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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61446	The shame and humiliation of the Quakers in a remarkable judgment of [...]tuation, already begun upon some of [...]stinate ministers of their second days meeting. With a fair warning and kind admonition to the rest, who are sincere, and desire to escape the snare of deceit, to beware of them. 1. A brief account of the beginning and progress of the difference between George Keith and the other Quakers, and of their meeting at Turners-Hall, April 29, 1697.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5441; ESTC R222026	6,738	9

Spirit of God and not by a Seducing Spirit they would in all Humility acknowledge admit the Conviction and give Glory to God Nor is this all They had not so much confidence in the truth of their Cause as to return so much as a Civil Answer in writing to any one of my Letters nor to more than eight as I remember of twenty Questions which I sent to them which being only preliminary and not proceeding immediately to the Matters in question between us they answered plainly but at the next two which came nearer to the purpose they began to boggle and to any of the rest they would not be prevailed with by any means to return any Answer not so much as in private And though some of these things have been in Print ever since the beginning of this Year in January last and before and in their own hands yet have they never offered at any Answer to them And the reason will be apparent to those who peruse them But to proceed to the next Observation which is 2. The Weakness and Emptiness of their Pretence to cover and excuse that their Tergiversation That he assumed to himself a Power and Authority to erect several Meetings c. which had it been so had been no more than what they themselves have done who have assumed such Authority not only to hear but also to determine censure and pass Sentence Such another weak Pretence is that That this Meeting tends to gratifie and streng then the Popish Interest forgetting how much their Faction and Errors do that and how wisely they do to immind us of it and of what hath been objected against them in that respect 3. That their Pretence is not only weak but manifestly and notoriously false for he hath not taken upon him any thing of the part of a Judge but only of a Witness or an Informer and that not in any appearance of a Judicature but only in a Common Auditory for the better Information of the People that such as have been seduced into such vile and gross Errors and Heresies might be reduced to the Truth which is a good and commendable Undertaking and worthy of the Encouragement of both the Governours of the Church and of the Civil Magistrate 4. That their Pretence is not only false in it self but contrary to their Conscience for they know and own in their Paper that he alleadged the Permission of the Civil Authority The Letter also takes notice of that And it is well known that at the former Meeting an Officer of the Lord-Mayor did attend And there was no reason to question the Readiness of the present Lord-Mayor to take the like Care upon the like Occasion being allowed by the Bishop of London But it appears since that they had certain knowledge of this for they made application to the Lord-Mayor not to permit the Meeting and solicited the Intercessions of others to him but could not prevail 5. Their Presumption to censure the Civil Authority and all concerned therein as the Lord Bishop of London was without whose Approbation neither of the Lord mayors would have given any Countenance to it to censure them for permitting a Usurped Authority or Pernicious President for so they call the Fact which was permitted by them and these Men could not be ignorant of it Of this more afterwards 6. The rest of the Paper is very silly and impertinent being principally against a Usurped Authority which is not in the Case and such little stuff as deserves not to be noted And from all this we may further observe 1. The Weakness of these Men. Of which more hereafter 2. Their little regard to Honesty and Conscience This appears in the third and fourth Observation 3. Their Consciousness of the Weakness of their Cause 4. That their Spirit is a false seducing Spirit which hath deceived them and can no more stand before the true Spirit of Christ where it is present than the Spirit of the Heathen Gods could heretofore before true Christians This appears in all before-mentioned 5. That they are Deceivers though deceived themselves 6. That the Judgments of God are coming upon them to their Shame and Confusion who rejected the kind Offers of a Friend for their Good and if they persist Obstinate in their Heresies all People ought to avoid them have nothing to do with them but fly from them as the People in the Wilderness did from Korah and his Companions Numb 16.34 3. Admonition to the Sincere THis I do not say of all that are called Quakers nor of all those whom they call Ministers for I am in hopes there are many sincere People amongst them who are misled and go on in great Simplicity for whom I hope and pray daily that God will give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil who are taken Captive by him at his Will and to that purpose I have been endeavouring for many Months in Meekness both by Conferences and by Letters to instruct them better who now oppose themselves and assist them to make a decent Retreat in what they have overshot themselves and to be themselves the Instruments of reducing the People they had misled into the Truth without ever appearing my self in publick But there are some of the principal busie and active Managers at the Conclave in White-hart-Court who are filled with a Spirit of Pride and Obstinacy and impose upon the rest oppose and cease not to pervert the right Ways of the Lord and the true Gospel of Christ. And these are the Men I speak of who have had Offers of Grace and Truth and stop their Ears and harden their Hearts and would blind and hoodwink all their People lest the true Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them And upon these I do believe the Judgments of God are coming and that they shall proceed no further for their Folly shall be manifest to all Men as that of James and Jambres was v. Hos 13.3 15. Nay The Iudgment of Infatuation is already begun upon them in that they should not only betray their Consciousness of the Weakness of their own Cause by thus refusing both in publick and even in private to give an Answer of the Reason of their Belief but expose their own Weakness Disingenuity and little regard to Honesty and Conscience by such a little despicable shuffling devise for their Excuse as these two Papers and one of them a false Counterfeit pretending to be written by one of the Church of England who lived at a distance and knew not who George Keith was whereas it is very casie to perceive that both came out of the same Forge and that the Letter was hammered out by one of the same Workmen It had certainly been better for their Cause to have been quiet and done nothing at all But it wants a ground of Truth and cannot stand and this little