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lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	jesus_n	17,223	5	6.3565	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46824	The state of the case, briefly but impartially given betwixt the people called Quakers, Pensilvania, &c. in America, who remain in unity, and George Keith, with some few seduced by him into a separation from them as also a just vindication of my self from the reproaches and abuses of those backsliders / by Samuel Jennings.	Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708.	1694 (1694)	Wing J670; ESTC R3996	38,369	87

no man upon the Face of the Earth ●at believeth and professeth it more than himself ●ere he seems to acknowledge the sufficiency ●f the Light as much as those he quarrels ●ith But he endeavours to suggest and ●ould sednce the unwary into a Belief that ●y our Acknowledgment thereof we deny and exclude the Man Christ Jesus and all the Bene●●s and Blessings that accrue to Mankind by him 〈◊〉 this be a Necessary Consequence it will fall as ●ell on him But as I do not believe he ●er intended so though I do not find in ei●er of the places before-cited by rue he ●ards at all against it so if he could have ●ercised the same Charity towards his Abused ●ethren in America he mihgt have spared ●s Charge in that matter against them having been so often and solemnly told by us That we did believe all that 's Recorded in Sacred Writ concerning our Blessed Saviour And not only believe it Historically but also that we through a living Faith in him who is the Author of all true Faith are reconciled to God through him who is the only way to the Father And that we do expect and believe that as we are preferved in the Path of Righteousness we shall also through the Grace and Bounty of God have a part in that purchased Inheritance which our Blessed Lord Jesus hath purchased for his with his precious Blood This and much more to the same Effect hath bee● often told him and it s well if he have no● sinned against Knowledge in this Matter But to strengthen his Charge against us he saith Reason c. p. 9 That W. 〈◊〉 A●tient Preacher meaning William Stockdel did at the same Monthly Meeting viz. t●● 29th of the 11th Month at Philadelphia 〈◊〉 new his former Accusation against him cha●●ing him openly in the Face of the Meeting That he Preached Two Christs because he Prea●●ed Faith in Christ within and in Christ w●● out us c. I confess though I was not 〈◊〉 that Meeting I have great reason to believe that W. Stockdell did not so affirm them because I observe in the Judgment afterward given forth against him by Friends they s●● That W. S. denied the words so spoken But the proceeded against him upon the Evidence 〈◊〉 Two Persons that he said so viz. W. B. and J. M. Now had it been spoken in the Face of the Meeting the Meeting must have heard it and would not have needed the Evidences of the Two Persons aforesaid but might have proceeded and I believe would to have given Judgment against him on their own Knowledge But if ever W. did say That he apprehended he preached Two Christs I cannot easily believe that he assigned that as the Ground of it because he preached Faith in Christ within and without as G. K. labours to insinuate which I have heard him often solemnly to deny But this I have heard him to confess That his speaking so much and so frequently of Christ without and Christ within might give ground to some to suspect he preached Two Christs and that the preaching of a Christ without and a Christ within was to preach Two Christs However the Two Witnesses say it and the Meeting accordingly gives Judgment against it And tho' the Credibility or Incredibility of the Witnesses goes a great way with the Judicous to satisfie them of the Truth of their Evidence or the contrary yet Judgment commonly goes according to Evidence Whence it is that sometimes the Innocent are injured yet the Judges clear of it Now as to these Two Witnesses they were much at the Devotion of G. K. and his creatures to use as he pleased one of them being W. B. the Printer whose Baseness and Treachery to his Benefactors in Pensylvania who at no inconsiderable Cost encouraged 〈◊〉 Press there and how much it was after war●● used to Abuse them is too well known tob●● covered The other viz. Joh. M' Comb 〈◊〉 Countreyman of G. K's though under Obligations strong enough to W. S. to have bound any Man of Common Civility to him for his Kindness to and Care of him in the Tim when he wanted i● yet he must be the Inst●ment of this mischief and strife by a sly unmanly ungrateful way in a Visit to W. S. 〈◊〉 pump him by Questions concerning G. K. An he being more free than discreet in his Coverse with him away he goes to G. K. t● way of a Common Tale-bearer and aggnvates what he had in a sort extorted from W. S. which so incensed G. K. that he quick comes with these his Two Witnesses and liberally bestwos his Anathema Maranatha upon W. S. without more ado telling him 〈◊〉 was an Ignorant Heathen not worthy of any pl●● in the Assembly of Friends Though I har●● heard by divers that knew his coming for● which was early and his Labour and Service in and for the Truth and his Success there in for the gathering many to it that there he was no whit behind to say no more the Person that so Treated him Thus began the Difference betwixt these Two Persons and thus was it heightened And although Friend did never justifie the words which the T●● Witnesses affirmed were spoken by W. S. yet because Judgment against W. was not giver in his way and Time although his own Turbulency was the great Obstruction he therefore sticks not to Vnchristian many whom he sometime owned for his Brethren charging them with denying the Lord that bought them affirming that they owned no other Christ but the Light within excluding the Man Christ Jesus from having any share in the Work of our Salvation And this he would have the World believe is the Ground of the Difference betwixt him and us and all our opposition to him and Testimonies against him is because God hath raised him up Zealously to Witness to those great Truths and fundamental Doctrines of Christianity denied by some rejected by others and meanly esteemed by too many I Consess the pretence is plausible and had it as much of Truth as it hath of Falshood in it he were to be commended and encouraged But what manner of Person must he be if he ●ath falsely Accused the Innocent Which 〈◊〉 affirm on the behalf of my self and believe for all that are in Communion with and generally owned by the People called Quakers he ●ath done and that knowingly too concerning very many that he hath heard often Declare their Faith in the aforesaid particulars ●nd what else is necessary to be believed and owned by true Christians all which he is as much obliged to believe as any body else is 〈◊〉 believe him in the like kind And it 's but a poor Shift for him to say as he hath sometimes done when in America we endeavoured his satisfaction and to remove his Jealousies concerning us in matters of Faith I will not believe you you walk in the Clouds and have mental Reservations and no● withstanding your scriptural Confession

of a Plea Wherein he had like a most disingenious Adversary upon groundless reports laboured to reproach several of them and dispersed the same towards London and other parts some Weeks e're the Persons against whom they were Printed had a sight of the same And yet George Keith would possess his hearers and others by his Pamphlets that he had no Gospel Order from the Meeting when the whole procedure is according to the order of Truth established among Friends And he himself cannot but be Conscious to himself herein that neither Gospel nor Order regulates him in Conference with us nor in his giving forth his Papers against us Signed on the behalf and by Order of our Meeting of Ministring Friends held in Burlington the 6th of the 7th Month. 1692. Sam. Jennings POSTSCRIPT AND After George Keith and his Adherents by his said Plea appealed to God the righteous Judge of all Men and next to all faithful Friends and Brethren here in America and in Old England Scotland and Ireland or elsewhere to Judge between them and us Yet in a short time afterwards they got another Paper Printed which they stiled An Appeal from the 28 Judges to the Spirit of True Judgment in all faithful Friends called Quakers that meet at this Yearly Meeting at Burlington the 7th Month 1692. But instead of giving us any friendly Notice of this Appeal they spread and set the same upon Posts about this Town of Philadelphia and else where Nine days at least before the said Yearly Meeting And when the Meeting time came G. K. and his Company met apart in the Court-house from whence he sent to Friends a Paper in the nature of a Challenge requiring a hearing of his said last mentioned Appeal which Challenge was Introduced by one of his followers who climbing up in our Meeting house Window tho the door was open stood in the said Window with his Hat on and read part of it while our ancient Friend Tho Jauney was at Prayer And the publick Friends from the Mornings Meeting had sent to G. K. by Word and Writing That in Case he had any thing to propose to that Yearly Meeting either as a Friend or Opposer he should have a suitable hearing and Answer provided he would stay till the day appointed for business which was the last day of the Meeting Friends not being willing to invert the good Orde● of Truth in Imploying those days for business which were Established for Worship ● Nevertheless G. K. slighting Friends Proposals calling them Evasions and Jesuitical Tricks did give publick Notice for the People to meet him at our Meeting-house after Meeting was over the next day being the third day of the Week At which time they accordingly met whereupon some Friends were sent by the Ministring Friends to acquaint G. K. and the People then met with him how that Friends were ready and willing to give him the Opportunity of a hearing next day following which was the day appointed for business according to Friends former proposals in that behalf But instead of admitting those so sent to deliver their Message he and divers of his Followers cried out against them saying They had nothing to do there refusing to hear them and insinuating to the Auditory that the said Friends came to disturb their Meeting and so they immediately withdrew to the Court-house And there the said G. K. and the rest concerned in the said Appeal having set up those who made little or no Profession of Truth for their Judges whom they called Impartial Men by reason of their not signing theretofore either with or against the said Appealors though joined with them in Worship at their said separate Meeting and so drew up a sort of Judgment against Friends and signed it that very Night which is also put in Print as from their Yearly Meeting signed by Robert Turner Griffith Jones and others And though the same was compleated according to the Mind and Direction of our Opposer G. K. yet it was so far from allaying his rage and violence against Friends that he still persisted in his abusive Carriage calling Friends in our Religious Meetings Hypocrites Snakes Vipers Blood-thirsty Hounds Impudent Rascals and such like bidding them cut him in Collops fry him and eat him and saying His Back bad long itched to be whipt And at the same Juncture he said That he was like our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ comparing himself to a Dove a Lamb while he thus appeared in a great Transport o● Heat and Passion It would be tedious to trace him in one half o● his Raileries invective Preachings and loathsome Printings against us since this disorderly Yearly Meeting of his and Separation from us his Auditony being generally made up as to the bulk thereof out of the disaffected the Apostates and the more Prophane of all Perswasions among us whom he gratified with telling them of a Preaching Quaker in Mary land who got another Man's Wife with Child which they meaning Friends could not discern by the Light within and with another being carried drunk out of a Tap-house with such unseemly passages for a Man of his Rank and Pretences And tho' we published not a Line in Print to detect him justly of his notorious Falshoods against us hoping th● have somewhat thereby kept this unhappy difference from being made more publick by us as much as in us lay and as long a● we could yet this uneasie and farious Man upon our Return as usually to one Meeting on the First Days during the severity of the Winter at our Meeting-house on th● Front of Delaware He sets on afresh not only to disquiet Friends here but very rudely and openly opposed our publick and serviceable Travailing Friend Tho. Everndon and Richard Hoskins who bearing their Testimonies in the dread of the Lord and in Humility of Spirit among us he called out upon them several times Hypocrites Hypocrites and the former of them tho' two days before he said he had good Unity with him he call'd him then before many Hundreds The greatest Hypocrite that ever stood upon two Legs And while for some Weeks we Assembled together in some of the last Meetings George Keith left Friends Gallery and betook himself to the Stairs near one of the Doors on the opposite side and being soon weary of that Seat as appearing there too much like what he was viz. a Common Opposer his Followers on a sudden set up on a Seventh Day a new Gallery for him over against the Publick Friends which two of the Trustees hearing of went that Evening in a peaceable manner calling to them Robert Turner who was a Trustee also to remove the same being set up there as a Seat of Contention and without the least Consent of the Meeting And upon their going in Robert Turner with more heat than true Zeal and as he said afterwards with a dissatisfaction to Galleries striking only a transient stroke at the new one he fell severely upon