More divisions amongst the Quakers as appears by the following books of their own writing, viz. I. The Christian faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers. II. The false judgment of a yearly meeting of Quakers in Maryland, condemn'd by George Keith, Thomas Budd, &c. all Quakers : to which is added, A discovery of this mystery of iniquity / by George Keith. Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1693 Approx. 68 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 13 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2005-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A47159 Wing K182 ESTC R14234 12937417 ocm 12937417 95817 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . 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Society of Friends -- Controversial literature. 2005-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2005-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion MORE DIVISIONS AMONGST THE QUAKERS : As appears by the following Books of their own Writing . VIZ. I. The Christian Faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a Meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers . II. The false Judgment of a yearly Meeting of Quakers in Maryland , condemn'd by George Keith , Thomas Budd , &c. all Quakers . To which is added , A Discovery of this Mystery of Iniquity , By GEORGE KEITH . First Printed beyond Sea , and now Re-printed , and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane . 1693. The Christian Faith of the People called Quakers in Rhode-Island in New-England , vindicated from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick , that formerly was of that Profession , but is lately fall'n therefrom . WHereas Christian Lodowick hath given forth several Papers Challenging all these belonging to Newport Meeting , who speak in the Meetings of the People called Quakers , and that within these few days past he hath renewed his Challenge , accusing the Foundation of their Gospel , Faith , Doctrine and Religion , to be unscriptural , false and naught , shaken and sandy , and challenging them to appoint one of their number to dispute with him . These are to give notice to all sober People and Neighbours , that these so challenged by him , having taken his Challenge into consideration , and finding many things in it falsly and perversly stated , which they could not own ( so stated by him ) to be the Foundation of their Faith , &c. did meet with him at the House of Walter Clark in Newport in Rhode-Island , the 18th of the 4th Month , 1691 ▪ in order to have things fairly stated , that if any did dispute with him , they might know before hand what he was to dispute against ; but they could not procure him to allow of this : but after that some of the things , charged by him in his Papers began to be discoursed of , in order to a fair and right stating of them , he would not hear of it , but went away . And whereas divers of us challenged by him , declared sincerely before many People there assembled on the said day , their sincere Faith as concerning the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth , and what the holy Scriptures testifie of him , yet he did continue to accuse them still , as denying the true Christ ; alledging , They had another sence than the Scripture words did bear , and that his sence was true , but their sence was false , appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so ? Thus making himself Judge over our secret thoughts , as having a secret sence in our thoughts of Scripture words , contrary to the true sence of them , tho' we have not given him , or any other , occasion to judge so rashly and uncharitably of us ; and our Consciences bear us witness , in the sight of God , that we do sincerely believe and think as we speak , when we say , according to the holy Scripture , That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Christ of God , and the only true Saviour , and there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby men must be saved ; and that this same Jesus was in fulness of time born of the Virgin , called Mary , being conceived of the Holy Ghost , who died for our sins , and rose again for our Justification ; and by his death on the Tree of the Cross , was a most acceptable Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole world , having tasted death for every man , and given himself a Ransom for all . And we believe that Christ was God manifest in the Flesh , even in the Body of Flesh in which he did suffer death on the Cross , and that the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him , and doth still dwell bodily in him , and that of his fulness we all receive , and grace for grace . And we also believe , according to holy Scripture , that Christ's Body that was crucified on the Tree of the Cross , was raised again on the third day , and after forty days did ascend into Heaven in the sight of the Disciples , and who is exalted at the right hand of God , and ever liveth to make Intercession for us , and that Christ hath his Body in Heaven a most glorious Body , not changed in Being or Substance , but in condition and manner of Being ; and that Christ is true and perfect God , and true and perfect Man , the Son of God , begotten of God from everlasting , glorified with the Father before the World began , and also begotten of God in the Womb of the Virgin , called Mary , and born of her in the fulness of time , the Son of Abraham , the Son of David , who took not on him the Nature of Angels , but the Seed of Abraham , and which he still hath ; and that Christ , as Man , hath both Soul and Body , and his Manhood is most excellently and wonderfully united with his Godhead , yet his Manhood is not his Godhead , nor is his Body that he had of the Virgin , and now hath in Heaven , his Godhead , but the Temple of it , as Christ called his Body the Temple , and is the Garment or Cloathing wherewith the Eternal Word did clothe himself , who is that new and living Way that he hath consecrated for us , through the Vail , that is to say , his Flesh . And we believe , That God the Father hath appointed the Man Christ Jesus to be the Judge of the Quick and the Dead , and that he is to come to judge all Mankind , and that his coming so to Judge all Mankind with the great and last Judgment is at the end of the world , the which End of the world we do believe is not come , either within us or without us , as he doth falsly charge ; for the End of the world , as the Scripture declareth , it is the End of the Ages or Times of this World ; for the Times and Ages of this world shall have an End ; and God hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man Christ Jesus , whom he hath ordained ; but of that day and hour knoweth no Man , as Christ hath declared , that all might be watchful . And because , according to Scripture Testimony , we do faithfully believe , that Christ hath also inwardly and spiritually appeared in the Hearts of men , and that all true Christians do believe and own his inward Appearance and Revelation in them , as he is the Word , Light , and Life in them , in various measures and degrees of Divine Revelation , and that he is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World , and that we testifie that all should turn to his Light in them , that convinceth of sin , and should believe in it , and obey and follow it , and that all who so do , will be led in due time to believe in him in whom the Fulness is , and to receive the benefit of Christ's Death and Resurrection in the outward ; therefore hath this Accuser joyned with Thomas Hicks a Baptist Teacher at London , and John Faldo an Independant Teacher , and divers others to accuse us , as Denying the true Christ , because we believe and confess to Christ's Inward Coming and Appearance , were to deny his Outward , or to hold forth two Christs , which is but their great Ignorance and Unbelief , and no just Consequence of our Principle ; for the true Christ of God is One , and the true Christians Faith receiveth and imbraceth him whole and undivided , and owneth his inward and outward Coming , who , as he did come without us in a state of Humiliation to suffer , and is risen and ascended into Heaven , so he will come again without us to Judge the Quick and the Dead , and all Mankind shall stand before him , the Sheep on his right Hand , and the Goats on his left . And there shall be a Resurrection of the Body , both of the Just and unjust , that is not attained already or immediately after Death , but it is to be attained unto in the Time appointed of God , called The Day of Judgment . And seeing our Friends in England have fully answered to all these false Accusations of Thomas Hicks and John Faldo , with whom Christian Lodowick hath joyned , we refer to their Answers , for the further Satisfaction of them who desire to have it . And it is falsly charged upon us by Christian Lodowick in his Papers , That according to our Principle , all honest and conscientious Heathens or Gentiles , who have not the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified outwardly , and risen again , &c. and Jews and Mahometans are in Christ as well as we , and true Christians , Believers , &c. Nor doth this follow by any just Consequence from our Principles ; for though we do affirm , That all conscientious and honest Gentiles , such as Cornelius was before the Faith of Christ was preached to him , have some measure of Light , from Christ , to enlighten them , and are under some Administration of the Spirit , yet it is but the first Ministration , until the knowledge and Faith of Christ , as he died for our sins , and rose again , &c. be spiritually received ; and such who have the true and saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ , as he died and rose again without them , spiritually receiving it by the Light and Spirit of Christ in them , and wrought in them by that mighty Power that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead , and which conformeth them to Christ , in the like Vertues of Love , Patience , Humility , Resignation , &c. so as to love Enemies , are only Christians , and Sons of God , of the Free-woman , having received the Spirit of Adoption , whereby they cry Abba , Father ; but who have not this Faith of Christ crucified and raised again outwardly , spiritually received and wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ , whether they have or have not heard Christ outwardly preached unto them , are at best ( however just and conscientious to the just Principle of God in them ) not under the second and more peculiar Ministration of God's Spirit , that maketh Men worthy to be esteemed Christians , but are only under the first , and such are held under the Custody or Safeguard of the Law , shut up unto the Faith that is afterwards to be revealed , as Paul hath declared , Gal. 3.23 . and the state they are in under this first Ministration , is to them as the City of Refuge was to the Man-slayer under the Law , and whereof it was a Tipe : And this first Ministration of the Law and Light in them , ( that answereth to Moses and the Prophets and to John , who are faithful and conscientious under it ) prepareth them to receive the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified and raised again , and fitteth them for the second Ministration of the Spirit , that bringeth them to witness the Spirit of Adoption , and the Anointing that maketh them true Christians , and conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues , so as to love Enemies , and lay down the Life for Enemies , which is more than meer honest conscientious Gentiles , who have not the Faith of Christ crucified and raised again , can do . And whereas the said Christian Lodowick doth further accuse us , That what we say we know of the Scriptures , we should have known , if it had never been writ , according to our Principle . This is falsly charged upon us , as many other things in his Papers ; for though we believe and say , that some things declared in Scripture , we should have known , if they had not been writ , as that there is a God , the Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth , that requireth us and all men , by his Law and Light in us ▪ to live soberly and righteously , and to fear , love and worship him , and divers other general things , of great use and service to men , according to Paul's Doctrine ; For the invisible things of God , even his eternal Power and Godhead are clearly seen , being understood by the things that are made , so that they are without excuse ; for what is to be known of God is manifest in them ; yet the peculiar Doctrines and Mysteries of the Christian Faith , as that Christ should be born of a Virgin , die for our sins , and rise again , and that he is both God and Man , and many other the like peculiar Mysteries of the Christian Faith , we do acknowledge , and have always acknowledged , That the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures , as outwardly preached to us by holy Men , or as read by us in the holy Scriptures , or having outwardly heard these things , have been instrumental , by and together with the immediate working of the Spirit of God , to beget in us the Knowledge and Faith of them , and we desire to bless God for the benefit of the holy Scriptures given us , being able to make us wise unto Salvation , through Faith in Christ Jesus ; but that we prefer the Spirit to the Letter , we are not ashamed to own before all men , and that God and Christ and the Spirit , whom they testifie of , are above the Scriptures , and greater than they , we do freely acknowledge ; for all outward Testimonies , Means , Instruments and Helps , such as the holy Scriptures , and all outward Preaching , and Men , and Books , are but Servants to God and Christ , but God and Christ are Lord , and Master , and King over all , to whom be Glory and Honour forever and ever . And as to the final state of all honest and conscientious Gentiles , who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them either by the Ministry of Men or the holy Scriptures , it sufficeth us to believe that God is not wanting to them , and it is one God , who is the God both of Christians and Gentiles , and who shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith , and the Uncircumcision through Faith , Rom. 3.30 . and it is no greater , nor other difficulty to understand how honest and conscientious Gentiles can be saved by Christ Jesus of Nazareth , than how Infants , and deaf and dumb Persons , so born , can be saved , which our Adversaries generally acknowledge , and therefore they can have no advantage against us in that respect . Edward Thurstan . Henry Bull. Anne Bull. Thomas Cornwall . Thomas Roadman . George Keith . Ebenezer Slocum . Joseph Nicholson . Daniel Gould . Jacob Mott. Walter Clark. Rob Hutchins . John Easton . Note , The foregoing Christian Faith of the Quakers in Rhode-Island was so disliked by G. Keith's Adversaries in Pensilvania , that they call'd a Meeting on purpose to pass Judgment against the Publishing of it , and William Bradford for printing it , &c. See The Plea , &c. p. 21. False Judgments Reprehended : AND , A Just Reproof to THO. EVERNDON , And his Associates and Fellow-Travellers . For the false and rash Judgment T. E. gave against G. K. and his Faithful Friends and Brethren , at the Publick Meeting at Philadelphia , the 27th of the tenth Month , 1692. And also for their bringing with them their Paquet of Letters ( Saul - like to Damascus ) containing the false Judgment of a Faction of of Men , calling themselves the Yearly-Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland , the fourth of the eighth Month , 92. And another false Judgment contained in another Letter from William Richardson : All which will return upon their own Heads . IT is greatly worth the noticing , That these men who call themselves the Yearly Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland , met the 4th of the 8th Month , 1692. have most rashly and unchristianly , contrary to all Gospel-Order , condemned G.K. and his Friends , as appears by their Paper signed by Thomas Everndon , Rich. Johns , Richard Harrison , John Pitt , W. Dixon , Ja. Ridley , and several others , without at all hearing of him , or sending any of their Brethren to enquire into the truth of things , or true cause and ground of the Separation here , and such other things as they lay to his charge . And whereas they say in their Letter , That he accuseth his Brethren , and renders them to the World as a People not fit to hold Communion with ; and that there are more damnable Heresies and Errors cloaked amongst the Quakers there ( viz. in Pensilvania ) than in any Protestant Society in Christendom . Answ . O the gross partiality and injustice of these men ! when was it that G.K. published this to the World , viz. That they cloaked more damnable Heresies and Errors here , than in any Protestant Society in Christendom ? Was it not in answer to the 28 false Judges , that had published in the face of the World their false Judgment against him , in which they publish these words , and not G. Keith , for he spoke them in a private Meeting at a private House in Burlington , where about 20 men called Ministers were met ; and had they been wise they would not have so publickly accused G.K. for them in their said Paper , which though they did not print , yet caused it to be read at monthly and quarterly Meetings , and at other Meetings on First-days and Week-days , where many that did not profess to be Quakers were present , whereby it was noised all about ; and G.K. was publickly opposed and interrupted in his Testimony in most places , and when he prayed in Meetings , many kept on their Hats , and all because of this Paper of false Judgment against him by the 28 , and it is but a circumstance whether a thing be printed or not , seeing they published it all over the Country , and sent it to most parts in America , where there is of the People called Quakers , before G.K. published it in print ; so they were the Publishers of it , and not G.K. And this is sufficient to discover their Partiality and Injustice in this particular , which is the principal thing they pretend to have against him . Again , whereas they blame him for Separating from Friends and Brethren : By this it plainly appeareth that they own such to be their Brethren , who are guilty of denying and opposing Faith in the Man Christ without us , which these here have done . And for the Separation which our Opposers first made , and were the cause of , we are well warranted by the holy Scripture , that saith , Come out from among them , and be ye separate ; Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers ; what fellowship hath a Believer with an Infidel ? and such indeed are all them who have not Faith in the Man Christ without them , as in Christ in them , as these our Opposers have not , who set up the Light within to be sufficient without any thing else , as their Judgment against him plainly expresseth , so excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us from having any part in our Salvation . Again they tell G. K. That if any of them had been guilty of these things , he ought to have laboured their Recovery in Love and in the Spirit of Meekness . Answ . And so he did for above a year , with much love and patience , and met with great contradiction , hatred , and reviling Language from them for his pains : and he did bear and suffer so long , that he could not with peace of Conscience suffer it any longer , and brought the matter of Difference orderly from one Meeting to another , but there was no Remedy . And whereas they say , He ought to have stated the Difference and sent it to London : He did write to G. Whitehead and Friends at London , and had their answer , approving his Doctrine , before he printed any thing , and yet this prevailed nothing . But G. K. did not write to them as having any uncertainty or doubt in himself of the truth of the Doctrine asserted by him , nor was he free to submit so great a matter of Faith and Conscience , by way of absolute submission , to any man or number of men , as Whether Christ without us was to be believed in , as well as Christ within us , as necessary to our Salvation ? for things of that nature are not to be submitted , by way of absolute submission to the best of men , it contradicteth our ancient Principle , viz. That the Spirit in each particular is the Rule of Faith and Doctrine . But G. K. did never refuse to appeal or submit to the Spirit of Truth in any of his faithful Friends in old England , or any where else , but proffered it , and was refused , not doubting their unity with him in this weighty matter , but because it is so unquestionable a Truth among Christians , That Christ without is as necessary to be believed in for our Salvation , as that God in Heaven is to be believed in ; therefore he thought it not necessary to concern his faithful Friends to seek their assistance to determine that which all Christendom grants in words , and none but the greatest Apostates and Hereticks dare deny . Next , Let it be observed , that after Tho. Everndon and the rest had given forth the said false Judgment in Maryland , T. Everndon , accompanied with Rich. Johns , Rich. Harrison , and Humphry Hodges , comes to Philadelphia , and before they had been here 48 hours out of the Meeting , on the 27th day of the tenth Month , in a publick Meeting appointed at Philadelphia , where was present about 500 People , T. Everndon said , That having seen certain printed Books that came down to Maryland , wherein his Brethren were charged with denying the Man Christ Jesus , and Faith in him , and the Resurrection of the dead ; I said ( said he ) I would go up and see what the matter is among my Brethren , whether these things be so or not , that these Books come down among us , wherein they are charged with denying these things ; and now since I am come I have made enquiry of the Parties so charged ; and I find my Brethren sound in the Faith concerning all these things , and therefore these are Lies and Calumnies cast upon us ; and I have this word of Comfort farther to deliver to you , my Brethren from the Lord , That the Judgments of the Lord will overtake them that have printed and published these things to the dishonour of God , and his Truth , &c. Where Note first , That he said , He came up to enquire whether these things were so or not , and yet near three Months before he came here to see whether these things were so or not , he and his Companions believed Reports against us in Maryland , and signed the said Judgment against us . Now pray consider whether T.E. and Companions were the impartial men they pretend to be to enquire and judge of this great Controversie , when 1 st , before they came here they gave their Judgment against us upon bare Report : 2 ly , When they came here , before they had time to make due enquiry ( viz in less then 48 hours ) to say , That he found his Brethren sound in the Faith , and , That these were Lies and Calumnies cast upon them , was great rashness . First they condemned us , and then T. E. said he came some hundreds of miles to enquire whether these things ( for which they had condemned us ) were true , or not : Was ever greater folly acted by men pretending to Reason , Conscience ▪ and the highest Perfection in Christianity ? Our souls pity them , and heartily desire that they might see their rashness , and repent . But to demonstrate that T. Everndon had but one ear to hear , or at least to give credit to one Party , in prejudice to the other , pray note these following Observations . Observ . 1. That at the said Meeting , 27th of the 10th Month , before T.E. bore his Testimony , John Wilsford declared a long time concerning the Faith of Christ , saying , He had the TRUE Faith of Christ , as he died , and rose again , and ascended , and was our Mediator in * Heaven , before he came among Friends , and even from his Childhood he had that True Faith , but yet that Faith did not purifie him , nor gather him to God , but be remained in the dark , and his Religion was only an outside Profession , &c. Observ . 2. That T. E. did not only hear J. W. speak this , but he also heard G. K. reprove divers things in his Doctrine , and prove it to be false and unsound , especially that he said , He had the true Faith of Christ as he died and rose again , and yet that Faith did not profit him , &c. This , said G. K. is unsound Doctrine to call that the true Faith of Christ that doth not purifie nor gather to God , nor bring a man out of the dark , and to have no more of Religion than an outside Profession ; this is not the true Faith , but a false Faith ; for the true Faith purifieth the heart , and gathers unto God , and brings him that hath it to know the kirnel and inward life of Religion . If he had said , he had not the true Faith of Christ crucified , &c. but a dead literal and notional Faith of it , he might have said true ; but to say he had the true Faith , and yet that it did not purifie him , doth prove him to be yet ignorant of the true Faith , and that he is yet in the dark : There is a true and a false Faith both of Christ without and of Christ within , the false is only literal ▪ historical and notional , and many have no other but a bare literal , historical and notional Faith of Christ within , as others have of Christ without ; they say , they believe that Christ is in them only because they read it , and hear it preached , but this Faith is dead , and is not true , more than a dead Picture of a Man is a true Man ; but the True Faith of Christ , both without and within is a living fruitful Faith , wrought in them who have it by the Power and Spirit of Christ , accompanying the preaching of it , and the Testimony of the holy Scriptures concerning the same . Observ. 3. That at the same Meeting T.E. heard John Hutchins grosly pervert that place of Scripture , 1 Thess . 4.15 . We which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord , shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the Air , &c. which most evidently relates to his coming in his glorified Body without us at the great Day of Judgment , whereas J.H. applied it wholly to mens being caught up in the Spirit , grosly confounding Christ the Son , the Heir , with the Air , which he also heard G. K. to contradict and reprove . Obs . 4. That the printed Judgment concerning W. Stockdale , ( which is a true Copy of the Original ) saith , That it was prov'd by two witnesses that he the said G.K. preached two Christs , because he preached Faith in Christ within and without , is evidence sufficient of his unsoundness , and yet he was all along allow'd to preach and pray in Meetings . Observ . 5. That by their printed Judgment concerning T. Fitzwater , it 's evident that they clear T. F. and condemn G. K. for saying , The Light is not sufficient without any thing else ( to wit , the Man Christ Jesus , and what he did and suffered for us on Earth , and what he is now doing for us in Heaven , and which at the next Monthly meeting , Tho. Lloyd , as the month of the Meeting , acknowledg'd , They knew G.K. meant the Man Christ Jesus , and what he did and suffered for us , and what he is now a doing for us , to be that something else ; thereby denying the Man Christ Jesus from having any part or share in our Salvation . Observ . 6. That both on the first day before in the publick Meeting , and in the evening before this Meeting G.K. gave T. E. and Companions , a faithful account how John Delaval had accused him of being guilty of Heresie and Error in a Fundamental Doctrine , for asserting that the Light within is not sufficient without some what else : thereby excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us . Now after this , which T. E. could not but be sensible of , for him to say in such a great Auditory , That he had made enquiry , and found his Brethren sound in the Faith , and these things in our printed Books were Lies and Calumnies , bewrayeth his great weakness in this , as folly and rashness in his signing a Paper of Judgment against us in Maryland upon bare Report . And therefore it is manifest that T. Everndon has been very imprudent in the management of this weighty Affair , thus to clear the Guilty and condemn the Innocent , and that in the Name of the Lord. Oh! the righteous Judge of the whole Earth , who knows the secrets of all ▪ hearts , will judge for these things . And in private Conference that Evening aforesaid , the principal thing for which T.E. blamed G.K. was , for making known to the World the Errors of some called Preachers among the Quakers here , saying , he had made Friends stink , and become the Song of the Drunkards . But G.K. said , he had not made them stink , but themselves had done it , as when the Sun shines warm on a Dunghil , the Dunghil is to be blamed for the stink , not the Sun. Also G. K. did expostulate with T. E. and his Companions , Why they did lay open to the World the Adultry of T. T. once a great Preacher among them , whereby the Quakers generally thereaway became a stink and a song of the Drunkards , and many on that very account left the Quakers Meetings : They replied , His wickedness rested on his own head . To which G. K. said , If carnal Adultery be not to be hid , no more is spiritual Adultery , as this is to deny the Lord that bought us . So that their blaming G. K. for not sending to Friends in other Parts , or to London , is as idle as if we should send to London to enquire whether Adultery be a sin for which we ought to deny them who are guilty , as fit to be separated from , and not fit to hold Communion with . And why should G. K. and his Friends any more delay their publishing to the World , ( after endeavours used to reclaim them ) a Testimony against some mens spiritual Adultery here , which is their gross Heresie , in denying the Faith of Christ without us , as he died for our sins , &c. as necessary to our Salvation , any more than they in Maryland delay'd to publish T. T 's carnal Adultery ? Or why should G. K. and his Friends call for the assistance of Friends in remote Parts , or at London , to condemn a Heresie that is as manifest a sin as Adultery is ? and if Friends at London found themselves concern'd to give forth a Testimony in print against one that was said to carry the Bible to the Exchange to burn it , ought not G.K. and his Friends to be concerned to give forth a Testimony against them that deny Christ without us , not owning him to be concerned in our Salvation , but only the Light within us , seeing to deny Christ , of whom the Bible declareth , is more than to deny the Bible , that is a declaration of him . And one of T. E's Companions , viz. Rich. Johns , charged G.K. for casting the Errors of particular Persons on the Body of Friends , which G. K. denied , and proffer'd to show him that he clear'd faithful Friends of it , and did not charge these Errors and Heresies upon all here nor elsewhere , nor yet upon any others that are not guilty , as we believe many are not , but only upon a Party or Faction of men that are no true Quakers , but degenerated from the true Principles and Practices of the Quakers . And in their Paper Richard Johns and the rest give false Judgment in matter of Fact , viz. That we have rent and separated from Friends ; for these who have separated from us , and we are separated from them , are no true Friends and Brethren , because holding Antichristian Doctrines ; and we have not rent , nor are separated from faithful Friends , as we have always declared ; see our first Book , call'd , Some Causes of the late Separation , p. 23. we say , We design not any Separation from our faithful Brethren here or any where else in any part of the world , for we declare we are one with all our faithful Brethren in all parts of the world , both in Spirit , Doctrine , and Practice of true Christianity ; & we faithfully believe , that our Faith in all things doth well agree to all our faithful Brethren every where , and is the real sound and upright Faith , as is hath been received , not only by ancient Christians in all Ages of the World , but also by the most sound , ancient , and present Friends of Truth , called in scorn Quakers . And in The Plea of the Innocent , p. 10. it is expresly declared , That G. K. is in unity with Truth and faithful Friends , not only in old England , but all places where they are . The next is a Letter from W. Richardson to G. K. dated the 20th of the tenth Mon. 92. from West-River in Maryland , who chargeth G. K. That his Spirit strikes at the Light as not being sufficient , and sets people a gazing in the Air , and some to question whether they have received the Truth or not ; saying further , What is the meaning of these Noises of Faith in Christ without , and Faith within ( like to what Rich. Johns said to G. K. That it was a needless distinction , viz. Christ within and Christ without ) seeing no true Believer in Christ within , dare disown the Work , Miracles , and holy Doctrine performed in that Body . Note Reader the fallacy of his words concerning Christ without , which are no more than any Socinian or Pelagian will own ; but he hath not a word of owning Faith in Christ without us being necessary to our salvation ; for it is not enough to own the Doctrine , Miracles , and Works of the Man Christ without us , for the Doctrine , Miracles , and Works of the Prophets and Apostles are to be owned , but yet none of them are to be believed in as the Author of our Eternal Salvation , but Christ only ; and it is apparent by his Letter , that he agreeth with J. Wilsford , and other his ignorant Brethren , that only the Faith of Christ within is the true Faith that purifieth the heart , and that the Faith of Christ without is historical , outward and traditional , a made and formed Faith that the Lord never was the Author of ; and this is that Faith which he blameth G. K. for contending about , whereby he showeth his exceeding great Ignorance ; for G.K. hath preached in the hearing of W. Richardson several times the Faith of Christ both without and within , not to be any made or formed Faith of mens making , but the inward work & gift of God , wrought in all who have it , by the Spirit and Power of God , even that mighty Power that raised Christ from the dead . Therefore let who will despise and reject this Faith , we are well assur'd we have many faithful Brethren both in America , England , Scotland , Ireland , and other parts of the world , who are lovers of the crucifi'd Jesus , and will bless God in our behalf , that he hath rais'd us up to stand witnesses for his holy Truth in the midst of such great contradiction and opposition . To conclude , it is no small matter of Admiration to us , that so many called Quakers in Maryland , who have all along pretended , That they were not free in Conscience to contribute to the Militia , yet now joyn with our Opposers here , who have begun to persecute some of us by Fines and Imprisonment , for asserting the Quakers Principle against the use of the outward Sword ; See our Printed Appeal . George Keith , Thomas Budd . A DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity and Hyprocrisie Acting and Ruling in HVGH DERBOROVGH . HAving seen a Paper of Hugh Derborough's , which was read by Sam. Jenings at their last Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphia , and approved by the Meeting , and he received and owned as one of their Church-Members , I found it convenient to say something in Answer to it , he most falsly and maliciously accusing me in some things , and also discovering manifestly his and his Brethrens Ignorance , Unbelief and Hypocrisie , with whom he hath joyned himself . First , he saith , He was deceived in me , and ensnared by me , hearing such Charges , &c. as if there were such as did divide Christ , and not preach Faith in the Man Christ Jesus , nor own the Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven , but the Grace of God within only ; and such like Charges , as that they did not own the Resurrection of the Body , and the Coming again and glorious Appearance of that heavenly Man Christ Jesus , to judge the Quick and the Dead at the great Day of Judgment . Answ . That such Charges were true , I have many Witnesses , that may be produced in due time , to discover this Hugh Derborough to be a Liar and a false Accuser , who hath writ Lies against his own Conscience and Knowledge ; for does not H. D. know that we have sufficient proof , that Tho. Fitzwater said , He owned no Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven without him , but the Grace of God within him ? and of which T. B. complained to the Meeting of Ministring Friends at Burlington , where Tho. Fitzwater himself was present , and did not deny it , nor they call him to an Account for it : And was not Hugh Derborough at the Monthly Meeting where W. Stockdale openly renewed and confirmed his former Charge , viz. That G. K. preached two Christs , because he preached Faith in Christ within and Christ without ? beside , the pretended Judgment given forth concerning W.S. says the same : And the Judgment given forth by their Monthly Meeting , ( which is also in print ) clearing T. Fitzwater for accusing me , That the Light within was not sufficient without somewhat else ; that something else being the Man Christ Jesus , in whom all Fulness of Light , Grace and Truth is lodged , and out of whom all true Believers receive a daily supply and increase of Grace ; and he may remember what work he had at a Monthly Meeting a little before , where it was affirmed , That they knew but one Principle owned by Friends , and that was the Light within , which I refuted both from Scripture and Friends Books ; then T. Lloyd said , There was but one Fundamental Principle , which was the Light within ; which also I denied . From this it is evident , that they exclude the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation , placing it wholly and only upon the Light within ; and this H. D. has heard John Delavall publickly accuse me of Heresie , for saying , The Light within is not sufficient without something else ; yea , and H. D. himself hath renewed this in his Paper against me , which he calleth The Mystery of Iniquity discovered by the Spirit of Truth ; but his Paper is the fruit of the Mystery of Iniquity , that ruleth in his heart , who is acted by a lying Spirit . Now that some approved among them deny the Resurrection of the Body after Death , and Christ's coming to Judgment without us at the great Day , &c. we can sufficiently prove ; and it 's in vain for H. D. to tell us these are false Charges , while their Preachers are found preaching against these things , and the hearers generally arguing and contending with us against them : A. Jennings , a Preacher among them , has been heard , not only by me , but divers others , to deny , That any thing of this Body riseth after Death . And Henry Willis , one of the 28 ( now 27 ) false Judges , told me , That the only cause why he set his hand to that Paper , was , because I had affirmed , Christ would come again without us at the great Day of Judgment , to judge the quick and the dead . And W. Southyby's Letter , and J. Humphery's Letter , and Paul Saunders Letter to me , giving an Account of William Southyby and M. Hodgskins their Unbelief in these principal things of the Christian Faith , are sufficient proof , and which Letters , with other Instances and Proofs , may in due time be made publick ; mean time , take one Sentence of J. Humphery's Letter , which is this , I am grieved to hear some say , They expect to be Justified by that Blood which was shed at Jerusalem . To which blasphemous Sentence I shall not make any Reply at present , but let all impartial Readers judge of it . I have complained of it in private to John Humphrey himself , to several of his Brethren , to their quarterly Meeting to which he belongs , and to their Publick Meeting , several Months since , and yet no calling him to account , but of late he hath writ his second Letter , confirming and justifying his former . And therefore Hugh Derborough falsly accuseth me , in saying , I have deceived him ; for it 's the lying Spirit in himself , and them he now owns to be his Brethren , which have deceived him . Secondly , To his accusing me of Extream Heat and Passion , when little occasion was given me , if any , but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them , calling of them Hypocrites , abominable Hypocrites , bidding them Cut him in pieces , Chop him , Fry him , with many more unsavoury words , which ( he saith ) appeared to him indeed , to be but Bryars and Thornes . Answ. This is another Evidence of his great Hypocrisie and lying Spirit , as well as of his gross Prejudice and Partiality , Enmity and Malice : I called none Hypocrites , or abominable Hypocrites , but such whom I can well prove to be such : And did not Christ call them Hypocrites , Serpents , Generation of Vipers , &c. who had discovered themselves to be such ; and the Apostles called such Hypocrites and deceitful Workers , &c. How then is this Bryars and Thorns in me , when those I so called were such ? Have not also our Friends called their Opposer's Hypocrites ( who were such ) yea , and much harder Names than ever I did to any of them , as Dead Beast , Dark Sot , Incarnate Devils , Wolves , Dogs , &c. But what says Hugh Derborough to his Brother Sam. Jenings , who , at their last Quarterly Meeting , ( being the 6th of the first Month ) called one of his Fellow Members , Ignorant , Idiot , and Nonsensical Puppey ? Which Fruits are most like Bryars and Thorns , to call a deceitful man a Hypocrite , or for Sam. Jenings to call a man ( of as good or better sence and understanding than himself ) Nonsensical Puppey ? Let H. D. answer to this , and wipe off this and many other foul Expressions , justly charged on his Brother Jenings , if he can ; and yet this is he who would read H. D's Paper , and pronounce my Fruits to be Bryars and Thorns , but accounts his own Fruits ( no doubt ) to be Figs and Grapes , though at the same Meeting he called one of his Church Members Nonsensical Puppey , i. e. Whelp : And yet I do not understand that any one in the Meeting dared to reprove him , except the Person he so called . I know the Scripture says , That Dogs are without , but I never knew that Dogs were suffered to remain within the Church : if this Person be a Puppey , Whelp , or Dog , why don't they cast him out , or condemn Sam. Jenings for his ungodly Reviling in this particular ? but that I believe they will not do , seeing they have cloaked much worse Crimes than this in S. Jenings . But that H. D. saith , They gave me little occasion , if any , to call them Hypocrites , but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them , is a manifest Lye ; for there are hundreds can bear witness , that they gave me great occasion , as their boldly denying in publick what they have asserted in private before many Witnesses , and at other times ( also in publick ) some of them have called God to Witness to manifest Lies and Falshoods , whereof we have many to bear Witness . Nor have they ever to this day cleared themselves of these things laid to their Charge , though they have had sufficient time and opportunity given them . And the first days that the two Meetings were together , I did never interrupt any of them , but they did always interrupt me , and oft many at once speaking to me , some pulling me by the Arm , and others by the Coat , and particularly Arthur Cook was most abusive to me , crowding close to me , and staring most inhumanly in my Face , when declaring , and calling me Ranter , Wicked Man , Ungodly Man , and interrupting me in Prayer , ( though I have never interrupted any of them either in Prayer or Preaching ) saying , Thou pray , thou oughtest not to pray , thou art a Wicked Man , and others bidding take me away : And at another time A. C. in a Mens Meeting cursing me , saying , Wo be to thee from the Lord , which afterwards he denied ; and Sam. Jenings called me Shameless Man , and at another time Apostate , and worse than Prophane ; and also , they most falsly accused me with denying Magistracy , and being an Enemy to the Government , with many other false Charges . And another of their Preachers came into the Meeting , when I was sitting silent , and call'd me by Name , and said I was a roaring Lion. To most of which Passages Hugh Derborough was an Eye and Ear Witness : Is it not then great Hypocrisie and Partiality in him to pass by all these great Provocations , and most Unchristian Usages ( to say nothing of the Persecution I and other of my Friends have met with from them , by Fintng some , Imprisoning others , and Taking away Goods , only for Conscience sake ) and so boldly to affirm , That I had little occasion , if any , given me . What can I think or say of this H.D. but that he ( like many others ; among them ) is an Abominable Hypocrite ! And that I said , Cut me in pieces , chop me , fry me , if ye will , &c. H D. is very dis-ingenuous wholly to conceal the occasion thereof , which was , that they did greatly threaten me with their outward Power , saying , This was intollerable , this was not to be born , when I called some of them Hypocrites , whom I well knew , and could prove to be such ; and though I was in little or no seeming danger , as to the outward at that time , yet I can truly say , I felt the Spirit of Cain in them , and they did seek occasion against me , if possible , to take away my natural Life , by their ensnaring words and questions , and charging me , That I had spoke against the King ; as many can bear witness , who had a sence of their Cain-like Spirit , as well as I , which occasioned me to call some of them Bloody Hounds , ( and had I called them Hell Hounds , it would have been but what Fox in his Book of Martyrs called Persecutors ; ) and one time , being hot by their thronging and crowding about me , because I loosned some few Buttons of my Doublet , to get a little Air to refresh me , they raised an abominable Lie on me , viz. That in a fit of Distractson I ript open my Breast , and showed my naked Skin . And I can truly say , God raised me up in a Spirit of Boldness , to warn them to repent of their Lying , Hypocrisie , Unbelief , and Persecution , lest the Judgments of the Lord should break forth against them ; telling them , I feared them not , let them cut me and roast me , or such like words , having in my mind , the bold words of Lawrence the Martyr to his Persecutor , the Heathen Emperour , when he was roasting on the Grid-Iron , as Fox relates the Passage in the Book of Martyrs , page 102. This side is now roasted enough , turn up , O Tyrant great ! Assay , whether roasted or raw , thou thinkest the better Meat . Which words , Fox saith , he spoke in the mighty Spirit of God. Also , I had in mind the words of Anaxagoras , when the Tyrant was causing to beat him in a Mortar , Beat , beat , ( said he ) thou touchest not Anaxagoras . Which Examples I gave them to be my Apology for such words , and with which sober and impartial People were satisfied . And though from this H. D. and some others would insinuate as if this was a wicked saying , it proceeds from their great Ignorance ; for seeing Christ hath pronounced them blessed who suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake , no judicious and sincere Christian will deny but it is desirable ( in the will of God ) and many faithful Christians have desired it , yea , and rushed towards it , and by their sharp words that they have used towards Persecutors , have procured it . And our blessed Lord Jesus Christ , who became an Example in Sufferings , said to the Jews , Destroy this Temple , ( meaning the Temple of his Body ) and after three days I will raise it up ; and he said to Judas , What thou dost do quickly ; and he said further , I have a Baptism wherewith to be Baptized , meaning his Sufferings , And how am I straitned till it be accomplished ! And Paul said , He was not only ready to be bound , but to dye for the Name of Jesus . But it is very apparent these my Persecutors and false Accusers never found any such Spirit of Courage or Love to Truth in them , that did move them to desire to suffer such things for the Lord's sake . And yet to prevent all mistake and mis-construction ( that some through weakness may put on my words ) I do sincerely declare , That I had no other aim or intention in such words , but to express the willingness and readiness of mind that the Lord had wrought in me by his Power , not only to suffer the Reproaches and false Accusations of my Adversaries , but even the worst that God might permit them to inflict upon me , knowing it would turn to my Reward , &c. As to his great Commendations of John Wilsford and Thomas Everndon , from his inward sence and discerning of them ; these two men have sufficiently discovered themselves by their late Fruits , of falsly accusing the Innocent , and speaking Lies in the Name of the Lord , that they deserve no such Character as H.D. in Hypocrisie hath put upon them ; for proof of which I refer to the printed sheet , called , False Judgments Reprehended . And for all the great bragging and boasting of these our Opposers , of their inward discerning , God by his wonderful Providence hath given some evident Examples of it in the face of the World , how miserably they are deceived and blinded in that they call their Discerning : as first , whereas the Meeting in the Country used to be kept at an honest mans House , and this man favoured me , therefore they had a sence that he was a man of a wrong Spirit ; but whereas there was another that rise up in great Opposition to me , charging me of Blasphemy , because I said , God was present in all his Creatures ; and of false Doctrine , because I said , Christ was in Heaven our Elder Brother , and that he would appear again to judge the Quick and the Dead at the great Day ; therefore a Company of them removed their Meeting to this man's house , whom they thought worthy , crying him up , as if he were no ordinary Saint , whenas at the same time a Negro Woman had his Bastard carrying about in her Womb ( though he has a Wife of his own ) and though some have endeavoured to cloak it , yet it appearing with more than ordinary clearness , hath caused them now again to remove the Meeting from his House . Secondly , Another that hath lately given forth a Paper of Condemnation , as if he were some great Convert , about the very time of his pretended Conversion , was discovered to be guilty of attempting to commit Sodomy , which he hath partly confessed . So that they have little cause to boast of their Converts , or yet of their Spirit of Discerning . And if some have left us , more have left them , and come to us , and who are Persons of more Sobriety . Fourthly , Whereas H.D. saith , It is sealed upon his heart , that the Anger of the Lord is kindled as Fire , against that Spirit of Division that appeared in G.K. and others . Answ . It is but ordinary to him , and such other Hypocrites , to take the Name of the Lord in vain : it were well if he was sensible of the Fire of Gods Anger , that is ready to kindle against him for his Lying , Hypocrisie , Enmity , and falsly accusing the Innocent , and seeking to justifie the Guilty . We are not divided from faithful Friends and Brethren , that are found in the Doctrine and Faith of Christ , and whose Godly Life and Practice seal to the sincerity of their Faith ; but we are divided from Hypocrites , Lyars , and false accusers , and gross Unbelievers , who deny the Lord that bought them , and Faith in him ; and for so doing God is not angry with us , but well pleased , having done it in obedience to Christ's Command , who hath commanded us to be separate from Unbelievers , 2 Cor. 6.14 , 27. Fifthly , Whereas he accuseth me for saying , The Light within is not sufficient without somewhat else , he knowing in his Conscience , as well as his Associates , that by that something else I understand not Humane Learning , nor the Letter of the Scripture , nor outward Preaching , but the Man Christ Jesus without us , in whom all fulness of Grace , Truth , Light , and Life dwelleth , and his Death and Sufferings , Resurrection , Ascension and Mediation ; all which are something else than the measure of Grace and Light in us : In this Accusation H.D. falleth in with J. Delavall , and my Answer to the one will serve sufficiently to the other . And though H.D. seemeth to assent and declare , That the Grace of God , which is sufficient , is the Effect of the Death and Sufferings of Christ Jesus , yet either like a gross Hypocrite , or most ignorant and inconsiderate Person ( not to use Sam. Jening's Phrase of Ignorant , Nonsensical , Puppey ) he doth most palpably contradict his present Assertion ; for if the Grace of God within us , be the Effect of Christ's Death and Sufferings , then we are not saved only by the Grace within , but by the Death and Sufferings , Resurrection , and Mediation of Christ without us , seeing the Cause of a Cause is the Cause of the thing caused , or effect . Beside , the Death and Sufferings of Christ , and his most perfect Obedience unto Death , and shedding of his most precious Blood without us , was not only necessary to procure the inward Grace of God to us , but also to make a Propitiation for our sins , and reconcile us unto God , and so was needful to our Salvation , as the great Atonement and Sacrifice of Expiation , as well as the procuring Cause of his Grace in us . But since he chargeth me with an Errour for holding , That the Grace or Light within is not sufficient without something else ; then seeing nothing can be an Errour , but because it is opposite to some Truth , that which it is opposite to , is , That the Light within is sufficient without any , or every thing else ; and if so , then he excludes wholly the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation . Sixthly , As to the Testimonies he citeth out of Rob. Barclay's Apology , they are of the same nature with what J. Delavall hath formerly cited in his Papers , to which I have answered , and refer to the same in print , where I show that R. B. no where saith , in all his Apology , That the Light or Grace within is sufficient to Salvation without the Man Christ Jesus without us , and what he did and suffered for us on Earth , and his present Mediation and Intercession for us in Heaven . All that can be gathered from R. B's words in any of his Books , is first , That the express distinct outward and historical Knowledge and Faith of Christ is not necessary to Salvation , where it is not preached nor revealed ; and I say the same . Secondly , That men may be saved , and many have been saved , who have not heard Christ outwardly preached to them , nor never heard or read the outward Testimony of the Scriptures concerning him . Thirdly , That a good Work of God may be begun in men , that is of a tendency to Salvation , and is Salvation begun , in a general sence and respect , without all Knowledge and Faith of Christs Death and Sufferings ; which I also grant , and have all along granted ; and therefore neither H. Derborough , J. Delavall , nor any other have proved me ( and I believe never can prove me ) to contradict either Rob. Barclay's Books , or any of my own Books ; and it is great deceit in this H. D. only in general to cite my Book of Universal Grace , without mentioning the words of my Book . And it is worth noticing , that he exactly followeth J. Delavall , not bringing one place of Scripture wherewithal to prove me in an Errour , but only some Citations out of R. B. perverted and falsly applied by him . And it is another piece either of gross Hypocrisie and Deceit , or bold and impudent Rashness in him to say , That R. Barclay doth not say the Express Knowledge of Christ , who as Man died for the sins of the World ; for though he doth not say it in one place , yet he hath it in another , as pag. 86. of his Latine Apology , truly thus Englished ; The History is profitable and comfortable , joyned with the Mystery , but not without it ; but the Mystery is and can profit without the explicit ( or express ) knowledge of the History ; and I still affirm the same . Seventhly , He grosly and most impudently belyeth me in his Paper , That in my printed Treatise , called , Truth and Innocency &c. pag. 16. the Light within is so struck at , as if it were a very insufficient thing . Nor is he less injurious in belying me , as if I did hold that the Light within was sufficient to begin a Good Work , but was not sufficient to perfect it ; Which is his gross abuse , but not my Assertion ; for I never so said , but either in his Ignorance or Hypocrisie he doth not distinguish betwixt the several Measures and Ministrations of the Light within ; for this I have said , and still say , first , No measure of Light can save any man , either to begin or finish his Salvation , without the Man Christ Jesus , and his Death and Sufferings , and Resurrection , and Intercession for us in Heaven , without us . Secondly , The Light is sufficient in the first and succeeding Measures of it , both to begin and finish the Work of mens Salvation , but yet not the first Ministration or Operation of it ; and though the Ministrations be divers , yet the Light it self , in its Nature , is but one , and is abundantly in it self sufficient , both to begin and finish the Work of mens Salvation , but not without the Man Christ Jesus . Eightly , That the Faith of Christ , as he died for the sins of men , is universally necessary to finish and perfect the Work of mens Eternal Salvation , doth no wise derogate from the sufficiency of the Light , because the Light is as sufficient to work the Faith and Knowledge of Christ without men , as within them , when it pleaseth God so to order it . And as for the Example brought by Robert Barclay in his Apology , and also by me in my Answer to R. Gorden , it must not be too far stretched , for commonly all Similitudes fall short in some part ; for though a Medicine may cure a mans Body , though he hath no Knowledge of it , what it is , yet the Light and Grace of Christ cannot cure the Soul perfectly without all Knowledge of it , and Faith in it , otherwise it might be said , That men may be saved without all Knowledge of God and Christ within , as well as without ; but the same Reason that maketh the Knowledge and Faith of Christ within needful to perfect the Work of mens Salvation , doth also make the Knowledge of him without them necessary in some measure to perfect the Work of their Salvation , seeing the one cannot sufficiently be known without the other , and the Scripture layeth equal necessity and weight on both ; See Rom. 10.8 , 9. John 17.3 . Isa. 53.11 . Acts 10.43 . Acts 11.14 . Rom. 3.22 , 25. Gal. 2.26 . And though many have received Damage by Adam's Fall , who never heard of it , and know not that Adam sinned by eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil , yet none are finally lost or condemned for Adam's sin , but for their own Sin of Impenitency and Unbelief , which they either do , or may know ; and consequently none are finally and perfectly saved , but who have some Knowledge and Faith of Christ , their Saviour , even the Man Christ Jesus , by the Faith of whom they receive the Forgiveness of their sins , according to Acts 13.38 , 39. Cap. 4.10 , 11 , 12. Luke 1.77 . cap. 24.46 , 47. George Keith . Observation by another Hand . IS it not Amazing and Astonishing , that notwithstanding the great Differences and Divisions that are amongst the QUAKERS beyond Sea , yet ( the last yearly Meeting June 1693. at London ) the Quakers should assert in their printed yearly Paper , That their Friends beyond Sea were for the most part in LOVE and GOOD UNITY . And also in their Book The Christian Doctrine , &c. say the Differences are but among A FEW Persons , and that they agree in the MAIN , when as they cannot but know , that what they say herein is notoriously false , there being no less then ten or twelve Books and Papers printed , which give an Account , that hundreds are concerned in the Controversie ; and that the said Controversie is not about the Womens Meetings , &c. ( which those that oppose , are called by G. W. &c. Infidels , Heathens , Wolves , Doggs and Devils Incarnate , &c. ) but about the very Fundamentals of the Christian Religion , as by their said Books , &c. do manifestly appear . And though this is so evident and apparent , that scarsly any Man of Sence and Common Honesty will deny or gainsay , yet such is the Impudence and Falsnes of the Preachers and Leaders of the FOXONIAN Party , that they have asserted the contrary , as above . 23 Nov. 1693. F.B. THE END . Books lately published . 1 THe Trials of several Quakers before a Court of Quakers . 2. An Account of the great Divisions of the Quakers in Pensilvania , b●ing the Plea of the Innocent . 3. A further Account of the Divisions of the Quakers in Pensilvania , being some Reasons and Causes of Separation ▪ &c. 4. The Principles , Doctrines , Laws and Orders of the Quakers . 5. The Judgment given forth by 28 Quakers against G. Keith and his Friends , with a full Account of the yearly Meeting signed by 70 Quakers . 6. More Divisions still among the Quakers in Pensilvania . All six sold by R Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A47159-e1320 * But John Wilsford has not told us whether that Heaven be within or without , into which the Man Christ is gone ; Rob. Young says 't is within .