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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

Declare in these words viz. I know no man upon the face of the Earth that professes a Belief of the Sufficiency of the Light within to Salvation more than I profess or hold and have always professed since I came among Friends viz. That the Light within being God the Word and the Spirit in every Man is sufficient to Reveal to every Man all that is needful to his Eternal Salvation Which Confession did appear to have a tendency to the Satisfaction of the Meeting in that respect and it is earnestly desired and tenderly advised by this Meeting that G. Keith have a tender regard to our Antient Testimony for the Sufficiency of the Light the Word of Faith the Immortal Seed and Spirit of Truth within and to the plainness and simplicity of the Preaching of it from the beginning whereby many have been turned to God which Testimony and Ministration the Lord hath signally blessed and prospered by his power and presence for the Gathering confirming and Building up of many thousands of his People in the most holy faith Whereof there are many Living Witnesses yet Remaining Also this Meeting in true and tender Love for Christ's sake desire and admonish the said Geo. Keith and even for the peace of his own soul to watch against his Human Infirmity and Weakness appearing therein and against such passionate Behaviour as thence appeared divers times in this Meeting to the trouble and Grief of many Antient and faithful Friends and humbly to Wait upon God to feel his power to subdue his own Passions and to be very Watchful against the same and against the Enemy that takes Advantage thereupon to hurt him or at any time to hurry him into disorder of Spirit at unawares which we pray God make him truly sensible of and watchful against for his own Inward peace and for Good Example and behaviour in the Church of Christ Howbeit we do declare that the said Geo. Keith did divers times openly acknowledge his Passions Weaknesses and Infirmities so that this Meeting did the more Exercise Compassion Charity and Patience towards him And this Meetings tender Advice to G. Keith also is to live in Peace and Charity among Friends and Brethren here in this City Nation and else where and to avoid all publick and apparent Reflections upon Ministring Friends or their Ministry and likewise all Ministring Friends to forbear the like towards him that no occasion of stumbling or Reproach may be given thereby nor any Brother Hurt in his Testimony And as G. Keith shall apptove himself in Charity and Reconciliation with Friends and Brethren here in London and elsewhere they are desired accordingly to be tender and kind to him as he sincerely approves himself to be a Man of Peace and Charity towards all and Answers our Christian Advice herein And lastly This our Solemn Meeting in the Name and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ doth Exhort and Charge all them that have separated to meet together with other Friends in the Love of God and humbly to wait for his Power to Repair the Breach Reconcile and Reunite them in his tender Love and earnestly Supplicates the God of all our Mercies to remove all Prejudice and Offences out of their Minds and to Effect this good End which our Souls have deeply and in great Humility and Brokenness of Heart Travelled for in this Meeting and are still in a Travel for that the great Reproach may be removed Gods Truth Exalted and his Churches Peace Restored and preserved And if any man think himself a Prophet or Spiritual let him acknowledg we have the Mind of Christ in these Matters to whom we Recommend you and in whose Love we Salute you all The God of Peace be with you and bruise Satan under your Feet Signed on behalf of the said Meeting and their Appointment By Benj. Bealing Some Queries to that Party or Faction of the Yearly Meeting at London who gave the aforesaid Judgment Friends I Being deeply sensible of the renewed burthens and afflictions and grief of Spirit which your Paper of False Judgment will bring upon many Hundreds of the poor despised persecuted Witnesses of the Crucified Jesus in Pensilvania and elsewhere I thought my self obliged in Conscience to publish in Print the Judgment given forth by the Yearly Meeting at Burlington against the Twenty Eight False Judges together with these following Queries By all which it will be discovered to all Impartial and Unprejudiced Readers which of the Two Yearly Meetings were guided by the Wisdom and Counsel of God and Infallible Spirit of Christ the Judgment given by them of Burlington or the other given by that Party or Faction of this Yearly Meeting at London they being so Opposite and Contradictory in matter of Fact the one to the other viz. That of Burlington being signed by Seventy Friends of Known Integrity and Good Conversation wherein there doth appear a more convincing Demonstration and Ground of Truth that they were acted in and by the Light of a tender Conscience as Impartial and Unprejudiced Men who had not set their Hands to any Papers of difference on either side The other viz. that Party of this yearly Meeting at London giving Just Cause of Suspicion that they were not acted by the Counsel of God as partly appears by their refusing to set their Hands to their own Judgment when much importuned thereto by us but too Pharisee-like laying that heavy burthen upon the Back of their Hired Clerk which they themselves would not touch with one of the least of their Fingers so as to Sign it Query I. WHether that Party or Faction of this Yearly Meeting have not discovered themselves to be too like unto their Persecuting Brethren in Pensilvania by endeavouring to cover and lessen their Crimes Query II. Whether it hath not been sufficiently proved that some of your Brethren in America are guilty of holding such Damnable Errors and Doctrines of Devils that no Protestant Society would tollerate If this you deny the Letters and Papers Writ and Signed by their own hands which were read in your yearly Meeting may be Printed to further Demonstrate and prove the same Query III. Why are you so partial as to order George Keith and Friends to call in their Printed Books and not also to order Samuel Jennings and his Brethren to call in the false and rash Judgments given forth by them against George Keith and Friends without any due Conviction Hearing or Tryal especially that of the twenty Eight Ministers that being the rotten basis and foundation on which all the rest are built Query IV. And how do you make it appear that that part of your yearly Meeting that have blamed G. K. and Friends was led by the Spirit of Truth and that yearly Meeting at Burlington that were unanimous in clearing G. K. were not led thereby but by the Spirit of Error unless ye will say that the Meetings in America have a dependance on the Meeting here as Samuel

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