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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54080	Certain certificates received from America, on behalf of Samvel Jennings, tending to clear him from scandals cast on him by George Keith, and others of his opposers made publick by John Pennington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1224; ESTC R18336	16,803	46

his Spirit and his unfair way of treating his Opponent by obtruding as Evidence what he disallows from others and that at a time when he could not defend himself by reason of his distance as they are matters deducible from his late printed Books without dependance upon Evidence elsewhere so are they left with the Reader as Introductory to the following Certificates my aim herein being to vindi●ate the Traduced undeceive the Deceived and lay open the Deceiver and not to trace him through the several Parts of his Book which affords matter enough but shall refer that to the Friends more immediately concerned to do it when G. K's Answer shall come to their Hands and so conclude this Epistle who am Thy Friend J. P. Certain Certificates received from America c. From our Monthly Meeting held at our Meeting-house in Chesterfield in the Province of West-Jersey the Second of the Sixth Month 1694. To all our Faithful Friends and Brethren that live and abide in the Truth Greeting HAving seen a Paper printed wherein we find many black and dark Charges against many Faithful Friends of known Integrity in these Parts and in particular against our Well-beloved Friend and Brother Samuel Jennings therein being Charged with such Enormities as Drunkenness running Horse-races and Persecution c. which we fully believe are altogether false and unjustly laid to his Charge arising from the Spirit of Envy and Darkness and to be judged by the Light that discovers from whence it comes seeing many of us have known him from the first of his coming into these Parts and we know those things wherewith he is charged were always an abhorrence to him As to his Conversation amongst us we can sincerely testifie it was coupled with the Fear of God He was a Man of great Tenderness and Love to all the Faithful He was Just to all Men and as to his Testimony we had always good unity with it and have been often refreshed hy him An Instrument in the Hand of the Lord for good unto many the Lord hath made him in these Parts of the World and it is our earnest Desires to the Lord that he may be preserved in the same Love and Life in which he left us And when his Service for the Lord and his Truth is over with you for the present our Prayers and Supplications are to the Lord for his safe Return unto us again Amen Signed by order in behalf of the Meeting by me Mahlon Stacey From our Monthly Meeting held at the House of Thomas Gardner in Burlington in West New-Jersey the 6th of the 6th Month 1694. TO our dear Friends and Brethren in the blessed Truth of our Lord Jesus Christ whose habitation and standing is in the same according to the Manifestation of it wherein God in the Riches of his Love first visited us to our great Satisfaction and Consolation being by it brought into a blessed and sweet fellowship dear and tender love one to another in which notwithstanding all the Subtil workings of the Enemy the Accuser of the brethren we can say to the Praise and Honour of the Lord a little remnant is still preserved feeling the good presence of our God often to attend us and refresh us in our waiting upon him And in this we dearly Salute you desiring your welfare preservation and prosperity every way as our own Now dear Friends the writing of these few lines to you at this time is occasioned * Who should spread this report but G. K's party here by a report we hear that our worthy Friend Samuel Jennings now with you is much Slighted by reason of a Book * We see whom these Friends repute as the Authors put forth by Peter Boss George Keith Thomas Budd and William Bradford Printed in the Year 1693 called New England's Spirit of persecution c. Contrived and Promulgated chiefly what in them lies to the defamation of our said Friend S. J. And because he is a Man who for several Years past hath lived amongst us both as a Minister and a Magistrate we are free and willing to signifie unto you something of our knowledge of him in both Capacities As to his behaviour and first as to his Service in the Church of God He was a Man very Zealous for good order and where any that professed the Truth had walked disorderly his censures of them were no other then were very needful for his endeavour hath been to keep Truth from being Reproached not at all seeking Lordship or Superiority as his Adversaries would insinuate And as to his Testimony it was Sound and Savoury assisted by the good Power and Presence of the Lord therein to the day of his departure from us and we hope you find it so with him still we pray God preserve him And Secondly as a Magistrate we believe he managed the Trust reposed in him according to the best of his knowledge and was no way lofty or more high-minded then at other times We could give some instances of it as his Labouring with his Servants at Plough Cart Splitting-logs and other such like servile Employments even at the same time when he was in the place of Governour and many other things too tedious here to relate And as for Fines and perquisites we think he was not neither had cause to be elevated by reason of them neither did he seek them and if any wrong was done it was his own estate that Suffered Now as to the Book in general and some of the Witnesses that live amongst us in p rticular As to that part of it that relates to the Trial at Philadelphia we shall say little believing that you will have a large account thereof from those that know more of it then we do Only we have seen so much of George Keith's insolent and provoking behaviour towards Friends here away that we believe his carriage towards Friends there as Magistrates was intolerable and what proceedings were against them there are aggravated beyond the bounds of Truth with a design chiefly to defame our Friend Samuel Jennings as well as others Now to be more particular And first concerning this Man Peter Boss that makes such a great Noise with his Queries and Witnesses to prove them we shall say a little to what comes within our knowledge First we believe that prejudice hath entred him against S. J. ever since that time the Meeting had to do with him and gave Judgment against him concerning a difference he had with his Neighbour and that ever since he hath been gathering up and keeping all that any could or would say against him and if he knew of any that had found the least dislike with S. J. he would Query with them flatter perswade c. till he had made up those bundles of Stuff in the Book and if Friends or sober People did but know how reproachful his Life and Conversation has been amongst us and how Friends have been exercised and concerned

shew me but neither he nor I could find them So if this were a Survey I shall leave to be tried and judged and if it be none I would be informed what I have done that would be abominated amongst sober Heathens or that might not be done by as good a Christian as Elias Farr So that my Answer and Resolution is that as I have Surveyed all that vacant Land which on all sides incloseth the Meadow aforesaid to hold it until such time I can receive a better account of any other Title to it For if Matthews have any how much For all was never pretended to and if not all but some then how bounded and how to be found that the remainder may be known These things I expect and resolve to be satisfied in and if it appear the Land I have taken or any part of it were Surveyed to Matthews I will give thee no trouble to recover it but will readily resign it but if not know I will not be frighted out of it by being told of Matthews his great Estate and Interest For I hope I have enough to defend a Just Cause which ends this From thy Friend Samuel Jennings I am going just now a Journey and shall scarce return in less than a Week in the mean while provide thy self and at my return I shall not refuse to meet thee in any way of a decision I Benjamin More do testifie that what is mentioned in the Book about taking me by the Throat is as great a Lie as ever was Printed But I do say he was as good a Master both to me and other Servants as I would desire to serve As witness my Hand I served him three Years Benjamin More I Thomas Brian having seen an Accusation in a Book that my Master Jennings knocked down and broke his Cane on one of his Servants As to being knocked down it is a very Lie but it is true the Cane was broken but not by unmerciful Blows for they were no more than I then deserved And as for his dealings with me it was always as any honest Master ought to do to his Servants I did serve him Six Years and have known him Fourteen Years and never saw him any ways disguised in Drink or run Races As witness my Hand Thomas Briant West-Jersey the third of the sixth Month 1694. To all Friends and People to whose Hands this may come I Having heard and seen many dark and black Charges against my dear Friend and former Master Samuel Jennings whom the Lord hath made Instrumental in his Hand for the good of many in this his powerful Day And notwithstanding this his Service yet he hath not escaped the reviling of wicked and ungodly Men. And I living with him about half a Year am willing to say something as I did know him and in particular concerning those Reflections cast upon him concerning his hard usage of his Servants I have from time to time and all times as occasion hath presented and do at this time freely speak and from the bottom of my Heart believe that he was a real and a very honest-minded Man towards his Servants I may omit to speak of divers Privileges which his Servants had which I think few in the Country had the like to speak of the Care which I have known him take for his Servants expressing that the desire of his Heart was however the Lot of him or his Children might be as to the outward that he might have wherewithal to do justly by his Servants who were willing to come with him and put their Trust in him Truly it was manifest both in Food and Raiment and as far as I did know in moderation in Labour and I being an Eye and Ear-witness to these things and seeing the whole aim and drift of the Backsliders in our day as was their practice in former Ages to bespatter defame and belie the true Followers of Christ notwithstanding their great talk of him this I was willing to signifie and do rest and remain your loving Friend John Willsford Junior Burlington the fourth of the sixth Month 1694. THese are to certifie all whom it may concern that I Benjamin More Junior having been a Servant to Samuel Jennings for Seven Years together do testifie that he was so good a Master to me as that if I had a Service to perform again I should chuse him for my Master as soon as any one I know But I must acknowledge that my self and other Servants that were young Lads like my self were quarrelsome and oftentimes disorderly for which he gave us moderate Correction But when it was discovered and made appear that young Silver had stolen Oats Powder Shot Wooll and other things as also John Smith for Stealing Eggs c. to bring to his Wife I cannot remember he gave them one blow for that As witness my Hand Benjamin w More his mark Philadelphia the eighth of the sixth Month 1694. I Having seen and heard many Aspersions that are cast upon my Friend Samuel Jennings the which I am well assured and do certainly know that they are cast upon him from the Enmity and Bitterness of the Spirits of such who have not seeked the Peace of Sion but rather have laboured as much as in them lyes for to make Breaches within her Walls and who have worse than in the Case of Ham as much as in them lyes not only uncovered Nakedness but have endeavoured to make that show like Nakedness where there was none whose Labour and Works will be rewarded according to their own doings if that they repent not which that they may hath been often the Desire of my Heart And having seen the Testimonies of several of my Friends whom I well know and whose Testimonies I believe for to be true concerning him and having had some certain knowledge of him my self and been acquainted with him almost ever since he came hither being here before him and having been at many Meetings with him upon the account of Worshipping as also at Monthly Meetings In both of which I can freely say that I never had that I know of the least against his Testimony but was well satisfied with it and comforted by it and as to his Carriage and Management in Monthly Meetings I never saw but that it was according to Truth and I did always believe and know that he was serviceable to the Meeting to the which he belonged upon that account And as to other Concerns I have several times been concerned with him in outward Affairs and I always found him to be wise to manage an outward Concern and when he hath been grated upon I can singly say both in things Spiritual and Temporal that I never saw but that he behaved himself well And this I freely signifie for Truth 's sake and to ease my Friend of those Aspersions William Biles POSTSCRIPT THese foregoing Certificates relating to some of the Charges exhibited against S. J. I leave with the