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A77024	Hidden things revealed and brought to light: or, Plain and honest dealing with Will. Lamboll & John Buy, of Reading in the county of Berks, in some material queries proposed to them to be answered, &c. With the rest of those that were instrumental (in too large a degree) of the former or first separation wrought among Friends here in this town, and who are found still as instrumental for the upholding and continuance of the same, by their not returning with other Friends to the ancient publick meeting-house, the doors thereof having been opened ever since the 10th of the 9th month, 1693. which is now about 9 months since, for all Friends to meet together therein, as a peaceable Christian society ought to do, in the true love, fear and worship of almighty God, that so there might be no longer two divided publick meetings held and kept up in this town, both to the great reproach of truth, and stumbling of many of the tender inquiries after it.	Bonifield, Abraham, fl. 1692-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing B3595A; ESTC R170701	15,467	19

nor meet with Friends there tho happily some that heard him might be ready to look at it expecting his performance of it especially under such solemn Circumstances as express'd if but to prove himself a Man of Truth and of his Words Query III. And to what end and purpose was Andrew Hall John Buy and Daniel Bullock appointed and that by the Order and Agreement of the Monthly Meeting to go to Thomas Curtice R. P. c. and to desire of them in the Name and on the Behalf of the said Meeting either to open the Meeting house Doors voluntarily and freely for Friends to go in and meet together in the said Meeting-house or if they refuse it then for to offer them all their Mony that they were out upon the said House both of the Living and of the Dead Seeing that now the Doors are open'd for all to come that will that they do yet still notwithstanding refuse neither do nor will return come in nor meet with Friends there though no Mony desired for either the Living or Dead neither in whole or in part or any thing so much as like Purchase Condition or Bargain in the least Query IV. To what End and Purpose was our so many Meetings Considerations and Consultations relating to the Way and Method what to do and how to advise in the Case relating to the getting of the Doors open'd again in order for our going in and meeting in the House our Address to and Solicitation of an eminent Friend to use his utmost Endeavours and intreat on our behalf with the K as also with the C of the same time by the means of a Friend that was his Baily together likewise through the making use of one as our Counsel in it that was likely to marry his Daughter O what Turmoilings proposing of Ways and casting of Thoughts were there amongst us too many to recite as well as troublesome to repeat for our obtaining a Way and Means how to get the Meeting house Doors opened again in order for our going in and keeping our Meeting there as before viz. in the said House and yet how they are open'd both voluntary and free and that without Mony Charge Counsel's Fees Interest with any or Influence upon any in order to obtain it that you will not yet notwithstanding return go in nor meet with Friends there viz. in the aforesaid Meeting-house though as cited they are now opened voluntarily and free c. Query V. And to what End and Purpose did we likewise so earnestly call for and desire the Advice Help and Assistance of the Friends of the Meeting for Sufferings in order for the getting open of the said Meeting-house Doors seeing that now they are opened you will not go in neither lay Claim of Right nor take possession of Property there And is not this contrary to the Intent or End of the aforesaid Advice and our desiring it for did they not only advise us to get them viz. the Doors open but also when open'd to continue them so by keeping Possession c. And was not my self and William Spikeman appointed by our Meeting and that in pursuance to their aforesaid Direction to open them and the which accordingly was done by us and 2 several peaceable Meetings also held and kept in it and therefore why will you not go in now nor meet in it they being opened to receive you gratis seeing you sought and so eagerly pursued their opening before both by Mony and Interest or was it well done or Wrong or Right in the said Friends to advise us for their opening or in us to prosecute what they advised relating thereunto or for us so to go in and hold two several Meetings therein after opened Pray answer and be plain in these things for they are Matters of great weight and moment Query VI. And to what End and Purpose did you agree and appoint as farther advised thereunto by the aforesaid the opening of the Doors the second Time after their first opening as cited and shutting up again and William Lambol appointed by the said Meeting to see it done or effected or he to be so far concerned as to bespeak an Iron Instrument to open them withal if when they were as now they are opened you will not and others must not go in and meet with Friends there or if any do to be so judged and sentene'd for it And were it not far better and more Christian-like in you to go in and meet there c. now the Doors are open'd the thing so much sought endeavour'd after desir'd and called for before and that then as the main or principal Matter c. whatever new ones you have added since their voluntary opening of them seeing that it may be with Freedom and Acceptance so as cited in Peace and the Spirit of forbearance than by any of the aforesaid Ways or Methods of the Use of Instruments Violence or Force and if yet you will not after so many Labours and Endeavours of your selves in Appearance and others for it for how can it be thought by any that are impartial or in their right Sences but that the contrary proceeds from your hard-heartedness a Spirit of Bitterness and Revenge c. Whatever your Coverings and Pretences may be and W. L. of all men one would think might have so much respect for Friends of London c. so over-much venerated by him formerly to be as ready to do as to say for in this case how can he possible but remember what ye aforesaid positively enjoyn'd him in their said Letter of Advice and that as the Person most capable and concern'd to do it as he stood in the condition of a Trustee for Friends on that behalf for say they in the fore-cited We cannot see how William Lamboll can be clear without using his utmost Endeavour for Friends Relief in this Case Which Case and Relief was his getting open the Doors in order for their Repossessing Holding and Enjoying of their Rights and Properties therein viz. in the House But have we not reason to think that as too good cause for it That as formerly in reality so still he rather discountenances than incourages Friends Meeting together seeing now the doors are opened and that without as suppos'd either Endeavour or Desire of his Assent or Approbation of what has been the Christian Care and Labours of others in order thereunto that he yet nevertheless now they will not come thither go in nor yet appear there to either maintain or possess others with their Rites or to take demand make use of or possess their own Query VII And to what end and purpose was our standing and remaining at the Meeting-house Doors and keeping and continuing our Meeting so long in the Court but as pretended in Witness and Testimony against them that were the cause of their shutting up And hath it not been preacht publickly there and that as point of Faith and Duty too to

from it and them c. And you also have been observed to have more Visiters since the Doors were open'd than happily in many Months if not Years before And did not John Buy acknowledge it for truth to a Friend of Hendly and that the reason of it was to hold and continue the People with you to use plain Words in Division and Separation because that so many deserted left and went away from you daily and doth not these things with several of the like nature and tendence found upon you plainly declare you to be the very Womb of Strife Authors of Discord and Mother of Division and Separation amongst us here in this Town and place Query XII And were not you viz. W. L. and J. B. the chief Instruments and occasion of the first Separation in our monthly Meetings for Business when together and that long before that the Doors were fastned up and which I am apt to think was none of the least occasions of it for did not you divide go away and separate from them as the like by us since c. and that upon no other occasion than their altering of the Place of the Meeting viz. from one Room to another that is from the upper Room where it was formerly kept to the Meeting-house Room below And was not my self denied by William Lamboll c. and that many Years ago at one of your monthly Meetings to be a Member of the said Meeting or to be in any capacity for to do or act as such and that barely and alone because dissatisfied with and could not be one with you in so wilful and resolute a Separation looking upon the Provocation to be but small to excite to so great and unchristian an extream And did not John Buy propose at one of the said Meetings for a Minute to be made in the monthly Book That whatever I offered or had to say no body should speak to me or take notice of it or give me any answer saying That if they could not bind or tye my Tongue that they would their own therefore to what degree of Pride are these Men arriv'd that have so much cried out against Persecution and imposing on others that are now for Binding or Tying up of Tongues if they could or had Power in their Hands to do it though as far as they have they have us'd it and that to the utmost the Tongue being the principal and most intelligible Instrument of my own or any other Man's just and innocent Defence I say to what degree of Cruelty Oppression and Persecution this Spirit of Tongue-tying imposing on and Conscience-binding hath arrived unto though from a seeming small Beginning the mournful Cries of the Sufferers under it have loudly sounded forth through every Age And lastly and to be mostly lamented of all and that if it could be even in Tears of Blood that it should be thus found even as from and amongst our selves as hath been expos'd too publickly by our Friends the Sufferers in America from the Hands of Loyd Cook Jennings c. I say hath it not come in time to the tying and binding of both Head Hands and Feet also and in process of Time too to the use and cruelty of the Gag whereby the Lords Innocents have been forc'd to stand as mure and dumb under all the Cruelties and false Accusations of their implacable Adversaries as if guilty and that at last not sufficient neither but the Coat and Hat of fearful and affrighting painted Devils Hell and Hell Fire put upon them when ready to encounter the Flames for Righteousness and a good Conscience-sake Well Friends what a great Flame hath so small a Spark or little Fire kindled and how far this of either yours or theirs might have burn'd had not the want of Power and Opportunity prevented God only knows And bear with me for I cannot but be plain in this Matter for the Zeal of the Lord burns as a Fire within me against all such Cruelty and Imposition though in its least and smallest degree c. where ever or in whomsoever it is found and that it is no other than the Root of Persecution Womb of Cruelty and Mother of Blood-shed and Inhumanity as has been clearly and evidently manifested from the effects thereof and that in every Revolution of Time Age and Generation and how far short of the aforesaid the Gag and Fire excepted this Lording and imposing Spirit hath manifested itself likewise in our Days by that common ignominious Badg or Mark cast on us by some viz. of Troublers wrong Spirits and out of Unity with Friends c. towards some and that for their Fear and tender Conscience towards God let them judge speak and tell that have known felt and long born the Weight and heavy burthen thereof Query XIII And was it not your earnest Endeavours with O. S. and others in party with you that as soon as you heard that the Doors were opened or to be opened to make all the Party you could both in Town and Country in order to prepossess fill and fortifie the minds of Friends against the Thoughts of Reconciliation unless upon your own Terms as reasonably could not be thought would be condescended unto by T. C. c. or that which in some degree might be in ordes unto it which was a Christian Mind and Disposition in them to meet altogether again with Friends as formerly in the ancient publick Meeting-house in the tender Love of God and Spirit of Forbearance and forgiveness one towards another I say hath not this evil Work of continuing the Separation been eagerly carried on managed and promoted by you and that with Diligence yea and great Industry both in private as well as at your quarterly Meetings and the ill effect of the aforesaid as thus managed by you now brought forth to more publick view contain'd in a Paper stiled as from the quarterly Meeting sign'd by O. S. with a Postscript annexed by W. L. and J. B. and directed and sent to the aforesaid T. C. wherein is raked together and brought up all the old former Matters relating to both the Occasions and particularly of the difference which seemeth clearly for Aggravation rather than Peace Reconciliation c. by so exacting of them the utmost Farthing I say hath it not been your Work ever since the aforesaid to raise up and lay as many Mountains and stumbling-blocks in the way as possible you could in order to stop and prevent Peace if just-spirited Men that know the true Lines and measure by the right Ballance of the Sanctuary you sometimes make mention of as a Cloak to cover and hide your selves under from Judgment and Shame be your Judges for whosoever reads or views your said Paper may clearly observe that instead of intending it in order for Reconciliation that you have rather made an absolute Fence and Defence against it or any further Thoughts concerning it c. for was it

HIDDEN THINGS Revealed and brought to Light OR Plain and Honest Dealing WITH WILL. LAMBOLL JOHN BUY OF READING in the County of BERKS In some Material Queries Proposed to them to be Answered c. WITH The Rest of those that were instrumental in too large a degree of the former or first Separation wrought among Friends here in this Town and who are found still as instrumental for the upholding and continuance of the same by their not returning with other Friends to the ancient publick Meeting-house the Doors thereof having been opened ever since the 10th of the 9th Month 1693. which is now about 9 Months since for all Friends to meet together therein as a peaceable Christian Society ought to do in the true Love Fear and Worship of Almighty God that so there might be no longer two divided publick Meetings held and kept up in this Town both to the great reproach of Truth and stumbling of many of the Tender Inquirers after it James iij. xiv xv xvi xvij But if ye have bitter Envyings and Strife in your Hearts glory not and lie not against the Truth c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. To the READER Friendly Reader IT was a true observation of wise King Solomon in his time Prov. 13.10 That only by Pride especially that which is spiritual cometh Contention and Chap. 26.24 25. And that he that hateth dissembleth with his Lips and layeth up deceit within him when he speaketh fair believe him not for there are seven Abominations in his Heart c. Is it not high time now therefore after so long silence and forbearance to deal plainly with and testify against all Deceit and Dissimulation where-ever or in whomsoever the same is found And Reader as thou wilt find plain down-right Dealing in these following needful and material Queries so please also to observe how widely inconsistent William Lamboll and John Buy 's present Practices are to their former Pretences and of all the rest for the most part that act with them Are they not Implicitly led to do as they do and say as they say and not to see nor act by their own Sense Reason nor Vnderstanding either as Men or Christians as especially in this of keeping up a separate and distinct Meeting from other Friends c. and so in many other things too large here to mention as also how contrary to the blessed Truth they profess which admits of no such Confusion Contradiction or Dissimulation under what specious Pretences Reasons or Excuses whatsoever as they have been and are still found ingaged in And Reader thou mayest perceive to Demonstration if not too much swayed by Interest or blinded through personal Affection or engaged to join with Parties more than Truth what confusion and contradiction these Men have brought upon themselves as by the aforecited Queries so with other their Deeds and Designs contrary to the simplicity of Truth which they in their own human Wisdom have been and are acted in which may be in time farther manifested and brought to Light and that for the Truths sake and also for the sakes of those poor simple People that have been too long beguiled and misled by them and others like themselves whom nothing less will please than to be Lords and Masters c. There will I say be a necessity as kinted of a farther Discovery and more plain dealing with W. L. and J. B. than hitherto has been unless the truly and sincerely repent of these and other the like Evils they stand guilty of before the great God as with respect to their uncharitable and unchristian Dealings hurtful and evil Methods with and towards Friends and for the future approve themselves as Men of Peace by unfeigned Humility which I pray heartily the Lord may grant and incline their Hearts unto which is the worst I wish to any one of them who am a Lover of the Truth and of all the true and upright-hearted but as I have done so hope I ever shall stand a Witness for God against all Lies Falshood Oppression and Deceit A. Bonifield Hidden Things Reveald c Query I. WHerefore and to what end and purpose was J. Buy and my self appointed by your Meeting and the general consent of Friends now several Years ago to go to T. C.'s Meeting I say and that by the Order and in the Name of the aforesaid Meeting to offer unto them in the Audience of the whole Assembly as accordingly we did on the 3●st of the 5th Month 1687. and that on the first day of the Week all their Monies of the Living that they were out upon the Meeting-house proportionable for the time behind and unexpired of the Lease as may be seen by such as desire it yea the very same Paper that we read among them as forecited and written with John Buy 's own Hand and all this in order for the getting of the Meeting house-doors opened again to the end we might go in and meet in the aforesaid Meeting house c. And therefore doth it not look and that at best but like pretence only but not in Sincerity at all to so much pretend for but not at all intend for either going in or meeting with Friends there seeing now they refuse and will not tho' the Doors are opened and that voluntarily and free without either Mony Purchase Condition or Bargain in the least Query II. Whether it was at all or in any wise according to Truth or the gravity and solidity of it or not rather on the other hand as apparent Fallacy and Dissimulation in J. B. when we were just ready to leave the Court or our Meeting from before the Meeting-house-doors and to take our farewel of it in respect to our meeting any longer there where we had been held too to long by the resolute Wills and politick Industry of W. Lamboll and himself for J. B. I say to so call the People both Friends and others to witness or take notice that altho' we did then or at that time remove our Meeting and go away from that Place yet that as soon as those Doors meaning the Meeting-house-doors were opened again that we should or did intend to return thither again and to claim our Rights and Properties therein which Rights c. was to go in and meet in the said House and if this were not the Rights you intended pray modestly answer what others was not this spoken in the Hearing and Audience of George Whitehead and James Sparks who with several others were concerned in the removing the said Meeting from the Court or from before the Meeting-house-doors and that had with other Friends the hearing of our grievous Dissentions publick Jumbles and Discord about it that yet now nevertheless when rather intreated so would come in a christian and peaceable Spirit than in any ways hindered that neither he they nor others he seemed to personate and speak in the behalf of will notwithstanding return go in