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A47118	An account of the great divisions, amongst the Quakers, in Pensilvania, &c. as appears by their own book, here following, printed 1692, and lately came from thence, intituled, viz. The plea of the innocent, against the false judgment of the guilty : being a vindication of George Keith, and his friends, who are joined with him in this present testimony, from the false judgment, calumnies, false informations and defamations of Samuel Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, an others, joyned with them, being in number twenty eight : directed, by way of epistle, to faithful friends of truth, in Pensilvania, East and West-Jersey, and else-where, as occasion requireth.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing K136; ESTC R14385	22,843	26

they not call and appoint an extraordinary Meeting of Friends as they have formerly done upon a far less occasion as when they presently called a Meeting at the House of Sam. Carpenter to pass Judgment against the Publishing of the Rhode-Island-Sheet called The Christian Faith and against William Bradford for Printing it tho he was warranted to print it by the desire of the mo Meeting of Rhode-Island which hath as great Authority to Print without them as they here have to Print without those unless they here will say that Philadelphia is the Church of Rome in America as Sam. Jenings called it the Metropolitan little considering that the Apostacy came in by such means Secondly Whereas they say The Friends then present concluded of a Judgment in this matter but were prevented of publishing the same by reason of G. K ' s. unruly Behaviour and extream Passion which corruptly broke up the said Meeting But this is another place of their Hypocrisie they should have said if they would have said truly what Judgment was given ye were prevented of publishing of it by the unruly Behaviour and proud and insolent Carriage as well as unjust proceedings of Sam. Jenings and Arthur Cook who would not suffer the Judgment given to be published after G. K. was called into the Meeting until G. K. should be tried for reviling his Brethren which G. K. fervently and earnestly contradicted crying out against their Injustice and Arbitrary Method contrary to the way of worldly Courts in the like case though some time after S. J. was pleased to say That Courts allowed of Discount So that according to S. J. the Blasphemy of W. S. shall be discounted for and set off against G. K's reviling his Brethren if he had been guilty thereof which they can never prove And whether A. Cook was not guilty of extream Passion who did in a Quarterly Meeting whereof many can bear witness pronounce a Curse against G. K. saying George thou hast made this Breach and Wo be to thee from the Lord and yet none of that Party reproved him for so doing Thirdly Whereas they give their Judgment That W. S. is reproveable and blame worthy for uttering the said words viz. That G. K's preaching Christ within and Christ without was preaching two Christ's they being an Offence to many sound and tender Friends and that he condemn the same It doth plainly appear that their Judgment is but a bare shadow or formality of Judgment rather than any substantial effectual weighty and sollid Judgment against him which if it had been they would have aggravated it with other words and expressions and principally blamed him for his words of Unbelief and Blasphemy against the Son of Man greatly offensive to God but instead of that they say They being offensive to many sound and tender Friends Why are they so severe to G. K. against whom they cannot justly charge any thing either in Doctrine or Life saying of him He being a Man without the Fear of God before his Eyes c. Is it a greater Offence to them that they are dishonoured or that the worthy Name of Christ is dishonoured by an open denial of him as W. Stockdale did by saying To preach Faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ without is to preach Two Christs for at this rate Christ without is to him but a false Christ and this to them is so small a fault that to deny Christ without us they will not say in their Judgment it is an offence to God but they say It is an Offence to many sound and tender Friends Oh! great Hypocrisie and want of Zeal to the Glory of God and Christ though they are full of Zeal to their own Honour that will stink and doth already stink for this their great Partiality and Injustice as well as their great Ignorance Error and Unbelief Fourthly But why do not the words of their Judgment run thus That W. S. did say to preach Faith in Christ without and in Christ within was to preach two Christs c. but that they are guilty themselves of not having this Faith for not long ago A. Cook questioned G. K. at a Mens Meeting which many can witness Where we did read in Scripture that we are to believe in Christ within us and in Christ without us And tho' of late some of them say they have a reverend esteem of Christ without of his Death Sufferings Resurrection and Ascension yet none of them preach it as a necessary matter of Salvation to believe it that ever we heard of except John Delavall who hath of late changed his Faith and got a far worse And it cannot be supposed that they hold Faith in Christ without them to be necessary to their Salvation seeing many of them that belong to the Monthly Meeting have given their Judgment That the Light is sufficient to Salvation without something else which is a plain excluding the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation and leaving him only the bare Name or Title of a Saviour and if so then they had as good have wholly cleared W. S. Fifthly It is great Confusion and Contradiction in these of that side to condemn W. Stockdale if they were in good earnest and to clear Tho. Fitzwater for if the Man Christ Jesus be our real Saviour and that his Death Resurrection Ascention and Mediation for us without us in Heaven hath any part in our Salvation then the Light doth not save us without somewhat else and therefore T. F. is guilty of Condemnation But if T. F. be cleared then the Man Christ without us is no real Saviour at all and ought not to be preached nor Faith in him but only the Light within and W. S. at this rate is in the right of it and they have done ill to pass Judgment against him I know no way to reconcile this but to say their Judgment against W. S. is a Mock Judgment or show without any Reality Sixthly They unjustly blame G. K. for not giving W. S. Gospel-Order and take no notice how W. S. gave him no Order at all either of Law or Gospel accusing him falsly behind his back without speaking to himself whereas G. K. gave him good Gospel Order but that their Prejudice blinds them that they see it not W. Stockdale gave not Offence to G. K. alone by himself but to him in the presence of two others that were with him and for what he had by hear-say from another was no just grounds of Offence to him until it was confirmed by W. S. himself as it then was and therefore not being to him alone it was no Transgression of Gospel Order that he did not speak to him alone afterwards But why should Sam. Jenings blame G. K. for not giving Gospel Order to W. Stockdale when he knoweth in his Conscience he never spoke to G. K. in private by way of Admonition before he again and again accused him to Friends of the Ministry for Reviling his Brethren which is a false Accusation Seventhly That they blame him for calling W. Stockdale an Ignorant Heathen he being as they say Elder in the Truth and in Years Then according to them a man may be in the Truth and a good Christian and say Christ without is not the True Christ but why is Heathen a bad Name for if every honest Heathen be a true Christian as he is according to that Principle held by their Monthly Meeting That the Light is sufficient without the Man Christ and without the Faith of his Death Resurrection Ascension and Mediation which is that something else than an honest Heathen is a true Christian and therefore by their own Principle to be called a Heathen is no Reviling and to be called Ignorant is no Reviling when a Man is so also T. Lloyd hath argued much both at the Yearly Meeting and at the Mo. Meeting adjourned to the School-House Than an honest Heathen was a Christian And seeing harder Names have been given by some of best Note among Friends to them that denied Womens Meetings c. and other lesser things belonging to the Skirts of Religion having called them Incarnate Devils Wretched Apostates Wolves Dogs see Judgment fixt Pref. let all sincere Christians judge whether they who deny the Lord that bought them deserve not much more sharp Reproof and yet no such Hard Names did G. K. give them Given forth in Behalf of Themselves and their Friends concerned with them in this Testimony and by Order of our Meeting By George Keith Thomas Budd THE END ERRATA PAge 10. line 9. for month read mouth l. 34. put out by p. 11. l. 8. f. as r. is p. 13. l. 10. f. for r. from p. 14. l. 25. f. no r. on p. 21. l. 28. f. sorring r. soaring p. 23. l. 9. f. quiec r. quiet l. 16. f. 41. r. 4. l. 29. f. corruptly r. abruptly l. 30. f. place 1. piece p. 26. in the Margent f. Whited r. Whitehead * This J. S. and Arth. Cook are not only Preachers but also Justices * George Whited

An Account of the Great Divisions Amongst the QUAKERS IN Pensilvania c. As appears by their own Book here following Printed 1692. and lately came from thence Intituled viz. The Plea of the Innocent against the False Judgment of the Guilty Being a Vindication of George Keith and his Friends who are joined with him in this present Testimony from the False Judgment Calumnies false Informations and Defamations of Samuel Jenings John Simcock Thomas Lloyd and others joyned with them being in Number Twenty Eight Directed by way of Epistle to faithful Friends of Truth in Pensilvania East and West-Jersey and else-where as occasion requireth John 7. 50 51. Nicodemus said Doth our Law judge any Man before it hear him Acts 25. 16 17. It is not the manner of the Romans said Festus to deliver any man to die before that he which is accused have the Accusers face to face and to have License to answer for himself concerning the Crime laid against him Psal 58. 1 2. Do ye indeed speak Righteousness O Congregation Do ye judge Uprightly O ye Sons of Men Yea in Heart you work Wickedness you weigh the Violence of your Hands in the Earth London Printed for and are to be Sold by John Gwillim in Bishopsgate street and Rich. Baldwin in Warwick-lane 1692. The Plea of the Innocent c. Directed by way of Epistle to faithful Friends of Truth in Pensilvania East and West-Jarsey c. Dear Friends and Brethren every where to whom this may come WE dearly Salute you in the Love of God The occasion of this present Writing is in Vindication of the Truth and Us the defamed Witnesses of it and particularly of George Keith from the false Judgment Calumnies false Informations and Defamations of S. Jennings John Simcock and Thomas Lloyd Pretended Preachers and others joined with them being in Number Twenty Eight in their late Epistle sent to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in Pensilvania East and West-Jarsey First of all whereas they pretend to give an Account to these Meetings of the Tedious Exercise and Vexatious Perplexity they have met with in their late Friend George Keith for several Months past In this they have dealt most unfairly and unjustly with him in that they have given no account of the Occasion of that called by them the Tedious Exercise and Vexatious Perplexity c. which because they have not given we see fit to do the Truth and all Friends of it to whose hands this may come that Justice as to give you a true Information of the Cause and Occasion of the late Difference that hath happened betwixt divers of them that hath signed their Epistle and these the chiefest among them and G. K. which was this viz. About fifteen Months ago Wiiliam Stockdale an Antient Preacher having accused G. K. of preaching Two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ without the which G. K. hearing after he had privately dealt with him laid his Complaint first before about twelve of the Friends of the Ministry met at the House of Robert Ewer who having done nothing in the said Meeting to bring W. Stockdale to due Coviction or Condemnation for his said Error but rather for the most part did excuse and defend him as can well be proved by divers Credible Witnesses then present only two of the said Friends of the Ministry then present viz. John Hart and John Delavall dissented from the rest then G. K. did again lay his Complaint before Friends of the Ministry at the last Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia in the first week of 7 mon. 1691. and soberly desired to have their sence and judgment Whether he was guilty of preaching Two Christs or whether W. S. was not guilty of Blasphemy for saying Christ within and Christ without are Two Christs and no less than six several Meetings were had about this Matter in that time of the Yearly Meeting and the first Meeting continued about ten hours viz. from about nine in the fore-noon to the time that Candles were lighted in the Evening And it must need be granted That it was a time of tedious Exercise vexatious Perplexity in all the six Meetings but who was to be blamed for it deserveth your serious Examination Is it not matter of Astonishment that such an easie Question being proposed to so many men called Ministers of Christ all highly pretending to the Spirits immediate teachings and leadings and to be in a degree of Christianity above all other Professions in Christendom there being assembled of these called Ministers cut of these three Provinces about forty or fifty if not more six Meetings could not determine it viz. Whether to preach Faith in Christ within us and Faith in Christ without us was to preach Two Christs or One Whereas G. K. had many Witnesses to clear him that he always said when he treated on that Subject that Christ within us and Christ without us was but one Christ the Measure of the Gift of Christ within us and the Fullness without us in the Man Christ Jesus being one Lord Jesus Christ a sincere Christian though in the lowest degree and but a Babe in Christ could have easily determined and resolved this Question and given judgment against W. S. being guilty of Blasphemy against the Son of Man though not against the Holy Ghost for his blasphemous Assertion That to preach faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ without was to preach Two Christs for according to him Christ without is a false Christ he being a great Owner in Pretence and words of Christ within and yet which will be matter of Admiration to all Impartial Persons that hear it who have the least true Knowledge in the Mystery of Christ this great and solemn Assembly of so many high Pretenders to be Ministers of Christ were at a great stand and demur to determine and in the conclusion of the sixth Meeting gave but a very slender and partial determination and judgment concerning it which yet such as it was was not intimated by any Order of the Meeting as themselves have acknowledged And indeed such was the Partiality as well as the Ignorance and gross Unbelief that openly and manifestly appeared in these Meetings whereof sufficient Proof can be given and that of divers owned and esteemed great Preachers among us that is scarcely credible a hint whereof we think necessary to give for your true Information In one of these six Meetings T. Fitzwater in Prayer said O God that dyed in us and laid down thy Life in us and took it up again c. After he had ended his Prayer G. Keith G. Hutcheson and J. Hampton but few or none others greatly blamed T. F. for his Prayer for it appeared to them as Blasphemy and surely it is not only contrary to Scrripture but to the express Testimony of Friends That God is Immortal and cannot die yea G. W. in his Book called Judgment fixt expresly saith God cannot be

owning no Resurrection but Christ and having attained to Christ they reckon they have attained to all the Resurrection they expect as Rob. Owen one of the false Judges and Will Southbe one of the Evidences against G. K. And J. Wilsford another of the false Judges said lately on a first Day Meeting That Christ was a Mediator for no Drunkards nor Wicked Persons but for his own Disciples expresly contrary to Scripture Testimony in many places Isa 53. 12. Psal 68. for it is by the Merits and Intercession of Christ that all men even wicked men of all sorts have a day of Visitation and are inwardly enlightned by Christ and such who improve it not but live and die in their Sins hinder not but that it is a benefit in it self Also the same Person some time ago at a Meeting in East Jarsey said in Prayer Lord that we may not dote on the Body to neglect the Life which was very offensive and is an unsavoury irreverend expression to every Pious Christian for to dote on it is too much to love it but this none can do for we cannot too much love the Lords glorious Body nor any thing of him but the more truly we love his Body the more we enjoy of his Life inwardly and the more we enjoy of his Life in us and love it we love his Body and prise and esteem still more and more all the Sufferings of his Soul and his Bodily Sufferings Death Resurrection and Asscention in that Body hoping that he will change our low Body and fashion it like to his glorious Body All which and other gross Errors being considered some denying Gods Prefence in all his Creatures arguing If God be in Herbs and Grass than who trample on Herbs Grass trample on God Horrid Blasphemy as one argued and charged G. K. of Blasphemy at a Mo. Meeting for saying God was present in all his Creatures even Grass Herbs c. Hence a new dispute hath risen among some Whether God be present in some arguing they are no part of the Creation Are not these things enough to make sober Ears to tingle by all which and much more that can be proved it may sufficiently appear what great reason G. K. had to say No such damnable Heresie c. are tolerated in any Christian Society as are among many here-away called Quakers Another preaches That Christ cureth mens Souls perfectly at once and maketh them free of all sin and when we are perfect we are Kings are not to beggar pray to God for themselves And openly in a Meeting at J. Goodsons S. Jenings accused G. K. as also did J. Simcock for preaching Faith in Christ without us calling it the Professors Faith and the Faith of all Christendom that did not profit them And T. Ducket another great States-man then and Preacher declared at the Meeting at Rob. Ewers when G. K. made the first Complaint to them against W. S. that he could not determine whether that Body that was crucified was in Heaven or not but said he let the Church determine it if the Church determine it we shall I hope submit which was more like a blind Mass-Priest than a judicious Protestant Minister And S. Jenings hath sufficiently discovered his great Ignorance as in some other things and joining with them that say the Light is sufficient without something else and requiring G. K. to give an absolute Submission to their judgment which G. K. calling Rank Popery S. J. took out his Pocket Book and writ it down before G. K. had ended the sentence so in openly declaring in a mens Meeting That to do Gods Business we needed Gods Wisdom and Power but to do our own Business as men we needed it not which G. Keith Geo. Hutcheson Rob. Turner J. Hart and several others publickly testified against but the Meeting gave no Judgment against him And notwithstanding that this S. J. has severely blamed G. K. that he refused to submit to him and his Associates who were joyned in a Faction against G. K. for his faithful Testimony yet he hath refused to submit to the Judgment not only of the Mens Meeting here at Philadelphia in a small worldly matter betwixt T. B. and him but refused to submit to the Judgment of a Meeting of the most eminent Friends viz. G. F. G. W. and others appointed at London to hear the difference betwixt Edw. Billinge and him concerning the Trust committed to him by E. B. as his Deputy-Governor the which tho' he refused to submit to their Judgment yet they judged him guilty of betraying his Trust and he came away for England in disunity with the most faithful Friends at London on that very account and had he had his due Friends here would scarce have suffer'd him to preach and pray in Meetings far less to have ruled in their men and womens Meetings as since he hath done first in West Jersey of whose too severe Government People in that Province were generally weary and of other his proud and lofty Carriages and now here in Pensilvania who hath already shown himself too high and imperious both in Friends Meetings and worldly Courts as is but too well known to many and yet this ignorant presumptuous and insolent man hath been one of the main Opposers and Threatners of G. K. threatning him That they will let him know that tho' he deny their Judgment yet they shall judge him But seeing they have given false Judgment against him as G. K. could expect no better from his declared Opposers and Adversaries both to Truth and him it is no cause of Offence for G. K. to say he trampled there Judgment as Dirt under his feet for Dirt is good for something to fatten the Land but false Judgment is good for nothing except to discover what ignorant and prejudiced men these are against the Truth Another of the false Judges is one W. Walker a Novice who began to preach before he had the outward sober carriage of a Friend known to be a prejudic'd person against G. K. for reproving his false Doctrine first in private then more publickly he having said in a publick Meeting That a man might speak unsound words in the life and at another time in a publick Meeting he bid us wait that the Scepter might depart from Judah c. that Shilo might come and many other most gross and impertinent things he hath spoke in Meetings fathering all upon the Spirit And as for J. Delaval his declining from G. K. and turning most severely against him and his Doctrine of late but formerly preached by him is sufficiently known to many as well as his accusing of G. K. in a thing he could not prove but essayed to do it with a dreadful Oath saying As God was in Heaven it was true which to be sure is as real an Oath as that was under the Law The LORD liveth Another of the false Judges is Paul Saunders very lately a great

Condemnation for his Blasphemy for about ten Months and now they permitted any Accusation to be made against him without Witnesses which gave him just cause to tell them he declined their Judgment because they had manifested themselves to be his opposite Party and prejudiced against him And yet after all this for them to abuse Friends by writing to them such a gross falshood that they had tenderly and orderly dealt with G. K. is abominable Hypocrisie 8thly Nor are they more fair and just in accusing G. K. for traducing and villifying the two Old Engl. Friends T. W. J. D. But they cannot prove that G. K. either said or did any thing but what was just and christian concerning them and it is too manifest that they were abused deceived and byass'd by them of the other Party with Flattery and false Insinuations they gave against us letting us have scarce any of their Company and they being thus deceived concerning us used many indirect Reflections mentioning Haman Baal Saul and Aaron which the Hearers generally understood they did intend G. K. and when he asked them If they did mean him and in pronouncing Woes c. they were not positive to clear him yet G. K. was exceeding sparing towards them until after they had openly blamed him and his Friends for the Separation and prophesied against us which caused G. K. to tell them they were deceived concerning us and for their better understanding desired them appoint a meeting for that end which they not embracing and J. D. comparing our Differences here which are as great as ever any was among any professing Christianity to Childrens falling out about trifles caused G. K. and some others to go away to their own Meeting but G. K. put not on his hat till he was out of the Gallery and out of the hearing of J. D. 9thly Whereas they say they would have G. K. cease to offer his Gift among them What great Non-sence Confusion and Contradiction is this in them to suppose that G. K. hath a Gift to offer after they have render'd him as bad as the worst of men possibly can almost be as fallen on the sorring Mountains slain in his high Places gone into a spirit of enmity wrath self-exaltation c. and as a Person without the Fear of God before his eyes in his Anger and Envy being Cruel against them with much more Surely if all this be true G. K. cannot be said to have the least grain of true Piety for he who hateth his Brother is a Murtherer and no Murtherer hath eternal Life abiding in him and according to Friends Doctrine and Principle No Impious or Wicked man hath any ministerial gift to offer as this Paper supposeth or alloweth him to have This Confusion and Self-contradiction of their Paper showeth with many other things in it what a false Spirit it hath come from And many hundreds have a true judgment and sence of G. K. that he continueth in a living sence to God and hath a living Ministry which hath a living Seal from the Spirit of God in the Hearts of hundreds and that he is no such man as they in their Prejudice and Ignorance describe him to be And for their blaming us for the Separation in that they have given false Judgment against us for it lieth at their Door as appeareth by our Book Some Causes of the Separation c. which they have not taken notice of nor can they contradict for all the matter therein is truth only there was a mistake of one mans name viz. Simercy Adams who was not at the Meeting but we could have set down many others to make them up sixty at least and the matter in that Book lieth at their door to answer if they be able 10thly Whereas they say G. K. at Meetings since the Separation like an open Adversary hath reviled several Friends by exposing their Religious Reputations in mixt Auditories of some hundreds c. This is altogether false for it is no reviling to speak the Truth and they cannot prove that G. K. hath spoke any thing of them but what is true altho' they have reported both publickly and privately many false things and among the rest their late defamatory Paper of Condemnation and it 's but just and reasonable he should defend himself and his Testimony And now in the Conclusion we do first solemnly Appeal to God the Righteous Judge of all men from the false judgment of these prejudic'd men against us and next to all faithful Friends and Brethren here in America and in Old England Scotland and Ireland or elsewhere to judge betwixt us and them as the unerring and infallible Spirit shall be found and known to give then a true judgment and discerning and with great Assurance Peace and Joy in the Lord to him we commit our Righteous Cause G. K. T. B. Some brief Observations on their seeming Condemnation of Will. Stockdale which is rather as to the main a clearing of him and condemning him only as to some Circumstance and more severely and unchristianly and most falsly condemning G. K. First WHereas they say They being prevented in their Meetings of late to proceed orderly in business by reason of a turbulent and unsubdued Spirit meaning without all doubt in G. K. but having respite at this time have considered c. This is great Hypocrisie and Deceit in them why were they prevented in their Meetings of late did G. K. by his Spirit lay violent hands either on their Tongues or Pens that they might not have given true judgment against W. S. in a case so plain that a company of Children well instructed in the first Principles of Christianity the eldest of them not exceeding 15 years could have given a just decision in less than one quarter of an hour But hew could G. K's Spirit hinder them at the Yearly Meeting when he went out at their desire tho' there was no cause for his so doing more than for any of them for it was not G. K. but Christ Jesus that was mainly concerned in this Affair for whom and for his Glory if they had any Zeal for him they ought to have been as much concerned as G. K. but it is fulfilled in them what is writ in Scripture of some that loved the praise of Men more than the praise of God But why did they take no time since the Yearly Meeting Why did they not take a quiet time to do 't in G. K's absence when he was almost six Months absent in N. England betwixt his first Complaint and that Meeting at Burlington last first Month having gone twice into N. England and was each time absent about three Months And why did they nothing at the Meeting at Burlington against W. S. but heard false Accusations without all Proof against G. K. Why are they so partial and hypocritical to pretend they had not time till now the 41. 4. mo 92. for about 15 Months past Why did