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J.fO 11 . on the I aft Day of which, nothing 16s 9. fame Security to Ell]l~r Term fo ~;"~3~' clear'd in open Court. . ~ having been laid to h1s Charge,. b ht before the Lords of the Counc1~ Ht il (et ., In the Year 16,90, he wid·agaCor~~;pgondence with the ,late K_ing J~m_er, Libe'!J· upon an Accufauon of h? £ng b' A pearance he appeald to Kmg Wrllra11 1690. and they requiring Sureues fior 15 ¥near rw'o Hours, inclined to ac~uit ~ h!mfelf, who, af}!rr:m;~f~=~~u~cil, he 'Yas held upon Bail for a while, Time ,x~t»~in'd htrn; but ,n:~ plea h .fame Year again dtfcharged. . . by tbt council, and in Trrmty·Term, t e. d T' 'and his Name inferred m a Proclam:Ut· 1111d •ppeals to He was yet attackt ~ thu . yme, wherein he with divers Lords and oJVWilliam •. on dated July_ the tBth thts ear, h tg'd with adhering to the King· A ~fli&Jd*'~~" th~rs to the Number ofE1gh~~en, wr;ai~ him he was again clear'd by ;:;~1b,,,t,4 domj; Enemies~ b,ut Prb1o~fathn~ r~nminjf~r, 0~ the taft Day of .h1ichtJel· Qtbm. Order of the Krng $ Blllf'J o11rt a J' mtU Term, 169c.. . . ur ofed to go over a fecond Time to Being now agam at Ltberty, hell .~ p. t for another Settlement there: ~~r!o:;d~o Penfylva11ia, and publi~ed t~op~ a ,ffi~rt::lon that an Order for a Convc~ p.•in to Pen· He had to far prepared . or 15 r~r S e when his Voyafe was pte\• en ted fylvania, b1.u was gramed him br the S~creta_ry 0Jb :k: ~ith the Oath o one William Ful· wM prewnred by a Frrfh :Accufatton :lgatnfi: ~mi' a ent declared a €beat and ]ntponoc; :fo:",j~"{~· lfr, a Wtettb, afcerward by ar tad for his Apprehention, which he nar· g•wi.n /1 him bJ and a Wananc was. thereuponf granGe Fo 's Burial on the 16th of the Month Fuller. rawly ekaped at hts Return rom · x , called]anu~ry, r69o. d d h. filfbeforetheKing and Council, bu~ n?W Hil retiring He had hitherto defen e Im .c a Time than hazatd the facnfictng Jorfom:r,ars. thought it rather advtfabJe tf ret.P.e~o~ te Vill;in'J and accordingly heaphis lnnocenc~ to t?e Oat. s 0 0 : tV:~ ~r :hree Years. During this Recefs, he peared bu.t ltttle m Pu~l.tck f. fidl: left his own Friends, th~ Q.yak~n, applied hlmfel.f to Wflm.tfttlgt 'T~n~ght ~f him he fent the followmg Epi}li< Owuld entert:un any m1 e 0 • ' Hil Ltttu fD the Turlj· M.wing. to the\r Yearly-Meeting in London, vtz. The )oth of the third Month, I69I; My Beloved, Dear, and Honoured Brethren, I ttm ahfcnr from Y"u; My Uncbtrltg~abla Love Salu:t'l y~u l_{ed !}o;f:r Heavenly Fellowihip, yet I feel the Jweet an ow y 1 rgfl d. hom I have loved above by wbuh I am with you? and nfa7Slt.er ;;s Ie;:be~ Juffer bard Thougfm, my 0Jicfeft Joy: Recezve no VI u;miL ou; Minds agai11fl me youraffliEtcd, through the Injinuati~ns Jf nd'i/:tb;/r My Enemies are yours, and !n the but nof forfaken Fnen an r b t God Jeerh in Secret and f.CLU one Ground mine for youJla'lf~; and. t :t becaufe Jl1en have Sw~rn truly, bMr Day rtu•ar4 opmly. F !YW. r~v~cM:; have laid in Wait for me, and Falfo falfely !l_Aamjt me ; or IC e . h 1 k w not who bave nron< Witneffes ha;;,e laid ho (? rhrr~UT~b~!;b ~rear n~xercifes, ttnd 'havt Jone J,;/~:{\fi:h~;~;~~~.:~:;n;f:.''M:~rH::; r~~· t{~:b~~~£~ mongft rn. Feel me near you, a'!i lay :!:r n:ear b!~u'wre}le with Him that it Brethren and leave me not, nert er JorJa • b tt meet in rht able to pr~?Jail again_fl the Cruel f?efires of~~~;~, o~rarJJ.~:U;>j l:omfort. The i":!r'i~fli~~·(;;{ ~''J::'t!t,~te~i~ b~!'Gfnbw.on~le~el.Vr~re:'::;~,;!. 'li;; • and CJ·own your Moft Solemn .AJJem hes wtt IS Lfe nta flow among yell; Tender, Meek, Lowly, and Heavenly LSov_er. a'!d ~d Frlitful Opportunity to and that He would pleafe to make Jt a eaJomng 11 H's G!oriolls Higb you, that Edified and Comforted, y~ mlf{ rerrn :::rre;o~ dejiring to be re~ Praife, w!Jo is worthy fo! e'T!er.h o "'.rfm nd cfi~e:r_ta A:celfes, tcbo cannot ncmbred of you before Hull, '.n t e nearel~ a JU J' forget you in the ntar~ft Re!allon, Your Faithful Fr~end an.d B rott¥~' P• Vo~. I. 'Ibt AuTHOR's LIFE. His excellent Preface to Robert Barclay's \Vorks, and another to thofe of 169r. John Blirnytat, both printed this Year, were fanher Fruits of his Retire- ~ fJ/Cnt, as were alfo, ... '· A fmall Treatife, entituled, Juft A1enfures, in an Epiflle of Peace and ~%~~~·~" 4JJd Love, to fuch ProfefiOrs as are under any DilfatisfaUion about the prefent Burnyeat"!l Order pralliled in the ChNrch of CHRIST. w"''· 2. A Key opening the Wtzy r~ rviry Common Underjlmding, how ro dif-r:rrn 1692. the Difference betu-een the Re!igionprofcjfed by the People called Qu<rkcrs, nnd ~ rbe Pervcrjionr, Mifrtprefttttnrions, nnd Cnl11mnies of tbeir .Adverfarics, tJ:)~~i~~£ lrctb npon their Principles and PrnOices, wherein feveral DoElrines of that fures. .People are fet ina dear Light: A Book fo generally accepted, that it has r~e puhlisbing been Re-printed even to the Twelfth Edition. . ofbu K.:y. g . .An E,j]ay toward the prifent Peace ofEuroye: A Work fo adapted to 169;. the Vnfcttlcd Condition of tbe Times, and fo wel received, that it was Re- ~ printed the fame Year. An EffiJ t~ 4· RcjleOions and Maxims, relating to the Condu[f of Human Life: An ;:;:: "}~u-ufefullitde Book, which has alfo paft many lmpreffions.. rope. Having thus improv'd rhe Times of his Rtt iremenr to his orHz Comfort~ and ~~ftdllrntt .md the Comtnon GO()d, it plea fed God to diffipate that aoud, and open his Way M.lxtms •• I again to a P11blick Service; for in the latter End of the Year 169~, through A~~~ open d. the Mediation of his Friends, the Lord Ranelagh, Lord Somers? Duke of f!; ;:1:~~t:;; 13t~ekinghatn, and Sir John Trcnt,Mrd, or fome of them, he WdS admirred to 1\jn;: ud appear before the King and Council, wheie he fo pleaded his lnnocency, cltat Council, ~ba he was acquitted. . •fur. ht~tn~g In the 12th Month, 169~, departed this Life his Beloved Wife, Gulie!tna ;~~"');;~t':,~ ftlttria, with whom he had liv'd in all the Emlearme.nts of zhat nenrefl Re- lli1 Wife, dulation, about Twenty One Years. The Lofs of Her was a very gre:Jt £xer- lielma Maria. cifO, fuch, himfelf faid, As nil his other Troubles were nothing;, Compari-fDn oj: Her Character, Dying Expreflions, and Pious End, were related by himfelf, ¥in an Account he publilhed1 and which is inferted in the Appendix. In the Year 1694. he writ a Pn;ace to G. Fox's Journal, ptinred that Year, which Pre/nee was Re·printed the fame Year, and feveral Times Iince in Of! avo, under the Title of A Brief .Accoum of the Rift and I'rc'grej's e~f the People caUed Qpakers. * Ap. N, rxvi. 1694· ~ HtTOritr~& Preface to G. Fox's 1ournll. The fame Ye.:~r was publi!h'd the Journal of bh Life in Holland and Ger-many, before inferred. He alfo writ this Year, A Vijitation to the Jews, hy W11)' of .Appendix, to a Hr TOriru 4 Book puhlilh'd by ]ofm TomA:ins, call'd, The Harmony oj the Old t1nd J\(tV Vijiwio1t ro Te}tamcnts. . . the Jews. In the 9th, Icth, and lith Months this Year, he travelled in the Work Hil Tr;tvtlsbt of the .ltliniflry, in the Counties ofGloucef!_er, Somer fer, Devon and Dorfer, tbe fYQr1 9f having Meetings almoft daily, in the tnoft cohfiderable Towns, and other dx:MmiftrJm Places in thofe Counties, at which the People fl.ockt in abundantly; and J~vm.IColfn: his Teftimony to the TRUTH, anfwering to that of God in rbeir Confciences, uu. was alfcnted to by many. In the Year 169;, a N11melefs Autbor writ what he ca1I'd An .Anfrber ttJ 1695 WilHam Penn's Key, and W. P. return'd A Reply to a 'A"irmclefs Anfucr to ~ \Villiam Penn's Key, in wbicb tbe Principles of tbt People caYed Quakers, are Hilli,epiJro&n farther explained and confirmed: A Paffage or two in which Reply, being a An[1>1Cr to bis Defence of his own ConduCt, under the feveral Changes of Government, Key. we think it hut Juftice to tranfcribe. The ii:Iid J\lmtelefs .Aut bot charges W.Penn ·as being the Author of a Pam;· ph let in Difence of the Bill af Exdujion, and tells him, He rwu then a Man Principled for the Civil Liherries of his Country: To which W P. thus an· fwers: ' But if I may be fo bold with the Author, Pray, Why then Prin .. • cifled for Civil Liberties, and not afterwards? And why this upon me at ' al ? But why at this Time, and opon this Occafion, to be brought in by '·Head and Shoulders, as the Prover'& is? But what if I never writ fuch a ' Pamphlet, (as to be furc I did QOt) whJ.t's to be faid to, and of fuch ~~~ ~ Author, in fuch a Cafe, and in fuch a Time, and w a Man under my C1r· cum!bnces? |