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A46344 The Judgment given forth by twenty-eight Quakers against George Keith and his Friends with answers to the said judgment declaring those twenty-eight Quakers to be no Christians : as also An appeal (for which several were imprisoned &c.) by the said George Keith &c. to the early meeting Sept. 1692, with a full account of the said yearly meeting signed by seventy Quakers. Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699. A true copy of three judgments. 1694 (1694) Wing J1173; ESTC R28748 20,634 24

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to the Work of the Gospel as degenerating thereby from the Guidance of God's blessed and peaceable Spirit in their Hearts from whence proceeds the effectual New Testament Ministry and being turned from the peaceable Fruits thereof are gone to Uncharity and Contention And now all you who have walked in Fellowship and Communion with us and are drawn aside through Inconsideration or otherwise into this Spirit of Separation and Prejudice against our Meetings orderly established and wherein we have been often and mutually refresht together we cannot but in the fear of God and in love to your Souls admonish you also of the Insecurity of your present State and that therein we cannot have Unity with you and unless you return from under that Spirit Dryness and Barrenness from the Lord will be your Reward And so dear Friends we exhort you all to behave your selves in the Spirit of Meekness and peaceable Truth upon all occasions but more especially upon any Discourse or Conference with any of them who are discontented among you or started aside from you and avoid all Heats and Contentions in Matters of Faith and Worship and let not the Salt of the Covenant be wanting in your Words and Actions for thereby the Savour of your Conversation will reach the Witness of God in them The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen Given forth by the Meeting of Publick Friends in Philadelphia the 20th of the 4th Month 1692. Samuel Jenings John Delavall William Yardly Joseph Kerckbridge Walter Faucet Hugh Roberts Robert Owen William Walker John Lynam George Gray John Symcock Griffith Owen John Bown Henry Willis Paul Saunders John Blunston William Cooper Thomas Thackray William Byles Thomas Loyd John Willsford Nicholas Walln William Watson George Maris Thomas Ducket Joshua Fearne Evan Morris Richard Walter Here follows Two Answers to the said Judgments To all faithful Friends in Pensilvania East and West-Jarsey and to all every-where else in all parts of the World to whose Hands this may come The Salutation of Love WE in behalf of our selves and many Brethren who are falsly called the Separate Meeting at Philadelphia having taken into our serious and weighty Consideration Three several Papers given forth by them of the opposite side who have opposed us and continue to oppose us in our present Testimony to the Truth of Christ and his blessed Gospel and Doctrine viz. The first given forth by the Monthly Meeting of the opposite side the 20th of the 3d Month 1692 wherein they clear T. Fitzwater of his falsly accusing G. K. for denying the sufficiency of the Light saying expresly in their said Paper That Four credible Witnesses giving their Testimony That they heard G. K. say He did not believe the Light was sufficient without somewhat else the Meeting saw no reason to give Judgment against T. Fitzwater in this particular the said Thomas condemning the rash Spirit that he spoke these Words in though the Charge in itself was true And G. K. having both at Quarterly and Monthly Meeting preceding sufficiently proved and which was confessed by T. Lloyd as the Mouth of these Meetings That by that somewhat else G. K. had frequently declared he did not mean Humane Learning nor the Scriptures nor outward Preaching altho' the Scriptures and outward Preaching are instrumental in God's ordinary way of working together with the inward Operation of the Spirit to Mens Salvation as absolutely necessary but the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us on Earth and what he now doth for us in Heaven and the fulness that dwelleth in him By which it plainly appeareth the said Monthly Meeting hath excluded the Man Christ Jesus our blessed Mediator and Saviour from having any part or concern in our Salvation and therefore we do unanimously and with one Heart judge and condemn their false Judgment in clearing Tho. Fitzwater that hath this tendency not only to condemn G. K. for his sound Christian Doctrine but is a plain denyal of the Man Christ Jesus and the great Merits and Value and Efficacy of his Suffering Death Resurrection and Ascension and his Mediation for us in Heaven All which are somewhat else than the People called Quakers commonly understand by the Light to wit the Light in every Man's Conscience And by this rash and inconsiderate Act of their Monthly Meeting proceeding from great Ignorance Error and Unbelief in them they have sufficiently declared themselves to be no true Believers in the Man Christ Jesus and therefore No Christians and for this cause we cannot own them to be our Christian Brethren nor joyn with them in any Religious Worship until they condemn themselves for the said Act and give us some Evidence of their unfeigned Repentance and sincere Faith by their open Confession and Declaration of the Truth of Christ which now they have denied The Second Paper is given forth by a Meeting of these called Friends of the Ministry signed by Sam. Jenings as Clerk of the said Meeting wherein they give too partial and defective Judgment against William Stockdale not blaming him for any Offence to God or Christ nor convicting him for his Sin of Blasphemy whereof he was guilty in charging G. K. for preaching Two Christs because he preach'd Faith in Christ within and in Christ without us wherein he plainly denied Faith in Christ without us that we judge Blasphemy against the Son of Man Also the said Meeting hath falsly judged and blamed G. K. for calling W. S. an ignorant Heathen for seeing he denied Faith in Christ without us we judge it was his proper Name and he was not worthy to be accounted in the Truth having discovered his so great Ignorance and Unbelief in one of the great Fundamenals of the Christian Faith Also they falsly accuse G. K. for not giving W. S. Gospel Order whereas upon due Examination we find that he had given him sufficient Gospel Order The Third Paper is signed by Samuel Jenings John Simcock Thomas Lloyd and others in Number 28 all pretended Preachers wherein they have passed a most false Judgment against G. K. for his sound Christian Doctrine and Godly Zeal in sharply reproving gross Antichristian Errors that he had detected them guilty of partly by the open Confession of some and partly by the Connivance of others and seeking to cloak and cover and defend the Guilty and the said Three Papers and the Matter contained in them being sufficiently answered in a late Book called The Plea of the Innocent c. which we having read and well considered do approve of and allow to be given forth by our unanimous Consent and Approbation the particular things in matter of Fact therein contained being all known to some of us and the most principal to most of us And we of this Meeting deliver it as our unanimous Judgment that all these who have given Judgment in the said Three Papers above-mentioned have given a false Judgment in them against the Truth