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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94202	A reviler rebuked, or, Abraham Bonifield's envy, falseness and folly, in his late book, called The cry of the oppressed, etc., laid open in this answer thereunto Written by Oliver Sansom...	Sansom, Oliver, 1636-1710.	1696 (1696)	Wing S685; ESTC R43915	56,159	52

grief of many tender hearted Friends as hath evidently been manifested to us this day before thy Face Wherefore we earnestly desire thee to be advised and labour to amend what hath been amiss that thou mayest be reconciled to thy Brethren before it be too late We are thy Friends heartily wishing thy Welfare William Austel John Gidding Edmond Orpwood Rich. Vokins Jun. Oliver Sansom James Potter William Cooper Reading the 24th of the 7th Month 1690. Besides this the Friends of Reading also having a great weight and burden upon their Spirits with respect to A. Bonifield's deportment amongst them did between this time and till next Quarterly Meeting send their Sense in Writing to A. B. as followeth Reading the 25th of the 10th Month 1690. Friend Abraham Bonifield WE whose Names are under-written being sorely grieved and having long born the burden of that wrong Mind and Spirit in which thou hast been smiting thy Fellow Servants in our Publick Meetings to the great grief of our Souls and likewise to the dishonour of the Blessed Truth and the Profession of it We say we have long born in Patience that which is very hard for us to bear hoping that the Labours Advice and Endeavours of many Faithful Friends might have had some place in thee But to our Sorrow we see thou lightly regardest it still persisting in that wrong Mind of disturbing our Peaceable Meetings Oh Friend we are troubled for thy sake and for the Honour of Truths sake we do intreat thee to observe that Doctrine thou so often repeatest that is to be reconciled to thy Brethren before thou offer thy Gift and so come to be reconciled in the Unity of the Spirit which is the Bond of Peace And this is earnestly desired by thy Friends who desires thy Welfare This was Signed by William Speakman and 21 Friends more of Reading Meeting The next Quarterly Meeting was holden at Newberry on the 5th of the 11th Month 1690. At which an Account being called for of the matter committed by the last Quarterly Meeting to us even relating to A. B. c. Report was made thereof according as we had found it which the Meeting taking notice of and being concerned both for the Honour of Truth the Peace of the Church and the recovery if possible of the Man did agree to send two Friends of the Meeting to visit him and endeavour to make him sensible of his Miscarriage and the hurt he had done thereby Accordingly a Minute of the Meeting 's Agreement thereupon was entered in the Meeting Book as followeth Newberry the 5th of the 11th Month 1690. WHereas there was something offered to the last Meeting by Abraham Bonifield of his dissatisfaction with some Proceedings of some Friends of their Monthly Meeting at Reading and the Meeting judging it most convenient did agree and make choice of some Friends to hear and determine the matter who accordingly did meet at Reading at the time appointed about it accordingly an Account is now given by the Friends concerned that when they were so met on the account of that Service Abraham Bonifield instead of bringing forth his Charge or Complaint did read a Paper of Excuses to shew cause why he would not commit his Case or give it up to the Friends as appointed by the Quarterly Meeting and agreed to by himself And judged the Quarterly Meeting to be Unjust Uncharitable and Immoral in their Proceedings herein and so refused to give up his Case to be ended by them Wherefore it is now the Judgment of this Meeting That his Carriage herein in slighting the Quarterly Meeting 's Judgment and breaking his own Agreement is contrary to the Truth And John May and James Mathew are desired to speak with him in order to admonish him to acknowledge his Miscarriage herein and to give satisfaction to the Quarterly Meeting and come into Unity with Friends At the next Quarterly Meeting which was holden at Reading on the 4th of the 3d Month 1691. John May and James Mathew gave an Account that according to the desire of the last Meeting they had spoken with A. Bonifield and that he did fignifie to them That he was troubled that it had so come to pass that the Friends appointed before had made a Journey in vain through his occasion And A. B. himself being then present did signifie the same to the Meeting adding That if Friends would accept of it he would be content to bear the Charge of their Journey or to that effect And after some Discourse about the Differences A. Bonifield did offer it up again to the Meeting to be ended by the same Friends before appointed who being all present except one and Benjamin Antrobus of London happening to be there A. Bonifield desired that he might be put in the room or stead of that other Friend that was absent To which the Meeting with A. B's consent did agree And thereupon after the Quarterly Meeting was ended we seven who were appointed for that Service did meet the same day about it and had a full hearing of the matters in difference A. B. reading several large Writings containing Charges against W. L. and J. B. all which being attentively heard duly weighed and well considered of in the Fear and Counsel of the Lord we gave our Sense and Judgment upon the whole matter according to the Understanding we had received from God therein Which Judgment being drawn up in Writing and Subscribed with all our Names we sent a Copy thereof to A. Bonifield which is as followeth VVHereas we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed at the request of Abraham Bonifield and by the consent of the Quarterly Meeting held at Reading the 4th of the 3d Month 1691. were to hear the Complaints and Grievances of the said Abraham Bonifield and others against W. L. and J. B. and to put an end to all differences between them and accordingly after a deliberate Hearing and Examining the many Articles Complaints and Charges fully and impartially of the said A. B. against the others which being measured by the Line of Truth and weighed in the right Ballance there appeared little of Substance in them and after a serious consideration thereof and waiting in the Light of Christ our Lord the Sense and Judgment we have received is on this wise That A. B. hath not herein been Exercised in the pure peaceable Wisdom that is from above but in the Earthly Sensual Wisdom hath been watching over his Brethren with an Evil Eye and seeking occasions against them and hereby hath much darkened and hurt himself for which our Souls are grieved Therefore our tender Advice is again renewed to beseech him in Bowels of Love to wait in Humility and Quietness upon the Lord that in his meek and lowly Spirit he may come to be reconciled to his Brethren For our farther Sense is That until this be witnessed he ought not to offer his Gift upon God's Altar Also our Sense and Judgment is That he ought to

of the differing Parties do obstinately refuse to be reconciled But towards the lower end of the same page he grants at length thus That if the Parties or Referrees to whom the matter in difference is referred be in good earnest and do use their utmost endeavours for Peace and Reconciliation c. yet if any one of the Persons or Parties concerned do stand out and be refractory and refuse to yield compliance to the Judgment of the aforesaid all the rest are clear and to be excused and the blame wholly and alone to be placed upon the obstinate or refusing Person or Party c. in case that Partiality and Injustice be not the cause of his overseness This I like well and am so fully assured that we whom he unjustly calls the seven unjust Judges to whom the matters in Difference between W. L. and J. B. and himself were referred were in very good earnest and did use our utmost endeavours for Peace and Reconciliation in Truth and that tho' A. B. do stand out was refractory and did refuse to yield compliance to the Judgment given by us yet there was no Partiality or Injustice on our parts which might be the cause of his averseness That with great Satisfaction and Content of Mind I can and do leave and submit it to the Judgment of God's Holy Witness in the Hearts of his People here and to the Judgment-Seat of Christ hereafter But seeing it is so plainly proved by positive Evidence and most clear Demonstration which cannot be denied that A. B. is deeply guilty of doing great wrong to me and others therefore God's Holy Witnest in the Hearts of his People which is just and true must needs judge and condemn him for it Now this is what I in true love to his Soul do sincerely desire that he may consider of his sad Estate and wait in Humility upon the Lord to know such a Godly sorrow that may work in him a true Repentance unto Life Eternal For if this be not witnessed by him while he have time with what confidence can he think to appear before that Dreadful Tribunal or Judgment-Seat which he in an haughty mind to make a vain flourish hath presumed to Appeal unto where he must certainly be Rewarded according to his doings Abingdon the 29th of the 1st Month 1696. O. S. POSTSCRIPT THere is one thing more which may not be improper to be taken notice of though I had once thought to have passed it over with a slight hint in p. 42. but upon a second consideration concluded it might be of some Service tho' it be but a small matter and there are so many greater matters to be found fault with in his Book to shew that A. B is as foolish as conceited I did intend to have inserted this in p. 42. where it is something touched upon before but I being in the Country it came too late to the Printer's Hand and therefore it is added by way of Postscript 'T is his Etcetera's which having leisure I did for curiosity cast up where I found such an unusual plenty of them in his Book that there are fifteen of them in some single pages and near three hundred of them in the whole Book though it be not eight sheets of Print some whereof are very insignificant and impertinently added As for Example p. 40. speaking concerning the Widow Bunce 's Son he says He went to the Priest for a Wise c. What would he have his Reader think he went for besides a Wife For his Etcetera implies something more than a Wife Again in p. 3. l. 45. he says he with the rest c. did Which is as proper as if he had said he with the rest and the rest did So p. 42. l. 4. Meeting with him at Gracious-street Meeting at the time of the Yearly Meeting c. So p. 18. There ended the matter as the full and result of all and the whole c. viz. the rest besides the whole see also Epist p. 9. again in p 44. l. 14.15 Any Nation Country Kingdom or Place whatsoever throughout the whole World c. Nay so filly is he as to put in or cause to put in with a Pen these useless Etceteras in divers places where the Printer had the Discretion to leave them out as in the page last cited and some others ERRATA PAge 5. line 19. for the Capital read that Capital p. 13. l. 31. for ti●● r. the p. 16. l. 24. for 10th r. 5th p. 18. l. 23. for Meteting r. Meeting l. 24. for these r. those p. 20. l. 2. r. but that he l. 29. for 36. r. 37. p. 21. l. 15. for the Quarterly r. that Quarterly l. 16. r. last Quarterly l. 19. dele same l. 21. for matters r. matter l. 34. for mateer r. matter l. 35. for the r. that p. 22. l. 2. for away and r. away c. p. 28. l. 8. for A. B. r. J. B. l. 39. for had r. hath p. 31. l. 8. for weeks r. years Ibid. r. enquiry made l. 10. for the charge r. this charge p. 35. l. 12. for or r. for p. 44. l. 23. r. of his