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A47134 A discovery of the mystery of iniquity & hypocrisie acting and ruling in Hugh Derborough Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1692 (1692) Wing K157; ESTC R14384 9,131 13

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And yet I do not understand that any one in the Meeting dared to reprove him except the Person he so called I know the Scripture says That Dogs are without but I never knew that Dogs were suffered to remain within the Church if this Person be a Puppy Whelp or Dog why don't they cast him out or condemn S. Ienings for his Ungodly Reviling in this particular but that I believe they will not do seeing they have cloaked much worse Crimes than this in S Jenings But that H. D. saith They gave me little occasion if any to call them Hypocrites but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them is a manifest Lye for there are hundreds can bear witness that they gave me great occasion as their boldly denying in publick what they have asserted in private before many Witnesses and at other times also in publick some of them have called God to Witness to manifest Lyes Falshoods whereof we have many to bear witness Nor have they ever to this day clear'd themselves of these things laid to their charge tho' they have had sufficient time and opportunity given them And the first days that the two Meetings were together I did never interrupt any of them but they did alwayes interrupt me and oft many at once speaking to me some passing me by the Arm and others by the 〈◊〉 and patricularly Arthur Cook was most abusive to me crowding close to me staring most inhumanely in my face when declaring and calling me Ranter Ranter Wicked Man Ungodly Man and interrupting me in Prayer tho' I have never interrupted any of them either in Prayer or Preaching saying Thou Pray thou ought not to pray thou art a Wicked Man and others bidding take me away And at another time A. C. in a Mens Meeting Cursing me saying Wo be to thee from the Lord which afterwards he denyed and Sam. Jenings called me Shamelss Man at another time Apostate and worse than Prophane and also they most falsly accused me with denying Magistracy and being an Enemy to the Government with many other false Charges And another of their Preachers came into the Meeting when I was sitting silent and call'd me by my Name and said I was a Roaring Lyon To most of which Passages Hugh Derborough was an Eye and Ear Witness Is it not then great Hypocrisie and Partiality in him to pass by all these great Provocations and most unchristian Usages to say nothing of the Persecution I and others of my Friends have met with from them by Fining some Imprisoning others and Taking away Goods only for Conscience sake and so boldly to affirm That I had little occasion if any given me What can I think or say of this H. D. but that he like many others among them is an Abominable Hypocrite And that I said Cut me in pieces chop me fry me if ye will c. H. D. is very dis-ingenuous wholly to conceal the occasion thereof which was that they did greatly threaten me with their outward Power saying This was intollerable this was not to be born when I called some of them Hypocrites whom I well knew and could prove to be such and tho' I was in little or no seeming danger as to the outward at that time yet I can truly say I felt the Spirit of Cain in them and they did seek occasion against me if possible to take away my natural Life by their ensnaring words and questions and charging me That I had spoke against the King as many can bear witness who had a sence of their Cain like Spirit as well as I which occasioned me to call some of them Bloody Hounds and had I called them Hell Hounds it would have been but what Fox in his Book of Martyrs called Persecutors and one time being hot by their thronging and crowding about me because I loosned some few Buttons of my Doublet to get a little Air to refresh me they raised an abominable Lye on me viz. That in a fit of Distraction I ript open my Brest and showed my Naked Skin And I can truly say God raised me up in a Spirit of Boldness to Warn them to Repent of their Lying Hypocrisie Unbelief and Persecution lest the Judgments of the Lord should break forth against them telling them I feared them not let them cut me and roast me or such like words having in my mind the bold words of Lawrance the Martyr to his Persecutor the Heathen Emperor when he was roasting on the Grid-Iron as Fox relates the Passage in the Book of Martyrs pag. 102. This side is non roasted enough turn up O Tyrant great Assay whether roasted or raw thou thinkest the better Meat Which words Fox saith he spoke in the mighty Spirit of God Also I had in mind the words of Anaxagoras when the Tyrant was causing beat him in a Morter Beat beat said he thou touchest not Anaxagoras Which Examples I gave them to be my Apology for such words and with which sober and impartial People were satisfied And tho' from this H D and some others would insinuate as if this was a wicked Saying it proceeds from their great ignorance for seeing Christ hath pronounced them blessed who suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake no judicious and sincere Christian will deny but it is desirable in the will of God and many faithful Christians have desired it yea and rushed towards it and by their sharp words that they have used towards Persecutors have procured it And our 〈◊〉 Lord Jesus Christ who became an Example in Sufferings said to the Jews Destroy the Temple meaning the Temple of his Body and after three dayes I will 〈◊〉 it up and he said to Judas What thou dost do quickly and he said further I have a Baptism wherewith to be Baptized meaning his Sufferings And how am I straitned till it be accomplished And Paul said He w●● not only ready to be bound but to dye for the Name of Jesus But it is very apparent these my Persecutors and false Accusers never found any such Spirit of Courage or Love to Truth in them that did move them to desire to suffer such things for the Lord's sake And yet to prevent all mistake and mis-construction that some through weakness may put on my words I do sincerely declare that I had no other aim or intention in such words but to express the willingness and readiness of mind that the Lord had wrought in me by his Power not only to suffer the Reproaches and false Accusations of my Adversaries but even the worst that God might permit them to inflict upon me knowing it would turn to my Reward c. As to his great Commendations of John Wilsford and Thomas Everndon from his inward sence and discerning of them These two men have sufficiently discovered themselves by their late Fruits of falsly accusing the Innocent and speaking Lyes in the Name of the Lord that they deserve no such Character as H.
D. in Hypocrisie hath put upon them for proof of which I refer to the printed sheet called False Judgments Reprehended And for all the great bragging and boasting of these our Opposers of their inward discerning God by his wonderful Providence hath given some evident Examples of it in the face of the World how miserably they are deceived and blinded in that they call their Discerning as first whereas the Meeting in the Country used to be kept at an honest mans house and this man favoured me therefore they had a sense that he was a man of a wrong Spirit but whereas there was another that rise up in great Opposition to me charging me of Blasphemy because I said God was present in all his Creatures and of false Doctrine because I said Christ was in Heaven our Elder Brother and that he would appear again to judge the quick and the dead at the great Day therefore a Company of them removed their Meeting to this man's house whom they thought worthy crying him up as if he were no ordinary Saint whenas at the same time a Negro Woman had his Bastard carrying about in her Womb tho' he has a Wife of his own and tho' some have endeavoured to cloak it yet it appearing with more than ordinary clearness hath caused them now again to remove the Meeting from his House 2dly Another that hath lately given forth a Paper of Condemnation as if he were some great Convert about the very time of his pretended Conversion was discovered to be guilty of attempting to commit Sodomy which he hath partly confessed So that they have little cause to boast of their Converts or yet of their Spirit of Discerning And if some have left us more have left them and come to us and who are Persons of more Sobriety 4thly Whereas H. D. saith It is sealed upon his heart that the Anger of the Lord is kindled as Fire against that Spirit of Division that hath appeared in G. K. and others Answ It is but ordinary to him and such other Hypocrites to take the Name of the Lord in vain it were well if he was sensible of the Fire of Gods Anger that is ready to kindle against him for his Lying Hypocrisie Enmity and falsly accusing the Innocent and seeking to justifie the Guilty We are not divided from faithful Friends and Brethren that are sound in the Doctrine Faith of Christ and whose Godly Life and Practice seal to the sincerity of their Faith but we are divided from Hypocrites Lyars and false Accusers and gross Unbelievers who deny the Lord that bought them and Faith in him and for so doing God is not angry with us but well pleased having done it in Obedience to Christs Command who hath commanded us to be seperate from Unbelievers 2 Cor. 6. 14. 17. 5thly Whereas he accuseth me 〈◊〉 The Light within is not sufficient without some-what else 〈◊〉 knowing in his Conscience as well as his Associates that by that something else I understand not humane Leârning nor the Letter of the Scripture 〈…〉 but the Man Christ Jesus without us in 〈◊〉 all fullness of Grace Truth Light and Life dwelleth and 〈◊〉 Death and Sufferings Resurrection Ascention Mediation all which are something else than the measure of Grace and Light in us In this Accusation H. D. falleth in with J. Delavall and my Answer to the one will serve sufficiently to the other And tho' H. D. seemeth to assent and declare That the Grace of God which is sufficient is the Effect of the Death and Sufferings of Christ Jesus yet either like a gross Hypocrite or most ignorant and inconsiderate Person not to use Sam. Jening's phrase of Ignorant Non-sensical Puppy he doth most palpably contradict his present Assertion for if the Grace of God within us be the Effect of Christs Death and Sufferings then we are not saved only by the Grace within but by the Death Sufferings Resurrection and Mediation of Christ without us seeing the Cause of a Cause is the Cause of the thing caused or effect Beside the Death Sufferings of Christ his most perfect Obedience unto Death and sheding of his most precious Blood without us was not only necessary to procure the inward Grace of God to us but also to make a Propitiation for our sins reconcile us unto God and so was needful to our Salvation as the great Attonement and Sacrifice of Expiation as well as the procuring Cause of his Grace in us But since he chargeth me with an Error for holding That the Grace or Light within is not sufficient without something else then seeing nothing can be an Error but because it is opposite to some Truth that which it is opposite to is That the Light within is sufficient without any or everything else and if so then he excludes wholly the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation 6thly As to the Testimonies he citeth out of Rob. Barclay's Apology they are of the same nature with what J. 〈◊〉 hath formerly cited in his Papers to which I have answered an ●●●fer to the same in print where I show that R. B. no where 〈…〉 ●n all his Apology That the Light or Grace within it 〈◊〉 to Saluation without the Man Christ Jesus without 〈…〉 for us on Earth and his present Mediation and 〈◊〉 for us in Heaven All that can be gathered from R. B's words many of his Books is 1st That the express distinct outward and historical Knowledge and Faith of Christ is not necessary to Salvation where it is not preached nor revealed and I say the same 2dly That man may be saved and many have been saved who have not heard Christ outwardly preached to them nor never heard or read the on ward Testimony of the Scriptures concerning him 3dly That a good Work of God may be begun in men that is of a tendency to Salvation and a Salvation begun in a general sence and respect without all Knowledge and Faith of Christs Death and Sufferings which I also grant and have all along granted and therefore neither H. Derborough J. Delavall nor any other have proved me and I believe never can prove me to contradict either Rob. Bareley's Books or any of my own Books and it is great deceit in this H. D. only in general to cite my Book of Universal Grace without mentioning the words of my Book And it is worth noticing that he exactly followeth J. Delavall not bringing one place of Scripture where-withal to prove me in an Error but only some Citations out of R. B. perverted and falsly applyed by him And it is another piece either of gross Hypocrisie and Deceit or bold and impudent Rasnness in him to say That R. Barclay doth not say the Express Knowledge of Christ who as Man dyed for the sins of the World for tho' he doth not say it in one place yet he hath it in another as pag. 86. of his Latine
A DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity Hypocrisie Acting and Ruling in Hugh Derborough HAving seen a Paper of Hugh Derboróugh's which was read by Sam Jenings at their last Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphiá and approved by the Meeting and he received owned as one of their Church Members I found it convenient to say something in Answer to it he most falsly and maliciously accusing me in some things and also discovering manifestly his and his Brethren's Ignorance Unbelief and Hypocrisie with whom he hath joyned himself 1st He saith He was deceived in me and ensnared by me hearing such Chárges c. as if there were such as did divide Christ not preach Faith in the Man Christ Jesus nor own the Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven but the Grace of God within only and such like Charges as that they did not own the Resurrection of the Body and the Coming again and glorious Appearance of that heavenly Man Christ Jesus to judge the quick and the dead at the great Day of Judgment Answ That such Charges were true I have many Witnesses that may be produced in due time to discover this Hugh Derborough to be a Lyar and false Accuser who hath writ Lyes against his own Conscience and Knowledge for does not H. D. know that we have sufficient proof that Tho. Fizwater said He owned no Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven without him but the Grace of God within him and of which T. Budd complaine● to the Meeting of Ministring Friends at Burlington where Tho. Fitzwater himself was present and did not deny it nor they call him to an Accounot for it And was not Hugh Derborough at the Monthly Meeting where W. Stockdale openly renewed and confirmed his former Charge viz. That G. K. preached Two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within Christ without beside the pretended Judgment given forth concerning W. S. says the same And the Judgment given forth by their Monthly Meeting which is also in print clearing T. Fitzwater for accusing me That the Light within was not sufficient without somewhat else that something else being the Man Christ Jesus in whom all Fullness of Light Grace and Truth is lodged and out of whom all true Believers receive a daily supply increase of Grace and he may remember what work we had at a Mo. Meeting a little before where it was affirmed That they knew but one Principle owned by Friends and that was the Light within which I refuted both from Scripture and Friends Books then T. Lloyd said There was but one Fundamental Principle which was the Light within which also I denyed From this it is evident that they exclude the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation placing it wholly only upon the Light within and this H. D. has heard John Delavall publickly accuse me of Heresie for saying The Light within is not sufficient without something else yea and H D. himself hath renewed this in his Paper against me which he calleth The Mystery of Iniquity discovered by the Spirit of Truth but his Paper is the fruit of the Mystery of Iniquity that ruleth in his heart who is acted by a Lying Spirit Now that some approved among them deny the Resurrestion of the Body after Death and Christ's Coming to Judgment without us at the great Day c. we can sufficiently prove and it s in vain for H. D. to tell us these are false Charges while their Preachers are found preaching against these things and the hearers generally arguing and contending with us against them A. Jenings a Preacher among them has been heard not only by me but divers others to deny That any thing of this Body riseth after Death And Henry Willis one of the 28 now 27 false Judges told me That the only cause why he set his hand to that Paper was because I had affirmed Christ would come again without us at the great Day of Judgment to judge the quick and the dead And W. Southyby's Letter and J. Humphery's Letter and Paul Saunders Letter to me giving an Account of William Southyby M. Hodgskins their Unbelief in these principal things of the Christian Faith are sufficient proof and which Letters with other Instances and Proofs may in due time be made publick mean time take one Sentence of J. Humphery's Letter which is this I am grieved to hear some say They expect to be Iustifyed by that Blood that was Shed at Ierusalem To which Blasphemous sentence I shall not make any Reply at present but let all impartial Readers judge of it I have complained of it in private to John Humphry himself to several of his Brethren to their Quarterly Meeting to which he belongs and to their publick Meeting several moneths since and yet no calling him to account but of late he hath writ his second Letter confirming and justifying his former And therefore Hugh Derborough falsly accuseth me in saying I have deceived him for its the Lying Spirit in himself them he now owns to be his Brethren which have deceived him 2dly To his accusing me of Extream Heat and Passion when little occasion was given me if any but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them calling of them Hypocrites abominable Hypocrites bidding them Cut him in pieces Chop him Fry him with many more unsavoury words which he saith appeared to him indeed to be but Bryars and Thornes Answ This is another Evidence of his great Hypocrisie and Lying Spirit as well as of his gross Prejudice and Partiality Enmity and Malice I called none Hypocrites or abominable Hypocrites but such whom I can well prove to be such And did not Christ call them Hypocrites Serpents Generation of Vipers c. who had discovered themselves to be such and the Apostles called such Hypocrites and deceitful Workers c. How then is this Bryars and Thorns in me when those I so called were such Have not also our Friends called their Opposers Hypocrites who were such yea and much harder Names than ever I did to any of them as Dead Beast dark Sot Incarnate Devils Wolves Dogs c. But what says Hugh Derborough to his Brother Sam. Jenings who at their last Quarterly Meeting being the 6 of the 1st Month called one of his Fellow Members Ignorant Idiot and Non-sensical Puppey Which Fruits are most like to Bryars and Thorns to call a deceitful man a Hypocrite or for Sam. Jenings to call a man of as good or better sence and understanding than himself Nonsensical Puppey Let H. D. answer to this and wipe off this and many other foul Expressions justly charged on his Brother Ienings if he can and yet this is he who did read H. D 's Paper and pronounce my Fruits to be Bryars and Thorns but accounts his own Fruits no doubt to be Figs and Grapes tho' at the same Meeting he call'd one of his Church Members Non-sensical Puppey i. e. A Whelp