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A46824	The state of the case, briefly but impartially given betwixt the people called Quakers, Pensilvania, &c. in America, who remain in unity, and George Keith, with some few seduced by him into a separation from them as also a just vindication of my self from the reproaches and abuses of those backsliders / by Samuel Jennings.	Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708.	1694 (1694)	Wing J670; ESTC R3996	38,369	87

●s never done by that lame Record of Daniel ●●ds's producing that gives no account of ●urses Distances nor number of Acres of ●adow which is such a return as one pre●●ding to art would blush at But however ●e can be no wrong done by me to Richard ●tthews for either it was Surveyed to ●● or it was not if it were then he has it ●t were not What pretence hath he to it ●e than I who am a Co-ordinate Proprietor ●h him The Fifth and last Article Relating to me is only a suggestion in general terms of abuses done to John Skeen Deceased which if Peter Boss had nothing to say to make good his Charges I shall need to say as little in my defence As to the Sixth and Seventh Article Where he squibbingly queries Whether it were S. J. or J. Simcock that was carried Drunk to Bed betwixt to persons And whether it were the said S. J. or J. Simcod that was Drunk lost a Coat that was borrowed of another Man These things I know nothing of and believe that J. Simcock deserves not so base a Reflection being a M●● fearing God and of good Repute in the Country but his Crime is that he is one of the Twenty Eight that flrst appeared in ● testimony against G. K. c. Thus Reader if thou art impartial thou wilt see and grant how little matter is i● this great and loud Charge and nothing proved so that all indifferent People did nauseate and abnor the baseness of the praction of this Man Peter Boss whom the Jury found only Guilty as they say of transgressing the 29th Chapter of the Laws of this Province c. For which he was Fined Six Pound The word only here is given to put an ●mphasis upon the Verdict which shews how ●ight a matter the Libeller esteems it to slight ●nd Condemn Magistracy and Government ●e necessity and dignity of which is not to ●e disputed in it self how mean soever the instruments of it be since we have always awned it to be an Ordinance of God As ●o divers other things suggested against me ●● that malicious Libel relating to the usage of my Servants c. representing me either ruel or obscene I deny any one thing as here suggested to be true and were it ●eedful I could procure as large a testimo●y of the good usage of my Servants perhaps ●● any Man in that Country that hath been laster of so many and that from the very ●ands of those that I am represented to abuse though I was never principled against giving ●e Correction to Servants and in that Coun●y where Servants are bound for time it 's ●ery well known how froward many have ●roved with design if possible to torment ●●d tire those they have belonged to to force ●em to give them their freedom I shall give but one Instance more of the reasure I have had from these People I mean G. K. P. B. c. and so come to a Conclusion ●aving been much larger then I intended or ●●y circumstances for time would well allow ●● the Book indeed deserved being it 's such ●● none here nor any where else can yet be ●und by me to own The matter is this as near as I can relate it not having the Paper by me Whilst Peter Boss was in the Pris● at Philadelphia he says there came to visit hi● one Robert Cole who asked What are you● Prison for Saying S. I. was Drunk I 'le pro● that for he was Drunk at my House and Spew● in the Bed and gave the Maid a piece of Eight to clean it This Peter Boss c. spread To● and Country by small Manuscripts thr● into the hands of such as never were of o● Communion for it came too late to be Priced with the rest or else no doubt we had ●● it When I heard it I desired two Friend who lived near Cole to enquire if he had ● reported he told them if he had he did ●● know it for he confessed he was Drunk wh●● he was in Prison with Peter Boss and th●●● knew no such thing by me but said on ●● Morrow after he had been with P. B. Geo● Keith desired to speak with him and wh● together G. K. asked him concerning wh● he was said to have reported of me he t●● him as he says that he knew no such thing ● me G. K. told him an honest Man would ● as good as his word and he having said ● Why should he deny it He said he know not that ever he said it but did Confess ● was Drunk and knew not what he said B●● G. K. pressed it so far till as Cole says ●● Wife desired him to desist saying Husband the Man says he was Drunk therefore let him alone Yet notwithstanding the report was spread by Paper c. to the utmost of their power I shall not need to aggravate this by making any remarks upon it being so loathsome in it self as cannot be related without great reluctancy How like this was to Sufferers for Religion and under the weight of a heavy Persecution I shall leave my Reader free to sudge and pray God to forgive the Iniquity of my Enemies that have bitterly belcht out and thrown forth whole floods of reproach against me which how ill soever it hath been on their part I bless God I have been carried through it and over it and can hardly count it ● suffering esteeming i● as my Crown to be reproached by such as Apostatize from the Truth with which I have been acquainted long ●ough to make it familiar and easie to me And it is my great satisfaction that the unkindnesses I have met with in this Nation at this or any other time nath ●een mostly from those ●at have been concerned in or favourers of ●he Old or New Separation which rather than ● would purchase their favour at so dear a ●ate as to spare them much less to fall in with ●hem till they repent I would rather chuse ●● stand exposed to their ●tmost rage and fury And though I am not wholly unknown nor a granger in this Nation and have reason many ●ays to be endeared to it and more that the ●ay of God's Love reached me in it than that drew my first Breath in it Yet having had my esidence for more then 14 Years in a remote and it may with reason be supposed that my condition and Carriage may be better known there than here For which Reason I have chosen to publish the Certificate sent ● me by Friends there who remain in Un●● and have not been defiled with G. K.'s S●● paration which I intend for a Conclus●●● of this Work To our Dear Friends and Faithful Brethren in England and elsewhere where these may come From our Quarterly Meeting in Philadelphia in Pensilvania the 4th of the 10th Month 1693. IN a tender sense of that Everlasting Love which God the Father through his Dear Son Christ Jesus hath Loved us and United us together in the Unity of his Spirit and Bond of Peace where there is no Rent or Division Hatred or Prejudice do we sincerely salute you all Earnestly desiring that Grace Mercy and Peace Love Unity and Concord be more and more multiplied amongst you and us and all God's Heritage every where And that it may please the Lord to subdue and cause that to wither and decay that would break our Unity trouble the Common-wealth of Israel and lay Stumbling-blocks in their way Although it 's a day of great Tryal Exercise and Affliction to the Seed of Jacob in this part of the World yet we have cause to say it 's a day of God's Love so that many were never nearer to the Lord or enjoyed more of his presence which sweetens the waters of afflictions and makes the passage through the vale of tears and mourning easie unto us the Lord having raised our desires after and given us a measure of the sence of the durable reward and Kingdom of Everlasting Joy Rest and Peace Our dear and well esteemed Friend Same Jennings having laid his intention before the Meeting of going for England to visit Frieds there We thought fit and also our duty to certifie unto you that we have good Unity with him in the Spirit and Life of Jesus whose Labour and Trayel in the Gospel ●● Peace and Salvation the Lord hath bee● pleased to make successful so that his Living and Savoury Testimony has a seal in ●● Hearts of the true Israelites of God in th●● American Parts who has stood firm in the Building of the Lord against that Spirit i● George Keith and his Adherents that would Divide Rent and Scatter and many have been the Malicious Arrows that have been Shot at him endeavouring with all the Art and Parts that Spirit could prompt them to to Villfie and Wickedly to Calumniate him both with Tongue and Press therefore the Love of God and the regard we have to his Truth constrains us to certifie unto you that as far as we can understand he is clear from the false Aspersions and Defamations that has been spread abroad in many Countries by the said G. K. and his Adherents having been cleared in the face of the Country of many of them with shame to the false Accuser Note The Friends saying I have been cleared in the face of the Country with shame to the false Accuser of many of the Aspersions and Defamations cast upon me respect all that was in P. B's Letter to me which was all that they then suggested We remain your Dearly Beloved Friends and Exercised Brethren George Walker Robert Ewer John Goodson George Gray Evan Morris James Fox John Jennet William Southbe Ralph Jackson Richard Worell Benj. Chambers John Fletcher John Parsons Alex. Beardsley Thomas Bradford Rich. Townsend John Kinsy Sam. Richardson William Gabitas John Lynam Tho. Fitzwater Thomas Lloyd Arthur Cooke Griffith Owen Joseph Paul Evan Oliver Derick op de Greet Reiner Tiesey Pieter Soemaker Caspar Hoodt Giles Knight Robert Burrow John Buzby David Brentnall Joshua Hastings Abrah Hardiman Thomas Canby John Hastings William Walker THE END

you ha● a Sense contrary to Scripture At this Rat●● who can be secure in their Religious Reputation But I know the way he useth to take to Condemn by wholesale There are says he amongst you some that I have detected of Err●● which you by Cloaking and Covering have m●● your selves equally guilty with If this be true I say so too But I challenge him to nam● the Person amongst us that any orderly Complaint hath been made against and the matte proved that hath been Cloaked yea the hath not been testified against if they refuse to Clear Truth in any thing whereby a Scandal through their Means was brought upon 〈◊〉 either by Principle or Practice And at the last Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia a Minute w● made That great Care should be taken that 〈◊〉 any amongst us had given any Just Cause 〈◊〉 Offence they should be orderly dealt withal the Truth might be Cleared and the offence remove So that I think all his Pretences of Friend Cloaking c. in America are taken awya and will be no more a Cloak for him to Cove his false Accusations against them But because I find him so bitterly to Envy against a Person whom I am well assured he Abuses and Misrepresents I shall do him that Justice to speak my Knowledge of him in a matter wherein he G. K. doth highly and frequently Charge him Plea c. p. 5. Many are Witnesses saith he how at the School-house-Meeting as well as at these other Meetings aforesaid Tho. Lloyd Argued that Faith in Christ without us as he died for our Sins c. and rose again was not necessary to our Salvation I Confess I was not at that School-house-Meeting but since he refers to other Meetings before wherein he suggests him to have Argued in like manner I do remember that at other times and once especially I was present at a Discourse relating to that matter but the Question was not Whether Faith in Christ without us as he died for our Sins and Rose again was not necessary to Our Salvation But Whether that Faith were Indispensibly necessary to all Mankind and that none could be ●aved without it though they had not the Means Opportunity or Capacity to know or receive it Which will Include a great Part of Mankind is namely all those that have not the Use of ●he Holy Scriptures nor the Advantage of ●earing it Preached to them which will Affect many great Nations as also all Infants Deaf and Dumb Persons c. But G. K. ha●ing affirmed before That this Faith is indipensibly necessary to all occasioned the Discourse and carries with it a very harsh and uncharitable Judgment upon all that part of Mankind before mentioned Which I know not what can palliate but the strange Notion of the Revolution of Humane Souls Which makes it more than Probable that they shall have Opportunity one time or other before the End of the World of Hearing this Faith and Doctrine Preached and may receive it though now they die without it But this Point must be tenderly touched now because few are ripe for it Yet how far he hath Countenanced it is known to many Further he then said to Tho. Lloyd That if he were not of the same Faith he could not o●● him as his Christian Brother but yet he might be a Devout Heathen Now see the Fallacy of this he would suggest that T. Ll. made the Faith of Christ Crucified a very Indifferently thing Indefinitely when as then and many other times I have heard him Affirm That he di● believe it to be Our Duty who had the Advantag of having the holy Scriptures and hearing t●● Faeith Preached to receive and believe it I sha● say no more on this matter believing that none that know T. Ll. can Impartially Judge him Guilty of any thing so Antichristian I have thus far according as I premised given an Account of the Matter of the Difference in America as is pretended on his part and I hope I have also shown how little Real Ground there was for it But my Reader must not Expect that I should follow him in all his vain and frivolous Charges for that were to swell a Volume far beyond my Intention or Time It remains now that I give an Account what was then the Real Cause of this Unhappy Breach and Difference Which I will endeavour to do Candidly Cautiously and Truly The General Cause I take to be an Vnbounded Ambition in G. K. which had blown him up into such Towering Thoughts of himself as made him a very uneasie Member of any Society either Civil or Religious of which he hath given too pregnant Proofs as I shall shew hereafter He first began and sought a Qnarrel with the New-England-men making it his practice in many places where he came to Challenge Disputes with the Professors and Priests which ●ow little it redunded to Truth 's Advantage ● am a Witness being then in N. England with him And truly the Spirit and Temper ●n which he managed it being with great deat and Rage was a certain Indication to me ●hat he designed Victory and Vain Glory rather ●●an Edification In which I was the more ●●nfirmed by his Common Insults where he ●●ought he had any Advantage For it s a Maxime with me That who ever the Lord 〈◊〉 emploies in any Service of his he furnishes 〈◊〉 and abilitates with his own Spirit in the Dis●● charge thereof And how Contrary that is 〈◊〉 a Spirit of Wrath and Bitterness I leave to ●● determined by such as know the Fruits of ●ach And this single Observation hath been enough to many and one would think might be to all were they but Indifferent to satisfie them of the Nature of G. K's Work even the Spirit in which it s Acted Doth he exceed others in his Love and Zeal for God how comes he then to have so little of the Love of God shed abroad in his heart which teaches to Love Enemies but he hath not spared vilely to Abuse his Friends Is he under more than a Common Constraint to preach and Exalt the sufferings and Death c. of our blessed Saviour how comes he then to have so little of his Suffering Spirit and Image upon him And will he say he loveth God while he hateth his Brother Let him remember the Character due to such an one But I Confess I have made a little Digression by Expressing my own sentiments bu● shall now Return again to matter of Fact G. K. not having sufficiently vented himself by the Controversie he had with the New-Englanders he turns the point of his Weapon upon those he then owned and called his Friend And begins first about Church-Discipline conplaining That there was too great a Laxn●● therein For the Amendment of which b● presents a Paper to the Meeting of Ministring Friends in order to have it published and put ●● to practice But there being many things i● it which seemed very uncouth and