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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60636	Innocency and conscientiousness of the Quakers asserted and cleared from the evil surmises, false aspersions, and unrighteous suggestions of Judge Keeling expressed in his speech made the seventh of the seventh month at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily ... : wherein also is shewed that this law doth not concern them, they being no seditious sectaries, nor contrivers of insurrections, nor evil-doers, therefore no just law is against them.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4308; ESTC R16062	11,414	18

THE INNOCENCY AND Conscientiousness OF THE QUAKERS ASSERTED and CLEARED FROM The Evil Surmises False Aspersions and Unrighteous Suggestions of Judge KEELING expressed in his Speech made the seventh of the seventh Month at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily being the day appointed for the Tryal of some of the said People by the late Act made to Prevent and Suppress Seditious Conventicles Wherein also is shewed that this Law doth not concern them they being no seditious Sectaries nor Contrivers of Insurrections nor Evil-doers therefore no just Law is against them He that justifieth the Wicked and he that condemneth the Just even they both are an Abomination to the Lord. Prov. 17. 15. Published by a lover of Truth and Righteousness W. S. Printed at London in the Year 1664. To the Judicial and Impartial READER EVer since the Devil that enemy of Mankind who is the leader of Nature out of its course got rule in Man's heart his work and way hath been to stir up his Instruments first to cast Ignominious reproachful names upon the true Worshippers of God as New Sects Turners of the World upside down Pestilent Fellows Sowers of Sedition Ring-leaders of Sects Blasphemers Hereticks Seditious Sectaries Contrivers of Plots and Stirrers up of Rebellion c. Then when he hath by his Emissaries cloathed them in this mantle of Reproach he can the easilier bring his designs to pass upon them whether it be to Imprisoning in nasty infectious holes or Whipping Banishing Burning or Hanging which hath been his work through Ages among both false Jews and false Christians as well as among those called Heathen to this day for as once among the Heathen it was crime enough to cause the true Christians to suffer to have the Name of a Christian which was a name of Reproach in that day and carried enough with it to be guilty of all Crimes in the judgment of the Heathen who believed all that was spoke and published against them though they saw no proof The like Parallel is now we have the name Quaker given us in reproach and derision and its crime enough to cause us to suffer before and among some to have that name And what is spoke and published surmised and evilly suggested of us many believe without any manifest proof but the Wise and Judicious will not receive and believe every Report nor give Judgment of any Person or People because of a Name Speech or Report though it be from the mouth of a Judge but will desire to know the Truth therefore to inform such is this Reply following published And we may truly say for ourselves as Tertullian in his Apollogie once said for the Christians when the Heathen called their Society Meetings or Assemblies Factious Did we ever saith he assemble to proclaim the hurt of any one As we are in the particular so we are in the general that is to say In whatsoever state we are found we offend no body we injure no body And further saith he when any vertuous or godly People are associated when any pious or chast persons assemble together their Union should not be called a Faction but a Lawful Society pag. 142. The Innocency and Conscienciousness of the Quakers asserted and cleared from the evil Surmises false Aspersions and unrighteous Suggestions of Judge Keiling expressed in his Speech made the 7th of the 7th month at the Sessions-house in the Old Baily c. Judge BEcause this day was appointed for the Tryal of those People And in as much as many are come hither expecting what will be done I shall say something concerning them and their Principles that they might not be thought worthy of pity as suffering more than they deserve for they are a Stubborn Sect and the King hath been very merciful with them It was hoped that the Purity of the Church of England would ere this have convinced them but they will not be reclaimed Answer Our Conversation for these many years hath been noted and strictly observed by many and hitherto we have not been found Transgressors of any Law which is made to preserve mens Persons or Estates or for the punishment of Evil-doers And so have not given the Magistrates occasion justly to appoint days of Tryal for us For the Law once in Tables of Stone and all other just Laws were and are added because of mans degeneration from the Law and Righteous Principle of Life which was once or at the beginning placed in his heart So when man fell from his obedience to this Righteous Law which we say was not in a Book nor in Tables of Stone in the beginning but in the Heart and abounded in Acts of Cruelty Violence Oppression and Idolatry Then because of these Transgressions was that Outward Law added in order to limit bridle and punish and also to bring Mankind back again in a measure to that which he degenerated from as Moses witnesseth viz. to the Word in the month and in the heart that they might hear it and do it or obey it And true Christians are come to Christ Jesus who is the Power of God and are created anew in him unto good works that they should walk in them and are made Witnesses of that Glorious Promise fulfilled in them viz. as to have the Law written in their hearts and the Fear of the Lord put into their inward parts which Law and Fear teacheth to depart from evil and crucifieth that transgressing spirit within from whence all manner of wickedness proceeds and against such there is or ought to be no Law they being a Law to themselves as it is written The Law is not made for the Righteous man but for the Lawless and Disobedient for the Ungodly and for Sinners for Unholy and Prophane for Murderers of Fathers and Murderers of Mothers for Manslayers for Whoremongers and Buggerers or abusers of themselves with mankind for Man-stealers for Lyars for Perjured Persons and any other evils which are contrary to sound Doctrin And now seeing we are preserved by the Power of the living God whom we fear and serve from those and such-like evils which are the occasion of Law and Magistrates otherwise there would be no need of either and yet notwithstanding are persecuted and thronged into nasty Holes and Prisons and guarded with a great many Club-men and Bill-men and haled before Judgment-Seats and Rulers as if we were great malefactors This makes People slock together and expect and also wonder what will be the end of these things That People against whom no evil can be justly charged should be the greatest Sufferers in this Generation And pity and compassion will arise in thousands who shall see or hear of our Sufferings for Innocency and Conscience towards God notwithstanding our cruel Adversaries endeavour to cloath us in Woolf-skins to make people believe that we are the Beasts of Prey and a Stubborn Sect which will not be reclaimed by the Mercy of the King nor the Purity of the Church of