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A47118	An account of the great divisions, amongst the Quakers, in Pensilvania, &c. as appears by their own book, here following, printed 1692, and lately came from thence, intituled, viz. The plea of the innocent, against the false judgment of the guilty : being a vindication of George Keith, and his friends, who are joined with him in this present testimony, from the false judgment, calumnies, false informations and defamations of Samuel Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, an others, joyned with them, being in number twenty eight : directed, by way of epistle, to faithful friends of truth, in Pensilvania, East and West-Jersey, and else-where, as occasion requireth.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing K136; ESTC R14385	22,843	26

pretended Friend of G. K. and who hath greatly owned in words G. K's Doctrine and came to that called our separate Meeting at least one first day as joyning with us and yet now hath joyned with these false Judges against us and yet but a few days before he told G. K. That he believed e're long they would thrust him out from among them for it lay on him to preach among them what that something else was that was necessary to their Salvation besides the Light to wit the Man Christ Jesus without us Let none be offended that we name these mens Names for seeing they have named G. K. in their Paper containing false Judgment and put their Names to it we hope none can justly blame G. K. or us that love him to name their names to things we can prove sufficiently against them besides some of them have complain'd that in our Book Some Causes of Separation we named not Names and therefore seeing it is desired we have named some and it were an easie matter to give such a Character of every one of them that have signed that Paper of false Judgment as may render them unqualified men to give Judgment in such a weighty case not only for the Ignorance of most of them as well as their Prejudice but for the great suspicion that some of them lie under of a scandalous Life as Drunkenness Uncleanness c. and as for W. Yardly and N. Walne as we can prove them both very ignorant men so they are not of a very good Fame among their Neighbors and for that distaste some stay from Meetings as we are informed And one George Gray from Barbadoes almost wholly a stranger to these matters of difference taking all no trust from them except what hath lately happened in some late Meetings hath showed himself too foolish and rash as well as ignorant And the like may be said of H. Willis of Long-Island wholly a stranger to our Differences but what he had by report and who lately before divers Witnesses at the House of W. Bradford openly declar'd himself an Unbeliever as concerning Christs coming without us to judge the quick and the dead which is a great Article of the Christian Faith 4thly As concerning their blaming G. K. for objecting against their Discipline and his preparing a Draught which he presented them G. K. gave no just cause to be offended at this hundreds here-a-way of the more sincere sort of Friends do object as well as G. K. against the too-great laxness of Discipline amongst us and that there is but little inspection into the good Lives and Manners of them that profess Truth among us far less into their Faith so that men may almost believe any thing and yet be owned if they come to Meetings and use plain Language and plain Habit and be not grosly scandalous And as to his Draught that he prepared and presented to the Yearly Meeting 1690. he was very moderate in it and did not press it on them and he is so far from being ashamed of it that he has now sent it to Friends in Old England to consider of 5thly Their blaming G. K. for his earnest desiring that they and we might agree to draw up some Principles and Doctrines of Faith in the most necessary things to qualifie our Church-Members and distinguish Believers from Unbelievers has no just ground but is rather worthy of commendation for hundreds see the necessity of such o thing among us especially here-a-way And for his saying That he knew none given forth by the body of Friends it is true he hath so said and if they know any entire Confession or Declaration of Faith in all necessary things and sufficient to end the present Differences let them produce it we know that particular accounts of Principles and Doctrines have been given forth by divers particular Friends as G. F. G. W. E. B. J. C. and divers others but not by the Body of Friends or any yearly Meeting so far as we know except the Rhode-Island Sheet which they do so much oppose For their offering to give a Confession in Scripture-words when they have given us to know they have a sence contrary to Scripture no more can satisfie us than when Papists Socinians Muggletonians c. say they will give us a Confession of their Faith in Scripture-words They have greatly blamed G. K. for imposing unscriptural words and terms on them and yet when asked what these terms are they never did or can show unless that some of them have said to preach faith in Christ within and without us is unscriptural And what else can it be but gross Unbelief and Pagauism to find fault so much with preaching Faith in Christ without us and his being in Heaven in the same Body that suffered being necessary to our Salvation for tho' the words without us or the same Body be not express Scripture-words yet seeing they are according to the true sence of Scripture who can blame G. K. or any other to preach them viz. That Faith in Christ as he dyed for us and rose again is necessary to our Salvation and that Christ's Body that was crucified and buried rose again and is gone into Heaven Surely none but Infidels and Ranters but no sincere Christians will deny these things and yet all the Imposition they can alledge on G. K. is That he did preach Faith in the Man Christ without them as well as Faith in Christ the Light in them and that Christ hath the true Body of Man in Heaven and in that Body he will come and appear without us to judge the quick and the dead And the 27. 4th Mo. at Frankford Mo. Meeting in discourse without door before many Friends T. Lloyd blamed G. K. for imposing unscriptural words on them G. K. pressed him again and again to show in any one particular but he would not give one instance then G. K. desired him to answer one Question viz. Whether to believe that Christ died for our Sins and rose again was necessary to our Salvation but T. L. waved it saying I will prove out of thy Books thou wast not of this Faith some time ago which G. K. denyed well knowing what is in his own Books And it may be noted that T. Lloyd S. Jenings J. Delavall and S. Richardson came to the said Meeting to countenance the reading of their Paper of false Judgment against G. K. and his Friends having put it into the Hands of W. Preston to read who offering to read it the far greatest part of the Meeting forbad the reading of it declaring That nothing ought to be read in their Meeting without the general Consent of the Meeting but this unruly and disorderly man who hath otherwise showed his Prejudice against G. K. and particularly that when G. K. was declaring at another Meeting W. P. interrupted him and called him Lyar when yet it was proved that he was the Lyar himself at that very

time did presume to read the Paper against the mind of most of the Friends present and T. L. S. J. S. R. J. D. and A. M. were so far from giving any check to this disorderly Proceeding and Imposition upon the true Liberty and Right of the Meeting that they encourag'd it and one of them without the least occasion given did threaten to bind an honest Friend to the Peace S. Jenings calling out for a Constable Thus these who by their Place should be good Examples of Justice and good Order are Transgressors of it 6thly For their proffering to refer the Differences in matter of Doctrine either to the Yearly Meeting here or to the Yearly Meeting at London by their drawing up a Confession and transmitting it to them which they blame G. K. for refusing G. K. saith that he told them he had good cause to refuse referring it to the Yearly Meeting here there being a Faction that prevailed in the last Yearly Meeting to hinder Justice to be done to the Truth but he did not refuse to refer the Difference to Friends in England as having any fear that they would condemn his Doctrine but if he had promised any such Referrence or Submission as was required it would have been called a Breach of his Promise if he had preached any of these Doctrines disputed betwixt them and him and if God had moved him to preach them he should either have disobeyed that Motion or seemed to break his Promise and therefore he refused to come under any such tye especially seeing it could not be expected that an Answer could come from England in less than a years space And by a marvellous Providence of God within a few days after this debate Friends Letters came to us confirming G. K's Doctrine in every particular than in Difference betwixt him and them and since that they cry our Who denies these things when it ●s well known and can well be proved many did deny them And whereas they further say That they would have given a Confession out of a Book of G. K 's concerning the main matter in Controversie is but a deceitful Cover like to others that Book giveth them no strength in the matter of Controversie but if they think it doth they should have mentioned it for nothing is more deceitful than bare Generals However let it be well noticed they grant there is a main matter of Controversie in Doctrine betwixt us but they should have told what that main Matter of Controversie is to wit Faith in Christ without us as he died and rose again being necessary to our Salvation according to Rom. 10. 9 10. but this they dare not openly do fearing the People as the Pharisees feared the Jews of old in the case of John 7thly Whereas they say This Meeting having tenderly and orderly dealt with him for his abusive Language and disorderly Behaviour c. There cannot be a thing more falsly hypocritically and impudently alledg'd for they did not so much as call him before them at that time so far as he can understand altho' one of them lately told G. K. that they sent W. Byles for him but nothing of this was intimated to any of his Family and he being absent from the Town and knowing nothing of their further intention against him did not purposely absent himself it was unchristian and short of Heathen Justice to condemn him and his Friends without hearing them they never yet having had any fair hearing to clear themselves for even Nicodemus could say John 7. 51. Doth our Law judge any man before it hear him And did not our Friends at London blame the Baptists for clearing Tho. Hicks and condemning W. P. and others without a fair hearing of them nor was that enough that they sent for them for they being then absent was a sufficient excuse and so it was to G. K. if they had sent for him nor was he ever brought upon Trial in order to any Conviction before these of the Ministry but that mock-Tryal that they had at Burlington last where A. Cook accused him of being Guilty in two particulars viz. That four or five Years ago he heard him blame Friends of the Ministry at the yearly Meeting at the Center for misquoting the Scripture To which G. K. answered he did not blame them so far as he can remember but caution them not to misquote the Scripture as many can witness which was seasonable and necessary seeing too frequently Scriptures are both misquoted and misinterpreted as particularly not long ago in a publick Meeting A. Cook did expound these words Isa 53. 5. By his stripes we are healed not of Christ's stripes that he suffered without us but of the stripes that he giveth us in our Hearts and when T. Fitzwater prayed in a pub Meeting Lord Jesus who art still crucified without the gates of Jerusalem and at another Meeting told That men crucified Christ without the gate when their minds went from the Light in them and according to this perverse Exposition when the Scripture saith Let us go forth therefore unto him without the Camp Heb. 13. 13. the sence would be Let us go forth from the Light in us which to be sure is very false and absurd Doctrine And further G. K. did expostulate with them against A. C. that he should so many years conceal this and now bring it forth was contrary to Gospel-Order The next thing whereof A. C. accused G. K. was That he heard him revile his Brethren of Pensilvania to Friends of Rhode-Island calling some of them Heathens c. To which G. K. answered that he denied that he reviled any of them but if he had A. C. had no witness to prove it and the Scripture saith Receive not an Accusation against an Elder but before two or three Witnesses A. C. said Friends ye know the Scripture saith the ear tryeth words as the mouth tasteth meat if I speak from a true Spirit ye have a discerning and then what need of Witnesses To which G. K. replied This is a great Abuse for at this rate one might accuse A. C. of Adultery and if he can get but some men pretending to a spirit of Discerning say that he speaks true tho' the thing be false he shall be condemned This is an Invention that A. C. hath hit upon which the Priests that accused Christ had not found out or had they found it out it would not have done for the Law required Witnesses and so doth the Gospel but the prevailing Party in the Meeting was so far from giving check to this most unjust and unchristian way of accusing G. K. without Witnesses that they suffer'd S. J. to assault him with a new Charge which he could not prove And therefore their usage and dealing with G. K. at this said Meeting was most unfair and unjust in that G. K. was the first Complainer and they had delayed doing Justice to Truth in bringing W. Stockdale to