A true Copy of three Judgements given forth by a Party of Men, called Quakers at Philadelphia, against George Keith and his Friends. With two Answers to the said Judgements. The First Judgement. AT a Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia, the 26th of 11 Mon. 1691. Thomas Fitzwater charged George Keith for denying the sufficiency of the Light, which G. Keith denying, T. Fitzwater insisted that he could prove the same, & being examined concerning his Proof thereof, several Friends present stood up, and said, They heard the said George Keith say, That he did not believe the Light was sufficient without something else, namely, Thomas Prichard, William Harwood, Benjamin Chambers, William Southbe, and several others. And after the matter in Debate had been throughly heard, the aforesaid Credible Evidences giving their Testimonies as abovesaid, the Meeting saw no reason to give Judgement against Tho. Fitzwater in this particular ; but ●h● said Thomas very readily left the matter to this Meeting and condemned the rash Spirit that he spoke those words in, although the Charge in itself was true. This is a Copy of what passed at a Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia, the 26 of 3 Month. 1692. A. M. The Second Judgement. WE being prevented in our Meetings of late, to proceed orderly in business, by reason of a Turbulent & unsubdued Spirit, which has much disquieted us, but having respite at this time, have considered seriously and duly of a Charge exhibited several Months passed by George Keith against William Stockdale, many if not most of 〈◊〉 being present at several Meetings, where the Allegations of each side were heard; and as the Friends than present concluded on a Judgement in this matter, but were prevented of publishing the same, by reason of George Keith's unruly behaviour, & extreme Passion, which abruptly broke up the said Meeting, we declare our concurrent sense as followeth, That whereas Proof was made by two Witnesses, That William Stockdale should say, that Gen. Keith's preaching Christ without, and Christ within was preaching two Christ's, which W. Stockdale denied the words so spoken; and alleged that Geo. Keith called him an Ignorant Heathen, and gave him several vilifying Expressions. Our Judgement is, That William Stockdale is reprovable, and blame-worthy ●or uttering the said words, they being an Offence to many sound and tender Friends, and that he condemn the same. And as for G. Keith's manner of proceeding against him, we cannot own the same to be pursuant to Gospel Order, the said G. Keith having not alone dealt with him in private before he had further prosecuted his Complaint; neither can we hold him for his undecent expressions to W. Stockdale, he being elder in Truth and in Years. Given forth by the Meeting of Public Friends, at Philadelphia, the 4th of 4th Month, 1692. A True Copy, by Samuel Jenings. The Third Judgement, and Condemnation, against G. K. To the several Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in Pennsilvania, East and West-Jarsey, and elsewhere, as there may be occasion. BEloved Friends, In tender Love, and with Spirits bowed down before the Lord, is this our Salutation unto you, earnestly de●●ing your growth and daily preservation in the ancient 〈◊〉, and in the simplicity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; and ●or hope and breathe are, that no insinuations or wiles of the Enemy shall prevail to turn you aside from, our steadfastness, or to cause you so esteem lightly of the rock and way of God's Salvation unto you, but that you be kept in the light and life, which was & is the j●●t man's path, to the end of on days, Amen. Now, dear Friends, it is with sorrow of Spirits and grief of Souls, that we signify unto you the tedious Exercise & vexatious Perplexity we have met with in our late Friend George Keith, for several Months passed; With mourning & lamentation do we say, How is this Mighty Man fallen! how is his Shield vilely cast away, as though he had not known the Oil of the holy Ointment! How shall it be told in G●●● & published in the Streets of A●kelon? Will not the daughters of the Philestians rejoice? Will not the daughters of the Uncircumcised Triumph, when they hear that he is fallen upon the soaring Mountains, and from the high Places of Israel! Oh! how are we distressed for thee, thou as a man slain in thy high places! Whilst thou walked in the Counsel of God, & wert little in thine own Eyes, thy Bow did abide in strength, thy Sword returned not empty; from the sat of the Enemies of God thy Bow turned not back; His Enemies were then vile unto thee, and his Followers honourable in thy esteem. Oh! how lovely wert thou in that day, when his Beauty was upon thee, and when his Comeliness covered thee! Why should his Ornaments exalt thee, which were given to humble thee before him! and how thou art fallen from thy first Love, and are become Treacherous to the Spouse of thy Youth! Consider where thou art fallen, and Repent, and do thy first Works. But so it hath happened Friends, lest any Flesh should glory, but become Silent before the Lord, that this once Eminent Man and Instrument of Renown in the Hand of the Lord, whilst he kept his first Habitation, and knew the Government of Truth over his own Spirit, and witnessed the same to be a Bridle to his Tongue, was then serviceable both in Pen and Speech to the Churches of Christ; But now, and of late, it is too obvious and apparent, that being degenerated from the lowly meek and peaceable Spirit of Christ Jesus, and grown cool in Charity and love towards his Brethren, that he is Gone into a Spirit of Enmity, Wrath, Self-Exaltation, Contention & Janglings; and as a Person without the fear of God before his Eyes, and without regard to his Christian Brethren, and letting lose the Reins to an Extravagant Tongue, he hath broken out into many Speeches, Railing Accusations and Passionate Threaten towards many of his Brethren and Elders, and that upon slender Occasions; and when some in Christian Duty have laid before him his unsavoury words and unchristian-frame, he hath treated them with such vile words and abusive language, such as a Person of common civility would loathe. It hath been too frequent with him, & that in a transport of Heat and Passion, to call some of his Brethren in the Ministry, and other Elders, and that upon small Provocations, if any, Fools, Ignorant Heathens, Infidels, Silly Souls, Liars, Heretics, Rotten Ranters, Muggletonians, & other Names of that ● famous strain, thereby to our grief ●oaming out his own Shame. And further, his Anger and Envy, being Cruel against us, and not contenting himself with his Harshness against Persons, but he proceeded in bitterness of Spirit to charge our Meeting with being come together to cloak Heresy and Deceit, and publishing openly several times, That there were more Doctrines of Devils and Damnable Heresies among the Quakers, than among any Profession among the Protestants. He hath long objected against our Discipline, even soon after his coming among us, and having prepared a Draught of his own, and the same not finding the expected Reception, he seemed disgusted since: He hath often quarrelled with us about Confessions, declaring, That he knew none given forth by the body of Friends to his Satisfaction; and often charged most of us of being unsound in the Faith. We have offered in several Meetings for his satisfaction, and to prevent strife among us, & for preserving the Peace of the Church to deliver a Confession of our Christian Faith in the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Author of the Christian Faith, and in the word of the Apostles & Disciples, his faithful Followers; or we would declare our belief in Testimonies of our ancient Friends and faithful Brethren, who were generally received by us; or we would concur & agree upon a Confession, and have it transmitted to the Approbation of the Yearly Meeting here, or the Yearly Meeting at London; y●a, it was offered unto him at the same time, that a Confession concerning the 〈◊〉 matter in Controversy should ●e given out of a Book of his own, but al● wa● slighted a● insufficient: The Lord knows the trouble which we have ●ad with this 〈◊〉 Member, and the openness of our hearts and well wishes towards him, notwithstanding his rage and violence against 〈◊〉, and of the endeavours of many in this place to have gained upon him by a friendly converse, and by other means not inconsiderable to a brotherly freedom; but one labour hither to seems to be a● water spil● upon the ground: And 〈◊〉 Meeting having Tenderly and Orderly dealt wit● 〈…〉 for his abusive Language and ●●sorderly Behaviour, he hath 〈◊〉 slighted 〈◊〉 Applications of g●i●ing him to a sense of his ill Treatment● a●● Miscarriages, but in 〈…〉 m●●ner said to the Friends appointed by the Meeting to admonish him 〈…〉 Judgement of the meeting under his 〈…〉; and hath of late set up a separate Meeting 〈◊〉, where he hath, like an open Opposer, not only reviled several Friends, by exposing ●heir Religions Reputations in mixed Auditories of some hundreds, endeavouring to render them & Friends here, by the Press and otherways, a scorn to the Profane, & the Song of the Drunkards, but he hath traduced & vilified our worthy travelling Friends I D. and T. W. in their Powerful and savoury Ministry, whose service is not only here, but in most Meetings in England, Scotland and Ireland well known to have a seal in the hearts of many thousands of the Israel of God: he hath hath also within a few weeks appeared in opposition as it were, to the Body of Friends, by putting on his Hat when our well received and recommended Friend J. Dickenson was at Prayer, & that in a Meeting of near a thousand Friends & others, & so going out of the Meeting, to the great disquiet thereof, & to the drawing some scores into the same Opposition with him, by his ill Example; and he thus persisting in his repeated oppositions, hard speeches and continued separation, & labouring, like an unwearied Adversary, to widen the Breach made by him, & so abusing some of the neighbouring Meetings by being as yet under that cover of being owned by us, We are hereby brought under a Religious constraint, and to prevent other Meetings of being further injured by him, to give forth this Testimony, strained as it were from us by his many & violent Provocations, viz. That we cannot own him in such ungodly Speeches and disorderly Behaviour, or in his separate Meetings, and that we disown the same, as proceeding from a wrong Spirit, which brings into Disorder inwardly and le●d into distraction and confusion outwardly, and until he condemn and decline the same, we cannot receive him in his public Ministry, and would have him cease to offer his Gift, as such, among us, or elsewhere among Friends, till he be reconciled to his offended Brethren,. And as to those few of our Brethren in the Gift of the Ministry who a●e gone out with G. Keith, into his uncharitable & dividing Spirit, the miserable effects whereof many of u● have sufficiently known in Old England, and other parts) our Judgement is, That whilst they continue such, they become unqualified to the Work of the Gospel, as degenerating thereby from the Guidance of Gods blessed & peaceable Spirit in their hearts (from whence proceeds the effectual New Testament Ministry) and being turned ●rom the peaceable Fruits thereof, are gone to Uncharity and Contention. And now, all you who have walked in fellowship and communion with us, and are drawn aside through inconsideration, o● otherwise, into this 〈◊〉 of Separation and Prejudice against our Meetings orderly established, and wherein we have been often and mutually refreshed together, we cannot but in the fear of God, and in love to your Souls, admonish you also of the Insecurity of your present estate, and that therein we cannot have Unity with you, and unless you return from under that Spirit, Dryness and Barrenness from the Lord wil● be your Reward. And so ●ear Friends, we exhort you all to behave yourselves in the Spirit of meekness & peaceable Truth, upon all occasions, but more especially upon any discourse or conference with any of them who are discontented among you, or started aside f●om you; and avoid all Heats & Contentions in matters of Faith and Worship; and let not the Salt of the Covenant be wanting in your words and actions, for thereby the Savour o● your Conversation will reach the Witness of God in them. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, Amen. Given forth by the Meeting of Public Friends in Philadelphia, the 20th of the 4th Month, 1692. Samuel Jenings, John Delavall, William Yardly, Joseph Kerckbridge, Walter Faucet, Hugh Roberts, Robert Owen, William Walker, John Lynam, George Grace, John Symcock, Griffith Owen, John Bown, Henry Wil●is, Paul Saunders, John Blunston, William Cooper, Thomas Tha●kray, William Byles, Thomas Lloyd, John Williford, Nicholas Walln, William Watson, George Maris, Thomas Ducket, Joshua Fearne, Evan Morris, Richard Walter. Here follows Two Answers to the said Judgements. To all faithful Friends in Pennsilvania, East and West-Jarsey, and to all every where else in all parts of the World, to whose hands this may come, The Salutation of Love. WE in behalf of ourselves, and many Brethren, who are falsely called the Separate Meeting at Philadelphia, having taken into our serious and weighty Consideration, three several Papers given forth by them of the opposite side, who have opposed us, and continue to oppose us in our present Testimony to the Truth of Christ, and his blessed Gospel & Doctrine, viz. The first given forth by the Monthly Meeting of the opposite side, the 20 of 3d Month, 1●92▪ wherein they clear T. Fitzwater of his falsely accusing G. K. for denying the sufficiency of the Light, saying expressly in their said Paper, That fo●r credible Witnesses giving their Testimony, that they heard G. K. say, he did not believe the Light was sufficient without somewhat else; the meeting saw no reason to give Judgement against T. Fitzwater in t●is particular, the said Thomas condemning the rash spirit that he spoke these words in, though the Charge in itself was true. And G. K. having both at a Quarterly and Monthly Meeting proceeding, sufficiently proved, & which was confessed by T. Lloyd, as the Mouth of these Meetings, that by that somewhat else, G. K. had frequently declared he did not mean humane Learning, nor the Scriptures, nor outward preaching (altho' the Scriptures, and outward 〈◊〉 ar● Instrumental, in God's ordinary way of working, together with 〈◊〉 inward operation of the spirit to men's salvation) as absolutely necessary, but the Man Christ Jesus, and what he did and suffered for us on Earth, and what he now doth for 〈◊〉 in Heaven, & the fullness that dwelleth in him. By which it plainly appeareth, the said Monthly Meeting hath excluded the Man Christ Jesus, our blessed Mediator & Saviour, from having any 〈◊〉 concern in our Salvation, and therefore we do unanimously, & with one heart judge & condemn their false Judgement, in claming Tho Fitzwater, that hath this tendency, not only to condemn G. K. for his 〈◊〉 Christian Doctrine, 〈◊〉 is a plain denial of the Man Christ Jesus, & the great Merits, & Va●●s & 〈◊〉 of his Sufferings, Death, Resurrection, 〈◊〉 Asse●●●on, and his Mediation for us in Heaven; a● which are somewhat else th●n the People called Quakers commonly understand by the ●●ght, to wit, the Light in every man's Conscience. And by this rash a●d inconsiderate Act of their Monthly Meeting, proceeding from great Ignorance, Error and Unbelief in them, they have sufficiently declared themselves to be no true Believers in the Man Christ Jesus, and therefore 〈◊〉 Christians; & for this cause we cannot own them to be our Christian 〈◊〉, nor join with them in any Religious Worship, until the● condemn themselves for the said Act, and give us some evidence of their un●●●●● Repentanoes and sincere Faith, by their open Confession and Declara●●●● of the Truth of Christ, which now they have denied. The second Paper is given forth by a Meeting of these called Friends of the Ministry, signed by Sam. Jenings, as ● l●●k of the said Mee●ing, wherein they give too partial and defective Judgement against William Stockdale, not blaming him for any Offence to God, or Christ, nor convicting him for his sin of Blasphemy, whereof he was guilty, in charging G.K. for preaching Two Christ's, because he preached Faith in Christ within, and in Christ without us, wherein he plainly denied Faith in Christ without us, that we judge Blasphemy against the Son of Man. Also, the said Meeting hath falsely judged and blamed G. K. for calling W. S. An Ignorant Heathen; for seeing he denied Faith in Christ without us, we judge it was his proper Name, and he was not worthy to be accounted in the Truth, having discovered his so great Ignorance and Unbelief in one of the great Fundamentals of the Christian Faith. Also, they falsely accuse G. K. for not giving W. S. Gospel Order, whereas upon due examination, we find, that he had given him sufficient Gospel Order. The third Paper is signed by Samuel Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, and others, in Number 28, all pretended Preachers, wherein they have passed a most false Judgement against G. K. for his sound Christian Doctrine, and Godly Zeal, in sharply reproving gross Antichristian Errors, that he had detected them guilty of, partly by the Open Confession of some, and partly by the Co●●i●a●ce of others, and seeking to cloak and cover and defend the Guilty; and the said three Papers, and the matter contained in them being sufficiently answered in a late Book, called, The Plea of the Innocent, etc. which we having read and well considered, do approve of, and allow to be given forth by our unanimous Consent and Approbation, the particular things, in matter of Fact, therein contained, being all known to some of us, and the most principal to most of us: And we of this Meeting deliver it as our unanimous Judgement, that all these who have given judgement in the said three Papers , have given a false judgement in them against the Truth, and against G. K. and his Friends joined with him in this Testimony. And we do declare against their false Judgement, and say, That G. K. and other Friends of the Ministry joined with him in this Testimony, ought not to forbear the Exercise o● their Ministerial Gift that God hath given them, notwithstanding the ●●l●e Judgement of false Brethren, that have joined together in a Faction against him, and his faithful Brethren, but that he and his faithful Brethren of the Ministry ought to be encouraged and received by all faithful Friends every where, in the use and exercise of their Ministerial Gifts, which we are persuaded they still have, and the use and exercise thereof will tend to the Glory of God, the Prosperity of Truth, and Salvation of Souls. And we also deliver it as our unanimous Judgement, that all these 28 Persons that have signed that false Judgement against G.K. & his Friends, ought not to be owned nor countenanced in their preaching or praying, but denied, and all others that justify them, until they condemn themselves for their said false and rash Judgement against G. K. and his Brethren; and until they give some public and open Confession and Declaration that they are sound in the Faith of Christ, they having given sufficient cause to us, to conclude, That at present they have not the sound Faith of Christ. And tho' we have just cause to blame them for condemning us without all Hearing and Trial, yet they have no cause to blame us, because we have oft ●ought and requested a Meeting with them to have things of Difference fairly debated and tried, but could never obtain it; and they having new made public their false Judgement against us, in three several Papers, we are concerned, for the Defence of Truth, and our Reputation, both as Men and Christians, to give forth this public Testimony against them, and to recommend it to all faithful Friends to consider and examine by the Spirit of Truth; and let both their public Papers and ours be impartially weighed in the Balance of Truth, in order to which we are willing that all their papers be printed as well as ours, that have been published on both sides, that so the impartial Readers may have a fair Opportunity to judge of both. Given forth at our Meeting at the House of Philip James in Philadelphia the 3● o● 5th month, 1692. in behalf of many of our Brethren both in Town and Country, who are one with us in this Testimony, though not now present. Richard D●ngworth, Joan Wells, Philip James, Henry Furnis, James S●attick, James Choper, sen. William Davis, Robert Wallis, James Poulter, Nicholas Fierce, Thomas Budd, Jo●n Barclay, William Bradford, James C●●per, jun. John Po●tus, John MY C●●●●, James Chick, John Bartram, Abel Noble, Joseph Walker, Thomus Paschall, Richard H●●liard, William Watte, Anthony St●●ges, Ralph Ward, Thomas P●●●t, Jo●n G●a●●●●●, Peter Chamberlain, An Expostulation with Samuel Jenings, Thomas Lloyd, and the rest of the twenty eight Unjust Judges and Signers of the Paper of Condemnation against G. K. & his Friends. And Complain for a Public Hearing and Trial before all Impartial People. WHereas Samuel Jenings, Thomas Lloyd, and others being in Number 28 have published a Paper against G. K. the rest of his Brethren wh● are joined with him in this Testimony for the Lord Jesus, against whom they prophesy, That Dryness and Barrenness from the Lord, will be their Reward. We having read and considered the said Judgement, do testify against it, as an unjust and unrighteous Act; but that which aggravates the Crime against them is, that they say, This Meeting having tenderly and orderly dealt with him, etc. when they know in their Consciences, they dealt 10. with G. K. n●r never sent for him to their said Meeting, but tried and judged him altogether in his absence, wherein they have done worse than the Baptists did in the case of Tho. Hicks; for when Friends appealed to the People called Baptists ●o●●●●●ice against T. Hicks, they took their time & appointed a Meeting, and 3 or 4 days before the said Meeting sent Letters to G. W. and W. P's Houses to give them notice to be at the Meeting, but they being so far from home that the● could not have timely notice, it was reckoned great Injustice for them ●o proceed and try Friends and T. H●cks in their absence; and upon Complaint they give another Meeting: But T. Lloyd, S. Jenings, and the rest are so far short of the Justice of the Baptists, that they never so much as acquainted G. K. of their Meetings or intent to proceed against him, nor never sent for him that we can understand, only W Byles came to G. K's house and asked for him, his Wife told, he was from home, and she expected him the next Morning, but they told nothing of their business with him, but in all haste proceeded to judge him in his absence before he came home. Is this your orderly dealing with him? Is this your Justice? Is this your Christ an tenderness? your Charity, & your bearing with him in a Christian Spirit? for shame cease thus proceeding, or you will ●e a stink in the Nostrils of the Nations where it shall be told▪ What! pretend to Christianity, & fall short of Heathen Justice! John 7.50, 51 Acts 25.16, 17 Did the Baptists do unfair in proceeding to try Friends in their absence? Then much more you: for they gave some Notice before of their intending to Try Tho. Hicks, but you never so much as told G. K. of your so Meeting: Wherefore allow us so much Justice as the Baptists did to have another Meeting publicly to try G. K. where all People may be present, that are willing to come, and whereof G. K. may have timely notice, and liberty to plead his own Cause, and let all Impartial People judge; & through God's Assistance we shall make it appear, that your said Judgement is unjust, & G. K. not worthy of Condemnation. Was there ever such an Act done in any Christian Society before, to condemn a man without ever hearing of him, or suffering him to speak for himself? Surely its far short of any worldly Court, where the party shall have timely notice to prepare for his his Trya●●nd liberty to plead his own cause in the face of the Country, and where his Accusers are not allowed to sit and give Judgement against him: But so it is, that these Unjust & Unrighteous Judges have proceeded to try, judge, and publish their Judgement against G. K. without ever hearing of him, when it's well known the most of them were his great Opposers: They might be sure this way to condemn him, when only a Faction of them get together, and accuse him, and he nor any for him be present to speak for him. But that which still heightens the Crime of Tho. Lloyd, Sam Jenings, and the rest of the 28 Unjust Judges, is, that they of the Ministry should give such a false Judgement, and then impose it on all the Meetings in these 3 Provinces, when most of the Friends thereof are great strangers to the Matter in Controversy, not knowing which Party is in the Right, but they must take said Judgement upon Trust from them, without enquiring into the Cause and Verity thereof; and where they think their said Judgement will not readily be swallowed down, they will follow it from Meeting to Meeting, clothed with their Magistratical Robes, and if any Friends show their dislike of having it imposed on them without their own consent, and consideration of the matter, presently threaten to bind them to the good Behaviour, and to the Peace, and call out for a Constable, thereby endeavouring to trample us down by their Magistratical Power & Authority, as Samuel Jenings, Sam. Richardson, Thomas Lloyd, John Delavall and Anthony Morris did lately at a Monthly Meeting near Frankford, as is well known to many. Oh! 〈◊〉 whither do you think these things will run? will it not give People just cause to say, ●he Quavers are turned Persecutors? But our Trust and Confidence is in the Lord alone, who hitherto has pleaded the Cause of the Innocent, and carried his People through all the Powers & Oppositions that have hitherto 〈◊〉 up against them in all Ages, and we doubt not but he will do the same for us, as we keep faithful to him, and to the Guidance of his holy Spirit, Light and Life in our hearts. But are these your Proceed Christian, or Protestant-like●? or do they not ra●●er relish of Rank P●pery, for the ●erg● o● them o● the Ministry to impose their 〈◊〉 the People without 〈◊〉 enquiring 〈◊〉 the matter? Is 〈…〉 Obedience? Is not this believing as the Church believes, in order to brings in Ignorance the Mother of Devotian? Oh! who but ignorants and blind men, but can see these things? And yet now will ye stand in them, O ye Judges! will ye not be willing to answer our just Complaint for a Hearing? Will you come short of the Justice of the Baptists, who admitted of another Meeting for a Hearing? But perhaps you will say, The Act of that Meeting was Infallible, being made up of such a Body of the Ministry, (as Arthur Cook said lately in the House of G. ●. That a Yearly Meeting could not Err) But we desire to hope, that some of you will better consider of it, & answer our just Complaint, and no lurk in holes and corners, but come openly and defend yourselves, and repent of the Error and false Doctrine you have run into, and let a time and place be appointed & agreed on by both Parties for a Public Hearing: If you have Truth and Justice on your side, come forth and let it appear before the World, and say not that such and such things are false, but prove them to be so; and bring things to the Light, and let not Christ's words be fulfiled on you, viz. You hate the Light because your deeds are Evil, etc. Say not, that we are bold and daring thus to Challenge you; for it's not wr●t in a presumptuous Spirit as relying on our own Strength or Parts, but on the Lord alone, on whom is our Dependence, and who knows the Innocency of our Cause, and therefore we are not afraid to bring it to the Test, but willing to appear openly, as hitherto we have done in Print, and not as your Practice is to report false things secretly abroad, which we know not whom to fasten upon; but what we publish in Print remains to be the Authors, whether true or false; if false, why don't you refute it, the Press is free and open for you, a● for any? But the matter in 〈◊〉 Printed Books is true, and stands over your Heads, and which you will never be able to R●●●te. But next, let us inquire, what have you condemned G. K. 〈◊〉 some of you say, Partly for matter of Doctrine, and partly for hard Words; But as for Doctrine you have not mentioned what it is; and as for the hard Names you mention, it is made appear in The Plea of the Innocent, etc. that they were justly given by G. K. to them that deserved the same: But have his Opposers given not hard Names, no unjust and false Reflections? yea, many. But why only then must G. K. be condemned, and not they also who have given hard words and false Names to G. K.? When G. K. complained against them for not giving Judgement against W. Stockdale's Blasphemy Samuel Jenings could excuse it, by bringing the Example and Practice of worldly Courts, saying, George, thou hast reviled thy Brethren, and in Courts we allow of Discount. So that according to S. Jenings, W. Stockdale's Blasphemy must be discounted against G. K's Reviling his Brethren, as they account it, but can never prove. But if Discount be allowable in this case, why are not G. K's hard words discounted against those that have been given to him, so far as they will reach? And that it may appear what hard Names have been given, we think fit here to mention, viz. They say G. K. has called them, 1. Fools, 2. Ignorant Heathens, 3. Infidels, 4. Silly Souls, 5. Liars, 6. Heretics, 7. Rotten Ranters, 8. Muggletonians. They of the other side have called G. K. 1. Brat of Babylon, 2. Accuser of the Brethren, 3. Apostate, 4. Worse than Profane, 5. A Troubler of the Church, 6. A Person that no one could have Difference with, but he was in danger of the Life of his Soul, 7. A Preacher of two Christ's, 8. A Teller of an Old St Andrews Story. 9 Pope, 10. Father Confessor, 11. Liar, 12. Devil, 13 Muggletonian, 14. Compared him to a Wolf Tiger, etc. 15 One that always endeavoured to keep down the Power of Truth. 16. A more vexatious Adversary than Hicks, Faldo, Scanderet, or the worst of Enemies. 17. One that is fallen upon the soaring Mountains, etc. 18. 〈◊〉 a man slain. 19 Become Treacherous to the Spouse of his Youth. 20. Fallen 〈◊〉 his first Love. 21. Gone into a Spirit of Enmity, Wrath, Self-Exaltation, Contention, etc. 22. Foaming out his own Shame. 23. A Person without the Fear of God before his Eyes. 24. Letting lose the Reins to an Extravagant Tongue● 25. Broken out into many Speeches, Rattling Accusations, Patronate Threaten, being Cruel, etc. like an Unwearied Adversary. With many more that can be proved. Now let the Impartial Reader judge, which have exceeded in hard Words? and whether they are not very partial to pass by all that hath been said against G. K. and condemn him for what he hath spoke in i●s right-place, as is made appear in the Book called, The Plea of the Innocent. And yet when G. K. was the Complainer for many Months, for Justice to be done to Truth, they could plead for Discount, and put Blasphemy against Christ Jesus, in the Balance against Reflections upon themselves, and yet now will not disount for hard words. And also they have judged a whole Meeting without ever admonishing of them. If this be not Partiality, Injustice and Unrighteous Judgement, tell us what is. And clear yourselves of these things, if you can. Signed by us, in behalf of the rest of our Friends by order of our Meeting, the 18th of the 5 Month, 1692. Thomas Budd, Richard Hilliard, John Ha●t, Thomas Paschall, William Bradford, James Cooper, Elizabeth Keith. THE END. Books to be Sold by William Bradford in Philadelphia. 1692. The Christian Faith of the People called Quakers in Rhode-Island. 4 d. A Catechism for Children and Youth, and such others as need to be instructed in the first Principles of the Christian Religion. By G. K. Pr. 6 d. A Testimony concerning the Resurrection of the Dead, Day of Judgement, and Christ's last Coming & Appearing without u●. By G. K. 3 d. Truth and Innocency defended, against Calumny & Defamation, in a late Report concerning the Revolution of Humane Souls, etc. G. K. 5 d. Some Causes and Reasons of the late Separation that hath come to pass here at Philadelphia. Showing, That G. K's Opposers were the Cause of the said Breach and Separation, and most properly are the separate Meeting. Together with an account of the sincere Christian Faith of G. K. and his Friends. Price 9 d. The Plea of the Innocent, against the False Judgement of the Guilty, being a Vindication of G Keith & his Friends, from the false Judgement, Calumnies and Defamations of S. Jenings, J. Simcock, T. Lloyd and others, being in Number Twenty Eight. Price 6 d. A Vision concerning Separation among Friends in Old England. By G. F. A faithful Warning and Exhortation to Friends to beware of seducing Spirits. By S. Crisp. 6 d. A● Appeal from the Twenty Eight Judges, to the Spirit of Truth and true Judgement in all faithful Friends, called Quakers. A true Copy of three Judgements given forth by a Party of men, called Quakers at Philadelphia, against G. Keith, etc. With two Answers to the same. New Husbandry to New-England, or an Experienced way to raise Quick Hedges and Clover Grass; and the way to make Cider. Note, That in some of Printed Copies of the Appeal from the twenty eight Judges, etc. there happened an Error in the Postscript, which pray amend, viz. line 1. for Anthony Morris read Sam. Richardson. And whereas it is reported, That the Printer being a favourer of G. K. he will not print for any other, which is the reason that the other Party appear not in Print as well as G K. These are to signify, that the Printer hath not yet refused to print any thing for either Party; and also signifies that he doth not refuse, but is Willing and ready to print any thing for the future that G. K's Opposers shall bring to him.