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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

have made enquiry of the Parties so charged and I find my Brethren sound in the Faith concerning all these things and therefore these are Lies and Calumnies cast upon us and I have this word of Comfort farther to deliver to you my Brethren from the Lord That the Judgments of the Lord will overtake them that have printed and published these things to the dishonour of God and his Truth c. Where Note first That he said He came up to enquire whether these things were so or not and yet near three Months before he came here to see whether these things were so or not he and his Companions believed Reports against us in Maryland and signed the said Judgment against us Now pray consider whether T.E. and Companions were the impartial men they pretend to be to enquire and judge of this great Controversie when 1 st before they came here they gave their Judgment against us upon bare Report 2 ly When they came here before they had time to make due enquiry viz in less then 48 hours to say That he found his Brethren sound in the Faith and That these were Lies and Calumnies cast upon them was great rashness First they condemned us and then T. E. said he came some hundreds of miles to enquire whether these things for which they had condemned us were true or not Was ever greater folly acted by men pretending to Reason Conscience and the highest Perfection in Christianity Our souls pity them and heartily desire that they might see their rashness and repent But to demonstrate that T. Everndon had but one ear to hear or at least to give credit to one Party in prejudice to the other pray note these following Observations Observ 1. That at the said Meeting 27th of the 10th Month before T.E. bore his Testimony John Wilsford declared a long time concerning the Faith of Christ saying He had the TRUE Faith of Christ as he died and rose again and ascended and was our Mediator in Heaven before he came among Friends and even from his Childhood he had that True Faith but yet that Faith did not purifie him nor gather him to God but be remained in the dark and his Religion was only an outside Profession c. Observ 2. That T. E. did not only hear J. W. speak this but he also heard G. K. reprove divers things in his Doctrine and prove it to be false and unsound especially that he said He had the true Faith of Christ as he died and rose again and yet that Faith did not profit him c. This said G. K. is unsound Doctrine to call that the true Faith of Christ that doth not purifie nor gather to God nor bring a man out of the dark and to have no more of Religion than an outside Profession this is not the true Faith but a false Faith for the true Faith purifieth the heart and gathers unto God and brings him that hath it to know the kirnel and inward life of Religion If he had said he had not the true Faith of Christ crucified c. but a dead literal and notional Faith of it he might have said true but to say he had the true Faith and yet that it did not purifie him doth prove him to be yet ignorant of the true Faith and that he is yet in the dark There is a true and a false Faith both of Christ without and of Christ within the false is only literal historical and notional and many have no other but a bare literal historical and notional Faith of Christ within as others have of Christ without they say they believe that Christ is in them only because they read it and hear it preached but this Faith is dead and is not true more than a dead Picture of a Man is a true Man but the True Faith of Christ both without and within is a living fruitful Faith wrought in them who have it by the Power and Spirit of Christ accompanying the preaching of it and the Testimony of the holy Scriptures concerning the same Observ. 3. That at the same Meeting T.E. heard John Hutchins grosly pervert that place of Scripture 1 Thess 4.15 We which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the Air c. which most evidently relates to his coming in his glorified Body without us at the great Day of Judgment whereas J.H. applied it wholly to mens being caught up in the Spirit grosly confounding Christ the Son the Heir with the Air which he also heard G. K. to contradict and reprove Obs 4. That the printed Judgment concerning W. Stockdale which is a true Copy of the Original saith That it was prov'd by two witnesses that he the said G.K. preached two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within and without is evidence sufficient of his unsoundness and yet he was all along allow'd to preach and pray in Meetings Observ 5. That by their printed Judgment concerning T. Fitzwater it 's evident that they clear T. F. and condemn G. K. for saying The Light is not sufficient without any thing else to wit the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us on Earth and what he is now doing for us in Heaven and which at the next Monthly meeting Tho. Lloyd as the month of the Meeting acknowledg'd They knew G.K. meant the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us and what he is now a doing for us to be that something else thereby denying the Man Christ Jesus from having any part or share in our Salvation Observ 6. That both on the first day before in the publick Meeting and in the evening before this Meeting G.K. gave T. E. and Companions a faithful account how John Delaval had accused him of being guilty of Heresie and Error in a Fundamental Doctrine for asserting that the Light within is not sufficient without some what else thereby excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us Now after this which T. E. could not but be sensible of for him to say in such a great Auditory That he had made enquiry and found his Brethren sound in the Faith and these things in our printed Books were Lies and Calumnies bewrayeth his great weakness in this as folly and rashness in his signing a Paper of Judgment against us in Maryland upon bare Report And therefore it is manifest that T. Everndon has been very imprudent in the management of this weighty Affair thus to clear the Guilty and condemn the Innocent and that in the Name of the Lord. Oh! the righteous Judge of the whole Earth who knows the secrets of all hearts will judge for these things And in private Conference that Evening aforesaid the principal thing for which T.E. blamed G.K. was for making known to the World the Errors of some called Preachers among the Quakers here saying he had made Friends stink and become the Song of the

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