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A45498	A true account of the proceedings, sence and advice of the people called Quakers at the Yearly Meeting of faithful Friends and bretheren begun in London on the 28th day of the 3d month, 1694, and held by adjournment unto the 11th of the month following, in order to put an end to the divisions and differences among some of the people called Quakers in America : to which is added, an account of the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting at Burlington, relating to the said differences, shewing the dis-harmony of the two said meetings : as also, Some queries to that party of the Yearly Meeting at London, who gave the aforesaid judgment.	Hannay, Robert.; Bealing, Benjamin, d. 1739.; Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting.; Society of Friends. Burlington Yearly Meeting.	1694 (1694)	Wing H656; ESTC R12805	11,418	21

A TRUE ACCOUNT OF The Proceedings Sence and Advice of the People called QUAKERS At the Yearly Meeting of Faithful Friends and Brethren begun in London on the 28 th of the 3 d month 1694. and held by Adjournment unto the 11 th of the month following In order to put an end to the Divisions and Differences among some of the People called Quakers in America To which is added An account of the Proceedings of the Yearly Meeting at Burlington relating to the said Differences shewing the Dis-harmony of the two said Meetings As also Some Queries to that Party of the Yearly Meeting at London who gave the aforesaid Judgment LONDON Printed for R. Levis MDCXCIV TO THE READER Friendly Reader THE following account of the People called Quakers is recommended to thy Impartial Judgment wherein thou mayst find a Party of them of the Yearly Meeting at London are proved guilty of endeavouring to Cloak and cover the Antichristian Errors and persecuting Practices of ther Apostate Brethren in Pensilvania as will further appear by these following Queries given forth by an offended Christian Quaker against the partial proceedings of Six Days Controversy and their False Judgment Prov 17.15 He that Justifieth the Wicked and he that Condemneth the Just even they both are Abomination to the Lord Robert Hannay ERRATA Page 3. line 19. for impatiently read in patiently A TRUE ACCOUNT OF The Proceedings Sence and Advice of the People called QUAKERS At the Yearly Meeting of Faithful Friends and Brethren begun in London on the 28 th of the 3 d month 1694. and held by Adjournment unto the 11 th of the month following In order to put an end to the Divisions and Differences among some of the People called Quakers in America WHereas by Agreement of this Meeting all Epistles directed to this Meeting should be read openly therein and thereupon some Epistles from America being read in course in which the differences between Geo. Keith and others were mentioned and upon Notice thereof given him he came into the Meeting and desired to have a Paper Read and to be heard in his own defence which the Meeting tenderly condescended unto and whereas the said Geo. Keith did before that in the publick Meeting of the Brethren belonging to this yearly Meeting openly and tenderly signify his earnest desire of Union and that he might not be cast off and that the Breach might be made up and that he would rather lay down his Natural Life then it should not be made up with other Expressions of the like Import which did tenderly affect many Brethren and also his open confessions in divers Meetings to the power and presence of God amongst us and with our Ministry And also there being a General sense in this Meeting of a great and tender Compassion as well as condesention in the bowels of Jesus Christ with earnest Breathings and supplications to God both with Regard to Geo. Keith's help and preservation and also with great respect to the peace of the Church of Christ and prosperity of the holy Truth and great work of the Lord God in our day and the honour of his great and glorious Name and our Christian Reputation as a Chosen people gathered by his divine Power and Goodness to shew forth his praise in our Age and Generation and to Remove and prevent Reproaches and Scandals that tend to affect us to our sorrow and Grief as a Christian Society and People that the Mouth of Iniquity may be stopt and our Enemies that seek occasion to blaspheme the holy Truth and reproach us may be confounded by the great power of the Lord our God for his Name and Truths sake which we are deeply concerned and Zealous for And we understand the Christian care and tender endeavours of our Friends and Brethren here in London hath not been wanting since they heard of the Divisions by Friendly and tender Advice in the Love of God in their Epistles in order to stop and Remove this Unhappy difference and to Reprehend these unsound and Erroneous Expressions and shew their dislike to these heats that have been among some of them Exhorting them to Brotherly Love and Christian Tenderness and Warning them against Separation or that Spirit that would lead thereto and expose the same to Reproach This Meeting also taking tender Notice of the Request of our Friends and Brethren of the 6 weeks Meeting in London for this Meeting to be concerned in order to hear and end the said differences which they had in part heard before but had not oppertunity to hear fully It was thereupon in Brotherly Love assented unto by this Meeting that as many Friends and Brethren of the six Weeks Meeting as were formerly deputed by the six Weeks Meeting and all other Members of the same Meeting that should desire it might be present and Assistant with this Meeting for the good ends aforesaid And this Meeting agreed that after all the other publick affairs should be over as many Members of the yearly Meeting as could attend the service together with all publick faithful Friends that are free should Remain and continue the yearly Meeting to hear judge and determine and endeavour to Quiet all the differences between Geo. Keith and others concerned therein Proceedings thus far agreed to by this Meeting in order to a full hearing of Geo. Keith and others concerned in the said differences much of six days were spent impatiently hearing the said differences so far as they were related or made out unto us both by the publick Reading of several Printed Books and Papers from G. K. and his Friends relating to the differences particularly one book intituled A True Copy of Three Judgments c. another intituled The Plea of the Innocent c. another intituled Some Reasons and Causes of the late Separation And also by Epistles Papers and Certificates from many concerned on both sides out of America besides the great Patience of this Meeting towards him in frequently hearing him in his Defence and Complaints Allegations and Arguments as also in divers passages both by G. K. with his Friend Tho. Budd And Sam. Jennings with T. Ducket on the other side were several times patiently heard Face to Face insomuch that G. K. divers times acknowledged the Moderation of the Meeting The foregoing Causes and Reasons How this Meeting came to be concerned in this Weighty Affair together with the manner of Proceedings thus far being sincerely related we proceed likewise to give the true Sence and Christian Advice of this Meeting thereupon Concerning the Printed Books from G. K. and others of his Friends relating to those Differences and Divisions in some parts of America it being proposed to this Meeting That Friends concerned might singly declare their Sence which they had liberty freely to do in the Fear of the Lord whose Power was over the Meeting Thereupon many Weighty Testimonies were given in great Fear and Tenderness of Spirit That the exposing the Differences in Print

Jennings openly affirmed to you in your and our hearing and to erect to your selves a new Rome or Metropolitan Church in London which G. K. openly opposed in your and our hearing saying The Meetings in America or any where else had no more dependance on you here than ye had on them nor had ye any more promise of Infallibility annexed or Intailed to you than any other Meeting of Friends and G. K. blaming the word Dependance W. P. bid retract that word Dependance and call it Relation to which G. K. replyed He did own all Meetings every where related one to another but without any Dependance of one another and did own our giving and receiving Advice to and from one another but the Dependance of all must be upon Christ on whom God hath Promised He will hang all the Glory of his Fathers House and all the Vessels of small and great quantity read Isa 22.24 and another of the Ministers said in his Declaration in one of these yearly Meetings in your and our hearing that this Meeting was the Mother of Churches without having any check given him by any of you but we believe that Jerusalem above is that Mother of Churches and not the yearly Meeting at London nor any where else upon Earth Query V. How could you lay the Separation on us seeing Thomas Lloyd went away twice from the Monthly Meeting and taking a skirt of the Meeting with him and denying the Monthly Meeting to be a Meeting and their Judgment to be a true Judgment tho ye your selves cannot deny it to be a true and seasonable Judgment See a true Copy of it in Reasons and Causes of Separation pag. 10. And seeing it was sufficiently proved that Thomas Lloyd and his party did first Separate from their Brethren by leaving of the Bank Meeting eight Months and that the Publishing of the False Judgment of the 28 and their forcing the Reading of it in Monthly Meetings against the consent of many of the Principal Members of said Meetings did occasion the dividing of the other Meetings Query VI. Why should you refuse to sign your Paper of false Judgment and lay it on your hired Clerk who was mostly absent from these Meetings and therefore extreamly Ignorant of the matter of fact Was it not because you know that it was only a prejudiced party of you that are the Authors of it and not the yearly Meeting for it cannot be thought that all the Members of so solemn Assembly should be so greatly blinded as to consent to the Publishing of such a paper that is so full of Errors and Mistakes Query VII Why have you so readily and heartily received owned and commended your Brethrens Scriptural Confession of Faith seeing it doth not appear they have Condemned their Antichristian Errors and unsound Notions which they should have first done before you had received them into Communion and owned them Sound in the Christian Faith otherwise they may be still guilty of these gross Errors notwithstanding their Confession according to Scripture for the Papists as well as they will confess in Scripture Words but differ in the true Sense of it from sound Christians something of which will appear by the following Query Query VIII Why do you not tell your Brethren in Pensilvania what those Errors are which you reprehend and would have them disown seeing they were read to you in the Meeting out of many of their own Manuscripts and Papers signed by their own hands as namely that of John Dellaval who charged G. K. of being guilty of Heresie in denying a Fundamental Doctrine of the Quakers his Heresie being That the Light within is not sufficient to Salvation without something else G. K. meaning by that something else the Man Christ Jesus c. and John Dellaval defining Heresie by a Popish Definition not saying with all sound Protestants that it is repugnant to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures but to the Church meaning his Brethren Also John Humphrey's saying He is grieved to hear some say they expect to be Justified by that Blood that was shed at Jerusalem and further saying Is not this to divide Christ to use that Term Christ within and Christ without and divers other blasphemous Expressions of his read in your hearing Likewise Jacob Tallnar his charging G. K. with impious Blasphemy and denying the Lord that bought him for his saying in his Catechism That Death both Spiritual and Temporal was the Effect of Adam 's Fall in which said Paper he positively asserteth gross Antinomian Doctrines and Principles as that mens sins are forgiven them when Christ died on the Cross and blaming G. K. for not giving all that belongs to Christ without as others of his Party blame G. K. for not giving all that belongs to Christ within As also the Record of their Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia that clears Thomas Fitzwater of his charging G. K. of saying the Light within is not sufficient to Salvation without something else with divers other Vile Errors and Blasphemies contained in divers other of their Papers signed with their own Hands the Original Copies whereof were read at one of the said Meetings in your hearing Query IX Why are ye so partial to leave out these Material and very Necessary Words of G. K. his Declaration in your hearing after he had said He believed that the Light within being God the Word and the Spirit in every Man is sufficient to reveal to every Man all that is needful to his Eternal Salvation viz. not excluding the Man Christ Jesus his Death Sufferings c. and Intercession c. from being joyntly concerned in our Salvation as also his telling you That the Faith of him as he died for us c. is necessary to our Christianity and Salvation Query X. Why are you so partial so to misconstrue G. K. his Godly Zeal and Earnestness in defence of his Christian Testimony calling it Passionate Behaviour in your Meeting whereas ye take no notice not only of the greatly Passionate Behaviour of divers of you towards him oft interrupting him in his Just Defence and in divers of you speaking to him at once nor of other divers gross Abuses he met with from some of you whom he did prove manifestly had falsly accused him in your hearing Nor of Samuel Jennings attesting the Name of God to a Lye as G. K proved to you in your hearing from a Paper signed by Samuel Jennings his own Hand Do ye indeed speak Righteousness O Congregation Do ye judge uprightly O ye Sons of Men Psal 58.1 2. Robert Hannay From the Yearly Meeting at Burlington the Fourth Fifth Sixth and Seventh Days of the Seventh Month Anno 1692. To our Friends and Brethren in the Truth both in Pensilvania East and West-Jarsey and elsewhere as there may be occasion to be Read in their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as they in the Wisdom of God shall see meet WHEREAS there hath been an Unhappy Difference of late

between our Friends Geo. Keith and the rest concerned with him and our Friends Thomas Lloyd John Simcock Sam. Jennings and others joyned with them which hath tended to the Great Reproach of Truth and Friends and Dishonour of our Holy Profession And whereas there hath been a Paper signed by Thomas Lloyd Samuel Jennings John Simcock and others joyned with them being in Number Twenty eight of those who have opposed George Keith and the Friends joyned with him whereby he is condemned as a Person unfit and unqualified to be a Minister of Christ and as a Person without the fear of God before his eyes c. And whereas the said Paper of Condemnation hath been the occasion of setting up many separate Meetings as well as of other Confusion and Disturbance both privately and publickly in these Parts And whereas the said George Keith and others joyned with him being offended with the said Judgment have appealed to the Spirit of Truth and true Judgment of all faithful Friends at this Yearly Meeting and have requested by a Second Paper sent to the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned with him That they might have a fair Hearing and Tryal before impartial Friends who have not taken part to the signing Papers sent to each other on either side the Second Day of the said Meeting about an hour after the breaking up of the Meeting for Publick Worship and we whose Names are hereunto subscribed being extreamly grieved and troubled under a sence of the Reproaches the Truth has met withal by reason of the said unhappy Difference yet having not concerned our selves actually in the said Difference on either side being met at the said Meeting-House with true Desires to the Lord that he would make us instrumental to put an end to the said Difference and truly make up the said Breach before it grow wider according to the Request of the said George Keith and the rest of the Friends joyned with him in their said Appeal And the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned though again desired by two Messengers from the Meeting to appear and they refusing the Meeting adjourned till an hour after the Publick Meeting the next day and then being assembled and the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned still refusing to come although the said Thomas Lloyd had lately before advised the said George Keith to make Application to the Yearly Meeting in this Case as Divers of us can witness and the said George Keith and the rest concerned laying their Complaint before us and the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned not appearing though again desired several times our Expectations and Desires with respect to that effectual and absolute healing the said Breach is in some measure frustrated Notwithstanding whereof having heard the Papers on both sides read and having weightily and deliberately considered them do give it as our Sence and Judgment That the said George Keith and his Friends concerned in the said Paper of Condemnation are not guilty of the Charges and Censures therein contained and that therefore for the Honour Prosperity and Welfare of Truth and Peace and Quietness of the Churches of Christ in these Parts and elsewhere the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest of the said Twenty eight Persons forthwith Re-call their said Paper of Condemnation and that they condemn the same by a Writing under their Hands directed to all the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings whereunto the said Paper was directed And that they forbear offering to speak by way of publick Testimony in Meetings till they have so done And we do also give it as our Judgment That those Publick Friends who are charged with Misdemeanours and Ill Behaviour in their Lives and Conversations do forbear speaking in Publick Meetings by way of Testimony till they clear themselves and make Satisfaction to their Brethren And that all Publick Friends on both sides forbear all Railing and Reviling one another either publickly or privately which hath only this tendency to dishonour Truth and lay Stumbling-blocks in the Way of the Weak but that in such Case they observe the Primitive Churches Order established by Christ and his Apostles and practised among Friends Signed by Us in behalf of Our Selves and many more Friends who are one with us herein Robert Turner Elias Burling John Reid Charles Reade Thomas Coborne Harmon Vpdengraves Thomas Powel Nathaniel Fitzrandal Joseph Richards Edmund Wells Thomas Kimber John Neall Anthony Woodward Andrew Smith William Hixon John Panceast Henry Burcham Thomas Hearse John Jones Joseph Willcox Thomas Godfrey John Budd Roger Parke Caleb Wheatly Edward White Thomas Gladwin Thomas Rutter Edward Smith Benjamin Morgan Joseph Sharp William Thomas John Bainbridge John Snowden William Black William Snowden Abraham Brown John Hampton Daniel Bacon Joseph Adams Edward Guy Barnard Devonish Samuel Ellis Thomas Cross James Moore Thomas Jenner John Harper Robert Wheeler Nathaniel Walton Robert Roe Peter Boss Thomas Bowles William Budd James Silver Samuel Taylor Griffith Jones William Righton Thomas Kendal Samuel Houghton Emanuel Smith Peter Daite Richard Sery George Willcox William Wells Isaac Jacobs van Bibet Cornelius Scevers William Snead David Sherkis John Carter Henry Paxon Thomas Tindal FINIS