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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77024	Hidden things revealed and brought to light: or, Plain and honest dealing with Will. Lamboll & John Buy, of Reading in the county of Berks, in some material queries proposed to them to be answered, &c. With the rest of those that were instrumental (in too large a degree) of the former or first separation wrought among Friends here in this town, and who are found still as instrumental for the upholding and continuance of the same, by their not returning with other Friends to the ancient publick meeting-house, the doors thereof having been opened ever since the 10th of the 9th month, 1693. which is now about 9 months since, for all Friends to meet together therein, as a peaceable Christian society ought to do, in the true love, fear and worship of almighty God, that so there might be no longer two divided publick meetings held and kept up in this town, both to the great reproach of truth, and stumbling of many of the tender inquiries after it.	Bonifield, Abraham, fl. 1692-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing B3595A; ESTC R170701	15,467	19

to your selves a deal of Comfort and Satisfaction And are you not as it were at your Hearts-ease therein Are you not very loath to be disturbed so as to remove from thence And do you not consult more your own quietness and ease than a publick Good or the promotion of Truth in the general or the exaltation of the pure divine Power and Seed of Life over all c. May it not be feared that you will never be much instrumental in the Minds you are in ever to promote the work of Truth in this place or elsewhere especially as with respect to a Reconciliation one with another to the repairing of Breaches that have and do still continue to widen them so much Query XVIII Whether it may not conduce more both to the Honour of God and of his Truth and likewise tend more to the Reputation of us as a People to be kept in Peace as a Christian Society rather for you and such like minded with you to continue where you are by your selves than to come in such an irreconcilable or prejudiced frame of Spirit as too evidently you manifest your selves still to be found in and so thereby the cause of fresh and new Disturbances and if not of worse Confusion and Distraction than formerly Query XIX Is it not sad we must needs say so That because of your not coming and for your sakes Friends should be deprived of the benefit of the Labours and Testimonies of publick Friends who labour in the universal Love of God for the Good of all And are they not prevented many of them upon your account from coming to the ancient publick Meeting-house where they might as I conceive have a far greater Service among so many that come thither being as I suppose at least three to one of convinced People and others to the small number that meets with you Query XX. For truly Friends to be naked and plain the best adornment of our Christian Profession when I seriously weigh and consider of the many ways means endeavours and contrivances used by you in appearance relating to the opening of the Doors it naturally occasions me to place some Remarks and Observations upon it viz. That notwithstanding the thing desired and seemingly so earnestly sought for viz. the Doors to be opened is now obtained and that both voluntarily and free without either Means I mean as from you or Charge Help or the Use of any of you that you should yet notwithstanding refuse to go in and meet with Friends there and take make use of or injoy what seemingly was the Main and Tenor of all your Pretences Indeed it makes me amused as well as difficult to find out what you did or do really intend design or would be at for was not the opening of the Doors the chief and principal Matter insisted on Now done for the Doors are now opened what you sought is so far obtained what you asked it is so far given and what you expected is so far performed and that yet for all this you appear as far from Satisfaction or Content as you did before In plain as if nothing you demanded or sought to have done were done were at all yours or ought to be taken notice of by you tho' the main or principal of your Demands as cited c. Therefore what can one say or how may I conclude but that every part yea all and the whole of all was but Shows Words and Pretences only but neither Reality nor Truth in any of them all and therefore may conclude and wind up the whole Matter in this my last Query viz. How can it possibly be that such things as these should be well pleasing to God or at all in any wise consistent with the Truth and his Will that is so vastly wide so untrue and altogether inconsistent with it self POSTSCRIPT Friends I Doubt not at all but that I may be both apprehended thought and adjudged of by some to be too plain as well as too particular in the foregoing Queries and Inferences thereupon but as in my Title Page I do affect Plainness c. so I have and who can answer to God for me if I do not obey him more cause to be plain to these Men than happily many do know of But this in short for the removing of all Scruples wherein I can or may from such as are truly conscious in them to such let me therefore further add write and say viz. That both the present Age and Time Circumstances and Occasion requires Plainness And in truth my Eye and the Eyes of all that are truly single and upright to God looketh not so much at the Praise or Approbation of Man or Men a Snare and that a great one too altho' so taking with some in this Age as to or in comparison to Peace and a good Conscience in his sight for this I can and that truly say as in the sight of him too that is the alone discerner and searcher of all Hearts whatever any proud or exalted Persons may imagine of themselves he is only so that the aforesaid hath been both my only end and aim and the occasion of my being thus far concerned at this time with them and to speak as I find it to spring and rise in my Heart so let me say O Friends the time is come yea high time and the full and set time and season after so long silence and forbearance to be plain and speak yea and to Tell Revile and to Preach too and that upon the House top what hath been long hid and kept secret in the dark for as Solomon well saith As there is a time to keep silence but that time is going over so there is a time to speak and that time is come and to bring the secret Work and Works of Darkness to Light tho' as one once said That the very Eye-lids of the Morning are unto such Workers as the shadow of death tho' the Children of the Day rejoice in the Light and in the Day and seek not after darkness or the shadow of Death or the Night to hide and cover themselves and their Deeds under but on the contrary rather desire that as their own so also that all Mens Deeds may be both brought to and be tried by the Light for the Light discovereth all things and is True and is no Lie neither changeth as Men change and in it hath the honest and sincere hearted trusted even unto this day who have not sought themselves nor their own Glory but the Lord before and above all things Else had they and such been overcome confounded and brought to nought long before this day But oh Glory and Honour true and everlasting Praises be given to and returned unto him who is the God of Truth and Lord yea and the only holy one in Sion this day who is alone able and sufficient for these things and a help in the needful time on the behalf of such that are poor reject of Men and of no Might yet found to be the Lords and of a broken Heart and contrite Spirit in his sight whose Groans and Sighs have been heard in his holy Ear and mine and such's Tears is put up into his Bottles I say Praises be to his Name for that he hath been and is the help of true and spiritual Israel in this needful trying and shaking Day wherein Men have forsaken the true fear of the Lord and the proud Boaster hath lifted himself up a time indeed in which may it not be said as J. B. did some Years ago so but rightly explained viz. In which a wrong Spirit hath entred the Camp the Fruits of which is it not spiritual Pride Partiality Imposition and Oppression And is not this the accursed thing found therein and like to Achan's Wedge of Gold and Babilonish Garment which caused Israel to fly before their Enemies as altogether unable to prevail or stand before them The Lord purge it out from among us and that sour evil Leaven of the Pharisees which as Christ our Lord hath said Is Hypocrisy and great and deep Deceit too whatever Men may say or do profess a little of this Leaven in whom it is found we see is too apt to work and infuse it self into the whole Lump So having thus in some degree eased my self and discharged my Conscience for the present relating to these Things I shall commend them to the Consciences of all Friends but more and in particular to the truly judicious and innocent Ones whose Consciences are impartial and truly tender to both God and Man and so do remain as I trust ever shall a Lover of the Truth and of all such that keep their Habitation in the innocency and simplicity of it These Queries with what else is annexed to them are intended for to go among the Professors and Friends of Truth only and no others A. Bonifield FINIS