we find not that the Magistrates have Persecuted any by Fining or Imprisoning them for so saying or Printing nor do we find it in any Law either in England or America that it is Penal to call a Justice of Peace High or Imperious especially when he is not in the exercise of his Office and when our Complaint hath been made in an orderly way against the said S.J. and the Record of the Court produced and read in their hearing and signed with the Clarks own hand the verity of which S.J. denied not why should any put it off with saying the Legality or Illegality of these Proceedings according to Men it appeareth not proper for them to meddle with but since they have greatly medled with the illegality and arbitrary Proceedings