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A47159	More divisions amongst the Quakers as appears by the following books of their own writing, viz. I. The Christian faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers. II. The false judgment of a yearly meeting of Quakers in Maryland, condemn'd by George Keith, Thomas Budd, &c. all Quakers : to which is added, A discovery of this mystery of iniquity / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing K182; ESTC R14234	21,479	25

Drunkards But G.K. said he had not made them stink but themselves had done it as when the Sun shines warm on a Dunghil the Dunghil is to be blamed for the stink not the Sun Also G. K. did expostulate with T. E. and his Companions Why they did lay open to the World the Adultry of T. T. once a great Preacher among them whereby the Quakers generally thereaway became a stink and a song of the Drunkards and many on that very account left the Quakers Meetings They replied His wickedness rested on his own head To which G. K. said If carnal Adultery be not to be hid no more is spiritual Adultery as this is to deny the Lord that bought us So that their blaming G. K. for not sending to Friends in other Parts or to London is as idle as if we should send to London to enquire whether Adultery be a sin for which we ought to deny them who are guilty as fit to be separated from and not fit to hold Communion with And why should G. K. and his Friends any more delay their publishing to the World after endeavours used to reclaim them a Testimony against some mens spiritual Adultery here which is their gross Heresie in denying the Faith of Christ without us as he died for our sins c. as necessary to our Salvation any more than they in Maryland delay'd to publish T. T 's carnal Adultery Or why should G. K. and his Friends call for the assistance of Friends in remote Parts or at London to condemn a Heresie that is as manifest a sin as Adultery is and if Friends at London found themselves concern'd to give forth a Testimony in print against one that was said to carry the Bible to the Exchange to burn it ought not G.K. and his Friends to be concerned to give forth a Testimony against them that deny Christ without us not owning him to be concerned in our Salvation but only the Light within us seeing to deny Christ of whom the Bible declareth is more than to deny the Bible that is a declaration of him And one of T. E's Companions viz. Rich. Johns charged G.K. for casting the Errors of particular Persons on the Body of Friends which G. K. denied and proffer'd to show him that he clear'd faithful Friends of it and did not charge these Errors and Heresies upon all here nor elsewhere nor yet upon any others that are not guilty as we believe many are not but only upon a Party or Faction of men that are no true Quakers but degenerated from the true Principles and Practices of the Quakers And in their Paper Richard Johns and the rest give false Judgment in matter of Fact viz. That we have rent and separated from Friends for these who have separated from us and we are separated from them are no true Friends and Brethren because holding Antichristian Doctrines and we have not rent nor are separated from faithful Friends as we have always declared see our first Book call'd Some Causes of the late Separation p. 23. we say We design not any Separation from our faithful Brethren here or any where else in any part of the world for we declare we are one with all our faithful Brethren in all parts of the world both in Spirit Doctrine and Practice of true Christianity we faithfully believe that our Faith in all things doth well agree to all our faithful Brethren every where and is the real sound and upright Faith as is hath been received not only by ancient Christians in all Ages of the World but also by the most sound ancient and present Friends of Truth called in scorn Quakers And in The Plea of the Innocent p. 10. it is expresly declared That G. K. is in unity with Truth and faithful Friends not only in old England but all places where they are The next is a Letter from W. Richardson to G. K. dated the 20th of the tenth Mon. 92. from West-River in Maryland who chargeth G. K. That his Spirit strikes at the Light as not being sufficient and sets people a gazing in the Air and some to question whether they have received the Truth or not saying further What is the meaning of these Noises of Faith in Christ without and Faith within like to what Rich. Johns said to G. K. That it was a needless distinction viz. Christ within and Christ without seeing no true Believer in Christ within dare disown the Work Miracles and holy Doctrine performed in that Body Note Reader the fallacy of his words concerning Christ without which are no more than any Socinian or Pelagian will own but he hath not a word of owning Faith in Christ without us being necessary to our salvation for it is not enough to own the Doctrine Miracles and Works of the Man Christ without us for the Doctrine Miracles and Works of the Prophets and Apostles are to be owned but yet none of them are to be believed in as the Author of our Eternal Salvation but Christ only and it is apparent by his Letter that he agreeth with J. Wilsford and other his ignorant Brethren that only the Faith of Christ within is the true Faith that purifieth the heart and that the Faith of Christ without is historical outward and traditional a made and formed Faith that the Lord never was the Author of and this is that Faith which he blameth G. K. for contending about whereby he showeth his exceeding great Ignorance for G.K. hath preached in the hearing of W. Richardson several times the Faith of Christ both without and within not to be any made or formed Faith of mens making but the inward work gift of God wrought in all who have it by the Spirit and Power of God even that mighty Power that raised Christ from the dead Therefore let who will despise and reject this Faith we are well assur'd we have many faithful Brethren both in America England Scotland Ireland and other parts of the world who are lovers of the crucifi'd Jesus and will bless God in our behalf that he hath rais'd us up to stand witnesses for his holy Truth in the midst of such great contradiction and opposition To conclude it is no small matter of Admiration to us that so many called Quakers in Maryland who have all along pretended That they were not free in Conscience to contribute to the Militia yet now joyn with our Opposers here who have begun to persecute some of us by Fines and Imprisonment for asserting the Quakers Principle against the use of the outward Sword See our Printed Appeal George Keith Thomas Budd A DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity and Hyprocrisie Acting and Ruling in HVGH DERBOROVGH HAving seen a Paper of Hugh Derborough's which was read by Sam. Jenings at their last Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphia and approved by the Meeting and he received and owned as one of their Church-Members I found it convenient to say something in Answer to it he

forth two Christs which is but their great Ignorance and Unbelief and no just Consequence of our Principle for the true Christ of God is One and the true Christians Faith receiveth and imbraceth him whole and undivided and owneth his inward and outward Coming who as he did come without us in a state of Humiliation to suffer and is risen and ascended into Heaven so he will come again without us to Judge the Quick and the Dead and all Mankind shall stand before him the Sheep on his right Hand and the Goats on his left And there shall be a Resurrection of the Body both of the Just and unjust that is not attained already or immediately after Death but it is to be attained unto in the Time appointed of God called The Day of Judgment And seeing our Friends in England have fully answered to all these false Accusations of Thomas Hicks and John Faldo with whom Christian Lodowick hath joyned we refer to their Answers for the further Satisfaction of them who desire to have it And it is falsly charged upon us by Christian Lodowick in his Papers That according to our Principle all honest and conscientious Heathens or Gentiles who have not the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified outwardly and risen again c. and Jews and Mahometans are in Christ as well as we and true Christians Believers c. Nor doth this follow by any just Consequence from our Principles for though we do affirm That all conscientious and honest Gentiles such as Cornelius was before the Faith of Christ was preached to him have some measure of Light from Christ to enlighten them and are under some Administration of the Spirit yet it is but the first Ministration until the knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died for our sins and rose again c. be spiritually received and such who have the true and saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died and rose again without them spiritually receiving it by the Light and Spirit of Christ in them and wrought in them by that mighty Power that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead and which conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues of Love Patience Humility Resignation c. so as to love Enemies are only Christians and Sons of God of the Free-woman having received the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father but who have not this Faith of Christ crucified and raised again outwardly spiritually received and wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ whether they have or have not heard Christ outwardly preached unto them are at best however just and conscientious to the just Principle of God in them not under the second and more peculiar Ministration of God's Spirit that maketh Men worthy to be esteemed Christians but are only under the first and such are held under the Custody or Safeguard of the Law shut up unto the Faith that is afterwards to be revealed as Paul hath declared Gal. 3.23 and the state they are in under this first Ministration is to them as the City of Refuge was to the Man-slayer under the Law and whereof it was a Tipe And this first Ministration of the Law and Light in them that answereth to Moses and the Prophets and to John who are faithful and conscientious under it prepareth them to receive the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified and raised again and fitteth them for the second Ministration of the Spirit that bringeth them to witness the Spirit of Adoption and the Anointing that maketh them true Christians and conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues so as to love Enemies and lay down the Life for Enemies which is more than meer honest conscientious Gentiles who have not the Faith of Christ crucified and raised again can do And whereas the said Christian Lodowick doth further accuse us That what we say we know of the Scriptures we should have known if it had never been writ according to our Principle This is falsly charged upon us as many other things in his Papers for though we believe and say that some things declared in Scripture we should have known if they had not been writ as that there is a God the Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth that requireth us and all men by his Law and Light in us to live soberly and righteously and to fear love and worship him and divers other general things of great use and service to men according to Paul's Doctrine For the invisible things of God even his eternal Power and Godhead are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made so that they are without excuse for what is to be known of God is manifest in them yet the peculiar Doctrines and Mysteries of the Christian Faith as that Christ should be born of a Virgin die for our sins and rise again and that he is both God and Man and many other the like peculiar Mysteries of the Christian Faith we do acknowledge and have always acknowledged That the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures as outwardly preached to us by holy Men or as read by us in the holy Scriptures or having outwardly heard these things have been instrumental by and together with the immediate working of the Spirit of God to beget in us the Knowledge and Faith of them and we desire to bless God for the benefit of the holy Scriptures given us being able to make us wise unto Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus but that we prefer the Spirit to the Letter we are not ashamed to own before all men and that God and Christ and the Spirit whom they testifie of are above the Scriptures and greater than they we do freely acknowledge for all outward Testimonies Means Instruments and Helps such as the holy Scriptures and all outward Preaching and Men and Books are but Servants to God and Christ but God and Christ are Lord and Master and King over all to whom be Glory and Honour forever and ever And as to the final state of all honest and conscientious Gentiles who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them either by the Ministry of Men or the holy Scriptures it sufficeth us to believe that God is not wanting to them and it is one God who is the God both of Christians and Gentiles and who shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith and the Uncircumcision through Faith Rom. 3.30 and it is no greater nor other difficulty to understand how honest and conscientious Gentiles can be saved by Christ Jesus of Nazareth than how Infants and deaf and dumb Persons so born can be saved which our Adversaries generally acknowledge and therefore they can have no advantage against us in that respect Edward Thurstan Henry Bull. Anne Bull. Thomas Cornwall Thomas Roadman George Keith Ebenezer Slocum Joseph Nicholson Daniel Gould Jacob Mott. Walter Clark Rob Hutchins John Easton Note The foregoing Christian Faith of the Quakers in Rhode-Island was so disliked by G. Keith's Adversaries

in Pensilvania that they call'd a Meeting on purpose to pass Judgment against the Publishing of it and William Bradford for printing it c. See The Plea c. p. 21. False Judgments Reprehended AND A Just Reproof to THO. EVERNDON And his Associates and Fellow-Travellers For the false and rash Judgment T. E. gave against G. K. and his Faithful Friends and Brethren at the Publick Meeting at Philadelphia the 27th of the tenth Month 1692. And also for their bringing with them their Paquet of Letters Saul like to Damascus containing the false Judgment of a Faction of of Men calling themselves the Yearly-Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland the fourth of the eighth Month 92. And another false Judgment contained in another Letter from William Richardson All which will return upon their own Heads IT is greatly worth the noticing That these men who call themselves the Yearly Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland met the 4th of the 8th Month 1692. have most rashly and unchristianly contrary to all Gospel-Order condemned G.K. and his Friends as appears by their Paper signed by Thomas Everndon Rich. Johns Richard Harrison John Pitt W. Dixon Ja. Ridley and several others without at all hearing of him or sending any of their Brethren to enquire into the truth of things or true cause and ground of the Separation here and such other things as they lay to his charge And whereas they say in their Letter That he accuseth his Brethren and renders them to the World as a People not fit to hold Communion with and that there are more damnable Heresies and Errors cloaked amongst the Quakers there viz. in Pensilvania than in any Protestant Society in Christendom Answ O the gross partiality and injustice of these men when was it that G.K. published this to the World viz. That they cloaked more damnable Heresies and Errors here than in any Protestant Society in Christendom Was it not in answer to the 28 false Judges that had published in the face of the World their false Judgment against him in which they publish these words and not G. Keith for he spoke them in a private Meeting at a private House in Burlington where about 20 men called Ministers were met and had they been wise they would not have so publickly accused G.K. for them in their said Paper which though they did not print yet caused it to be read at monthly and quarterly Meetings and at other Meetings on First-days and Week-days where many that did not profess to be Quakers were present whereby it was noised all about and G.K. was publickly opposed and interrupted in his Testimony in most places and when he prayed in Meetings many kept on their Hats and all because of this Paper of false Judgment against him by the 28 and it is but a circumstance whether a thing be printed or not seeing they published it all over the Country and sent it to most parts in America where there is of the People called Quakers before G.K. published it in print so they were the Publishers of it and not G.K. And this is sufficient to discover their Partiality and Injustice in this particular which is the principal thing they pretend to have against him Again whereas they blame him for Separating from Friends and Brethren By this it plainly appeareth that they own such to be their Brethren who are guilty of denying and opposing Faith in the Man Christ without us which these here have done And for the Separation which our Opposers first made and were the cause of we are well warranted by the holy Scripture that saith Come out from among them and be ye separate Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers what fellowship hath a Believer with an Infidel and such indeed are all them who have not Faith in the Man Christ without them as in Christ in them as these our Opposers have not who set up the Light within to be sufficient without any thing else as their Judgment against him plainly expresseth so excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us from having any part in our Salvation Again they tell G. K. That if any of them had been guilty of these things he ought to have laboured their Recovery in Love and in the Spirit of Meekness Answ And so he did for above a year with much love and patience and met with great contradiction hatred and reviling Language from them for his pains and he did bear and suffer so long that he could not with peace of Conscience suffer it any longer and brought the matter of Difference orderly from one Meeting to another but there was no Remedy And whereas they say He ought to have stated the Difference and sent it to London He did write to G. Whitehead and Friends at London and had their answer approving his Doctrine before he printed any thing and yet this prevailed nothing But G. K. did not write to them as having any uncertainty or doubt in himself of the truth of the Doctrine asserted by him nor was he free to submit so great a matter of Faith and Conscience by way of absolute submission to any man or number of men as Whether Christ without us was to be believed in as well as Christ within us as necessary to our Salvation for things of that nature are not to be submitted by way of absolute submission to the best of men it contradicteth our ancient Principle viz. That the Spirit in each particular is the Rule of Faith and Doctrine But G. K. did never refuse to appeal or submit to the Spirit of Truth in any of his faithful Friends in old England or any where else but proffered it and was refused not doubting their unity with him in this weighty matter but because it is so unquestionable a Truth among Christians That Christ without is as necessary to be believed in for our Salvation as that God in Heaven is to be believed in therefore he thought it not necessary to concern his faithful Friends to seek their assistance to determine that which all Christendom grants in words and none but the greatest Apostates and Hereticks dare deny Next Let it be observed that after Tho. Everndon and the rest had given forth the said false Judgment in Maryland T. Everndon accompanied with Rich. Johns Rich. Harrison and Humphry Hodges comes to Philadelphia and before they had been here 48 hours out of the Meeting on the 27th day of the tenth Month in a publick Meeting appointed at Philadelphia where was present about 500 People T. Everndon said That having seen certain printed Books that came down to Maryland wherein his Brethren were charged with denying the Man Christ Jesus and Faith in him and the Resurrection of the dead I said said he I would go up and see what the matter is among my Brethren whether these things be so or not that these Books come down among us wherein they are charged with denying these things and now since I am come I