Reasons why those of the people called Quakers, challenged by George Keith, to meet him at Turner's Hall the eleventh of this month called June, 1696. refuse their appearance at his peremptory summons. Story, Thomas, 1662-1742. 1696 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A93936 Wing S5754 ESTC R229146 45578459 ocm 45578459 172373 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 . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A93936) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172373) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2627:27) Reasons why those of the people called Quakers, challenged by George Keith, to meet him at Turner's Hall the eleventh of this month called June, 1696. refuse their appearance at his peremptory summons. Story, Thomas, 1662-1742. Keith, George, 1639?-1716. Bealing, Benjamin, d. 1739. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street, London, : 1696. Signed: Tho. Story. Ben. Bealing. Reproduction of original in the Friends' Library (London, England). Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Keith, George, 1639?-1716. Society of Friends -- Apologetic works. Quakers -- England. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion REASONS why those of the People called Quakers , Challenged by George Keith , to meet him at Turner's Hall the Eleventh of this Month called June , 1696. Refuse their Appearance at his Peremptory Summons . WHereas G. K. hath after his wonted Irregular and Unruly manner , Challenged divers of us to Defend our Selves against such Charges as he has to Exhibit against us at Turner's Hall ▪ These are to Certifie all whom it may concern , That the Reasons why we Decline any such Meeting , are as follow : 1. Because the said G. K. has given us such frequent Proofs of his very passionate and abusive Behaviour , at the many more Select Meetings we have had with him , in all manner of Sweetness , Long-suffering , and Patience on our side , to satisfie and preserve him from these Extreams : That we cannot assure our selves now of any better Entertainment , or that the Meeting can have any desirable Success for a through Information . 2. We Decline to meet , because it is not an agreed Meeting on both Sides , which it ought to have been ; and where that is not , or cannot be Adjusted , the Press is the next fair way and Expedient , which he has begun with , and now seems to decline ; Nor hath he sent us a Copy of his Charge or Indictment against us , which also he ought to have done . 3. That he has two of our Books which lie hard at his Door , in Vindication of us and our Doctrines from his Exceptions , and which he has not yet Answered ; so that he is not upon Equal Terms with us ; and therefore we think his Challenge , Appointment and Summons , unfair ; and that all that are not partial will be of the same mind with us . 4. Such Publick and Vnlimited Meetings are too often attended with Heats , Levity , and Confusion , and Answer not the End desired by sober and enquiring Men. Besides , that it lets up a Practice that Authority may judge to be an Abuse to our Liberty , and so draw that under Reflection , as no Friend to the Civil Peace . 5. We know not what Religion or Perswasion this Wavering Man is of , or what Church or People he adheres to , or will receive him , with his vain Speculations , that have led him to desert us ; Nor who are accountable to us for him and his Irregularities and Abuses ; the generality of such Assemblies usually making ill Auditors , worse Judges , and no good Security for our Satisfaction . And we must therefore take leave to say , It seems to us an indirect way of Disquieting and Invading our present Liberty , That so Irreligious a Meeting should be held , whose End is to abuse other Men for their Religion . If this should be Imitated by all the several sorts of different Perswasions in this City , what Heaps and Confusions must necessarily ensue ! 6. Wherefore lastly , Be it known unto all , That for the sake of Religion , the Liberty granted us , and the Civil Peace , we decline to meet him ; and not from any Apprehensions we have of his Abilities , or our own Consciousness of Error , or Injustice to the said G. K , whose weak and unbridled Temper we know is such , that what Learning and Parts he hath , have not been able to ballance and support him on less Occasions so that we may say they are in ill hands ; and if he proceed as he begins , they will be employed to an ill End , which his ( poor Man ! ) cannot but be , unless he change his Course ; which we heartily pray for , that a place of Repentance he may find ; and , through a true Contrition , the remission of his great Sin of Envy , and Evilly Intreating the Lords People and Way , which we profess , and which he the said George Keith hath long and lately both Professed , and Zealously Vindicated , as such . London , 10th 4th Month , 1696. Signed in Behalf of the Persons and People ( called Quakers ) concerned . Tho. Story . Ben. Bealing . London , Printed by T. Sowle , in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street , 1696.