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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45498	A true account of the proceedings, sence and advice of the people called Quakers at the Yearly Meeting of faithful Friends and bretheren begun in London on the 28th day of the 3d month, 1694, and held by adjournment unto the 11th of the month following, in order to put an end to the divisions and differences among some of the people called Quakers in America : to which is added, an account of the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting at Burlington, relating to the said differences, shewing the dis-harmony of the two said meetings : as also, Some queries to that party of the Yearly Meeting at London, who gave the aforesaid judgment.	Hannay, Robert.; Bealing, Benjamin, d. 1739.; Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting.; Society of Friends. Burlington Yearly Meeting.	1694 (1694)	Wing H656; ESTC R12805	11,418	21

between our Friends Geo. Keith and the rest concerned with him and our Friends Thomas Lloyd John Simcock Sam. Jennings and others joyned with them which hath tended to the Great Reproach of Truth and Friends and Dishonour of our Holy Profession And whereas there hath been a Paper signed by Thomas Lloyd Samuel Jennings John Simcock and others joyned with them being in Number Twenty eight of those who have opposed George Keith and the Friends joyned with him whereby he is condemned as a Person unfit and unqualified to be a Minister of Christ and as a Person without the fear of God before his eyes c. And whereas the said Paper of Condemnation hath been the occasion of setting up many separate Meetings as well as of other Confusion and Disturbance both privately and publickly in these Parts And whereas the said George Keith and others joyned with him being offended with the said Judgment have appealed to the Spirit of Truth and true Judgment of all faithful Friends at this Yearly Meeting and have requested by a Second Paper sent to the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned with him That they might have a fair Hearing and Tryal before impartial Friends who have not taken part to the signing Papers sent to each other on either side the Second Day of the said Meeting about an hour after the breaking up of the Meeting for Publick Worship and we whose Names are hereunto subscribed being extreamly grieved and troubled under a sence of the Reproaches the Truth has met withal by reason of the said unhappy Difference yet having not concerned our selves actually in the said Difference on either side being met at the said Meeting-House with true Desires to the Lord that he would make us instrumental to put an end to the said Difference and truly make up the said Breach before it grow wider according to the Request of the said George Keith and the rest of the Friends joyned with him in their said Appeal And the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned though again desired by two Messengers from the Meeting to appear and they refusing the Meeting adjourned till an hour after the Publick Meeting the next day and then being assembled and the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned still refusing to come although the said Thomas Lloyd had lately before advised the said George Keith to make Application to the Yearly Meeting in this Case as Divers of us can witness and the said George Keith and the rest concerned laying their Complaint before us and the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest concerned not appearing though again desired several times our Expectations and Desires with respect to that effectual and absolute healing the said Breach is in some measure frustrated Notwithstanding whereof having heard the Papers on both sides read and having weightily and deliberately considered them do give it as our Sence and Judgment That the said George Keith and his Friends concerned in the said Paper of Condemnation are not guilty of the Charges and Censures therein contained and that therefore for the Honour Prosperity and Welfare of Truth and Peace and Quietness of the Churches of Christ in these Parts and elsewhere the said Thomas Lloyd and the rest of the said Twenty eight Persons forthwith Re-call their said Paper of Condemnation and that they condemn the same by a Writing under their Hands directed to all the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings whereunto the said Paper was directed And that they forbear offering to speak by way of publick Testimony in Meetings till they have so done And we do also give it as our Judgment That those Publick Friends who are charged with Misdemeanours and Ill Behaviour in their Lives and Conversations do forbear speaking in Publick Meetings by way of Testimony till they clear themselves and make Satisfaction to their Brethren And that all Publick Friends on both sides forbear all Railing and Reviling one another either publickly or privately which hath only this tendency to dishonour Truth and lay Stumbling-blocks in the Way of the Weak but that in such Case they observe the Primitive Churches Order established by Christ and his Apostles and practised among Friends Signed by Us in behalf of Our Selves and many more Friends who are one with us herein Robert Turner Elias Burling John Reid Charles Reade Thomas Coborne Harmon Vpdengraves Thomas Powel Nathaniel Fitzrandal Joseph Richards Edmund Wells Thomas Kimber John Neall Anthony Woodward Andrew Smith William Hixon John Panceast Henry Burcham Thomas Hearse John Jones Joseph Willcox Thomas Godfrey John Budd Roger Parke Caleb Wheatly Edward White Thomas Gladwin Thomas Rutter Edward Smith Benjamin Morgan Joseph Sharp William Thomas John Bainbridge John Snowden William Black William Snowden Abraham Brown John Hampton Daniel Bacon Joseph Adams Edward Guy Barnard Devonish Samuel Ellis Thomas Cross James Moore Thomas Jenner John Harper Robert Wheeler Nathaniel Walton Robert Roe Peter Boss Thomas Bowles William Budd James Silver Samuel Taylor Griffith Jones William Righton Thomas Kendal Samuel Houghton Emanuel Smith Peter Daite Richard Sery George Willcox William Wells Isaac Jacobs van Bibet Cornelius Scevers William Snead David Sherkis John Carter Henry Paxon Thomas Tindal FINIS

to the World to the View of our Enemies both in America and Europe hath been of great dis-service to the Truth and given great occasion of Offence and stumbling to many and of great Sorrow and Grief to us and many Faithful Friends opening the Mouths of our Adversaries Professors and others to reproach the Truth and Friends thereof And it 's the clear and general Sense of this Meeting That G. Keith and the rest therein concerned with him were not acted in God's Wisdom and Counsel therein and that they ought to have had more regard to God's Glory and the Reputation of our Christian Society and Profession And altho it appears that some few persons have given Offence either through Erroneous Doctrines unsound Expressions or Weakness Forwardness Want of Wisdom and Right Vnderstanding yet the spreading thereof in Print and in that aggravating manner as they are and sending them over into England and other parts of the World unconcerned in the differences appears not to be in God's Peaceable Wisdom nor consistent with the good Order of Truth among us since we were a People And therefore it is the tender Advice and Counsel That G. Keith should either call in these Books or at least publish something Innocently and effectually to clear the Body of the People called Quakers and their Ministers from those Gross Errors charged on some few in America and retract the bitter Language in them so far as he is concerned which seems to have too much appeared in some few particular persons on both sides thereby giving occasion to Truth 's Adversaries to asperse us and to look upon the Quakers rendering Reviling for Reviling one against another which is of an ill savour and to be remov'd by God's Power and Truth and the Root and Spirit thereof in whomsoever it is And as to the Separation among Friends in America arising from the unhappy differences and the dividing some Meetings there It hath been and is to the great reproach of Truth and Friends and dishonour of our holy Professions and hinderance of Truth 's Prosperity and the great Grief and Trouble of Faithful Friends both in England and other parts of the World And how far soever G. Keith hath been concerned therein which the general Sense of Friends here is doth lye at his door He ought now sincerely to use his utmost Endeavours and Interest with his Friends concern'd to remove it and to help forward a Re-uniting and Amicable composure for the holy Truth 's sake and the Clory of God and Peace of his People And wherein G. Keith apprehends himself injured or aggreived by any particular persons he ought to exercise a Spirit of Forgiveness as he would for Christ's sake be forgiven of God and his People accordingly as he himself has sometimes openly declar'd And we desired the same in all others concerned towards him as in relation to personal Injuries or Offences And as concerning those few late Magistrates professing the Truth concerned against G. Keith in their Sessions-Proceedings and Order of Sessions published against him and in their fining him and some few others professing the Truth about words of Reflection or such like It is the Sense of Friends That G. Keith and others with him had been and were under an hour of Temptation and Provocation And those Magistrates concerned did too much let in the Provocation over them and did too highly resent Reflection and it had been better they had not medled with it but quietly have born it and passed it by and had they kept in the Wisdom of God these things might have been prevented There appears to us to have been too much height of Spirit on both sides and both had need to be deeply humbled both Provokers and Provoked Tho the Legality or Illegality of the Proceedings according to Men it appears not proper for this Meeting to meddle with howbeit the Book of the Printed Trial of the Proceeding where Quakers are represented to persecute Quakers has done great hurt in this Nation and other parts and occasioned great Reproach upon the said People in this Nation whereby many of our Enemies insult over us as if we were a People swayed by a persecuting Spirit saying We knew what the Quakers would do if they had power in their hands And therefore Friends ought to be cleared from that Reproach howbeit the said Book appearing scandalous in divers parts of it Inquiry was made in this Meeting who was the Author and Owner of it and G. Keith disowned it to be his but he owned that part of it which concerned his Trial and T. Budd said he was not willing to discover the Author's Name Therefore our Sense is That the Publishers of that Book if they profess Truth should call it in and condemn its publication and sending it over hither to our great Reproach and Injury of the Truth and people of God We understand from divers Epistles and Testimonies from many of our Friends in America corresponding with us in Brotherly Love That they appear to be in a Spirit of Love and of a sound Mind and Judgment in the things of God in the Faith of Christ and principle Doctrines of Christianity and particularly besides other Epistles we observe one bearing date the 17 th of Month 4. 1692. signed with near 30 Names from a Meeting of Ministring Friends wherein they do appear sincerely to believe and confess their Faith in Christ according to the Scriptures both as to his Conception Birth Life Sufferings Miracles Death Resurrection Ascension and Intercession and that all he did and suffered was to compleat our Redemption and that they expected Salvation by no other Name than by the Name of Jesus to which every knee shall bow and Tongue confess and that of the Resurrection and General Judgment they believe them according as they are declared in Scripture Thus far they Nevertheless if there be any such Gross Errors False Doctrines or Mistakes held by any professing Truth in America as are either against the Validity of Christs Sufferings Blood Resurrection Ascension or Glory in the Heavens according as they are set forth in the Scriptures or any ways tending to the denial of the Heavenly Man Christ such persons ought to be diligently instructed and admonished by Faithful Friends in those parts and not be exposed by any to publick Reproach and where the Error proceeds from Ignorance and darkness of their Understanding they ought the more meekly and gently to be informed But if any shall wilfully persist in Error in point of Faith after duly informed then such to be further dealt with according to Gospel Order that the Truth Church and Body of Christ may not suffer by any particular pretended Member that is so corrupt It was very observable in this our solemn Meeting that G. Keith in order to remove some scruples that might be in the Minds of some concerning his belief or Doctrine about the Sufficiency of the Light within did voluntarily