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A47129 The causeless ground of surmises, jealousies and unjust offences removed, in a full clearing of faithful Friends, and a sober vindication of my innocency, and the Friends concerned with me in relation to the late religious differences and breaches among some of the people called Quakers in America. Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1694 (1694) Wing K149; ESTC R1482 14,639 18

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of the Christian Doctrine and Faith who are now in great measure satisfied and on that account their Love and Charity is the more extended towards us which I am well perswaded will by the Blessing of God be made a means to many of them to bring them nearer to us and to open their Hearts to receive our Testimony in what we have from God to declare unto them for their good And many of all sorts that frequent our Meetings of other Professions are well affected with our Testimony to the inward appearance of God and Christ together with the holy Spirit in Mens hearts wh●le they find us warm and Zealous in our Testimony to the other great Doctrine of the Christian Faith held in common with them as particularly that the Faith of Christ as he dyed for our sins and rose again is necessary to our Christianity and Salvation that God doth justify us and pardon our Sins for Christs sake who dyed for us through our Faith in him that is always ●ccompanied with sincere Repentance reformation of Life and new obedien●● that the Man Christ Iesus even the same that dyed for our Sins rose again and is ascended and is in Beeing in the true and perfect Nature of Man having the true Soul and Body of man in Heaven wonderfully Glorified and Exalted our High Priest Mediator and Advocate with the Father by and through whom God doth give the holy Spirit and all Spiritual Blessings and Influences of Grace Peace Life and Light and Wisdom and Power and every new supply and increase of the same to true Believers in him as he is thus glorified and exalted and by and through whom God doth Graciously accept us and our Services Worship and thanksgiving and whole obedience and by this Man Iesus Christ God will raise the Dead and Judge the World at the last Day And that the deceased Saints have not yet generally received the Resurrection of the Body but wait for it at Christs last coming and appearance without us in his glorified Body to Judge the quick and the dead The plain asserting of these and other great Truths of Christianity in my late Books and that with Zeal and fervency of Spirit in the sincerity of my heart in which I have had great Peace and Comfort and still have by the Spirit of God in my heart notwithstanding the rash and uncharitable Censures of some have been and yet will more and more be of great Service not only to many of the same Profession and Denomination with us but to many of other Professions in Christendom for the clearing the Truth and faithful Friends of it and for the removing these Jealousies and Dissatisfactions that many of all other Professions have entertained against us occasioned either by the obscure and unwary Expressions of some of the same Profession with us or by the ignorance and unsoundness of some others which yet ought not to be charged upon the whole nor upon any that are innocent as touching these things But if any should go about to cover cloak or excuse these Errours or any Guilty of them and neglect to pass a due censure upon them after due notice given them they are in so far chargeable with them And therefore that I and others joined with me in our late Printed Testimonies might be clear of the Guilt of these Errours and of such as did hold them we did find our selves weightily concerned to appear in such a publick Testimony to the Honour of God and his dear Son Iesus Christ and the peace of our Consciences and also to the clearing of faithful Friends every where and for the credit of our Profession which was our sincere intention to remove all offences and Stumbling-Blocks out of the way as we have plainly declared in our Printed Treatise called Some Reasons and Causes of the late Separation pag. 24. line 24. where we say to prevent Truth and faithful Friends being defamed by Adversaries we are weightily concerned in this Testimony It was therefore a great surprisal to us and remaineth so to be to find some so to misconstrue our real and sincere intention and so greatly to misunderstand us as to charge it upon us that our late Printed Books have tended to give great occasion of Offence and stumbling to many c. opening the mouths of our Adversaries Professors and others to reproach the Truth and Friends thereof But it is strange to us that our faithful and zealous witnessing for the Truth and against Errour should be construed to be to the reproach of Truth and Friends of it doth one contrary produce naturally another or doth Truth produce Errour if nay no more can our zealous Testimony to Truth produce the bringing reproach upon Truth and the Friends of it or rather is it not more apparent that to pass by in silence without any censure or publick Testimony gross and vile Errours some of which not only no Protestant Profession would tollerate but even the Church of Rome would not tollerate but publickly Judge and Condemn doth bring a Reproach upon Truth and Friends thereof and doth open the Mouths of Adversaries to reproach us as being guilty of cloaking such gross Errours amongst us for if we are guilty of blame for exposing these mens gross Errours after due Gospel order used towards them as hath been sufficiently proved out of our late Printed Books and great endeavours used to reclaim them convince them and better inform them which they have rejected and notwithstanding their Scripture Confessions still persisted in their Errours as I have made appear out of their own Papers and Manuscripts signed with their own hands since their pretended Scripture Confession what is the Consequence that many will make from this but that to pass by in silence cover and cloak such vile and gross Errours among us and to lessen and extenuate them with the smooth names of Weakness is esteemed a Virtue by us but let it be far from us to give any such occasion of Argument against us But as we have impartially in Print as well as other ways witnessed against that Judged by us gross Errours in other Professions not covering them with the smooth name of Weakness so that we may approve our selves indued with that wisdom from above that is without partiality and respect of Persons let the gross Errours or any other defaults and Immoralities that any among us are guilty of be impartially witnessed against in Print or otherwise after due Gospel Order and Discipline hath been exercised towards them as is the present case for we Printed not a Line against them until by Christs established Discipline in his Church professed by all Friends they had made themselves to us as Heathens and Publicans by their rejecting and denying the sound and seasonable Judgement of the Monthly Meeting whereof they were Members and denying that Meeting to be a Meeting tho it was the only Monthly Meeting that then was in Philadelphia and the