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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54088	Reflections upon George Keith's late advertisement of a meeting to be held by him and his friends, at Turner's-Hall on the eleventh of the fourth month, 1696 to which he saith, William Penn, Thomas Ellwood, George Whitehead, John Penington, and the second days weekly meeting at London, called Quakers, are justly desired to be present, to hear themselves charged, &c.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1231; ESTC R220475	5,732	5

REFLECTIONS upon George Keith's late ADVERTISEMENT of a Meeting to be held by him and his Friends at Turner's-Hall on the Eleventh of the Fourth Month 1696. to which he saith William Penn Thomas Ellwood George Whitehead John Penington and the Second Days Weekly Meeting at London called Quakers are justly desired to be present to hear themselves Charged c. ALthough I might here justly except against the Constitution of the Meeting the Authority and Warrantableness of his peremptory Summons the Reasonableness as well as Seasonableness of the Demand c. yet being willing to pursue Method though I have no good Example before me I shall first take Cognizance of what G. K. Assigns under several Heads as the Basis of his Proposed as well as Imposed Debate If they are not of Weight or Agreeable to the Structure raised a Summary at the close may suffice that I dilate not the Controversy unnecessarily His First Article is That W Penn hath accused him in a publick Meeting at Ratcliff of being an Apostate and Impostor and endeavouring to pluck up the Testimony of Truth by the Roots To which I say Had not his Apostacy been sufficiently proved even by himself in the Scene of his Transactions both Private and Publick since his last coming into England yet inasmuch as those several Apologetical Tract written by Tho. Ellwood Caleb Pusey and my self Entituled A farther Discovery Truth Defended A Modest Account An Apostate Expos'd to two of which viz. those of T. E's he tells us in his Postscript to a late Pamphlet Stiled Gross Error It is probable a due Answer may be given in due time remain as yet unanswered by him the Charge lies upon him and the Proof at his Door not to be supplied by a Verbal Conference in a Corner as the most publick Disputes are in comparison of the Press The Name Impostor I remember not to have heard made part of the Charge till now yet if he will consult his Dictionary as he once did upon the calling of a Friend Impudent Rascal he may find it denotes a Deceiver But the Name I fear more offends him than the Nature yet that and his endeavouring to pluck up the Testimony of Truth by the Roots as they suit with his Actions so have they been in Print proved upon him in the above recited and other Treatises Nor will his pretence in the succeeding lines That W. P. promised to answer him before many Witnesses when G. K. told him he thought to put him to prove his Charge in the Face of the Nation stand him in any stead for that he may yet do when G. K. makes the onset Is he so idle to think a Provocation to meet him at Turners-Hall is a putting him to prove his Charge in the Face of the Nation What he adds as a Charge against W. P. out of his Books I refer till I come to his Third Head wherein the objects the same against G. W. He goes on to a Secondly Whereas Thomas Ellwood hath printed sundry Defamatory Books against me I charge him to be guilty of false Accusations c. Then to a Thirdly against G. W. of which more at on so to a Fourthly against me for printing as he alledges Defamatory Books against him and accusing he should have added proving too for that was also done him to be an Apostate c. and Fifthly against the Second Days Weekly-Meeting at London for approving or countenancing those Books and another signed by Caleb Pusey of which above and then Declares if it happen that few or NONE of us be present at the said Meeting being conscious as he saith of the badness of our Cause his full intention to be present with his Friends at the said time and place to make good the Charge against us to which he allows any moderate and friendly people of other Professions to be present so far as there is room without Crowding And is all this busle I pray to answer or evade our Charge In what time doth he propose to enervate so many Quotations Arguments Deductions Instances c. out of his and others Books to shew the fallacy of the one the inconsistency of the other the Perversions Forgeries false Acusations c. when those very Books of T. E's not to mention the rest which he hath given some faint Expectation he would Answer are above Eighteen Sheets of large Paper close Printed Is this Man in Earnest or doth he think any Judicious Man can take him to be so Or doth not he rather seek to make some Bravado some idle Flourish to slip from his Purgation Indeed the very Title Page be speaks some such thing where he proposeth not a clearing himself but a recriminating others He tells us We are justly desired to be present to hear our selves Charged and proved Guilty of the following things and we shall be freely heard to answer to our several Charges But stay a little all in good time we are upon the Defensive he upon the Offensive part Defending our Friends and Society from his Repeated Impetuous Slanders and Defamations wherewith he had unjustly loaded them and labouring to throw off the Dirt he had endeavoured to fling on even while he would have laid claim to Membership yea Eldership And in the Prosecution hereof when he Calumniates we detect him when he deviates from his former Pretences and Principles we justly expose him and declare him to be a Detracter Apostate c. having first proved it upon him Now if he who is the Aggressor find himself aggrieved how can he expect Relief by falling upon us for so charging him or by evidencing his own Innocency But his Work is a meer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he begins at the wrong end instead of discharging himself which he knows he can never do he re-charges us making it a crime in us to tell him he did amiss though we shew wherein for which we must if we will answer his Challenge be convened before him and his to answer in a Meeting of his own picking to several general Heads the discussing whereof even before Competent Judges as they would branch forth into many particulars so perhaps were the Auditory a more composed settled Company than this is like to be would take up instead of a Day Weeks to debate And when all is done the Controversy hitherto hath been Publick in the Face of the Nation and Nations there it will be in Private in respect of what comes abroad in Print Nor is such an Assembly like to determine the matter without the Press but to renew a fresh occasion to Print yet perhaps with this hoped advantage to the Proposer that running off from that Cause he is already hampered with and uneasie under he may wrangle a fresh upon some Out-skirts of the Controversy and drop the Main one And this I take to be the design His Thirdly which I promised even now to take notice of is levelled against Geo. Whitehead for