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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54081	John Penington's Complaint against William Rogers relating to the memory of his worthy father Isaac Penington in mis-representing and perverting some of his writings in his book entituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the apostate and innovator &c. : whereunto is subjoined somewhat to manifest his mother Mary Penington's not shunning sufferings for truth &c. occassioned by W.R.'s suggesting the contrary.; Complaint against William Rogers	Penington, John, 1655-1710.; Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709. Christian Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator.	1681 (1681)	Wing P1225; ESTC R28797	10,152	17

immediately laid upon him from the Lord for his Testimony but he was betrayed for the sake of my Estate as was confessed by the person that committed him to a Woman of Condition that lived near Reading who being earnest with him on my Husband's behalf and could not allay him said What will ye get by premuniring him He hath no Estate all being forfeited to the King for his Father's being one of the King's Judges To which he replied I know that but his Wife hath a good Joynture The Gaoler also confessed to me that he had orders a year before to stop him in the Prison when he came thither to visit the Prisoners and to give notice of it which words he said to me upon my charging him with betraying my Husband And I answered to it What to be thus dealt with without an Offence But he was silent to that Nay his very going to Reading was very accidental I being from home and he intending in my absence to visit three several places but was disappointed in them all upon which a Friend that was with him said Go with me to Reading and visit Friends in Prison which he did And when he had visited those of the fore-side of the Prison he crossed the Gaoler's Yard to see the Friends on the other side The Gaoler seeing him asked a Friend what that man's name was who simply told him Isaac Penington Immediately he goes or sends to one called a Justice to acquaint him who sends an Officer and a Servant to fetch him before him and he and another called a Justice tendring him the Oath upon his refusal committed him I coming towards home and being met with this unpleasant account was I confess greatly sadned his going being so accidental only in an innocent freedom and not upon a constraint I weighing that this was a great suffering to his person which threatned ruin also to me and my Children Now chiefly looking upon it as indeed it was a trepan for my Estate I had great freedom in the endeavouring the securing of it and preventing the Devourers of their prey so I did in clearness send to London and had the Arrears and Rents that hereafter should be due for the Estate it self they could detain no longer than my Husband lived made over to a Friend of mine for the use of me and my Children As also I put out of the House some Plate and other Goods as was mine when I was a Widow and made over to a Kinswoman of mine before marriage but what was necessary for a Family was left to a considerable value which things were more immediately my Husband's Goods who was then in Prison And now I have given this true Relation I sum up all thus That what I have here asserted to be done by me was no shift or carnal hiding from spoil in that that was a Testimony but a clear acting to disappoint the Betrayer of the Innocent who was made a Transgressor for to be prey'd upon and in freedom from the Lord to secure him my self and Children from the Treachery and evil Stratagems of his Prosecutor I do in God's fear say to every one that reads or hears these lines That in the tenderest composedst rightest frame of mind that ever I felt since I was never condemned for it nor shewed that I erred in it but rather acquitted and am satisfied in it at present as in reference to its being no hiding from Sufferings For I do believe that if I had appeared to suffer for Truth and at that time had secretly secured my Estate it had been a very evil thing and that which I have hitherto been preserved from who in the midst of many infirmities and weaknesses have this to boast of in the Lord's mercy and strength that I have suffered without guile or covering by secret Contrivances or Provisions for my safety This the all-seeing God knows and to him I commit my Cause and the Causes of those innocent Servants of the Lord aspersed by W. R. in his Book called The Christian Quaker c. Mary Penington POSTSCRIPT NOw upon the whole give me leave to make these remarks 1st My Mother was not the person under prosecution for the Worship of God 2d My Mother did not go to secure her Estate from any prosecution against her upon that account 3dly From my Father's bare going to visit Friends in Prison they who laid in wait for the Estate took an occasion to clap him up thereby to ruin both him my Mother and us their Children in their Estates and Livelyhood and not for any Offence alledged against my Father for the breach of any Law relating to Religious Worship 4thly The Estate thus secured was partly Joynture settled upon my Mother by a former Husband partly Land of Inheritance devolved to her from her Parents so that what was done was in order to save the Right of Possession in my Mothers hands from any illegal seizure of her real and personal Estate which was her sole Property and not legally seizable for my Father's supposed Offence which is no ways parallel to any persons making over their own proper Estate for fear of or to shun suffering for their own particular Testimony in meeting to worship God 5thly His bringing the names of G. F. my Father and Mother thus publickly upon the Stage in Print and yet not producing his Informers but only saying to G. F. If thou deny it I shall bring Testimony under the hand of a credible Friend in Truth c. is an Addition to his other unfair dealings for he ought to let us be Judges of that and not thus both by Manuscript and Print impose upon us and never tell us who this credible Friend is 6th and lastly To which let me add That W. R's so often and so full-mouth'dly giving G. F. the Lie his assigning the reason of G. F's not denying he advised my Mother to secure her Estate to be fear of losing his Interest in my Father and her if he had denyed what they knew to be true and with them in many more as p. 53 54. of par 5. his insinuating that G. F. advised the Rich to secure their Estates thereby rendring him partial his reflecting as if G. F's not giving him the like advice or judging what he did in making over his was that G.F. never was so friendly to him as to take so much care of him and his Family and lastly his scoffing and upbraiding G. F. as if the reason why he was reproved for his skulking were because G. F. had not given him a dispensation so to do see par 5. p. 43 to 47. is notoriously wicked and abominable as if all the godly concerns to keep up Truth 's Testimony in a suffering day were but a juggle in which such as could seek to G. F. for a dispensation as he prophanely flouts were patroniz'd and all others rendred Criminal Well I am satisfied no care for the prosperity of Sion was the ground of this foul suggestion And if Ham was accursed for not covering his Father's nakedness what Anathema Maranatha's must they undergo who under the shew of Truth would raise and foment such false surmizes and slanderous accusations against the faithful Brethren and that even among Vnbelievers which had they been as true as they are impiously false a man that were far less than what he pretends to would never have thus told it in Gath nor published it in Askalon to make the Uncircumcised rejoyce J. P. Let this be dispersed only where W. R 's abusive Book hath gone This very passage answers much of W. R's contest in his Book See also part 2. page 400. of his works

this person who doubtless had he been told formerly he should thus have appeared against the Truth and them that are in it would have been ready enough to have said with Hazael of old Is thy Servant a Dog that he should do this thing I could also observe that in this his work of darkness and traducing my Father he useth the word We and Our but knowing none that will own themselves concern'd herein I shall the less insist thereon As for Thomas Crisp who hath put forth a Book called The Testimony of Isaac Penington c. he confessed to me in the presence of Philip Ford That he had never read or seen that Book of my Fathers but only gathered it out of William Roger's Book Now whether this be fair and equal to take things thus upon trust without once Boerean-like searching his writings to see whether the things were so or no and then to add wide inferences of his own as of a liberty in paying Tythes as a Civil Right c. far from my Father's sence and constant practice And lastly to publish them from the sole Authority of a professed Adversary who had already mangled the Book and took things piece-meal be not very injurious and unbecoming a man much more a Christian and which many Turks Jews and Infidels would have scorned let the impartial consider But what can be expected of men that are departed from the just Principle in themselves and are daily doing despite to the Spirit of Grace Indeed the very Title is fallacious to call it The Testimony of Isaac Penington and is an imposing upon his Reader whereas at best it is but Part of his Testimony and that Part so craftily managed as to speak his sence but in Part. By this W. R. also may see what Spirit his Book gratifies even a loose libertine Spirit without Yoke that would run back again to Aegypt and weaken the hands of the faithful Sufferers even to death for that oppression of Tythes which Friends in the beginning and to this day assert to be a denying Christ come in the Flesh which I believe W. R. himself will not seem to gainsay But this man ranks it and the use of plain Language which is the only true Language the other being a Lie amongst Friends Orders and Traditions Which says he I fear you take more care for the strict observations of than the Truth in the heart as if these things had not been delivered from the Spirit of Truth through Instruments it made choice of at the first breaking forth of Truth but were taken up and held by Tradition only as the beggarly rudiments of the world are and therefore queries If one cannot do so must he therefore judge his Brother adding That may be required of one which may not be required of another see p. 14 of his Pamphlet Will W. R. stand by him herein Will he thus encourage Tythe-Payers Will he open this gap for Libertinism Will he thus oppose the Truth to the Truth making it to require one thing of one and the contrary of another to call one to bear a Testimony against Tythes with jeopardy of Life and Estate and allow the other to pay it as a Civil Right What will God's Spirit be thus inconsistent with it self But if he say Nay and fall not in with this man's work yet hence he may see what it is joyns with him and shelters it self under his wing even that which shuns the Cross and seeks ease in the Flesh That which W. R. cites as Edward Borrough's Paper and which T. C. takes upon trust as his Vision is a Question to several first Whether E. B. ever wrote that or any such Paper 2 dly For satisfaction it is demanded of W. R. and T. C. to prove that cited by them to be E. B's own intire Paper and to acquit themselves that they have not prevaricated here as W. R. has done in my Father's Case however fair he would seem to be confessing pag. 84. part 5. That adventuring to add to another man's words and I may hope I say or to diminish from them either especially when he avers he has taken them altogether as they lay rendring them as another man's words materially altering the sence is accounted plain Forgery J. P. My Mothers Account is as followeth IT is very contrary to my judgment and the frame of my mind to make any other appearance in publick than an Innocent and Righteous Conversation but I see a necessity to give some account of the cause of my dear Husband Isaac Penington's Imprisonment in Reading as also to speak something in reference to the settling of my Rents thereby to remove out of the way of the tender the stumbling-block that W. R. in his Book entituled The Christian Quaker c. par 5. p. 43 to 47. may have laid before the upright to the lessening of my Testimony to the undefiled Truth unvailed with covers or pretences As for his charging G. F. with advising me I never had any advice from him contrary to my own conscience nor in the least to lessen Truths Testimony But this I say My honourable and dear Husband suffered five times Imprisonment in the Gaol of Alisbury in the County of Bucks for the space of seven years being but little at home but Imprisoned many months at a time once three quarters of a year another time a year and a half in all which Imprisonments I through the Lord 's great kindness to me never consulted provision or security in any point though sollicited by my Relations to have done somewhat to preserve my Estate all my Husband 's being gone upon his Father's account But so clearly and fully was I given up to suffer the loss of Estate and spoil of Goods in his pure Testimony to Truth that I never so much as attempted any securing it or them and never had but once so much as an inclining in my mind to put by any thing though of value and not of very necessary use in the Family but at that very time before I could lay hand on any thing for that purpose it was said in me Do not provide Do not contrive Leave all with the Lord and immediately let the thing fall And further when sufferings for Meetings by Imprisonment gave way to Proceedings by Fines upon Preachers Hearers and Masters of the Houses where Meetings were the Lord gave me a clear quiet submitting to it though I had in my view the ruine and havock that 40 l. a week could procure to us my Husband being engaged in at least two meetings a week and having a Testimony for Truth by the Gift bestowed on him to minister in All this I make mention of to manifest that whilst my dear Husband suffered purely for Truth 's Testimony I never went about in the least way to shun or fly the suffering Now the cause of his suffering in Reading Gaol was not in the first place upon a necessity