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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35020	The general history of the Quakers containing the lives, tenents, sufferings, tryals, speeches and letters of the most eminent Quakers, both men and women : from the first rise of that sect down to this present time / being written originally in Latin by Gerard Croese ; to which is added a letter writ by George Keith ...	Croese, Gerardus, 1642-1710.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing C6965; ESTC R31312	344,579	528

on the other hand pay'd the greatest respect and reverence to them imaginable who was thus become the disgrace of his family for ever and the reproach of all his kindred and express'd his violent and severe resentment both in words and deeds and when after all he saw it impossible to reclaim him he discharg'd him his house threatning to disinherit him Unto this his fathers anger were added the reproaches revilings and enmity of his fathers Domesticks and his ancient Companions both at Court and else where with whom he was Educated and had Convers'd much before and also of the Ecclesiasticks who formerly render'd him all manner of Love and Friendship Unto all which disadvantages Penn oppos'd this one remedy the integrity of his Life as opposite to the ill reports that were scattered abroad of him and the constancy of his mind and body to counterballance that weight of afflictions that surrounded him And by these two properties he brought his affairs to that pass that his father not only receiv'd him into favour again and became as fond of and kind to him as ever he had been disgusted at him comforting and refreshing his afflicted and humbled Son but also in his Will left him heir of all his Riches and Enjoyments encouraging and commending his singular piety and fortitude of mind exhorting him to persist in the same Moreover when the father observ'd what heaps of envy and hatred his Son had drawn upon himself what evils were yet impending upon him and what difficulties he might come to grapple with he when lying upon a bed of sickness and looking for certain death sent to the Duke of York High Admiral who as Penn was by place next to him was in dignity next to the King himself and if he surviv'd his brother would undoubtedly succeed him since destitute of a lawful off-spring he sends I say some of his Friends to this Duke to desire of him in his Name that he would recommend his Son to his brother the King and that he himself would preserve and defend him who had already suffer'd so much from what persecutions and oppressions might attend him and unto which both he and all the train of his Associates were so subject to Which both the Duke and his Royal Brother the King granted him because of his great merits towards his Country tho they could not so defend his Son always as to prevent his Imprisonment at sometimes But it is not here to be omitted that Penn the father lying upon his Death-bed and when drawing near to his last exit which he certainly knew to approach took leave of his Son in these his last words My Son remember to serve God the Omnipotent King so constantly and to prefer the same to the service of Earthly Kings and all things besides Which if ye do and if you and your Friends persevere in your simple and innocent way of preaching and living verily ye shall make an end of all the preachers to the end of the World Which words of the dying old Man do not obscurely insinuate what his opinion was of these Men and how great affection he had for their sect Now as to what was the Wit and Spirit of William Penn the son from his youth what promptness and dexterity of discoursing attended the acuteness of his wit what knowledge of Tongues such as are usual among the Learned and of things what Temper and Conversation of life he was of I had rather the Quakers or any body else should give you an account than I. For I know well how difficult and troublesome it is for any Man to interpose his Judgment of a matter in which the Judgments of other Men are so various But certainly tho my pen were silent of him his own Writings will speak him forth to be the most eminent member of all that Society for while in his Writings he studies to Accommodate all to the capacity and understanding of the Vulgar yet the variety and abundance of things therein contain'd his language and style especially the gravity of words and sentences which when he writes of Theological subjects are connected and intermix'd with whole chains of quotations from the Holy Scriptures do so evidently testify of him that unless one be malitiously envious of the vertue and praise of another he must acknowledge that he is an eloquent and well spoken Author The Quakers fed themselves with so great hopes of him that presently they allow'd him to do the part of a teacher among them and their esteem of him was so great that they did not doubt to call him the perfectest of them all Nor is there any among them who do's not acknowledge that there was always an exact consension and agreement betwixt him and all the rest of the Quakers about all the Articles of their Religion This was singular in him that he always esteem'd more slightly of these things which pertain to the knowledge and speculation of sacred and divine matters and chiefly oppos'd himself to the forcing and constraining Mens Consciences to any Religion or persecuting them upon a religious account than which indeed there can be no greater cruelty and oppression us'd pleading for a toleration and liberty to all Religions so that he would not only have the Quakers tolerated the exercise of their Religion but likewise all Men at least that are accounted Christians to be admitted to places of Authority and trust in the Government not excepting the Socinians with their wanton little tricks nay nor the Papists a people so inveterate against that his Religion and all other Religions different from their own so bloody cruel and thirsty of Christian blood that when they have exerted their utmost and cruellest efforts are yet never satiated And Penn was so sensible of the ill demerits of these Men and so well acquainted with their temper that he us'd to say That the Quakers had reason to fear none so much as the Socinians and Papists who would be last of all in the field against them tho they had vanquish'd all other Religions It seems Penn had a design to shew himself an Abettor of all Religions whatsoever or to encourage that opinion of him which then possess'd every Mans mind that he was deceitful and in his heart a Socinian or as others believ'd that he was a Papist and not only so but a Jesuit The Quakers did not agree with Penn about these Libertine Principles His notions of the Christian faith was that in order to the maintaining of that there was no more necessary than in general to believe the Scriptures and love them as the word of God and believe all the fundamental Articles contain'd in the same By these fundamental Articles a term much in use among Divines he understood such propositions as are expresly and in explicite terms deliver'd in the Scriptures or so evidently attested by them that all Men who are honest and sincere-minded cannot but discern and comprehend the meaning of