from this time forward as to what Places he went so with whom he conversed and whom he should shun and when he found there were some who laid in wait for him to trepan him and hale him to Prison he immediately hastened away He did also moreover advise his Party by his Letters and Pamphlets that all of them should make it their business and endeavour to do nothing against the King's Authority and the Common-weal and allow of nothing in that kind which might be avoided by them Besides this Fox proceeded to write many things even against their Adversaries but in such a manner as not to set forth so much what his own Sentiments were as what he wrote and in what place he wrote it Which sort of Life Fox from thence forward led even to his Death that all his Actions both in the middle and last part of his Life might be like unto those he had practised in the beginning so that I judge it needless to say many more words concerning Fox in this Treatise unless something that is altogether new and strange should occur And thus did almost all the Quakers behave themselves now more cautiously and circumspectly among their Adversaries neither did they so often and constantly make a noise in the Churches and Publick places neither did they Act those Fooleries where there was a Concourse of People and utter such ridiculous Bablings neither when they were brought before the Magistrate did they talk so uncivilly abruptly and foreign to the purpose as they had been wont to do neither did they Answer when the Judges asked them what their Name was what Country-men they were where they lived that they were of the Land of Canaan and that they lived in God so that as the Time even so their Manners changed yea from henceforward these Men wrote and published in England not only Pamphlets but Books in which they handled the Heads of things not at large only and confusedly but curiously and distinctly and did Argue in them first against the Opinions and Tenets of the Principal Episcoparians and then against those of other Dissenters which they did not approve of and this in a neat and orderly way of Argumentation not by wrangling but examining every Proposition and coming up to the Merit of the Cause and by admirable Skill arriving at their designed Conclusion neither did they urge those things which they taught and believed by a rude and disjointed way of Reasoning but clearly and openly and explicated the same at large and strenuously defended it Which Method was vigorously pursued by Samuel Fisher who was the chief Man and the Ornament of the whole Sect. Moreover some of them were not afraid to Discourse Argue and Dispute with the Adverse Party yea and when need required with the very Ministers of the Publick Church concerning their own and the others Doctrine and Concerns Which sort of Disputation was held this very first Year at Hereford between two City Ministers and three Preaching Quakers Howgil Burroughs and Cross wherefore from henceforward these People the Quakers began gradually and by little and little to stand up and to increase in number and strength and to be reckoned and used as one of the Sects of the Christian Religion Things were at the same pass with these Men in Scotland saving that their Affairs did not thrive so fast there until the arrival of two Men of great Fame and Reputation amongst all the Quakers Geroge Keith and Robert Barclay by Name by whose Labour Toyl and Industry the whole Doctrine of the Quakers especially their chief Dogms Principles and Fundamentals were very much illustrated and confirmed and because this is the first place where we meet with the Names of these Men and that hereafter mention will be made of them upon various Accounts we shall in a few words acquaint those who do not know it what sort of Men these are they were both of them Scots but there is only one of them to wit Keith that is yet alive Barclay the other being dead George Keith was at first of the Reformed Religion and a Student of Philosophy and Divinity as soon as he commenced Master of Arts and was more especially had in esteem for a good Mathematician he did afterward become a Chaplain or Minister of God's Word in a certain Noble Family But seeing that he was always transported with a desire of searching after and learning somewhat that was new and alighted upon these late Sectaries he did in a short time embrace their Doctrine and arrived to be one of the chief Speakers and Holders forth amongst them This Man after many Toyls Wanderings and Perambulations went at last into that part of America which from the Owner thereof is called Pensylvania and there in their Church and Latin School of Philadelphia exercised the Office of a Teacher Robert Barclay was a Gentleman of Scotland the Son of that same David Barclay whose Book we have made mention of a little before his Father had sent him to the City of Paris the Capital of France and there was brought up in good Literature and after a manner that suited to his Quality and those Noble Youths that were his Fellow-Students But this Young Man had an Uncle in that City that was Principal of the Scotch Popish College there to whose Precepts when Barclay had for some time attended he leaves the Reformed Religion and turns Papist which when his Father came to know he sends for him home and as he himself in the mean time was turned Quaker he also endeavours to induce his Son to embrace the same way but he seeing he had in all other things been Observant to his Father refuses and says he could not in so great and weighty a thing as that was hearken to him But when he had not long after come to one of the Meetings of the Quakers he suddenly turns about and becomes throughly one of them being now Eighteen Years of Age and from thence forward for a great part of his Life was as it were the Legate or Messenger of the Quakers in their weightiest Affairs it 's also said that he was descended from John Barclay that notable Writer of Heroick Verse and Satyr and whose Name it 's enough to mention Keith wrote many things in English wherein he does clearly Teach Explain and Confirm those chief Points of their Doctrine which Fox and others had neither so distinctly handled nor so artificially and dexterously propounded and vindicates the same from the Objections and Exceptions of their Adversaries which afterward all the rest of the Quakers greedily snatched at and would appropriate and reckon among the Opinions of the Quakers excepting two or three Articles which they left alone as peculiar to himself He was indeed the first of them all who taught polished and perfected those Principles concerning the Seed and Light within immediate Revelation the Eternal Divine and Spiritual Filiation of Jesus Christ for so do all
Day and in the same Church spoke these words against John Knowles the Preacher after he had pronounced the Blessing upon the People This is the Word of God to thee Knowles I command thee to Repent for what thou hast done and to hearken to the Light of Conscience that is within thee and so being again punished with many blows and thrown out of the Church she was first confined by the Watch of the City and afterward committed by the Mayor into the Common Prison and had no heavier Punishment inflicted upon her From whence almost all sorts of Citizens grew enraged and cryed out that these Men sought nothing else by their Inventions and Undertakings but occasions of Reproaches Disturbances and Confusions as also matter of Enmities and Revenge against them Now Audland and his Companion were returned into the City who when they were a going out of the City towards a place where the Quakers intended to keep a Meeting they were like to be in great danger from the Boys that assaulted them and it s very like they had perished if they had not been saved by the Care and Industry of some of the chief Men of the Place Which when the Common People and such like unto them came to know and supposing those Principal Citizens had not done their Duty as they ought they broke out against them and some threatned the Magistrates and made a Clamour That this new base and partly flagitious and wicked People the Quakers had passed over the Bounds of Modesty and proceeded so far that they could not arrive to a greater Audacity and Impudence than they were come to and that the Magistrate saw and bore with all this to whose care it was committed to maintain the Honour and Dignity of the Common-wealth whom they represented and to take heed lest the whole People should at last be endangered in their Religion so that seeing now when so great a matter is in agitation the Laws are silent Judgments dumb Punishments ceased all things both Divine and Humane lie unregarded and the extream Fate of the Religion and Liberty of the City was at hand it was high time that the People themselves should watch and upon the neglect of the Magistrate those whom it most concerns are to be Magistrates to themselves and must seek after their own safety which they cannot otherwise procure This though it may not be Lawful at another time yet at such a time as this is it 's both right and just and ought and there is need it should be done but before they would enter upon it they desired that an Account of the whole matter might be transmitted to Cromwel who was the defender of the Common Law and Liberty The which was done without delay for there were some who transmitted their desires forthwith in this matter to Cromwel And so while these Men thought that they acted the part of Citizens bravely yea that they like so many Viceroys imagined they discharged the Office of Judges well the Magistracy winked hereat or contemned it especially because things were brought to that pass that the Guard of Soldiers that was placed in the City did no ways deter them therefrom This Tumult lasted for the space of two days and then was appeased of it self But lo while the Magistrates were studying to aslay this great outragiousness of the Times by reason of such Insolence in their own People and upon this Consideration did not afterwards call the heads of the Rioters to an Account for such their doings another Quaker Henry Warren by Name had rather exasperate the matter and was as it were the poisoned Nail in this Altar of the City for he had such a Lust as I may say for it and proceeded to such a height of boldness that in the Church and that even when there was a very great Assembly he spake these words to the face of the Minister after he had made an end of his Office and Work The Prayers of the Wicked are an abomination to the Lord with which opprobrious speech than which nothing could be more contemptible all were stirred up and provoked so as that they violently drave the Man from the Church and lead him before the Mayor and Sheriffs of the City who that they might not go unpunished commanded them to be thrust into Prison but such was the intenseness and desire of these Men to talk at this rate in these places and they were so much tickled with the Glory which they placed therein that they seemed to deliberate one with another and to determine with Judgment for to pursue this matter whatever Hatred Trouble or Mischief befel them and their Companions therefore it was not only one but many of them broke out in this manner who were ever and anon assaulted and violently beaten for it and indeed wounded in the croud until they were thrust into Prison At last the Magistrate calls all these Prisoners to an Account for their doings which till then by reason of the Times and other necessary Circumstances was omitted but so even as now things stood their Examination was done in a mild tender and gentle manner the Magistrate supposing that many harsh things might be alleviated by gentle Animadversion and Forbearance but those Prisoners made their Answers to the Magistrate not at all more submissively but in a sharper manner and as often as their Crime was laid to their charge they would acknowledge and confess no Crime and stifly vindicated what they had done as what was Lawful and decent and that they did not do them things of their own will but according to the Will of God and the Instinct and Admonition of his Divine Spirit and the Examples of Holy Men insomuch that the Obstinacy and Obdurateness of these Men prevailed wherefore the Judges commanded them to be kept in Bonds by reason of their causing these Molestations and Disturbances and for their perverse Manners and Obstinacy and not for any other causes as these Men by way of Complaint did alledge Moreover the People were generally so irritated and exasperated with hatred wrath and rage against them that they set upon the Quakers every where laid hands on them beat knock'd and kick'd them and that so far that some of them rushed into their Houses and haled Men out from thence ransacked all that was therein and omitted nothing that might gratifie their incensed Minds Of them that were at this time in this City were Audland and Camie Howgil and Burroughs and Naylor and Fox whom we ought to have named first as being always the first and with the foremost as if there had been a Council called here and that this were done about most weighty Affairs which when the Magistrates came to know because there was a Report made unto them and that some had made Oath of it that there were certain Franciscan Fryars come from Rome to London who concealed themselves under the name of Quakers and deluded simple Men
Appleby and when they also required him to Swear and that he could not be brought to do so he is led back to his former Prison He was again the Year following brought before the same Court and the same Question put to him where he declares with great Constancy but in much Modesty That he as to what belongs to the substance and matter of the Oath did not refuse to Declare and Promise the performance of it yea and to subscribe it but that he could not affirm the same by an Oath neither was that Lawful for a Christian nor Advantageous to Men seeing that such an Asseveration would neither impose a greater Obligation upon good Men in the preserving of their Faith nor take away fear from the wicked and that the same was only an Encouragement to Rashness and Temerity in all false hearted Men and a Cloak for Evil and sometimes for the most notorious Villanies By which speech and moderation in speaking Howgil was so far from being freed from the Prosecution and Envy of his Judges that for all that he was adjudged Guilty and adjudged as being guilty of Disloyalty to have all his Lands forfeited as long as he lived and Moveables for ever returned to the Exchequer and that he himself was out of the King's Protection and ordered to be shut up and detained in perpetual Imprisonment and so it came to pass that the Man continued in that Prison for five Years when at length he fell very sick and shortly after ended his Miseries by Death between the Arms and Lamentations of his Wife and many Friends who were the Witnesses of his Exit and of their own sorrow for the loss of a Man who was not only dear and delightful to them but to all of their Society at his Death he called God and Men to Witness That he died of thut Religion for which he had suffered so many Afflictions While the Quakers were thus disturbed harrassed and molested the Parliament made yet a more rigid Law That the Quakers should in direct words before the Magistrates take the Oath of Allegiance to the King and own him for the Supream Head of the Church But and if upon any Account they could not be brought to do this it was Enacted That within a Year's space they should leave the Kingdom as refractary and rebellious Persons that acknowledged no Authority of Rule and rejected and laid aside all Bands of Humane Societies By which Law they seemed now as if they did not only raise up Arms and Proclaim War against them openly and simply but design their utter Ruine and Destruction Now by this Law there was an increase of these Peoples Misfortunes the following Year in that it made them to be much more suspected and hated by the People but it 's uncertain whether this proceeded from the Opinion and from thence the Rumour of such sort of Men who think what they do not comprehend and say what they think or from them who believed cunningly enough that this was the best way and manner for them to be quickly and readily rid of these Men. Or lastly from them who hoped that they might in these troublesome Times gain some Profit and Advantage to themselves the Mischief was this These Men were more and more blamed that they cherished Papists and even Jesuits that certainly lurked amongst them which same Persons were so hateful to the People and which took upon them their Names and Persons and preached amongst them that sometimes one and the same Teacher on one and the same day did first Celebrate Mass among the Papists and afterward Preached in the Congregation of the Quakers either without Hair or with a Peruke on neither was there any Notable Preachment at any time had among the Quakers the Author whereof was not esteemed to be a Jesuit and this was so rooted in the Thoughts and Imaginations of most Men that if any one knew it not he was looked upon as ignorant of the Publick Affairs if he denyed it as Impudent or a Papist or Jesuit himself born to Lye and to Cheat And they offer this as an Argument of such Practices which made the same find a more easie belief to wit that the Papists did so as well because that hereby they might avoid Swearing as the Quakers were most averse to such Oaths and so should swear nothing against the Honour and Interest of their Religion as that so they might catch and allure the unwary by their Artificial and cunning Speeches I remember I have heard a long time after being in Company with some Englishmen and amongst some Quakers these Men complaining that even then such Discourses were bandied about concerning the Jesuits mixing with the Quakers and that they durst not contradict them I 'll go a little further some time after some I know not who according to their Jesuitical way and disposition that wrote Foxes and Fire-brands urging that there was a certain Jesuit that had lurked and taught among the Quakers for Twenty Years together but as often as I have put this thing to the Quakers they have answered That there could be nothing upon this Head found more falsly or more foolishly and that they could never find any thing that was like it or smelled of it but yet it is strange how much Envy and Hatred this Opinion contracted to these Men who followed this Sect and Constitution and certainly there is no Year so Memorable and Note-worthy for the Persecution of these Men than this of Sixty Four for seeing that neither those who were in Prison that they might be set free nor those at Liberty that they might prevent their Imprisonment could be brought of that Mind as to be willing to Swear and that those who were free would by no means cease to hold their Assemblies and that in greater Numbers than the Law allowed and that many times they went so far that they left their homes and went out of the Bounds of the Kingdom They were indeed in some places very severely handled and in other places over and above their hard Treatment seeing that all places were filled with Prisoners they ordered them into Banishment and drove them as the noisom and horrible Pest of the Kingdom into the uttermost Parts of the Earth The City of London had none of the least share in this Persecution where besides the Oppressions and daily Violences offered by the meaner sort and scum of the People as well as by the Soldiery who strenuously rejoyced in such doings and as having no regard of their own so did more lightly set by other Mens Lives and who every where waited for them in their Meetings and did ever and anon by the Magistrate's Command hale away many of them yea sometimes an Hundred together and drive them before them like a Flock of Sheep and throw them into Prisons but not into those that were next at hand and more at large wherein however they might have been safe enough
a Courage and Fortitude of mind and opinion of their own Constitutions Government Unanimity and good Agreement that they ventured to invite all the Barbarous Americans and indeed all Men in whom there was the least spark of Religion Moral Honesty or Quietness of Temper to come and live among them promising them upon their good behaviour the like Advantages themselves enjoy'd and the free exercise of their own Religion Which the better to understand it will be worth while to set down their Decree Which runs thus We give a General general liberty of Conscience to all who acknowledge one God omnipotent the Creator Preserver and Governour of the World and hold themselves oblig'd in Conscience to live quietly and justly under Government To that degree that none shall have any thing to do as to Religious matters and opinions at any time to compell or force another to any sort of Religious Worship to which he is averse or to Contribute any thing towards the Maintenance of Preachers or to places set apart for Religious Worship And that every one shall have the full use of his Christian liberty without sustaining any detriment for the same And if any one abuse another or mock him for being of a different perswasion from him in religious matters he shall be accounted a Disturber of the publick peace and punished accordingly Now tho I have hitherto onely recited this Writing and all those things I have yet treated on without pretending to interpret or give the mind or sense of these people in them yet here I can't forbear taking notice that they call this liberty Christian when as they extend it to all Men who onely acknowledge one God Now if these Men will agree with themselves they must necessarily take all those for Christians in whom there appears any Principle or Religion or Piety as being what they say is from Christ yea is Christ But as the Inhabitants of this Countrey were for the most part Quakers so because of the Conveniency of the Countrey and this liberty of Religion confirm'd by the Edict aforesaid More Quakers at several times came thither from Divers other parts of America And not onely those of this perswasion but also others of other Principles and Opinions in Religion and several of none or slender fortunes came and fix't themselves in those remote parts of the World hoping for a blessing from Heaven and a bettering of their Condition For seldom those that have any Estate or hopes of one in their own Countrey travel into strange and unknown Countreys leaving all their Friends and Acquaintance behind them Moreover W. Penn the Lord and Governour of the Countrey a little before the breaking out of the Mortal War which still rages between the French of th' one side and the English and their Confederates of the higher and lower Germany on th' other incited thither several people both English and our Countrey folks and some of the Palatinate of the Rhene who having nothing of their own to loose at home and hearing of the plenty of all things in America were got into several parts thereabouts and having entertain'd a good opinion of him many of them were drawn thither in hopes of getting a good livelyhood by their handy works And so all these people addicted themselves to Agriculture and preparing and enlarging that part of the Countrey which was before uninhabited and uncultivated and withal of their own proper concerns And all things succeeded well and happily to them they being indefatigably Diligent and Industrious So the whole Countrey became well manured and Laws were made for the better distribution of the Lands Alloting to every one their particular part And these strangers had an equal priviledge of exercising what Religion they would and living according to their own fashion with those of their own Company And moreover they were made capable of all honours and beâ—â—ing any office or dignity in the Magistracy either in City or Countrey Altho this was the Prerogative of the Quakers not that they had Arrogated it to themselves by any Law but by reason of the Multitude of them and their all agreeing together and being Ambitious to possess the first and best places in the Government Whence it came to pass that there were some of whom there 's no great question to be made but that onely for profit and advantage sake dissembling their own opinions they went out to the Quakers and tack'd about as the wind turn'd Now as we see that for the most part fortune follows the diligent the Ingenious and Industrious So the greatest part almost of these people being religious Men and Men of Integrity but unexpert and not well verst in the Affairs of the World the rest not onely ignorant and unexperienc'd in affairs but also wild and licentious in Discourse and Conversation And amongst the rest of them were some of the Quakers In process of time these grave and serious Men hanging of a knot together diligently aiming at what they had always seem'd to despise and affected to get into all the Courts and Offices of Judicature and mightily to busy themselves about those Employs And when they were chosen Magistrates and Judges they behav'd them-excellently in the said Offices and oftentimes carried themselves roughly and proudly to their Clients and Suitours and in their sentences and decisions of suits and punishing of Malefactours they fitted themselves with such a kind of Juridical Actions as always bred disgust and when the Case required that any thing was to be Solemnly affirmed or denied they caus'd the Witnesses to swear or at least use such a kind of assertion as little differs from an Oath as I speak and promise it in the presence of God or as true as God's in Heaven or which at least was no less than an Oath amongst God's ancient people the Jews As the Lord liveth Moreover they also who aimed at the Ministerial offices in the Church and Arriv'd at such like Degrees of Honour were chosen and appointed by them or delayed by them who had most influence upon the Senate whose minds they fill'd with a belief that they took a great deal of care of the weal-publick and the Laws and would be very mindful of them in their places of Authority and Accommodate themselves in the Offices of Justice according to former customs and presidents But besides these there were agreat many of the Quakers both Men and Women who took upon them the liberty to Preach and Exercised the same without any or any just at least warrant for so doing after that manner intruding themselves without producing any just Testimony either of their Ability or good Conversation And there are some of the Quakers themselves who assert that among these there were some who for their profound ignorance of the very first Principles of Religion were so far unfit to bear the Office of Teachers or Ministers in the Church that they did not deserve so much as to be
his defence insisting that what he had said of Keith he had said with very good reason The difference too between Keith and Fitzwater was brought on the Stage which had been handled in the former Monthly Meeting And they all agree and pass this Peremptory sentence that Stockade by a publick Writing should take the blame upon himself of his offence against Keith and that Fitzwater should do the same for himself for as much as relates to Keith and over and above should give an account of his faith in Writing before this Council and therein satisfy them as to what he held of the Resurrection of Christ and the present State of his humane nature in Heaven and that in the mean while both of them should desist from Praying and Preaching in their Meetings till they had done what was order'd them The determinations of this assembly tho Stockade and Fitzwater at first either expresly or silently submitted to yet now at last sentence being past upon them they flew off and refused to obey it alledging That whereas this was a business Ecclesiastical and was a Controversy wholly amongst the Ministers of the Church and that a very hard and difficult one too which they themselves could scarce comprehend therefore it was onely proper for the Cognizance and Decision of the Ministers of the Church Now that part of those that had undertakon to Judge and Determine these affairs and they a Considerable part too were of those whose office these things don't belong to and whose aptness to enlarge their own Power and Authority was sufficiently well known Wherefore neither was their sentence or determination Valid nor would they obey such an Interdict Therefore Stockade and Fitzwater notwithstanding all this went on in their Ministerial functions and withdrew and seperated themselves from those that were the followers of Keiths Yet Keith and those of his party did not presently take notice and allow of this seperation nor likewise disjoyn themselves utterly from their Society but waited in hopes to see them repent of what they had done and give satisfaction for their Injurious dealings or at least in words to own their faults and so in good time to return into Friendship with them again and wholly unite together in stricter Bonds of Friendship than ever The most part both of City and Country held on Keith's side and from thence were called Keithians As things stood thus this Governour and rest of the Magistrates fearing lest the difference should spead further and be the forerunner of greater disturbances came to a Conclusion that it would be best to put a stop to this Inconvenience as soon and as well as they could Wherefore they considered that it would be best not to rescind the former Judgment but yet to recall those things which were done before under a new Cognizance At their Command therefore there met together at Philadelphia in the year 92 the 20th day of the 4th Month eight and twenty Men of which the greater part were Ministers or Preachers among whom were some who exercised the offices both of Ministers in the Church and Magistrates in the Common-wealth of which one was Sam. Jennings a great Enemy of Keiths and another Arthur Cook no great friend to him To these Men was Committed the care and Administration of this affair to advise as Friends and Arbitrators on both sides and to put a final end to the Difference and Contention that was between Keith and his Adversaries But these Men meeting together not so much to decide these Differences which were now become General as to Condemn Keith and those of his party and absolve those of the other side in their first Session pass this short sentence upon him without hearing him or any thing on his behalf and Seal it in Writing That Keith is a Man that has not the fear of God before his Eyes Than which sentence Keith could not have had a severer pass'd upon him by open Enemies than was done by these his Judges And now according to his Adversaries principal wish the Magistracy forbid keith without any further delay all exercise of his Ministerial function in the Church and if notwithstanding he should continue so to do he should be prosecuted as an adjudged Enemy And now the Enemys of Keith applaud themselves that they have compassed their Ends and obtain'd their revenge on him Wherefore Keith and one Tho. Bud publish a book in English Entituled The Vindication of an Innocent cause against a false Judgment pass'd upon it Wherein they relate the form Continuance and order of the Judgment pass'd against the Keithians and also the deprav'd Morals of some of the Judges that had combin'd together in this Cause and specially of the Ministers of the word Not to cast any Reflection upon the Magistracy nor Sully the Honours of the Ministers of their Church or discover the failings of any order of Men but to shew what it was they ought to beware of least the evil should be dispers'd from the head through all the Members and so the Enemies might take occasion to reflect disgrace upon this Church and Arrogate Glory to themselves Upon a time Keith entred into Discourse with the Governour and makes a long and heavy complaint to him of the Judgment that was past upon him in his absence without being duely cited or the cause heard that of the Judges Divers were prejudic'd against him and he had thereupon suffered Divers Injuries unusual and unheard of amongst just and upright Judges After which the Governour as it were directing his discourse to Keith's Complaints said that if he had sustain'd any Injury in the aforesaid Meeting he should complain of it and seek redress in the general and yearly Council which was shortly to be held at Philadelphia Keith being oppressed with so many adversities and troubles yet not overcome considered that it was best for him to do so and so being egg'd on with a resentment of the Injuries he had receiv'd He writes a sharp appeal to the Council and lays down twelve Articles containing an Exposition of his and his Friends's Doctrine and Belief And that the whole state of the Case after so great and long a Controversy which in a short space of time could not so easily be comprehended in all its parts might the better be apprehended and more commodiously decided by the Synod and they in their great Wisdom and Vigilance might briefly adjudg for the one and against the others as might be convenient and prescribe to each their Duties And because it seem'd dangerous to write out so many Books in Manuscript Keith causes both Books to be Printed to the intent in time to send a Copy to them all that they might from this time weigh and consider the Case and then being prepared be ready to give it a quick dispatch The Title of the Book was An Appeal from twenty eight men to the Spirit of Truth Printed by William Bradford Two Copies of