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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47159	More divisions amongst the Quakers as appears by the following books of their own writing, viz. I. The Christian faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers. II. The false judgment of a yearly meeting of Quakers in Maryland, condemn'd by George Keith, Thomas Budd, &c. all Quakers : to which is added, A discovery of this mystery of iniquity / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing K182; ESTC R14234	21,479	25

in Pensilvania that they call'd a Meeting on purpose to pass Judgment against the Publishing of it and William Bradford for printing it c. See The Plea c. p. 21. False Judgments Reprehended AND A Just Reproof to THO. EVERNDON And his Associates and Fellow-Travellers For the false and rash Judgment T. E. gave against G. K. and his Faithful Friends and Brethren at the Publick Meeting at Philadelphia the 27th of the tenth Month 1692. And also for their bringing with them their Paquet of Letters Saul like to Damascus containing the false Judgment of a Faction of of Men calling themselves the Yearly-Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland the fourth of the eighth Month 92. And another false Judgment contained in another Letter from William Richardson All which will return upon their own Heads IT is greatly worth the noticing That these men who call themselves the Yearly Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland met the 4th of the 8th Month 1692. have most rashly and unchristianly contrary to all Gospel-Order condemned G.K. and his Friends as appears by their Paper signed by Thomas Everndon Rich. Johns Richard Harrison John Pitt W. Dixon Ja. Ridley and several others without at all hearing of him or sending any of their Brethren to enquire into the truth of things or true cause and ground of the Separation here and such other things as they lay to his charge And whereas they say in their Letter That he accuseth his Brethren and renders them to the World as a People not fit to hold Communion with and that there are more damnable Heresies and Errors cloaked amongst the Quakers there viz. in Pensilvania than in any Protestant Society in Christendom Answ O the gross partiality and injustice of these men when was it that G.K. published this to the World viz. That they cloaked more damnable Heresies and Errors here than in any Protestant Society in Christendom Was it not in answer to the 28 false Judges that had published in the face of the World their false Judgment against him in which they publish these words and not G. Keith for he spoke them in a private Meeting at a private House in Burlington where about 20 men called Ministers were met and had they been wise they would not have so publickly accused G.K. for them in their said Paper which though they did not print yet caused it to be read at monthly and quarterly Meetings and at other Meetings on First-days and Week-days where many that did not profess to be Quakers were present whereby it was noised all about and G.K. was publickly opposed and interrupted in his Testimony in most places and when he prayed in Meetings many kept on their Hats and all because of this Paper of false Judgment against him by the 28 and it is but a circumstance whether a thing be printed or not seeing they published it all over the Country and sent it to most parts in America where there is of the People called Quakers before G.K. published it in print so they were the Publishers of it and not G.K. And this is sufficient to discover their Partiality and Injustice in this particular which is the principal thing they pretend to have against him Again whereas they blame him for Separating from Friends and Brethren By this it plainly appeareth that they own such to be their Brethren who are guilty of denying and opposing Faith in the Man Christ without us which these here have done And for the Separation which our Opposers first made and were the cause of we are well warranted by the holy Scripture that saith Come out from among them and be ye separate Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers what fellowship hath a Believer with an Infidel and such indeed are all them who have not Faith in the Man Christ without them as in Christ in them as these our Opposers have not who set up the Light within to be sufficient without any thing else as their Judgment against him plainly expresseth so excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us from having any part in our Salvation Again they tell G. K. That if any of them had been guilty of these things he ought to have laboured their Recovery in Love and in the Spirit of Meekness Answ And so he did for above a year with much love and patience and met with great contradiction hatred and reviling Language from them for his pains and he did bear and suffer so long that he could not with peace of Conscience suffer it any longer and brought the matter of Difference orderly from one Meeting to another but there was no Remedy And whereas they say He ought to have stated the Difference and sent it to London He did write to G. Whitehead and Friends at London and had their answer approving his Doctrine before he printed any thing and yet this prevailed nothing But G. K. did not write to them as having any uncertainty or doubt in himself of the truth of the Doctrine asserted by him nor was he free to submit so great a matter of Faith and Conscience by way of absolute submission to any man or number of men as Whether Christ without us was to be believed in as well as Christ within us as necessary to our Salvation for things of that nature are not to be submitted by way of absolute submission to the best of men it contradicteth our ancient Principle viz. That the Spirit in each particular is the Rule of Faith and Doctrine But G. K. did never refuse to appeal or submit to the Spirit of Truth in any of his faithful Friends in old England or any where else but proffered it and was refused not doubting their unity with him in this weighty matter but because it is so unquestionable a Truth among Christians That Christ without is as necessary to be believed in for our Salvation as that God in Heaven is to be believed in therefore he thought it not necessary to concern his faithful Friends to seek their assistance to determine that which all Christendom grants in words and none but the greatest Apostates and Hereticks dare deny Next Let it be observed that after Tho. Everndon and the rest had given forth the said false Judgment in Maryland T. Everndon accompanied with Rich. Johns Rich. Harrison and Humphry Hodges comes to Philadelphia and before they had been here 48 hours out of the Meeting on the 27th day of the tenth Month in a publick Meeting appointed at Philadelphia where was present about 500 People T. Everndon said That having seen certain printed Books that came down to Maryland wherein his Brethren were charged with denying the Man Christ Jesus and Faith in him and the Resurrection of the dead I said said he I would go up and see what the matter is among my Brethren whether these things be so or not that these Books come down among us wherein they are charged with denying these things and now since I am come I

Drunkards But G.K. said he had not made them stink but themselves had done it as when the Sun shines warm on a Dunghil the Dunghil is to be blamed for the stink not the Sun Also G. K. did expostulate with T. E. and his Companions Why they did lay open to the World the Adultry of T. T. once a great Preacher among them whereby the Quakers generally thereaway became a stink and a song of the Drunkards and many on that very account left the Quakers Meetings They replied His wickedness rested on his own head To which G. K. said If carnal Adultery be not to be hid no more is spiritual Adultery as this is to deny the Lord that bought us So that their blaming G. K. for not sending to Friends in other Parts or to London is as idle as if we should send to London to enquire whether Adultery be a sin for which we ought to deny them who are guilty as fit to be separated from and not fit to hold Communion with And why should G. K. and his Friends any more delay their publishing to the World after endeavours used to reclaim them a Testimony against some mens spiritual Adultery here which is their gross Heresie in denying the Faith of Christ without us as he died for our sins c. as necessary to our Salvation any more than they in Maryland delay'd to publish T. T 's carnal Adultery Or why should G. K. and his Friends call for the assistance of Friends in remote Parts or at London to condemn a Heresie that is as manifest a sin as Adultery is and if Friends at London found themselves concern'd to give forth a Testimony in print against one that was said to carry the Bible to the Exchange to burn it ought not G.K. and his Friends to be concerned to give forth a Testimony against them that deny Christ without us not owning him to be concerned in our Salvation but only the Light within us seeing to deny Christ of whom the Bible declareth is more than to deny the Bible that is a declaration of him And one of T. E's Companions viz. Rich. Johns charged G.K. for casting the Errors of particular Persons on the Body of Friends which G. K. denied and proffer'd to show him that he clear'd faithful Friends of it and did not charge these Errors and Heresies upon all here nor elsewhere nor yet upon any others that are not guilty as we believe many are not but only upon a Party or Faction of men that are no true Quakers but degenerated from the true Principles and Practices of the Quakers And in their Paper Richard Johns and the rest give false Judgment in matter of Fact viz. That we have rent and separated from Friends for these who have separated from us and we are separated from them are no true Friends and Brethren because holding Antichristian Doctrines and we have not rent nor are separated from faithful Friends as we have always declared see our first Book call'd Some Causes of the late Separation p. 23. we say We design not any Separation from our faithful Brethren here or any where else in any part of the world for we declare we are one with all our faithful Brethren in all parts of the world both in Spirit Doctrine and Practice of true Christianity we faithfully believe that our Faith in all things doth well agree to all our faithful Brethren every where and is the real sound and upright Faith as is hath been received not only by ancient Christians in all Ages of the World but also by the most sound ancient and present Friends of Truth called in scorn Quakers And in The Plea of the Innocent p. 10. it is expresly declared That G. K. is in unity with Truth and faithful Friends not only in old England but all places where they are The next is a Letter from W. Richardson to G. K. dated the 20th of the tenth Mon. 92. from West-River in Maryland who chargeth G. K. That his Spirit strikes at the Light as not being sufficient and sets people a gazing in the Air and some to question whether they have received the Truth or not saying further What is the meaning of these Noises of Faith in Christ without and Faith within like to what Rich. Johns said to G. K. That it was a needless distinction viz. Christ within and Christ without seeing no true Believer in Christ within dare disown the Work Miracles and holy Doctrine performed in that Body Note Reader the fallacy of his words concerning Christ without which are no more than any Socinian or Pelagian will own but he hath not a word of owning Faith in Christ without us being necessary to our salvation for it is not enough to own the Doctrine Miracles and Works of the Man Christ without us for the Doctrine Miracles and Works of the Prophets and Apostles are to be owned but yet none of them are to be believed in as the Author of our Eternal Salvation but Christ only and it is apparent by his Letter that he agreeth with J. Wilsford and other his ignorant Brethren that only the Faith of Christ within is the true Faith that purifieth the heart and that the Faith of Christ without is historical outward and traditional a made and formed Faith that the Lord never was the Author of and this is that Faith which he blameth G. K. for contending about whereby he showeth his exceeding great Ignorance for G.K. hath preached in the hearing of W. Richardson several times the Faith of Christ both without and within not to be any made or formed Faith of mens making but the inward work gift of God wrought in all who have it by the Spirit and Power of God even that mighty Power that raised Christ from the dead Therefore let who will despise and reject this Faith we are well assur'd we have many faithful Brethren both in America England Scotland Ireland and other parts of the world who are lovers of the crucifi'd Jesus and will bless God in our behalf that he hath rais'd us up to stand witnesses for his holy Truth in the midst of such great contradiction and opposition To conclude it is no small matter of Admiration to us that so many called Quakers in Maryland who have all along pretended That they were not free in Conscience to contribute to the Militia yet now joyn with our Opposers here who have begun to persecute some of us by Fines and Imprisonment for asserting the Quakers Principle against the use of the outward Sword See our Printed Appeal George Keith Thomas Budd A DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity and Hyprocrisie Acting and Ruling in HVGH DERBOROVGH HAving seen a Paper of Hugh Derborough's which was read by Sam. Jenings at their last Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphia and approved by the Meeting and he received and owned as one of their Church-Members I found it convenient to say something in Answer to it he

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 sence 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 though he has a Wife of his own and though 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 Secondly 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 Fourthly 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 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 found in the Doctrine and 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 Christ's Command who hath commanded us to be separate from Unbelievers 2 Cor. 6.14 27. Fifthly Whereas he accuseth me for saying The Light within is not sufficient without somewhat else he knowing in his Conscience as well as his Associates that by that something else I understand not Humane Learning nor the Letter of the Scripture nor outward Preaching but the Man Christ Jesus without us in whom all fulness of Grace Truth Light and Life dwelleth and his Death and Sufferings Resurrection Ascension and 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 though 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 Nonsensical Puppey he doth most palpably contradict his present Assertion for if the Grace of God within us be the Effect of Christ's Death and Sufferings then we are not saved only by the Grace within but by the Death and 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 and Sufferings of Christ and his most perfect Obedience unto Death and shedding 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 and reconcile us unto God and so was needful to our Salvation as the great Atonement and Sacrifice of Expiation as well as the procuring Cause of his Grace in us But since he chargeth me with an Errour for holding That the Grace or Light within is not sufficient without something else then seeing nothing can be an Errour but because it is opposite to some Truth that which it is opposite to is That the Light within is sufficient without any or every thing else and if so then he excludes wholly the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation Sixthly As to the Testimonies he citeth out of Rob. Barclay's Apology they are of the same nature with what J. Delavall hath formerly cited in his Papers to which I have answered and refer to the same in print where I show that R. B. no where saith in all his Apology That the Light or Grace within is sufficient to Salvation without the Man Christ Jesus without us and what he did and suffered for us on Earth and his present Mediation and Intercession for us in Heaven All that can be gathered from R. B's words in any of his Books is first 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 Secondly That men may be saved and many have been saved who have not heard Christ outwardly preached to them nor never heard or read the outward Testimony of the Scriptures concerning him Thirdly That a good Work of God may be begun in men that is of a tendency to Salvation and is 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. Barclay'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 wherewithal to prove me in an Errour but only some Citations out of R. B. perverted and falsly applied by him And it is another piece either of gross Hypocrisie and Deceit or bold and impudent Rashness in him to say That R. Barclay doth not say the Express Knowledge of Christ who as Man died for the sins of the World for though he doth not say it in one place yet he hath it in another as pag. 86. of his Latine Apology truly thus Englished The History is profitable and comfortable joyned with the Mystery but not without it but the Mystery is and can profit without the explicit or express knowledge of the History and I still affirm the same Seventhly He grosly and most impudently belyeth me in his Paper That in my printed