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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46824	The state of the case, briefly but impartially given betwixt the people called Quakers, Pensilvania, &c. in America, who remain in unity, and George Keith, with some few seduced by him into a separation from them as also a just vindication of my self from the reproaches and abuses of those backsliders / by Samuel Jennings.	Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708.	1694 (1694)	Wing J670; ESTC R3996	38,369	87

may easily be proved the far greater part pressed and desired it But methinks G. K. should blush to stile any Man Vnruly and Disorderly though it were true since it 's hard to find any thing of Mankind especially pretending to Learning and a Civil Education that in that respect can equ● himself But she says That one of them threatned 〈◊〉 bind an honest Friend to the Peace I know not who it was that threatned that nor to whom but such as know G. K. and the Company that came with him and others that follow his here may pretty well guess what he might be for an Honest Friend But that I did inquire If there were a Constable there is true and I thought was very needful to keep the Peace And there being one there I did Charge him as was my Duty to do that and no more For they had raised such a Tumult and Disorder in the Meeting that the Woman of the House came to me under much Concern and told me She feared there would be mischief For tho' they did not Strike yet in their Rage there were some that did violently eatch at the Paper to have torn it away who had so little of Religion in them that we had no assurance but they could Fight as well as Snatch and Rail This was the Meeting where G. K. himself called a Magistrate viz. Direck op de Grave Impudent Rascal which afterwards to justifie he was put to the trouble of using Goodman's Dictionary I think this last passage shews there was so much of Heat and Disorder as might need a Constable to suppress G. K. in one of his Books which I have not by me charges me with openly calling one of our Church-Members in a Monthly-Meeting Nonsensicai Puppy The first Intimation I had of this was in Print which somewhat surprised me knowing my self to be Clear of it But being said to be spoken in a Monthly-Meeting I went to divers of the Members of that Meeting to inquire if they heard any such thing or could tell me who had raised it All that spake with said They heard no such thing Till at last it was said to be spoken by one Tho. Tress a sort of an odd singular Man that sometimes Meets with Friends sometimes with the Separatists However he affirmed it to be true I endeavoured to Convince him that it must be at best a mistake seeing there were so many some of which were much nearer to me than him who affirmed they heard no such thing nor did they believe any such thing And I do solemnly affirm There was no such thing And so shall leave the Probability of the Truth of it to be judged by others But to Aggravate the Crime it 's said to be spoken to a Church-Member too What I did say was spoken to Griffith Jones who I never heard himself affirmed any such thing of me so in that respect was a better Church-Member than he that had falsely Accused me But what Griffith is for a Church-Member I suppose is well known here as well as elsewhere In that Book under the Name of Roben Hanny p. 13. I am charged with Attesting to Name of God to a Lye as G. K. proved to the Yearly Meeting by a Paper signed by Sam●● Jennings his own hand What I said in the Yearly Meeting was true viz. That G. K. did say That there were more damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils amongst the Quakers that amongst any Profession of Protestants And think I had Reason to know it for I wrote it from his Mouth and read it to him and he denied it not at that time Besides it is not I only but the Meeting of Ministring Friend in Pensilvania c. that says it for the Paper is from them But his Cavil at the Paper is because it saith in another part of it That he repeating the said words over again declared the same thing viz. That there were more damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils amongst them instead of Quakers than amongst any Profession of Protestants Who that them was he had declared before viz. the Quakers and who did he speak it to Quakers And is any thing more common than to say to any Society such or such things are amongst them But I shall not insist further on it believing that no honest Friend believed that I was Guilty of any such thing for if they had no doubt I should have been Censored much less that it was proved against me And here I think the Author of that Pamphlet hath ventured upon Two great Falshoods to prove me guilty of One viz. First That what I said was a Lye And Secondly That it was proved so In that Book called the Causeless Ground of Surmise c. p. 12 13. G. K. seems equally uneasie that the Yearly Meeting have censured me and Friends in America no more as that they have censured him and those in the Separation with him so much I shall here pass by his complaint of what he calls the false Judgment of the 28 having spoken to it before but I shall here take notice of the Instance he gives of my great Pride When some of their Friends as he saith were Expostulating the case with me I stretched out my hand saying If I draw forth my hand I will not pull it in again until I have quelled you all Something to this effect I did say though not in the same words which I acknowledge to be unadvisedly spoken and I might have exprest my self in words less subject to exception But it ought always to be allowed where any thing Ambiguous is spoken for the person to interpret his meaning and I do solemnly say I never intended them in that Sense as they are by him and his party perversly construed as in the Book of the Tryal c. They say this presumptuous expression savoureth too much of Lucifers Pride who said I will be like the most high c. I think none that know me can suspect me to be guilty of such Vanity and Impiety but the Friend he speaks of that expostulated with me were of his own party particularly John Macon of whom I have spoken already and Ralph Ward of whom there is no great reason to speak much as a Friend these two with overs others of the Rabble followed the Magistrates as they were going from the Cou● to Dinner and they two especially did ra●● and shall intollerably at us saying Then thank d God we could not take their Live away but we coveted their Goods to who● I replied let us alone you see that we an unwilling to take any great notice of you abuses and do the least we can do but the following us in the Street and persisting i● their raillery occasioned me to say what I did the meaning of which in a candid and true Sense was no more then this That if I on● ingage and make use of the power I have is the station I

no man upon the Face of the Earth ●at believeth and professeth it more than himself ●ere he seems to acknowledge the sufficiency ●f the Light as much as those he quarrels ●ith But he endeavours to suggest and ●ould sednce the unwary into a Belief that ●y our Acknowledgment thereof we deny and exclude the Man Christ Jesus and all the Bene●●s and Blessings that accrue to Mankind by him 〈◊〉 this be a Necessary Consequence it will fall as ●ell on him But as I do not believe he ●er intended so though I do not find in ei●er of the places before-cited by rue he ●ards at all against it so if he could have ●ercised the same Charity towards his Abused ●ethren in America he mihgt have spared ●s Charge in that matter against them having been so often and solemnly told by us That we did believe all that 's Recorded in Sacred Writ concerning our Blessed Saviour And not only believe it Historically but also that we through a living Faith in him who is the Author of all true Faith are reconciled to God through him who is the only way to the Father And that we do expect and believe that as we are preferved in the Path of Righteousness we shall also through the Grace and Bounty of God have a part in that purchased Inheritance which our Blessed Lord Jesus hath purchased for his with his precious Blood This and much more to the same Effect hath bee● often told him and it s well if he have no● sinned against Knowledge in this Matter But to strengthen his Charge against us he saith Reason c. p. 9 That W. 〈◊〉 A●tient Preacher meaning William Stockdel did at the same Monthly Meeting viz. t●● 29th of the 11th Month at Philadelphia 〈◊〉 new his former Accusation against him cha●●ing him openly in the Face of the Meeting That he Preached Two Christs because he Prea●●ed Faith in Christ within and in Christ w●● out us c. I confess though I was not 〈◊〉 that Meeting I have great reason to believe that W. Stockdell did not so affirm them because I observe in the Judgment afterward given forth against him by Friends they s●● That W. S. denied the words so spoken But the proceeded against him upon the Evidence 〈◊〉 Two Persons that he said so viz. W. B. and J. M. Now had it been spoken in the Face of the Meeting the Meeting must have heard it and would not have needed the Evidences of the Two Persons aforesaid but might have proceeded and I believe would to have given Judgment against him on their own Knowledge But if ever W. did say That he apprehended he preached Two Christs I cannot easily believe that he assigned that as the Ground of it because he preached Faith in Christ within and without as G. K. labours to insinuate which I have heard him often solemnly to deny But this I have heard him to confess That his speaking so much and so frequently of Christ without and Christ within might give ground to some to suspect he preached Two Christs and that the preaching of a Christ without and a Christ within was to preach Two Christs However the Two Witnesses say it and the Meeting accordingly gives Judgment against it And tho' the Credibility or Incredibility of the Witnesses goes a great way with the Judicous to satisfie them of the Truth of their Evidence or the contrary yet Judgment commonly goes according to Evidence Whence it is that sometimes the Innocent are injured yet the Judges clear of it Now as to these Two Witnesses they were much at the Devotion of G. K. and his creatures to use as he pleased one of them being W. B. the Printer whose Baseness and Treachery to his Benefactors in Pensylvania who at no inconsiderable Cost encouraged 〈◊〉 Press there and how much it was after war●● used to Abuse them is too well known tob●● covered The other viz. Joh. M' Comb 〈◊〉 Countreyman of G. K's though under Obligations strong enough to W. S. to have bound any Man of Common Civility to him for his Kindness to and Care of him in the Tim when he wanted i● yet he must be the Inst●ment of this mischief and strife by a sly unmanly ungrateful way in a Visit to W. S. 〈◊〉 pump him by Questions concerning G. K. An he being more free than discreet in his Coverse with him away he goes to G. K. t● way of a Common Tale-bearer and aggnvates what he had in a sort extorted from W. S. which so incensed G. K. that he quick comes with these his Two Witnesses and liberally bestwos his Anathema Maranatha upon W. S. without more ado telling him 〈◊〉 was an Ignorant Heathen not worthy of any pl●● in the Assembly of Friends Though I har●● heard by divers that knew his coming for● which was early and his Labour and Service in and for the Truth and his Success there in for the gathering many to it that there he was no whit behind to say no more the Person that so Treated him Thus began the Difference betwixt these Two Persons and thus was it heightened And although Friend did never justifie the words which the T●● Witnesses affirmed were spoken by W. S. yet because Judgment against W. was not giver in his way and Time although his own Turbulency was the great Obstruction he therefore sticks not to Vnchristian many whom he sometime owned for his Brethren charging them with denying the Lord that bought them affirming that they owned no other Christ but the Light within excluding the Man Christ Jesus from having any share in the Work of our Salvation And this he would have the World believe is the Ground of the Difference betwixt him and us and all our opposition to him and Testimonies against him is because God hath raised him up Zealously to Witness to those great Truths and fundamental Doctrines of Christianity denied by some rejected by others and meanly esteemed by too many I Consess the pretence is plausible and had it as much of Truth as it hath of Falshood in it he were to be commended and encouraged But what manner of Person must he be if he ●ath falsely Accused the Innocent Which 〈◊〉 affirm on the behalf of my self and believe for all that are in Communion with and generally owned by the People called Quakers he ●ath done and that knowingly too concerning very many that he hath heard often Declare their Faith in the aforesaid particulars ●nd what else is necessary to be believed and owned by true Christians all which he is as much obliged to believe as any body else is 〈◊〉 believe him in the like kind And it 's but a poor Shift for him to say as he hath sometimes done when in America we endeavoured his satisfaction and to remove his Jealousies concerning us in matters of Faith I will not believe you you walk in the Clouds and have mental Reservations and no● withstanding your scriptural Confession

adhered to him By what follows therefore no reason to expect from me any dealing with in a Church Method But if he accounted himself a Church Member with me Why did he not use me as such and admonish me privately before he went about openly to defame me But to say that the Paper he sent to me was private is not true for it came unsealed to me which shews it neither was private nor intended to be so And how like a Christian admonition is it to me let all judge for he seems not to address himself to me in it which makes perfect Nonsence and I have been told by many the matter contained in that Scurrilous Paper was frequently reported in any place or company by him before I received it a Copy of which here follows The Paper lately published at Philadelphia by 28. against G. K. and those joined with him c. HAS and is like to occasion much Trouble and Difference among us not only because of the false things Compact in it as is well known to many Witnesses and now to Impose it on all the Meetings is plain downright Popery and gives just occasion to all not only to judge it as it is for the Abuse but also inspect further into things and them these Ministring Imposers upon other Mens Consciences like unto the Roman Clergy and to show how ill the People do resent these things one who was not a Quaker so soon as the Paper was made publick says What Devillish work is here like to be a pack of Fools have sent their Bull out What a piece of work you 'l see in short time and how they 'l expose themselves and force others to send it home in Print says he with worse words of some unfit to mention here c. By exposing this your Edict you have made all People your Judges into whose hands it shall come the Papists themselves for your Unrighteous Judgment and drawing in those with you that have subscribed to they know not what who were not present at either of the Meetings so consequently did not hear the Words charged on G. K. to be spoken by him c. but have taken all supon trust and signed as a Man that would be a false Witness to a Bill or Bond for Money where none is due 't is hoped that some will see their over-haste and repent it as well as others have done How can you expect this act of yours will be accounted Righteous Judgment to Condemn a Man for Words and cover one anothers Deeds as well as worse Words in and among your selves Has S. J. ever been dealt with for his many Enormous Palpable Gross miscarriages chargeable upon him his Greatness and Pride so Insolent and Lofty none dared to touch him and for his Abuses to a Poor Worm who writ to him for Justice and Satisfaction could have no answer of the said Letter and being discontented to hear him Preach to an Auditory knowing his Life to be unsavoury and an unjust Judge I writ the Second Letter to him of dislike to his Preaching which after he had read flung it into the Fire Why did he not answer it and get satisfaction from the Author But that he knew himself Tardy resolved to exercise Bonners's Cruelty on my poor Paper and its matter of Sorrow there 's divers among you know enough of S. J. but you cover him and one another and whom you please to abuse down with him amain Do you think People are Blind and without Sense Be it known they See they Hear c. 1. Pray let it be queried into whether it was not true that S. J. did wage his Horse with John Slocum to Ride a Race with their Horses and whether J. S. did not refuse to take the advantage of him because S. J. was Drunk c 2. And pray let it be enquired into whether S. J. at another time was not so Drunk could scarce get over the Ship side of Joseph Bryar when at Burlington 3. And pray let it be enquired whether the said S. J. did not wickedly i● Surveying a Tract of Land wh●● John Antrum had actually began to do 4. And pray let it be enquired into whether S. J. did not take away the Meadow of Richard Matthews who being in England took the advantage What the effect will be time must manifest how odious he will render other for S. J's sake he being a pretty Eminent Man in London 5. And pray let it be enquired into the Actions and Abuses of S. J. to John Skeen Deceased which should have been answered at Burlington Meeting 6. And pray let it be enquired into whether it were S. J. or J. Simcock that was by two persons carried to Bed Drunk 7. And pray let it be further enquired into whether it were the said S. J. or J. Simcok that was so Drunk lost a Coat that was borrowed of another Man c. Seeing so many of you have Condemned G. K. for Words let these Actions be also Condemned they being as great pretenders to be Ministers as him and pray take special care this be not burnt as the former having a Copy of the same Peter Boss THE first thing I take notice of in the foregoing Paper is the strange confidence of the Man in accusing me to be of a● unsavoury Life which had it been as true as I bless God it 's false through the sufficiency of whose Grace I have been preserved from a Scandalous Life since the time that I received and owned the Truth ye for his own sake had he been Wife he should have forborn such an Expression knowing that his own Conversation was so notoriously unsavoury and scandalous as gave me occasion long before any thing of this Bread appeared to rebuke and reprove his forward and undecent appearing in our Meettings of business in West Jersey and though he did in some part own and condemn the fact with which he was charged and should never have been revived by me had he kept as became him under those Circumstances But since he hath so far forgotten himself and would be thought so clean as to be qualified to judge others I shall remind him of that suitable Admonition given by the best of Monitors to such an one Matth. 7. 5. Thou Hypocrite first cast out the beam of thine own eye c. His next complaint is that after I had read his Letter which he calls his Second I burnt it In this he is mistaken for I burnt it before I read it understanding from whom it came and knowing of no business he could have with me but to Rail and Quarrel as he did in his other I thought therefore to discourage him from persisting in that course and bid the Friend at whose House I was tell him if he enquired for an answer what use I made of it But he goes on saying Why did I not answer it and get satisfaction from the Author but that I knew