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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