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A47162	The plea of the innocent against the false judgment of the guilty being a vindication of George Keith and his friends, who are joyned with him in this present testimony, from the false judgment, calumnies, false informations and defamations of Samuell Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, and others joyned with them, being in number twenty eight : directed by way of epistle to faithful friends of truth in Pennsilvania, East and West-Jersey, and else-where, as occasion requireth.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing K189; ESTC R14187	22,743	25

Sheet called The Christian Faith and against William Bradford for Printing it tho' 〈◊〉 was warranted to print it 〈◊〉 the de●●ire of the Mo● Meeting o● Rhodrr-Island which hath as great Authority to print without them a● they here have to print without those unless they here will say that Philadelphia is the Church of Rome in America as Samuel Jenings called it the Metropolitan little considering that the Apostacy came in by such means Secondly Whereas they say The Friends then present concluded of a Judgment in 〈◊〉 matter but were prevented of publishing the same by reason of George ●●eith ' s ●●ruly Behav●our and extream Passion which abruptly broke up the said Meeting But this is another piece of their Hypocr●●e they should have said if they would have said truly what Judgment was given ye were prevented of publishing of it by the unruly Behaviour and proud and insolent Carriage as well as unjust proceedings of Sam. Jenings and Arthur Cook who would not suffer the ●udgment given to be published after G. K. was called into the Meeting until G. K. should be tryed for reviling his Brethren which G. K fervently and earnestly contradicted crying out against their Injustice and Arbitrary Method contrary to the way of worldly Courts in the like case though some time after S. J. was pleased to say That Courts allowed of Discount So that according to S. J. the Blasphemy of W. S. shall be discounted for and set off against G. K's reviling his Brethren if he had been guilty thereof which they can never prove And whether A. Cook was not guilty of extream Passion who did in a Quarterly Meeting whereof many can bear witness pronounce a Curse against G. K. saying George thou hast made this Breach and Wo be to thee from the Lord and yet none of that Party reproved him for so doing Thirdly Wherereas they give their Judgment That W. S. is reproveable and blame-worthy for uttering the said words viz. That G. K's preaching Christ within and Christ without was preaching two Christs they being an Offence to many sound and tender Friends and that be condemn the same It doth plainly appear that their Judgment is but a bare shadow or formality of Judgment rather than any substantial effectual weighty and sollid Judgment against him which if it had been they would have aggravated it with other words and expression and principally blamed him for his words of Unbelief and Blasphemy against the Son of Man greatly offensive to God but instead of that they say They being Offensive to many sound and tender Friends Why are they so severe to G. K. against whom they cannot justly charge any thing either in Doctrine of Life saying of him He being a Man without the Fear of God before his Eyes c. Is it a greater Offence to them that they are dishonoured or that the worthy Name of Christ is dishonoured by as open denyal of him as W. Stockdale did by saying To preach Faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ without is to preach Two Christs for at this rate Christ without is to him but a false Christ and this to them is so small a fault that to deny Christ without us they will not say in their Judgment it is an Offence to God but they say It is an Offence to many sound and tender Friends Oh! great Hypocrisie and want of Zeal to the Glory of God and Christ though they are full of Zeal to their own Honour that will stink and doth already stink for this their great Partiality and Injustice as well as their great Ignorance Error and Unbelief Fourthly But why do not the words of their Judgment run thus That W. S. did say to preach Faith in Christ without and in Christ within was to preach two Christs c. but that they are guilty themselves of not having this Faith for not long ago A. Cook questioned G. K. at a Mens Meeting which many can witness Where we did read in Scripture that we are to believe in Christ within 〈◊〉 and in Christs without us And tho' of late some of them say they have a reverend esteem of Christ without of his Death Sufferings Resurrection and Ascention yet none of them preach at a necessary matter of Salvation to believe it that ever we heard of except John Delavall who hath of late changed his Faith and got a far worse And it cannot be supposed that they hold Faith in Christ without them to be necessary to their Salvation seeing many of them that belong to the Monthly Meeting have given their Judgment That the Light is sufficient to Salvation without something else which is a plain excluding the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation and leaving him only the bare Name or Title of a Saviour and if so then they had as good have wholly cleared W. S. Fifthly It is great Confusion and Contradiction in these of that side to condemn W. Stockdale if they were in good earnest and to clear Tho. Fitzwater for if the Man Christ Jesus be our real Saviour and that his Death Resurrection Ascention and Mediation for us without us in Heaven hath any part in our Salvation then the Light doth not save us without some●what else and therefore T. F. is guilty of Condemnation But if T. F. be cleared then the Man Christ without us is no real Saviour at all and ought not to be preached nor Faith in him but only the Light within and W. S. at this rate is in the right of it and they have done ill to pass Judgment against him I know no way to reconcile this but to say their Judgment against W. S. is a Mock-Judgment or show without any Reality Sixt●ly They unjustly blame G. K. for non giving W. S. Gospel-Order and take no notice how W. S. gave him no Order at all either of Law or Gospel accusing him falsly behind his back without speaking to himself whereas G. K. gave him good Gospel Order but that their Prejudice blinds them that they see it not William Stockdale gave not Offence to G. K. alone by himself but to him in the presence of two others that were with him and for what he had by Hear-say from another was no just ground of Offence to him until it was confirmed by W. S. himself as it then was and therefore not being to him alone it was no Transgression of Gospel Order that he did not speak to him alone afterwards But why should Samuel Jenings blame G. K. for 〈◊〉 giving Gospel Order to William Stockdale when he knoweth in his Conscience he never spoke to G. K. in private by way of Admonition before he again and again accused him to Friends of the Ministry fo● Reviling his Brethren which is a false Accusation Sevent●ly That they blame him for calling Will. Stockdale an Ignorant Heathen ●he being as they say elder in the Truth and in Years Then according to them a man may be in the Truth and a good Christian and say Christ without is not the true Christ But why is Heathen a bad Name for if every honest Heathen be a true Christian as he is according to that Principle held by their Monthly Meeting That the Light is sufficient without the Man Christ and without the Faith of his Death Resurrection Ascention and Mediation which is that something else than an honest Heathen is a true Christian and therefore by their own Principle to be called a Heathen is no Reviling and to be called Ignorant is no Reviling when a man is so also T. Lloyd hath argued much both at the Yearly Meeting and at the Mo. Meeting adjourned to the School-house Than an honest Heathen was a Christian And seeing harder Names have been given by some of best Note among Friends to them that denyed Womens Meetings c. and other lesser things belonging to the Skirts of Religion having called them Incarnate Devils Wretched Apostates Wolves Dogs see Judgment fixt Pref. let all sincere Christians judge whether they who deny the Lord that bought them deserve not much more sharp Reproof and yet no such Hard Names did G. K. give them Given forth in Behalf of Themselves and their Friends concerned with them in this Testimony and by Order of our Meeting By George Keith Thomas Budd THE END

THE Plea of the Innocent Against The False Judgment OF THE GUILTY Being a Vindication of George Keith and his Friends who are joyned with him in this present Testimony from the False Judgment Calumnies False Informations and Defamations of Samuell Jenings John Simcock Thomas Lloyd and others joyned with them being in Number Twenty Eight Directed by way of Epistle to faithful Friends of Truth in Pennsilvania East and West-Jarsey and else-where as Occasion requireth John 7. 50 51. Nicodemus said Doth our Law judge any Man before it hear him Acts 25. 16 17. It is not the manner of the Romans said Festus to deliver any man to dye before that he which is accused have the Accusers face to face and to have License to answer for himself concerning the Crime laid against him Psal 58. 1 2. Do ye indeed speak Righteousness O Congregation Do ye judge Vprightly O ye Sons of Men yea in Heart you work Wickednes you weigh the Violence of your Hands in the Earth The Plea of the Innocent c. Directed by way of Epistle to faithful Friends of Truth in Pennsilvania East and VVest-Jarsey c. Dear Friends Brethren every where to whom this may come WE dearly Salute you in the Love of God The occasion of this present Writing is in Vindication of the Truth and Us the detamed Witnesses of it and particularly of George Keith from the false Judgment Calumnies false Informations and Defamations of S. Jennings John Simcock and Thomas Lloyd Pretended ●reachers and others joyned with them being in Number twenty eight in their late Epistle sent to the Monethly and Quarterly Meetings in Pennsilvania East and West Jarsey First of all whereas they pretend to give an Account to these Meetings of the Tedious Exercise and Vexatious Perplexity they have met with in their late Friend George Keith for several Months past In this they have dealt most unfairly and uniustly with him in that they have given no account of the Occasion of that called by them the Tedious Exercise Vexatious Perplexity c. which because they have not given we see fit to do the Truth and all Friends of it to whose hands this may come that Justice as to give you a true Information of the Cause and Occasion of the late Difference that hath happened betwixt divers of them that hath signed their Epistle and these the chiefest among them and G. K. which was this vizx About fifteen Moneths ago William Stockdale an Antient Preacher having accused G. K. of pre●ching Two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ withou● the which G. K. hearing after he had private●y dealt with him laid his Compl●in first before about twelve of the friends of the Ministr● met at the House of R●bert Ewer who having done nothing in the said Meeting to ●●ing W. Stockdale to due Conviction or Condemnat●● for his said Error but rath●r for the most part d●d excuse and defend him as can well be proved by divers Credible Witnesse then present only two of the said Friends of the Ministry then present viz. John H●rt and John D●lavall dissented from the rest then G. K. did again lay his C●mp●●int before Friends of the Ministry at the last Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia in the first week of 7 Mon. 1691. and soberly desired to have their sence and judgment Whether he was guilty of preaching Two Christs or W●ether W. S. was not guilty of Blasphemy for saying Christ within and Christ without are Two Christs and no less than six several Meetings were had about this matter in that time of the Yearly Meeting and the first Meeting continued about ten hours viz. from about nine in the fore noon to the time that Candles were lighted in the evening And it must needs be granted That it was a time of tedious Exercise vexatious Perplexity in all the six Meetings but who was to be blamed for it deserveth your serious Examination Is it not matter of Astonishment that such an easie Question being proposed to so many men called Ministers of Christ all highly pretending to the Spirits immediate teachings and leading and to be in a degree of Christianity above all other Professions in Christendom there being assembled of these ca●●ed Ministers out of these three Provinces about forty or fifty if ●ot more six Meetings could not determine it viz. W●et●er to p●each Faith in Christ within us and Faith in Christ without us was to preach Two Christs or One Whereas G. K. had many Witnesses to clear him that he alwayes said when he tre●ted on that subject that Christ within us and Christ without us was but one Christ the ●ea●ure of the Gift of Christ within us and the Fullness without us in the Man Christ Jesus being one Lord Jesus Christ a sincer● Christian though in the lowest degree and but a Babe in Christ could have easily determined and resolved this Question and given ju●gm●nt against W. S. being guilty of Blasphemy against the Son of M●n though not against the holy Ghost for his blasphemous Assertion That to preach Faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ without was to preach Two Christs for according to him Christ without is a false Christ he being a great Owner in Pretence and words of Christ within and yet which will be matter of Admi●ration to all Impartial Persons that hear it who have the least true Knowledge in the Mystery of Christ t●i great and solemn Assembly of so many high Pretenders to be Ministers of Christ were at a great stand and demur● to determine and in the conclusion of the sixth Meeting gave but a very slender and partial determination and judgment concerning it which yet such as it was was not intimated by any Order of the Meeting as themselves have acknowledged And indeed such was the Partiality as well as the Ignorance and gross Unbelief that openly and manifestly appeared in these Meeting whereof sufficient Proof can be given and that of divers owned and esteemed great Preachers among us that is scarcely credible a hint whereof we think necessary to give for your true Information In one of these six Meetings T. Fitzwater in Prayer said O God that dyed in us and ●aid down thy Life in us and took it up again c. After he had ended his Prayer G. Keith G. Hatcheson and J. Hampton but f●w or none others greatly blamed T. F. for his ●rayer for it appeared to them as Blasphemy and surely it is not only contrary to Scripture but to the express Testimony of Friends That God is Immortal and cannot dye yea G. W. in his book called Judgment fixt expresly saith God cannot be impri●oned or imbond●ged with other words to that effect and so cannot dye Another called Robert Young a great Preacher among them openly said as many can bear witness in one of these Meetings That he did not find Christ without in all the Scripture further positively affirming

opposite Party and prejudiced against him And yet after all this for them to abuse Friends by writing to them such a gross Falshood That they had tenderly and orderly deals with G. K. is Abominable Hypocrisie 8 thly Nor are they more fair and just in accusing G. K. for Traducing and Villifying the two Old England Friends T. W. J. D. But they cannot prove that G. K. either said or did any thing but what was just and christian concerning them and it is too manifest that they were abused deceived and byassed by them of the other Party with Flattery and false Insinuations they gave against us letting us have scarce any their Company and they being thus deceived concerning us used many indirect Reflections mentioning Haman Baal Saul and Aaron which the Hearers generally understood they did intend G. K. and when he asked them If they did mean him and in pronouncing Woes c. they were not positive to clear him yet G. K. was exceeding sparing towards them until after they had openly blamed him and his Friends for the Seperation and prophecyed against us which caused G. K. to tell them they were deceived conce●ni●g us and for their better understanding desired them appoint a Meeting for that end which they not imbracing and J. D. comparing our Differences here which are as great as ever any was among any professing Christianity To Childrens falling out about Trifles caused G. K. and some others to go away to their own Meeting but G. K. put not on his Hat until he was out of the Gallary and out of the hearing of J. D. 9 thly Whereas they say They would have G. K. cease to offer his Gift among them What great Non-sence Confusion and Contradiction is this in them to suppose that G. K. hath a Gift to offer after they have rendered him as bad as the worst of men possibly can almost be as fallen on the soaring Mountains slain in his high Places gone into a Spirit of E●miry Wrat● Self-Exal ation c. and as a Person without the Fear of God before his Eyes in his Anger and Envy being Cruel against them with much more Surely if all this be true G. K. cannot be said to have the least grain of true Piety for he who hateth his Brother is a Mhrt●erer and no Murt●erer hath eternal Life abiding in him and according to Friends Doctrine and Principle No Impious or Wicked Man hath any Ministerial Gift to offer as this Paper supposeth or alloweth him to have This Confusion and Self-contradiction of their Paper showeth with many other things in it what a false Spirit it noth come from And many hundreds have a true judgment and sence of G. K. that he continueth in a living sence to God and hath aliving Ministry which hath a living Seal from the Spirit of God in the hearts of hundreds and that he is no such man as they in their Prejudice Ignorance describe him to be And for their blaming us for the ●●●eration in that they have given false Judgment against us for it lieth 〈◊〉 in door as appeareth by our Book Some Causes of the Seperation c. which they have not taken notice of nor can they contradict for all the matter therein is truth only there was a mistake of one mans name viz. ●●mer●y Adams who was not at the Meeting but we could have set down many others to make them up sixty at least and the matter in that Book lieth at their door to answer if they be able 10 thly Whereas they say G. K. at Meetings since the Seperation like an open Adversary hath revised several Friends by exposing their Religious Reputations in mixt Auditories of● some hundreds c. This is altogether false for it is no reviling to speak the Truth they cannot prove that G. K. hath spoke any thing of them but what is true altho' they have ●●orted both publickly and privately ●ant false thing● and among the rest their late defamatory Paper of Condemnation and it s but just and reasonable he should defend himself and his Testimony And now in the Conclusion we do first Solemnly Appeal to God the Righteous Judge of all men from the false Judgment of these prejudi●ed men against us and next to all faithful Friends and Brethren here in America and in ●ld England Scotland and Ireland or else-where to ●udge betwixt 〈◊〉 and them as the ●nerring and infallible Spi●ot shall be found and known to give them 〈◊〉 Judgment and Discerning and with great Assurance heace and Joy in the Lord to him ●e commit our Righteous 〈◊〉 G K T B Some brief Observations on their seeming Condemnation of William Stockdale which is rather as to the main a clearing of him and condemning him only as to some Circumstance and more severely and unchristianly and most falsly condemning G. K. First VVHereas they say They being prevented in their Meetings of late to proceed orderly in business by reason of a Turbulent unsubdued Spirit meaning without all doubt in G. K. but having respite at this time have considered c. This is great Hypocrisie and Deceit in them why were they prevented in their Meetings of late did G. K. by his Spirit lay violent hands either on their Tongues or Pens that they might not have given true Judgment against W. S. in a case so plain that a company of Children well instructed in the first Principles of Christianity the eldest of them not exceeding fifteen years could have given a just decision in less than one quarter of an hour But how could G. K's Spirit hinder them at the Yearly Meeting when he went out at their desire tho' there was no cause for hi● so doing more than for any of them for it was not G. K. but Christ Jesus that was mainly concerned in this Affair for whom and for his Glory if they had any zeal for him they ought to have been as much concerned as G. K. but it is fullfilled in them what is writ in Scripture of some that loved the praise of men more ●●an the praise of God But why did they take no time since the Yearly Meeting Why did they not take a quiet time to do it in G. K's absence when he was almost six Months absent in N. England betwixt his first Complaint and that Mee●ing at Burlington last first Month ha●ing gone twice into N. England and was each time absent about three Months And why did they nothing at the Meeting at Burlington against W. S. but heard false Accusations without all Proof against G. K Why are they so partial and hypocritical to pretend they had not time till now the 41. 4. mo 92. for about 15 Months past Why did they not call and appoint an extraordinary Meeting of Friends as they have formerly done upon a far less occasion as when thep presently called a Meeting at the House of Samuel Carpenter to pass Judgment against the Publishing of the Rhode-Island