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A49978
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The innocent vindicated from the falshoods & slanders of certain certificates sent from America on behalf of Samuell Jenings, and made publick by J.P. in Old England by Daniel Leeds.
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Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.
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1695
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Wing L913; ESTC R24427
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their mistake nay a sly insinuation to make the VVorld believe that J. S. took a course at Law S. J. for calling him Ill Names VVe grant there was a VVarrant written but 't was about their difference concerning the Road to Burlington when they were stopt and there had like to have bâ—â—â— Mischief done and I heard the VVarrant was never executed but this was for Actions and Threats as being Vnhorsed and the like and it was not J. Skeen but his VVife that complained being filled with fear of Mischief S. Jenings having ordered his Son and Servants to stop any of J. Skeens family coming that way and that he himself would Unhorse them if he met him viz. J. S and had endeavoured it with Forks c. and broke the Bottles of Rum that J. S 's Son was carrying to the Reapers 't is to be noted also That some of that Meeting were greatly dissatisfied with S. Jenings behaviour in that affair and resolved to bring it up in the Meeting before S. J. removed to Philadelphia but when the time came his greatness was such as they had not courage to do it But to say their differences were quickly ended is but daubing for I know that at the next Monthly Meeting after J. S 's Death some of S. J 's Friends were for putting the matter on against the Widdow and I well remember one in the Meeting answered Let the Widdow alone poor Womâ—n she hath Exercise enough for the loss of her Husband and so that matter was no more meddled with And if they mean it was quickly ended because it could be continued no longer by reason of J. S's Death I suppose they are in the right And whereas they tell of Henry Beck and and J. Smith two of the Evidences getting young VVomen with Child they ought also to have been just to these men and let the world know that the Young VVomen were their espoused VVives that they got with Child They still are wanting in that excellent Virtue which they say S. Jenings hath To be just to all men for they have not been just to these two but do as much as in them lies to defame well-meaning men and render them Odious what though they were overtaken with that Infirmity in their Youth must they therefore be rendered to the World in print as unfit for Evidences when neither the Law of God nor Man does now condemn them Surely if Sam. Jenings be just to all men as they say needs no such Rubbish to defend him Again they say of J. Bainbridge That he has been a Drunkard Fighter Quarreller Rude and Wicked I say I know not but the Man has been so and if he be mended now does that offend them pray which of us have not been wicked in one respect or other but it seems their buness is not encourage men in turning from evil but to render them Odious for the evil they have done O! what a woful case are we in if God should deal so by us Now Jo. Bainbridge denys that ever he called his Mother Jezabel as they affirm and says They cannot prove it they have belyed him in that and that his Mother leâ—â— the Country and went to England for such behaviour in him is utterly false Then as what is said of James Silver in the Certificate they declare that he said it was extorted from him meaning his Evidence in the Book of the Tryals never thinking it should bâ— put in print These last words never thinking it should be put in print he owns he said but says the other is false he never said it was extorted from him for he says That when they asked him concerning the Truth of what he declared his answer was Ay it is all true and a great deal more but he did not think when he spoke it that it should have been printed he was sorry for that And that it is true that he gave them that answer the best Friend of mine going by the House of T. G. in Burlington heard him speak the same words to those that were interrogating him who told it to me the same day and therefore I am fully perswaded of that being another Falshood also I believe the man knew not the meaning of the word extort And altho' Benj. Moore calls it a great Lye in that Ja. Silver says his Master Jenings took him by the Throat yet to my knowledge Benjamin himself has formerly declared such like words as that his Master griped him by the Collâ—r and other Complaints he has made which I have met with at Neighbours Houses But one thing I observed which in the defence of Ja. Silver I shall relate viz. That on a time when S. Jenings was going to England the said B. M. came to his House to make up some Accounts with him or the like and I saw S J. give his old Servant Benjamin a very good Leather Garment or two and 't is observable that B. Moore never after that hath been heard to give his Master a hard word for which I do not blame him but truly when men say and unsay and so make mischief among their Neighbours I judge them to blame for that for I take it to be an argument of being void of Conscience Lastly I find among the Certificates That Benj. More jun. charges Joh. Silver and J. Smith of stealing Oats Powder Shot Wool Eggs and the like but I leave them to answer for themselves that are defamed by it for I judge it a Defamation if true because 't is divulged many years out of time and tho' it be like the bundles of stuff in the rest of the Certificates yet I should be loath any man should have the like advantage against me as they have against the said B. M. if he dare own it especially unless I had potent partial Friends but 't is enough for me to have such Enemies By this time I hope my old Friends will no more judge others for making up bundles of stuff and raking up Dirt for if they do they certainly condemn themselves as much as ever men did as he that reads impartially must acknowledge And I desire they would take notice of this That I have not used that method against them but what a Defender cannot avoid to take up what failings I could against them 't is not my way I scorn it I know we are all subject to weaknesses of the flesh so that I have not been curious since I had the understanding of a man about Tythe Mint Annis Cummin or the skirts of Religion and therefore have been judged by some a loose Person but 't is the weightier matters of Religion that I have been and am concerned for and chiefly the Faith and Merits of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth so that when I hear him denyed slighted or undervalued then a Zeal arises in me and I cannot be silent I mean that Jesus for whom the holy Apostles and blessed Martyrs suffered they