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A54081	John Penington's Complaint against William Rogers relating to the memory of his worthy father Isaac Penington in mis-representing and perverting some of his writings in his book entituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the apostate and innovator &c. : whereunto is subjoined somewhat to manifest his mother Mary Penington's not shunning sufferings for truth &c. occassioned by W.R.'s suggesting the contrary.; Complaint against William Rogers	Penington, John, 1655-1710.; Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709. Christian Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator.	1681 (1681)	Wing P1225; ESTC R28797	10,152	17

immediately laid upon him from the Lord for his Testimony but he was betrayed for the sake of my Estate as was confessed by the person that committed him to a Woman of Condition that lived near Reading who being earnest with him on my Husband's behalf and could not allay him said What will ye get by premuniring him He hath no Estate all being forfeited to the King for his Father's being one of the King's Judges To which he replied I know that but his Wife hath a good Joynture The Gaoler also confessed to me that he had orders a year before to stop him in the Prison when he came thither to visit the Prisoners and to give notice of it which words he said to me upon my charging him with betraying my Husband And I answered to it What to be thus dealt with without an Offence But he was silent to that Nay his very going to Reading was very accidental I being from home and he intending in my absence to visit three several places but was disappointed in them all upon which a Friend that was with him said Go with me to Reading and visit Friends in Prison which he did And when he had visited those of the fore-side of the Prison he crossed the Gaoler's Yard to see the Friends on the other side The Gaoler seeing him asked a Friend what that man's name was who simply told him Isaac Penington Immediately he goes or sends to one called a Justice to acquaint him who sends an Officer and a Servant to fetch him before him and he and another called a Justice tendring him the Oath upon his refusal committed him I coming towards home and being met with this unpleasant account was I confess greatly sadned his going being so accidental only in an innocent freedom and not upon a constraint I weighing that this was a great suffering to his person which threatned ruin also to me and my Children Now chiefly looking upon it as indeed it was a trepan for my Estate I had great freedom in the endeavouring the securing of it and preventing the Devourers of their prey so I did in clearness send to London and had the Arrears and Rents that hereafter should be due for the Estate it self they could detain no longer than my Husband lived made over to a Friend of mine for the use of me and my Children As also I put out of the House some Plate and other Goods as was mine when I was a Widow and made over to a Kinswoman of mine before marriage but what was necessary for a Family was left to a considerable value which things were more immediately my Husband's Goods who was then in Prison And now I have given this true Relation I sum up all thus That what I have here asserted to be done by me was no shift or carnal hiding from spoil in that that was a Testimony but a clear acting to disappoint the Betrayer of the Innocent who was made a Transgressor for to be prey'd upon and in freedom from the Lord to secure him my self and Children from the Treachery and evil Stratagems of his Prosecutor I do in God's fear say to every one that reads or hears these lines That in the tenderest composedst rightest frame of mind that ever I felt since I was never condemned for it nor shewed that I erred in it but rather acquitted and am satisfied in it at present as in reference to its being no hiding from Sufferings For I do believe that if I had appeared to suffer for Truth and at that time had secretly secured my Estate it had been a very evil thing and that which I have hitherto been preserved from who in the midst of many infirmities and weaknesses have this to boast of in the Lord's mercy and strength that I have suffered without guile or covering by secret Contrivances or Provisions for my safety This the all-seeing God knows and to him I commit my Cause and the Causes of those innocent Servants of the Lord aspersed by W. R. in his Book called The Christian Quaker c. Mary Penington POSTSCRIPT NOw upon the whole give me leave to make these remarks 1st My Mother was not the person under prosecution for the Worship of God 2d My Mother did not go to secure her Estate from any prosecution against her upon that account 3dly From my Father's bare going to visit Friends in Prison they who laid in wait for the Estate took an occasion to clap him up thereby to ruin both him my Mother and us their Children in their Estates and Livelyhood and not for any Offence alledged against my Father for the breach of any Law relating to Religious Worship 4thly The Estate thus secured was partly Joynture settled upon my Mother by a former Husband partly Land of Inheritance devolved to her from her Parents so that what was done was in order to save the Right of Possession in my Mothers hands from any illegal seizure of her real and personal Estate which was her sole Property and not legally seizable for my Father's supposed Offence which is no ways parallel to any persons making over their own proper Estate for fear of or to shun suffering for their own particular Testimony in meeting to worship God 5thly His bringing the names of G. F. my Father and Mother thus publickly upon the Stage in Print and yet not producing his Informers but only saying to G. F. If thou deny it I shall bring Testimony under the hand of a credible Friend in Truth c. is an Addition to his other unfair dealings for he ought to let us be Judges of that and not thus both by Manuscript and Print impose upon us and never tell us who this credible Friend is 6th and lastly To which let me add That W. R's so often and so full-mouth'dly giving G. F. the Lie his assigning the reason of G. F's not denying he advised my Mother to secure her Estate to be fear of losing his Interest in my Father and her if he had denyed what they knew to be true and with them in many more as p. 53 54. of par 5. his insinuating that G. F. advised the Rich to secure their Estates thereby rendring him partial his reflecting as if G. F's not giving him the like advice or judging what he did in making over his was that G.F. never was so friendly to him as to take so much care of him and his Family and lastly his scoffing and upbraiding G. F. as if the reason why he was reproved for his skulking were because G. F. had not given him a dispensation so to do see par 5. p. 43 to 47. is notoriously wicked and abominable as if all the godly concerns to keep up Truth 's Testimony in a suffering day were but a juggle in which such as could seek to G. F. for a dispensation as he prophanely flouts were patroniz'd and all others rendred Criminal Well I am satisfied no care for the prosperity of Sion was the ground of this foul suggestion And if Ham was accursed for not covering his Father's nakedness what Anathema Maranatha's must they undergo who under the shew of Truth would raise and foment such false surmizes and slanderous accusations against the faithful Brethren and that even among Vnbelievers which had they been as true as they are impiously false a man that were far less than what he pretends to would never have thus told it in Gath nor published it in Askalon to make the Uncircumcised rejoyce J. P. Let this be dispersed only where W. R 's abusive Book hath gone This very passage answers much of W. R's contest in his Book See also part 2. page 400. of his works

John Penington's COMPLAINT AGAINST William Rogers Relating to the Abuse and Injury done to the memory of his worthy Father Isaac ●●nington in mis-representing and perverting some of his Writings in his Book entituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator c. Whereunto is subjoined Somewhat to manifest his Mother Mary Penington's not shunning Sufferings for Truth c. occasioned by W. R's suggesting the contrary Evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned 2 Tim. 3. 13 14. Nevertheless the Foundation of God stands sure chap 2. v. 19. London Printed for Benjamin Clark Bookseller in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1681. John Penington's Complaint c. THat men that profess Religion yea which is more gross the Truth it self should imploy their Skill Wit and utmost Endeavours to smite and vilifie such as were and are honourable therein and that not through Ignorance but wilfully and designedly is truly sad to consider An instance whereof I shall here give in this my Complaint against William Rogers wherein I wish I could charge him with only rashness and indiscretion and not with premeditated and palpable falshood of which he is notoriously guilty This let not the Reader take upon my bare word only as I doubt from his seeming fairness too many have his but read his Book and observe the drift thereof then he will see whether I had not just cause thus to reflect on him and by comparing my Father's Book with his quotations be able to judge whether it did not behove me to vindicate whom he had thus traduced and lay the load at his own door But that I may not divert him too long from the proof I hasten to make good my Charge William Rogers in part 3. pag. 88. of his Book falsly stiled The Christian Quaker c. saith We think it necessary to cite a Testimony published in Print by Isaac Penington the younger in the year 1660. being part of a Discourse entituled The Authority and Government which Christ excluded out of his Church c. as it lies all together word for word and not taken by parts and pieces here and there Who would have desired fairer dealing than this But here I charge him with a down-right falshood and impious prevarication who with a Judas-kiss I mean a shew of candour and integrity with which he would prepossess and beguile his unwary and credulous Reader labours to betray the Truth and its sincere Professors into the hands of the wicked and ungodly For notwithstanding he so solemnly professes to give the Testimony not by parts and pieces but as it lay altogether and calls it The Testimony of the said Isaac Penington as if it were the whole yet instead of keeping touch herein he hath leapt over some leaves at the beginning explanatory of the rest and left out an intire sentence at the close which he knew would n●● serve his turn but if fairly and impartially set down would have both rendred his work insignificant and detected the falseness of his dealing as it could not but have manifested to every considerate Reader That W. R's deduction was not genuine but forc'd which I cannot believe him unsensible of and therefore with design to have done it For he could not but see that what was there laid down did infer a necessity of Church-Government a thing he would insinuate neither my Father nor Friends in the beginning owned or allowed And to make this good indeed there was no surer way than to let fall what spake to the contrary which course W. R. hath taken and begins his quotation with the latter part of an Answer to a Question which he was so unworthy as well as untrue to his word as never to transcribe nor the first part of the Answer neither These base under-hand dealings are so far from becoming a pretended Friend that they are not like a fair Adversary and so unsuitable to a Christian Quaker that they would be cause of shame to a moral Heathen The Question propounded by my Father was as may be seen part 1. p. 238. of his Works Quest But is there to be no Greatness no Authority among the Disciples of Jesus or in the Church of Christ Is every one to do what he will to be subject to his own Fancies and Imaginations to the Inventions of his own corrupt heart What a confused Building will this be Sure this will not long remain a Zion but soon become a Babylon even an heap of disorder and confusion To which my Father replied as followeth Answ There is to be no such kind of greatness no such kind of Authority yet there is both a Greatness and Authority suitable to the state of Disciples suitable to that kind of Kingdom whereof they are There are Laws there are Governments there are Governours there is Ruling and there is Subjection but all in the Spirit all suitable to that which is to be governed but no government of or according to the Flesh As Christ's Kingdom is not of this world so the government of his Church and People is not according to this world but as that which gathers is his Spirit and that which is gathered is spiritual so that which is governed is the Spirits of his People and they are to be governed by his Spirits and spiritually and not after a fleshly manner Thus Christ himself though he ministred to his Disciples yet he was also their Lord and Master and in the Spirit and Life of the Father ruled over them and thus the Apostles and other Ministers of Christ had likewise in the Spirit the care of the Churches and Authority in the Lord by his Spirit to govern the Spirits of his People not to govern after a fleshly manner by their own wills not to prescribe them in a lordly way either what they should believe or practice but in the Light and in the Power of the Spirit to make their way into every ones Conscience in the sight of God ministring to every one in the Spirit according to their capacity and growth and waiting patiently for God to convey the food and nourishment and to build their Spirits up in the Faith thereby The Spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets Here is the Government here is the Law of rule and subjection in the Life Every one feeling a measure of the Spirit in himself is thereby taught to own and subject to a greater measure of the same Spirit in another He that hath no measure of the Spirit of God he is not of God he is none of Christ's and he that hath received a measure of the Spirit in the same Spirit feels anothers measure and owneth it in its place and service and knoweth its moving and cannot quench it but giveth way to it with joy and delight When the Spirit moves in any