WE dearly Salute you in the Love of God: The occasion of this present Writing is in Vindication of the Truth and Us, the detamed Witnesses of it, and particularly of George Keith, from the false Judgment, Calumnies, false Infor­mation and Defamations of S Jennings, John Simcock and Thomas Lloyd, pretended preachers, and others joyned with them, being in Number twenty eight, in their late Ep [...]tle sent to the Monethly and Quarterly Meetings in Pennsilvania, East and West Jarsey.

First of all, whereas they pretend to give an Account to these Meetings of the Tedious Exercise and Vexations 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 & Vexations Perplexity, &c. which because they have not given, we [...] 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 Moneths ago, William Stock tale, 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 [...] twelve of the Friends of the Ministry, met at the House of Robert E [...]er, who having done nothing in the said Meeting to being W.Stockdale to due Conviction 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, [Page 3] only two of the said Friends of the Ministry then present, viz. John Hars and John D lava [...] dissented from the rest; then G.K. did again lay his [...] before Friends of the Ministry at the last Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia in the first week of 7 Mon. 1691. and [...], [...] to have their [...] and judgment, Whether he was guilty [...] preac [...]ing Two C [...]ists? or [...] W. S. was not guilty of [...], or saying [...] within and Christ without are Two [...]? 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, deserved 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 leading [...], and to be in a degree of Christianity above all other Professions in [...], (there being assembled of these [...] Ministers out of these three Provinces about forty or fifty, if [...] more) six Meetings could not determine it, viz. [...] to preach Fair, in Christ [...] us, and Faith in Christ without [...] was to preach Two [...], or One? Whereas G.K. had many Witnesses to clear him, that he alwayes said, when he treated on this [...], that Christ within us, and Christ without us was but one [...] are 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 [...] Christ, could have [...] determined ad resolved thi [...] Question, and given ju [...]gm [...]nt against W. S. being guil [...]y of [...] against the Son of M [...]n, (though not against the holy Ghost) for his blasphemous Assertion, That to [...] in Christ within, and Faith in Christ without, was to preach Two Christs; for according to him, Christ without is a false Christ, [...] being a great Owner in Precence and words of Christ within; and yet which will be matter of Admi­ration to all Impartial Person that [...] it, who have the least true Knowledge in the [...] yo [...] Ch [...]ist) t [...]i [...] great and solemn Assembly of so many high Pretenders to [...] [Page 4] Meeting gave but a very slender and partial determination and judge­ment 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 the [...] 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 necess [...]y to give for your true Information. In one of these six Meetings T. Fitzwater, in Prayer, said, O God, that dyed in us, and [...]aid dow [...] thy Life in us, and took it up again, &c. After he had ended his Prayer. G. Keits, G. Hatchison and J.Hampton (but f [...]w 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 Scripture, but to the [...] Testimony of Friends, That God is Immortal, and cannot dye; year, G.H. in his Book called Judgment sixt, exprelly faith, God cannot dye; yea [...] or imbona [...]g [...], with other words [...]o that effect, and so cannot dye: Another called Robert Young, a great Preacher among them, openly said, as many can bear witness, in one of these Meetings, That he did not find Christ without in all the Scripture, further positively affirming That Christ, when he ascended into the Cloud was seperated from his Body, and tho' one or two checkt him a little, for his assertion, yet no further notice was taken of it to bring him to any Condemnation for his Elasphemy. Also, Arthur Cook, in one of these Meetings ac­cused G.K. for saying, at the Meeting at R. [...]wer's house, That Christs Body that was [...] and buried, is gone into Heaven, and was and is in Heaven, even the very same Body; which G.K. most freely acknowledg­ed he had so affirmed, and that Christs Body was not changed in Being or Substance of Body, but in Manner and Condition. And whereas at one of [...] Meetings G.K. had complained against J. Sinaock, that he had questioned G.K. at the [...] Meeting at R. Ewer's, saying, Dia Christs Bones rise? which G.K. affirmed, and proved from Scripture; but the said J.S. boldly deny'd that he asked any such Question, until John [...] and [...] Bradford affirmed they heard him question it. And not only John Sinaock and Arthur Cock, and others did openly blame G.K. both at the Meeting at K.Ewer's, land at other Meetings at the Yearly Meeting, for imposing a Novelty upon his Aniunt Brethren, but more especially and principally Thomas Lloyd, who was the great At­torney for W. Stockdale, and the great Mouth of all these that opposed [Page 5] G.K. in his Testimony to these [...] Fundamental Principles and Doctrines of the Christian Faith, did [...] object against G.K's Imposing an Unscriptural Faith on his Brethren, all which is so openly known to many, that we judge, they scarce have the Confidence themselves to deny it; but what was this Unscriptural Faith that they did blame G.K. for imposing on he Antient Brethren? even no other but this, That we ought to believe in Christ without us in Heaven, as well as in Christ within for Salvation; and That Christ is in Heaven, having the true Na­ture of Man, both O, Soul and Body, the same he had on Earth for Being, but wonderfully and must gloriously changed in Condition and Manner, and is not only God in Heaven, but both God and Man, and yet one Lord [...] Christ; and many are Witnesses, how at the School-house Meeting, as well as at these other Meetings aforesaid, T. Lloyd argued, That Faith in Christ without us, as he dyed for our sins, & rose again, was not necessary to on Salvation; which his Son-in-Law. J. Delavall openly contradicted, bringing for his Proof Rom. 10. 9, 10. And at one of these Yearly Meeting, T. Lloyd said, Christ within did all; which J. Wilsford con­tradicted, saying, That he did not believe, for Christ [...] did some­what when he dyed for us. And at another of those Meetings [...] Jenings having rudely & uncivi [...]ly stopt G.K. in his Testimony, when he was recommending to them, seriously to consider, whether it was not their Duty to preach [...] outwardly more than they did, said, I, thou preached Christ without less, others might [...] more; whereof divers present took great notice, and was very offensive to them, as well as to G.K. and did signifie that S. Jermings was too much a Prea­cher at his own will, as well as prejudiced against G.K. that because he would not seem to follow G.K. he and others would not preach what G.K. preached, tho' true. And this is but a hint of many more things that could be mentioned, as Instances of their gross Ignorance. Unbelief and Balsph [...]my that some of them showed themselves openly guilty of at these Meetings, and others their being guilty of gross Partiality and Hypoc [...]i [...]se, labouring to cover these men in their im­pious Blasphemies against Christ Jesus the Son of Man, was it there­fore any matter of Wonder or [...], [...] G.K. being Zealous and servant for the true Faith, and Doctrine of Christ, so much openly c [...]nt [...]adicted by some of them, and [...] by [...] at these Mee­ting of [...] was stir [...]ed in [...] to use sharp [...] against them, which yet were all true, and therefore no Railing, nor yet [...]lame. [Page 6] worthy? even as it is said of Pa [...]l, That his Spirit was stirred in him [...] be [...] the Cuy (viz. of Athens) wholly given to la [...]latry. And [...] that G.K. did exceed at times, the [...]ue Bounds, by great pro­vo [...]tions on their side, is it not great Hypocrite and Partiality of their men so severel to judge him, and wholly to conceal, not only their own Ignorance, Error and Blasphemy, but extream Passion, the rude, uncivil and unmannerly Speeches they uttered against him, both in these Meetings, and aften since, calling him, Reviler O his Bethren, Act se [...] of the B [...]cthren, Brat of Babylon, One that always endeavoured to keep down the Power o [...] Truth, drawing from the Gift of God; calling him also, Pope, Primate of Pen [...]silvania, Father Con [...]essor, accusing him of Railing, Envy, extream Passion, and a Turb [...]ent and [...], and not only so, but most uncivilly and unchri [...]tianly, yea, inhumanely otherwise treating him in these Meetings, often six or ten all at once speaking to him, and some pulling him by one sleeve, and others by the skirts of his Coat, more like Mad-m [...]n than Sobe [...]; and some bidding him go out, and when he essayed to go out, and pray­ed th [...]m to let him go, others pulling him back, and det [...]ining him; so that greater Confusion was scarce ever seen in any Meeting pre­tending to Cristianity; and [...]hy do they co [...]ceal all this their [...]ude, and [...], and inhumane Carriage, as well as uncivil words towards G.K. but to demonstrate them Vartiality and Hy [...]oc [...]isie,at least to given a fair occasion to demonstrate it, and what Partial and Hypo­critical men they are, whom God hath in great measure already dis­covered, and we doubt not will further discover in due time.

And many of these men have discovered no less Ignorance and Error in the late Difference that hath happened betwi [...]t G.K. & I.Pit [...]wate [...] who hath openly in the face of a Monthly Meeting [...] G.K. for denying the suffic [...]ney of the Lig [...]t; and the thing at [...] is come to this Issue, that by the Act of a Monthly Meeting, hold at Philadelphia the 20. 3. m [...]n. G.K. is condemned for saying, I've Light is not sufficient without something else; and at the next Monthly Meeting following T. Lloyd did acknowledge, in the open hearing of all present, whereof many are ready to bear witness, & which we judge they will not deny, T [...]at by that something else they knew that G.K. did hold (as he hath oft declared, both in publick Testimonies, & other occasion [...]. Discourses) The Man Christ Jesus without us, and what he did and suffered for us on Earth, and what he now doth, or us in Heaven; Wheresupon G.K. said [Page 7] If' this be a Guiltiness, That the Light within doth not save us, or [...] not sufficient without the Ma [...] Christ Jesus, and his Death, Resur­rection, Ascention & Mediation for us in Heaven, I own my self guilty; but by their thus condemning G.K. for his sound Doctrine, and clear­ing T.F. they have declared openly their being no Christians, and therefore it is no Railing not Ungodly Speech to call them Ignorant Heathens, for it is their proper Name due to them, seeing they will not own any thing else, not the Man Christ Jesus, but only the [...]ght in them to be sufficient and necessary to their Salvation; but for a more full account of their thus publickly renouncing the Man Christ Jesus we refer to two Papers of Minuts writ by G.K. of what passed at the last Quarterly and Monthly Meetings about this matter. But whereas some of them say, They have not cleared T.F. let an impartial men, who read their act recorded in their Monethly Meeting Book, (a copy of which with great difficulty we have at last obtain [...]) judge whether their words in the said Act doth not clear him, when they say, T [...]e Meeting saw no Reason to give Judgment against him, in this particular above-mentioned, as much as when the Grand Jury bring­eth [...]n their Verdict of an Ignoran [...]us into the Court, doth [...] clear the Person accused for that time? and whether this their cleaning of him, is not further confirmed by thei [...] allowing & countenancing him to preach and pray in their Meetings, and the last clause of their Paper concluding That T.F's charge in it [...] was true.

2dly, Whereas in their Epistle they use a great many words in Com­mendation of what formerly G.K. was, and now once he walked in the Counsel O God, and was little in his own Eyes, and his Brethren honorable for his esteem, and that he was lovely in that day, when the Beauty o, the Lord was upon him, and his Comlin [...] [...] covered him; and other high words of Commendation, scarce given to many fa [...] more worthy than he. It is very apparent, that all this is b [...]ton purpose, first to raise him up as it were on high, that they may seem the more to throw him down in othe [...] deep put of Infamy & false Judgment they have given against him, together with their deceitful & [...] pocritical Lamentation over his Fall from the high places o, Israel, as a man stain in his high places; this is not unlike to their Predecessors, the Persecuting Clergy of the Church of Roine, who before they burnt that worthy Servant of Christ John [...], they caused be put on him hi [...] Priestly Robes, & then afterwards script him of them, on purpose the more to defame him, and [...] [Page 8] him vile before the People; the which as they were doing, that worthy Servant of Christ called to remembrance that [...] V [...]ture which [...] put upon Christ to mock him with [...], as Fox doth relate it in his Book of [...], pag. 739. [...]om. 1. But we would have these men to know, that C. [...]. needs none of their hypocritical and mock La­mentation, but rather let them in good earnest weep for themselves, and for [...] great Ignorance, Error and Unbelief, that some, if not all of the [...] have sufficiently discovered themselves guilty of; and most of them of their great Prejudice and Hypocrisie, and all of them of their [...], and rash and false Judgment, which will be their own burden, & for which we wish them true Repentance. And seeing their Accusa­tions against G.K. lie much in bare generals, we see no cause further to take notice o [...] them, as they contain bare generals, as his [...] guilty of Anger, Envy, Cruelty, Treachery, and other false & reproach­ful Speaches they give out against him, but to show, that for want of particular matter against him, they thus labour to [...]fame him so much in bare Generals, a way common to all [...] & false A [...]cusors. And for the Hard Words they alle [...]ge he used to call some of them, as Fools, Ignorant Heathens, [...], Silly Souls, Lya [...]s, Her [...]ticks, Rot [...]en Ranters, Muggletonians, &c. G.K. saith, and that in the uprightness of heart, that he never gave such Names to any of them, but to such as he can prove did deserve them, and for which he can appeal to an impartial men that profess Christianity, whether they to whom he gave such Names, did not deserve them; as when one of them said to him in his own house, in the hearing of some present, That seeing to preach Faith in Christ without, did give Offence to [...] Brethren, and was like to make a Division among Friends, it was best to let it alone, as Paul said concerning eating of Flesh, [...] it did offend his weak Brother; this W. Gabitas said to him, whereupon G.K. said, (as he solemnly declareth, and as some do witness) Thou silly Soul, or little Soul, dost [...] compare the preaching of Christ crucified to eating [...] flesh? And to call men Fools and S [...]ts, yea, blind and dark [...] that deserve it, hath been the practice of some very eminent Friends for no greater cause than some have given, who have openly renounced the Faith of Christ without them, as necessary to th [...] Salvation, as we can sufficiently prove some of them have done, who deservedly may be called Ignorant Heathens, Infidels & Heretick [...]; and if G.K. did call some of them Lyars, he can prove they were such, and that is no Railing to call a Lyar by his true Name; so did Christ [Page 9] call such as deserved it, and so did Paul; and divers of them that have signed that Epistle, have called G.K. openly in a Meeting Lyar, and other unworthy and base Names, without all just ground; and there­fore it is base Partiality in these men to condemn G.K. for that which they are guilty of themselves, some of them having not only called him Lyar, but Apostate, and worse that Prophane, as particularly S. Jenings, in the hearing of divers credible Witnesses; and Arthur Cook, (who is of their side, tho' his hand is not at their Paper, being absent) at the School-house-Meeting did openly call him Muggletonian for affirming, That Christ had the true Body [...] Man in Heaven, the which Body was not every where; of this many can bear witness; & at the same time the said A.C. would not acknowledge that Christs appearance to Paul, menti­oned I Cor.15.8. was without him, alledging it was Only within, & put G.K. to prove, Where we read in Scripture of Faith in Christ within and Christ without, as also to prove, that Cornelius was faithful to the Light within, or had the Light within. And T. Lloyd hath used very unciv [...] ex­p [...]essions to G.K. in some of those Meetings, one time saying, No man could differ with G.K. but he was in danger o the Lie of his Soul by him, which G.K. was greatly offended with, and judged the most uncharit­able saying that e [...]er any of his greatest Enemies gave him, this T.L. knoweth himself guilty of, & hath laboured since to put a cloak upon it, but that could not cover it; and at another time said, G.K. had been a more vexatious Adversary to Friends than F [...]licks or Scand [...]ret, or the greatest Enemies; & at other times he hath said to G.K. Mast I tru [...]kle under thes? which seemed very strange to G.K. and some others, and seemed to proceed from great Pride and Self-conc [...], is which G.K. answered, A thou art not to truckle under me, so [...] and to truckle [...] or thee, but let us both truckle under Truth. And it is but too apparent that T. Lloyd, S. Jenings, J. Simcock, A took most especially, and others of them concerned in Government and Magistracy, take occasion on that account to exalt themselves, and lord it over G.K. and his Friend, and seek to oppress and [...]un him down, because of their worldly Power and Greatness, and of this many are sensible, that these places of wo [...]oly Government have done them much hurt, in other respects, and espe­cially that of late they countenanced the use of the carnal Sword, and some—hired men to fight, for recovering a Sloop from the [...] a­teers, and all this is allowed & countenanced by the Authority of these men, who have joyned in false Judgment against G.K. but if they had [Page 10] known their own state aright, they would rather and in the [...] place have, [...]dged themselves for that which hath brought our Profession under such great Reproach. And for [...] them Renters who deny Faith in Christ without, as necessary to Salvation, and only proses [...] Faith in Christ the Light with [...] t [...]em, as we can prove divers of them do, G.K. hath for his Example G.F. whom he hath heard call such Ranters, who say, They believe only in Christ the Light in them, & not in the Man Christ [...] them; also he hath the Example of G. Whitehead, who faith to Jiff. Bullock, [...] not see the consistency of Salvation by the Light [...], And by the Man Christ Jesus, ar [...] gone from the Light into Ima­ginations; And by this (Cen [...]u [...]e of G.W.) it doth manifestly appear that the Monthly Meeting of the other side here at Philadelphia, who meet ap [...]rt from us, is gone from the Light into Imaginations (and what is th [...] but [...]) for they have declared by their late Act of their Monthly Meeting, the 2 [...]. 3. mon. 92. That they see no reason to give Judgment against T.F. for a [...]cusing G.K. that he denyed the Sufficiency of the Light, seeing four Credible [...] gave Testimony, That they card him say, he did not believe the Light was sufficient an [...] something else; and at their last Monthly Meeting it was confessed by T.L. as the Month of the Meeting, [...] by that something else, [...] knew G.K. meant the Man Christ Jesus without us, & what he did & suffered, or us on Earth, and what he now doth for us in Heaven, to wit, his Intercession for us, &c. Wherein they have declared themselves exactly to be of the mind of J. B [...]llock, (a great Adver [...]sary to Truth and Friends, and whom G.W. hath well answered) who do not [...] the consistency b [...]twix [...] Salvation by the Light within, and by the Man Christ Jesus; and therefore by the Judgment of G.W. they are gone with J.B. from the Light into Im [...]gi [...]ations, and may be justly reckoned Adversaries to Truth and to faith ful Friends, as well as J.B. And not withstanding of their ac­cusations against G.K. as if he were not in unity with Truth and faith­ful Friends, G.K. hath many hundreds to bear him witness, [...] he is in unity with Truth and faithful Friends, not only [...] Old-England, but in all places where they are; and they have heard him on all occasions earnestly to declare his being in unity with all faithful Friends every where, and that he doth believe that there are many that are faithful, and have had the true Christian [...] from the beginning, and that they still continue in it, and that the Faith and Doctrine he doth preach, is the same that Antient Friends had from the beginning, and which all [Page 11] [...]ound and faithful Friends at present have. And as for his giving hard Names and Words to any, it was but conditional, upon [...]upposition of their holding such Errors, which they did term to favour & argue for, except to two or three, to where he was more positive, because of their boldly asserting these Errors, some of which are now boldly and openly asserted by them generally.

Thirdly, whereas they say, That G.K. charged their Meeting with be­ing come to cloak [...] and [...], and that there were more Doctrines [...] Devils, and Da [...]able Herefies among the Quakers, then among any Professions of the Protestants. In this they are very unfair, and give a [...] Relation, as can be prov'd by credible Witnesses, he did not charge the whole Meeting, but a Party or Faction of them, that sway'd and influenced others, for there were divers of that Meeting that stood for G.K. at that time, which was the Meeting held at Burlington last, tho' J.Delavall and W.Byles are now declined, and G.K. did say, That [...] such Damnable Here [...]ies and Doctrines of Devils were tollerated in any Pro­stant Society, as these [...] did among them; but he never charged the Body of Friends with these things, but always made a distinction; and G.K. might well say so concerning them that have opposed him here, who hae exceedingly labour'd to cloak that damnable Herefie of W.S. That to preach Faith in Christ within and without, [...] to preach two Christs; and with the like Industry have they labour'd to cover T.F. whom they heard utter Blasphemy in his Prayer, and never brought him to convi­ction for it; & tho' T.Budd, at the last Meeting of Ministring Friends at Burlington, charged him with saying, That [...] owned [...] Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven without him, but the Grace of God within him, yet they gave him no check for i [...]; & at the last Yearly Meeting, in the presence of divers Friends be argued against G.K. That Christ was only a Spirit in Heaven, and had nothing of the Body [...] Man in Heaven; this is he also who said to G.K. at another Meeting, he had not learned that lesson, whether it was [...] or some-what else that Christ took o, the Virgin, that was nailed to the Cross. And at a late Monthly Meeting that party hath cleared the said T.F. & told, That the Light is [...] without any thing else, excluding the Man Christ Jesus, and his Obedience, Death Resurrection, Ascention and Mediation for us in Heaven, all which are something else than the Light; and G.K. might well say, no Protestant Society would tollera [...]e these damnable Here [...]es nor indeed would the Church of Rome. Also, some of their chief Members are [Page 12] guilty of denying [...]'s Day of Judgment, and any Resurrection but [...] they have already attained, 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 [...] Judges, and Will. [...], one of the Evidences against G.K. And J.Wil [...]ord, another of the false Judges, said lately on a first day Meeting, That Christ was a Mediator for no Drunkards [...] Wicked Persons, but for his own Disciples, expressly contrary to Scripture Testimony in many places, Isa. 53. 12. Isal. 68. for it is by the Merits and intercession of Christ that all men, even wicked men of all [...]orts have a day of [...], and are inwardly enlightned by Christ, and such who improve it no [...], but live and dye in their sins, [...] not but that it is a benefit in it [...]. Also, the same Person, [...] time ago at a Meeting in East-Jarsey, said in Prayer, Lord [...] not dote on the Body, to neglect the Life; which was very of­fensive, and is an unfavou [...] i [...]reve [...]n [...] 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 [...] 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 Suffering, Death, Re [...]urrection & A [...] ­ [...]ention in that Body, hoping that he will change our low Body, and fa­shion it like to his glorious [...]ody. All which, and other gross Errors; being con [...]dened, some denying Gods Presence in all his Creatures, arguing [...] God be in Herbs and Grass, than who trample [...] Herbs & Grass, [...] on God [Horrid Blasphemy!] as one argued, & charged G.K. of Blas­phemy [...] Mo. Meeting, for saying, God was present in all his Creatures, even Grass, Herbs, &c. Hence a new dispute hath risen among some, [...] God be present in [...]? some a [...]gning,they are [...]part of the Cre­ation. Are not these things enough to make [...] 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 [...] Herefies, &c. are [...] in any Christian Society, as are among [...] away, called, [...]uakers. Another preaches, [...] Christ [...] at once, and maketh them free of all sin; and when we are perfect we are Kings, & are not to beg or pray to God for then [...] And openly in a Meeting at J. Goodsonn's, S.Jenings accused G.K. as also did J.Simcock for preaching Faith in Christ without us, [...] it the Professors Faith, and the Faith of all [...], that did not profit them. And T.Ducker; another great state-man (the.) and Preache [...], declared at the Meeting at Rob. [Page 13] Errors when G.K. made the first Complaint to them against W.S. that he could not determine, whether that Body that was crusified, 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 joyning with them that [...], the Light is sufficient without something else, and requiring G.K. to give an absolute Submission to their judgment, which G.K. calling Kark 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 Fomer, but to do our own business, as men, we needed it not; which G. [...], [...] Rob. T [...]ner, J.Hart, and several others, publickly testified against, but the Meeting gave no judgment against him. And notwith­standing [...] S.J. hath 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 world [...] 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 [...] and him, concerning the Trust committed to him by E.B. as his Deputy Governo [...], the which; tho' he refused to submit to their Judgment, yet they judged him guilty of betraying his Trust and the came away from England in dis-unity with the most faithful Friends at London, on that very account; and had he had his due, Friends here would sc [...]r [...]e have suffered him to preach and pray in Meeting, far less to have ruied in their men and womens Meeting, a since he hath done, first in West-Jarsey, of whose too severe Government, People in that Province were generally weary, and of other his proud and lofty Car­riages, and now here in Pennsilvania, who hath already shown himself too high and impe [...]ious both in Friends Meetings, and [...] Courts, as is out too we [...] known to many, and yet this ignorant presumptuous and insolent man hath been one of the main Opposers & Threatners of G.K. threatning him, That they will let him know that the [...] their Judgment, yet they shall judge him; but seeing they have given false Judgment against him, a G.K. could expect no better from his declared Opposers, and Adversaries both to Truth and him, it is no cause of [Page 14] Offence for G.K. to say, be trampled their 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 ignora [...] and pre­judiced men these are against the Trut [...]. Another of the false Judges is one W. Walker, Novia, who began to preach before he had the out­ward sober carriage of a Friend, known to be a prejudiced 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 word in the [...]; and at another time in a publick Meeting, he hid us mass that she Scepter might depart from [...] &c. that [...] come; and many other most gross & impertinent things he hith spoke in Meetings, fathering an upon the Spirit. And a for J. Delavall his declining from G.K. and turning most severely against him and his. Doctrine, but of late formerly preached by him, is insufficient 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, sa [...]ing, A God was in Heaven is 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 pretended Friend of G.K. and who hath greatly owned in words G.K's Doctrine, and came to that called our seperate Blessing, at least one first day, as joyning with us, and yet now hath joyned with these false judges against us, and yet but a few [...] before, he told G.K. That he believed are long they would thrust him out from among them, for it lay on him to preach among them, what that something else was, that was necessary to their Salvation, besides the Light, to wit, the Man Christ Jesus without us. Let none be Offended that we name these [...] Names, for seeing they have named G.K. in their Paper containing false Judgment, and put their Name to it, we hope none can justly blame G.K. or us that love him, to name their Names to thing we can prove sufficiently against them; besides, some of them have complained that in our Book, Some Causes [...] Seperation, we named not Names, and therefore seeing it is desired, we have named some; & it were an easie matter to give such a Character of every one of them that have signed that Paper of false Judgment, as may render them unqualified men to give Judgment in such a weighty case, not only for the Ignorance of most of them, as well as their Prejudice, but for the great suspicion that some of them lie under of a scandalous Life, as [...], Un­cleanness, &c. and as for W. Yardly & N. Walve, as we can prove them [Page 15] both very ignorant men, so they are not of a very good Fame among their Neighbours, and for that distaste, some stay from Meetings, as we are informed. And one George Gray from Barbadoes, almost wholly a stranger to these matters of difference, taking all on trust from them, except what hath lately happened in some late Meetings, hath showed himself too foolish and rash, as well as ignorant; and the like may be said of [...], of Long-Island, wholly a stranger to any Differences, but what he had by report, and who lately before divers Witnesses at the house of W. Bradford, openly declar [...]d himself an Unbeliever, as con­cerning Christs coming without us to judge the quick and the Dead, which is a great Article of the Christian Faith.

4thly, As concerning their blaming G.K. for objecting against their Discipline, and his preparing a Draught, Which he presented them, G.K. gave no just Cause to be offended at this; hundreds here away of the more sincere sort of Friends, do object, as well as G.K. against the too great laxness of Discipline amongst us, and that there is but little in­spection into the good Lives and Manners of them that profess Truth among us, far less into their Faith, so that men may almost believe any thing, and yet be owned, if they come to Meetings, and use plain Lan­guage and plain Habit, and be not grosly scandalous. And as to his Draught that he prepared and presented to the Yearly Meeting, 1690, he was very moderate in it, and did not press it on them; and he is so far from being ashamed of it, that he has now sent it to Friends in Old England, to consider of.

5thly, Their blaming G.K. for his earnest desiring that they and we might agree to draw up some Principles and Doctrines of Faith in the most necessary things, to qualifie our Church Members, and distinguish Believers from Unbelievers, has no just ground, but is rather worthy of Commen­dation; for hundreds see the necessity of such a thing among us, especially here-away. And for his saying, That he knew none given forth by the Body of Friends, it is true he hath so said, and if they know any in the Confession or Declaration of Faith in all necessary things, and sufficient to end the present Differences, let them produce i [...]; we know that particular accounts of Principles and Doctrines have been given forth by divers particular Friends, as G.F G.W. E.B. J.C. and divers others, but not by the Body of Friends or any Yearly Meeting, so far as we know, except the Rhod [...]-Island Sh [...]et, which they do so much [...] For their offering to give a Confession in [...] words, when [Page 16] they have given us to know, they have a sence contrary to Scripture, [...] more can [...] us, than when [...], [...], Muggletontans, &c, say they will give us a Confession of their Faith in Scripture words; They have greatly blamed G.K. for imposing unscriptural words & terms on them; and yet when asked, what these terms are? they never, did or can show, unless that some of them have said, to preach faith in Christ within and [...] us, is unscriptural. And what else can it be but gross Unbelief & Paganism to find fault so much with preaching Faith in Christ without us, & his being in Heaven in the same body that suffered, being necessary to our Salvation; for tho' the words [without us] or [...] same Body] be not express Scripture words, yet seeing they are according to the true sence of Scripture, who can blame G.K. or any other to preach them, viz. That Faith in Christ, asked dyed for us and rose again, unnecessary to our Salvation, and that Christs Body that was [...], and buried, rose again, and is gone into Heaven? Surely none but Insiaels and Rankers, but no sincere Christians will deny these things; and yet all the Imposition they can alledge on G.K. is, That he did preach Faith in the Man Christ without them, as well as Faith in Christ the Light in them; & that Christ bate the true Body of Man in Heaven, and in that Body he will come and appear without us to judge the quick and the dead. And the 27. 4. mo. at Frankford Mo Meeting in discourse without door before many Friends, T. Lloyd blamed G.K. for imposing unscriptural words on them, G.K. pressed him again and again to show in any one particular, but he would not give one instance; then G.K. desired him to answer one Question, viz. Whether to believe that Christ dyed for our sins, and rose again, was necessary to our Salvation? but T.L. waved it, saying, I will prove out of thy Books, thou vast not of that Faith sometime ago, which G.K denyed, well knowing what is in his own Books. And it may be noted, that T. Lloyd, S.Jinings, J.Delavall & S. Richardson, came to the said Meeting to countenance the reading of their Papaer of false Judgment against G.K. and his Friends, having put it into the hands of W.Prestan to read, who offering to read it, declaring, That nothing ought to be read in their meeting without the general consent of the Meeting; but this un [...]uly and disorderly man, (who hath otherwise showed his Prejudice against G.K. & particularly that when G.K. was declaring at another Meeting, W.P. interrupted him and called him Lyar, when yet it was proved that he was the Lyar himself at that very time) did presume to read the Paper [Page 17] against the mind of most of the Friends present; and T.L.S.J.S.R.J.D. and A.M. were so far from giving any check to this [...] proceeding, and [...] upon the [...] Liberty and Right of the Mee­ting, that they encouraged it, and one of them, without the least occa­ssion given, did threaten to bind an honest Friend to the Peace, S. Jenings calling out for a Constable. Thus these who by their Place should be good Examples of [...] and good Order, are Transgressors of it.

6thly, For their [...] to refer the Differences in matter of Doctrine either to the Yearly Meeting here, or to the Yearly Meeting at London, by their drawing up a Confession, and transmitting it to them, which they blame G.K. for refusing; G.K. faith, that he told them he had good cause to refuse referring it to the Yearly Meeting here, there being a Faction that pre­vailed in the last Yearly Meeting to hinder Justice to be done to the truth, but he did not refuse to refer the Difference to Friends in England, as ha­ving any [...] that they would concern his Doctrine, but it he had pro­mised any such Reference or submission as was required, it would have been called a breach of his Promise, if he had preached any of these Do­ctrines disputed betwixt them and him, and if God had moved him to preach them, he should either have disobeyed that Motion, or seemed to break his Promise; and therefore he refused to come under any such eye, especially seeing it could not be expected that an Answer could come from England in less than a years space; And by a marveolus Providence of God, within a few dayes after this debate, Friends Letters came to us confirming G.K's Doctrine in every Particular then in Difference be­twixt him and them, and since that they cry out, Who denyes these things? when it is well known, and can well be proved, many did deny them. And whereas they further say, That they would have given a Confession one of a Book [...]o, of G.K's concerning the main Matter in Controversie, is but a de­ceitful Cover, like to others; that Book giveth them no strength in the matter of Controversie; but if they think it doth they should have men­tioned it; for nothing is more deceitful than are Generals; However, let it be well noticed, they grant there is a main matter of Controversie in Doctrine betwixt us; but they should have told what that main Mat­ter of Controversie is, to wit, Faith in Christ without us, as dyed & rose again, being necessary to our Salvation, according to Ram 10.9.10. but this they dare not openly do, fearing the People, us the Pharisees feared the Jews of old, in the Case of John.

7thly, Whereas they say, This Meeting having tenderly and orderly deals wise him for has abusive Language, and disorden [...]y Behaviour, &c. There [Page 18] cannot to a thing more falsly, hypocritically and Impudently alledged; for they did not so much as call him before them at that time, so far as he can understand, altho' one of them lately told G.K. that they sent W.By [...]es for him, but nothing of this was intimated to any of his Family, and he being absent from the Town, & knowing nothing of their further Intention against him, did not purposely absent himself; it was unchri­stian, and most of Heathen Justice, to condemn him and his Friends, with­out hearing them, they never yet having has any fair hearing to clear themselves; for even Nicodemcos could say, John 7.91 Doth our Law judge any man before it hear him? And did not our Friends at London blame the Baptists for clearing Tho. Hicks, and condemning W.P and others without a fair hearing of them; nor was that enough that they sent for them, for they being then absent, was sufficient excuse, and sout was to G,K if they had sent for him; nor was he ever brought upon Tryal, in order to any Conviction, before these of the Ministry, but that Mock­Tryal that they had at Burhington last, where A Cook accused him of be­ing guilty in two particulars, viz. That four of five years ago be [...] him [...] Friends of the Ministry at the yearly Meeting at the Center, for mis­ [...]ucting the Scripture. To which G.K. answered, he did not blame them, so far as he can remember, but caution them, not to mis- [...] the Scripture, as many can witness, which was seasonable and necessary, seeing too fre­quently Scriptures are both mis-quoted and mis-interpreted, as particu­larly not long ago in a publick Meeting A Cook did expound these words, [...]. By [...] Stripes we are healed, not of Christs Stripes that he suffer­ed without us, but of the stripes that he given us in our hearts; and when T. [...] prayed in a pub Meeting, Lord Jesus, who art still cru­cisied without the Gates of Jerusalem; and at another Meeting, told, That was crucisied Christ without the Gate, when their Minds went from the Light in them; and according to this perverse Exposition, when the Scriptute faith, Let us go forth therefore unto him without the Camp, Heb. 13. 13 the sence would be, Let us go forth from the Light in [...]; which to be sure is very false and absurd Doctrine. And further, G.K. did expostulate with there against A.C. that he should so many years conceal this, and now being it forth, was contrary to Gospel Order: The next thing whereof A.C. accused G.K. was, That be heard him revise his Brethreno [...], to Friends of Rhode-Island, [...]ading some of them Heat [...]ens, &c. To which G.K. answered, that be denyed, that he reviled any of them, but if he had A.C. had no witness to prove it, and the Scripture faith, Re­ceive not an Aicusation against an Elder, but before two of three Witnesses: [Page 19] A.C. said, Friends, ye [...] the Scripture saith the Ear tryeth words, as the Mouth tasteth meat; if I speak from a true Spirit, [...]ye have a [...], and then what need of Witnesses? To which G.K. replyed, This is a great abuse, for at this rate one might accuse A.C. of Adultry, and if he can get but some men pretending to a Spirit of Discerning, say, that he speaks true, tho' the thing be false, he shall be condemned: This is an Invention that A.C hath hit upon when the Priests that accused Christ, had not found out, or had they found it out, it would not have done, for the Law re­quired Witnesses, and so doth the Gospel; but the prevailing Party in the Meeting was so far from giving check to this most [...] and unchri­stian way of of accusing G.K. without Witnesses, that they suffered S.J. to assault him with a new Charge, which he could not prove. And there fore their usage and dealing with G.K. at this said Meeting was most un­fair and [...], in that G.K. was the first Complainer, and they had de­layed doing justice to Truth, in bringing W. Stockdate to Condemnation for his B [...]phemy, 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 again 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 deals with G.K. is Abominable Hypocrisie.

8thly, Nor are they more fair and just in accusing G.K. for Traducing and [...] the two Old England 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 byassed by them of the other Party with Flattery and false Insinuations they gave against us, letting us have scarce any their Com­pany; and they being thus deceived concerning us, used many indirect Reflections, mentioning Haman, Baal, Saut and A [...]on, which the Hearers generally understood, they did intend G.K. and when he asked them, If they did mean [...], 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 Seperation, and prophe­cyed against us, which caused G.K. to tell them they were deceived con­cerning us, and for their better understanding [...] them appoint a Meeting for that end, which they not imbracing, 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 [Page 20] [...] others to go away to their own Meeting, but G.K. put not on his [...] until he was out of the Gallary, and out of the hearing of J.D.

9thly, Whereas they say, They would have G.K. cease to offer his Bise 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 ren­dered him as had as the worst of men possibly can almost be, as fallen us the searing Mountains, slain in his high Places, gone into a Spirit of En [...]mity, Wrath, Self-Exal [...], &c and as Person without the Fear of God before [...] Eyes, in his Anger and Envy being Cruel against them, with much more. Surely if all this be true, G.K. cannot be s [...]d to have the least grain of true Piecy; for he who [...] his Brother is a Mart [...]erer, and no Murt [...]eror hath [...] Life ab [...]ding in him; and according to Friends Doctrine and Principle, No Imp [...]ss [...]er Wicked Man hath any Ministerial Gift to offer, as this Paper supposeth or alloweth him to have: This Confusion and Self­ [...] 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 [...] of G.K. that he continueth in a living sence to God, and [...] a living Ministry, which hath a living Seal from the Spirit of God in the heals of hundreds, and that he is no such man as they in their Pre­judice & Ignorance describe him to be. And for their blaming us for the [...], in that they have given false Judgment against us, for it lieth [...] in door, as appeareth by our Book, Some Causese; the Seperation,&c. [...] they have not taken notice of, nor can they contradict; for all the matter therein is truth, only there was mistake of one mans name, viz. 8,mercy [...], who was not at the Meeting, but we could have fet down many [...] to make them up sixty, at least, and the matter in that Book [...] at their door to answer, if they be able.

10thly, Whereas they sa [...], G.K. at Meetings since the seperation, like an open Adversary, hath revised several Friends, by exposing their Religious Re­putations in mixt A [...]dirories of some, hundreds, &c. This is altogether Ealse, for it is no revill [...] to speak the Truth; & they cannot prove than G.K. hath spoke any thing or them on what is true, altho' they have reported both publickly and privately many false things, and among the rest their late de [...]amatory Paper of Condemnation; and [...] 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 fate Judgment of these [...] men against us, and next all faithful Friends and [...] in America. and in Old England. Scotland and Ireland. or else- [...], to judge between and them, as the unerring and infals [...]ble spirit shall be found and [...] to give them true Judgment a [...]Discerning; and with great Assurance, Peace and Joy in the lord, to him we commit oxy Righteous [...]