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doctrine_n	believe_v	faith_n	justification_n	2,510	5	8.9827	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47165	The Pretended Yearly Meeting of the Quakers, their nameless bull of excommunication given forth against George Keith from a party or faction of men that call themselves the Yearly Meeting, which they would have to be received as the general judgment and sentence of the Quakers ; with a brief answer to the same, shewing that for his zealous and consciencious opposing their gross errors, and reproving the evil and wicked practices of them in Pennsylvania, whom they own to be their breathern, particularly their persecution of G. Keith, and some of his friends, that party has excommunicated him.	Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting.	1695 (1695)	Wing K193; ESTC R1084	10,700	12

deeds or gesture wherein I was such I might reject as little worth noticing But I cannot well let pass their exceeding great Partiality in taking no notice of the great Abuses and most unchristian usages I have received from time to time from some of their chief Preachers by most uncivil Interruptions contrary not only to the Gospel-order but to the Law of the Nation whereas none can truly say that ever I interrupted any of them also by their moving themselves to Preach and Pray and moving one another and so closely speaking one after another on purpose to Exclude my Testimony and their most bitter Reflections Revilings Reproaches false Accusations false Prophecies and Curses that divers of them have poured out against me as particularly Charles Marshal W. Penn W. Bingley and J. Vaughton both in Preaching and Prayer and tho G. Whitehead hath carried it a little more smoothly than those others yet his prejudice hath sufficiently vented it self also against me in publick Meetings yea even in Prayer and such profanations of Prayer in the pretended Exercise of their Extemporal Gift assuming a most sinful liberty to vend their sinful passions and animosities against them at whom they are prejudiced as it is abomination in the sight of God so it is most loathsome and offensive to Men of tender Spirits and giveth to many occasion to say a set Form of Prayer is less offensive and more Edifying than such passionate Rapsodies that too many use and yet do call them Praying by the Holy Spirit But whatever pretences these men have against me who have published this Nameless Bull in accusing me of being Contentious causing Divisions Seperations and Breaches among Friends and other bare general but false Charges which require no particular Answer the bottom and foundation of all this and of my being thought so burdensom and troublesome to them in Meetings is because they cannot endure sound Doctrine especially their deep prejudice against my frequent Preaching the great necessity of Faith in Christ Crucified as necessary to Regeneration Justification and eternal Salvation and also the Resurrection of the Dead and Christ's coming without us in his Glorified Body to Judg the Quick and the Dead all which have seemed as new and strange Doctrin to them and some have more directly and some more indirectly opposed it and about the time of the last Yearly Meeting William Edminson at the Bull and Mouth in the hearing of hundreds as well as in my hearing boldly affirmed It was not needful to Preach Christ's Death and Sufferings in Friends Meetings William Penn lately affirmed at Ratcliffe-Meeting where he falsely accused me to be an Apostate That Friends see not cause to Preach that Doctrine much because all England and Christendom have an Historical Belief of Christ's Death and Sufferings and it doth not profit them and as it was the Dispensation of the Apostles to Preach Christ outwardly it is our dispensation to Preach him inwardly W. Bingly hath Preached That People that come to Meetings generally believe well enough in Christ without but they want to have Christ Preached within that they may believe in him within thus making two Faiths And to the same purpose hath Charles Marshall frequently Preached and also several times he hath said in Publick Meetings It is not needful for a Man to stand up and Preach Christ's Death and Sufferings from Morning to Evening seeing it was generally Believed And also several times he Preached in publick Meetings as at Grace-Church-street and at Devonshire-house That the Conscience must first be purified before Faith can be received Which false Doctrine I did several times contradict in publick by showing that by true Faith the Conscience is Purged and they go along together and by the Lively Exercise of Faith the Conscience is gradually Purged and not all at once And John Gratton said about the time of the last Yearly Meeting in the Publick Meeting in Grace-Church-Street To believe that Christ died was the Drunkards Faith and the Whoremongers Faith adding further That none had Benefit by Christ's Death but such as are Dead with Christ And thus generally they Declare their great ignorance of the true Faith of Christ's Death and sufferings Resurrection and Ascension and Intercession making it only an Historical and Literal Faith whereas as there is an Historical and Literal Faith only of it that Drunkards and ill Livers may have as they may have of Christ within Notionally and Historically so there is a living effectual Faith of Christ's Death and Sufferings wrought by the Living Power of God in the Hearts of sincere believers which Power doth in Gods ordinary way accompany the sincere Preaching of the Gospel even outwardly and other outward helps and means of Justification and all men have a Benefit by Christ's Death and Sufferings to wit a day of Visitation and any Light and Grace that is inwardly given to men and the way and manner to come to witness a Dying and Rising with Christ is to believe by the Operation of the Spirit of God that Christ Died for Mens Sins and Rose again and to believe that great Love of God that he spared not his Son but freely gave him for us and also to believe the great Love of Christ who freely gave himself for us by which Faith men come to Witness a being Dead with Christ and also a being Raised with him and seeing this true Faith is wrought in God's ordinary way by Preaching therefore the true Faith of Christ's Death and Sufferings ought to be one of the first and chiefest things that every true Minister ought to Preach and build up his hearers in in order to bring them to Communion with God and Christ in Spirit and that they may witness God and Christ to dwell in them and rule in them Another great cause of their passing this unjust Sentence against me is That I refused to call in the Book Printed since the last Yearly Meeting called The Causeless Ground wherein I expostulate the case not only with respect to their too great connivance of the vile and gross Errors whereof I proved some guilty in Pensilvania owned by them to be their Brethren but also with respect to their Connivance at and covering the evil practises of their Persecuting Brethren there and their most illegal and arbitrary Proceedings against me contrary to the Fundamental Laws of all Nations to the danger of my Life as well as of my Reputation for the more particular account whereof I refer the Reader to the above cited Book called The Causeless Ground and my Printed Answer to their Proclamation and also to the Printed Tryal relating to Th. Budd and me in the Book called New-England's Spirit of Persecution c. And all this they have passed over both in their former Yearly Meeting 1694. and also in this last 1695 without the least censure a sufficient Evidence of their partiality and that a prevailing Faction or Party of corrupt Men ruleth in that called the Yearly Meeting and that therefore what Edict or Judgment goeth forth from that pretended Yearly Meeting ought not to be called the Act or Judgment of the Body of that People it being sufficiently known that many even owned by them as their Brethren here in England and elsewhere have greatly been dissatisfied with the Persecution raised against us by them in Pensilvania and have declared against it as well as their other Proceedings And had all there present at the Yearly Meeting so called been unanimous in their unjust Sentence against me and ten times more a greater Number with them yea suppose they can get this their unjust Sentence against me confirmed by all their Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in England which yet I think it will be a very hard if not impossible thing for them to obtain yet this doth not prove that they are not a Faction or Party seeing it is sufficiently known that for many Years past there hath been a Breach amongst the People called Quakers in relation to the Church Government of Women and other Circumstantial Things imposed by a Party among them Now of them of the other side that oppose some humane Impositions called by some of the Imposers but civil things as many do well own and approve me in my publick Testimony against the vile Erors held by some of the contrary part so I know not any that disown me or that approve of this Sentence that this Party that call themselves indefinitely the Yearly Meeting have given against me and yet there is a considerable number and body of them And lastly Whereas they seem to blame me for my departing out of their Yearly Meeting before the further sense and Judgment of the Meeting could be given me which they say I did in a very angry manner But they should have said divers of them particularly George VVhitehead and VVill. Penn did in a most angry manner most unjustly and falsly accuse me and behave themselves most unchristianly towards me as will appear by the Printed Narrative I have made publick and I know no undue or unsavory Expression which they only Charge me with in general I uttered among them the greatest passion I was in was that of Grief to see their most unjust and inhuman proceedings and I remember not in the least that the Meeting or any in the Meeting desired me to stay after I rose up to go and therefore I see not why I should be blamed for going having no occasion to stay longer with them nor any expectation they would hear my just Complaint or give me any Tryal but as it hath come to pass as I expected they would have condemned me without any Tryal fair or unfair The 28th day of the 3d. Month 1695. G. Keith FINIS