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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47165	The Pretended Yearly Meeting of the Quakers, their nameless bull of excommunication given forth against George Keith from a party or faction of men that call themselves the Yearly Meeting, which they would have to be received as the general judgment and sentence of the Quakers ; with a brief answer to the same, shewing that for his zealous and consciencious opposing their gross errors, and reproving the evil and wicked practices of them in Pennsylvania, whom they own to be their breathern, particularly their persecution of G. Keith, and some of his friends, that party has excommunicated him.	Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting.	1695 (1695)	Wing K193; ESTC R1084	10,700	12

THE Pretended Yearly Meeting OF THE QUAKERS THEIR Nameless Bull OF EXCOMMUNICATION Given forth against George Keith From a Party or Faction of Men that call themselves the Yearly Meeting which they would have to be received as the general Judgment and Sentence of the Quakers With a brief Answer to the same shewing that for his Zealous and Consciencious opposing their gross Errors and reproving the evil and wicked Practises of them in Pensilvania whom they own to be their Brethren particularly their Persecution of G. Keith and some of his Friends that party has Excommunicated him Printed for R. Levis 1695. At the Yearly Meeting in London the 17. of the 3d. Month. 1695. THis Meeting taking notice of the Iudgment and Advice of the last Yearly Meeting concerning George Keith and inquiring whether he had Answered the Sense and Advice which in the Name of the Lord that Meeting then delivered to him doth find that he hath not only not followed the Christian Advice and Iudgment of that Meeting but hath Rejected it and Printed against it denying it to be the Iudgment or Sense of the Yearly Meeting and affirming that Meeting that gave it forth not to be the Yearly Meeting but a party or Faction And also That he hath since the last Yearly Meeting been very troublesome and burthensome to Friends in publick-Meetings in and about this City as was Testified in his presence by many faithful Friends who were Eye and Ear Witnesses thereof And in this Meeting the said Geo. Keith did openly Read a Paper of his containing Reflections Accusations and Exceptions against divers Friends that are members of this Meeting in which Paper he Iustifleth himself in those things for which the last Yearly Meeting Reproved and Censured him and in what he hath Printed since And being afterwards desired to come into the Meeting again and acquainted with the great dissatisfaction which the Meeting had concerning him with respect to what he had printed spoken and done against Truth and Friends he brake forth into great disorder and very unseemly behaviour uttering many bitter and unsavory Expressions and in a very angry manner rose up and departed before the further Sense and Iudgment of the Meeting could be given him All which this Meeting taking into their weighty Consideration and being fully satisfied both by his Printed Books and other outward Evidences with respect to matters of Fact and by that Divine Sense which in the openings of the Heavenly Life ran as a mighty stream through the meeting and was confirmed and sealed by many living Testimenies born in the Name of the Lord and in the powerful demonstration of the Holy Spirit That the said Geo. Keith of late hath been and yet is acted by an unchristian Spirit which hath moved and led him to stir up contention and strife in the Church of Christ and to cause Divisions Seperations and Breaches amongst them that profess the Truth and that the tendency of divers of his late writings and actings hath been to Expose the Truth and the Friends thereof to the Reproach of the World did unanimously agree and declare it to be the Sense and Iudgment of this meeting And it is the sense and judgment of this Meeting That the said George Keith is gone from the blessed Vnity of the peaceable Spirit of our Lord Iesus Christ and hath thereby seperated himseif from the Holy Fellowship of the Church of Christ and that whilst he is in an unreconciled and uncharitable state he ought not to preach or pray in any Friends Meetings nor he Owned or Received as one of Vs until by a publick and hearty Acknowledgment of the great Offence he hath given and hurt he hath done and Condemnation of himself therefore he give Proof of his unfeigned Repentance and do his endeavour to remove and take off the Reproach he hath brought upon Truth and Friends which in the love of God we heartily desire for his Souls sake Signed by appointment of the Yearly Meeting and in behalf thereof as their Act which is to my own certain knowledge Benjamin Bealing A brief Answer to the foregoing Nameless BVLL of Excommunication A Paper bearing this Title At the Yearly Meeting in London the 17th of the 3d Month 1695. And having at the end of it these following words Signed by the appointment of the Yearly Meeting and in behalf thereof as their Act which is to my certain knowledg Benjamin Bealing came to my House and was delivered to some in my Family the 17th of this Instant 1695 the which Paper mentioneth no sort of People nor what sort of yearly meeting it came from and tho it is signed by one Benj. Bealing who saith he signed it by the apoointment of the Yearly Meeting yet he telleth not what Yearly Meeting did so appoint him and whereas he saith to his own certain Knowledge is that enough How doth he make it appear to others that it is to his own certain knowledg Is it either Christian or Human or agreeable to any civil Constitution or Religious Society to give forth a defamatory Paper in the Name of a People and not tell who or what that People is And tho I do not in the least pretend ignorance so as not to know some particular persons who have had a main hand in it and whose work principally it is yet it appeareth not whom they mean by what they call the Yearly Meeting if granted it comes from that called the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers as whether they mean only such a select number consisting of two persons sent up to London from every County in England and Wales or from every Quarterly Meeting in the several Counties together with them they call Publick Friends or Friends of the Ministry who assume a Power to make Laws and give forth Edicts or Decrees to bind and oblige the Consciences of all these many thousands in the three Nations and other places of the World that go under the outward profession and denomination of Quakers and profess to be one Body of People with them And that this select number of Ministers and chosen members from the several Counties who in great part are Ministers and Pe●●●●ners paid by the respective Counties for that Service and oft designedly chosen to bring to effect something contrived beforehand by a particular Cabal of some particular persons excluding generally others of the same Profession whom they own to be in Unity with them from being members in the said Yearly Meeting or from being priviledged to meddle in Church Affairs with them If this is meant by the Yearly Meeting that hath sent this Paper to me I disown all such constitution of a Yearly Meeting as not only not being warranted by Scripture but contradictory thereunto and also to the received and approved Doctrine in R. B. his Book called the Anarchy c. highly approved by the Principal Teachers and Leaders among the People called Quakers and hath been twice Printed by