A TRUE and AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF ANDREW FREY; CONTAINING The Occafion of his coming among the HERRNHUTERS OF MORAVIANS, his Obfervations on their Conferences, Cafting Lots, Marriages, Feftivals, Merriments, Celebrations of Birth-Days, Impious Doltrices, and Fantaftical Practices; Abufe of Charitable Contributions, Linnen Images, Oftentatious Profufenefs, and Rancour against any who in the leaft differ from them; and the Reafons for which he left them; together with the Motive for publishing this Account. Faithfully tranflated from the GERMAN. Unitate in illa Sæpe agunt fævi truculenta mente tyranni LONDON, BUCH. Printed: and Sold by J. Robinson in Ludgate-street, M. Keith in [ Price One Shilling. ] 1 ***** THE NARRATIVE O F ANDREW FREY, &c. T HE following Narrative contains the Occafion and Motive of my becoming a Member of the Society of Herrnhuters, my Voyage from Penfilvania to Germany, the State in which I there found the Society of Herrnhuters, and the Reafons of my leaving them. Having in my Return hither intimated to fome Perfons of Integrity what moved me to depart from the Community, they told me, that upon my Return to Pensilvania, my Confcience would hardly let me be at Peace, if I did not expofe the State in which I found it. They who told me fo, were almoft as well acquainted with the Nature of the Society as myfelf, and faw it not without a fenfible Concern. And upon my arrival in Philadelphia, I have been further intreated and urged by both Germans and English, to do the like; that is, to make a public Declaration of what I saw with my own Eyes, and heard with my own Ears, But hearing that fome Things 1 1 had already appeared in print against this Community, I left the matter to the Lord, and gave myself no further Concern about it; except when any Questions were put to me, I fpoke the plainreal Truth, according to my Conscience. But the Brotherhood at* Bethlehem told the People that all I faid of the Community was a heap of Lies, I fpeaking out of mere Refentment and Malevolence, and that becaufe Jofeph Muller had married William Frey's Daughter, which never fo much as once came into my Thoughts; and as if that was not enough, a Man in high Esteem among them has given out that I myfelf fhould fay to him; "Had the Community made me a Bishop, "I fhould have gladly ftaid with them;" another Falfity coined to fupport their Caufe, (for that they don't ftick at a convenient Lie is what I know full well.) As to myfelf I could freely have overlook'd it without writing a fingle Letter on fuch a foul Subject, had they not gone about to wash their filthy Hands and afperfe me with a Letter from Jofeph Muller in Germany, to his Wife's Parents in Penfilvania; wherein he loads me with Scandal, as behaving myself in an unbecoming manner amongst them; and because they encourage the People with telling them, that when Jofeph Muller comes over I fhall be fet out in my proper Colours; but his coming is uncertain. Therefore in regard to my Confcience I could not omit publishing Jofeph Muller's Letter, with my Commentary on it, leaving every one to * A place in Penfilvania built by the Herrnhuters, and where they have fet up a Society. Whoever speaks Truth of the Herrnhuters will be branded by them as a Liar. ↑ Henry Antes at Germantown, who embracing Herrnhutism, is a leading Man among them, becaufe he took all upon truft, without proof or examination. judge judge according to his Knowledge; and withal heartily wishing that none would be offended or triumph at it; but rather first examine themselves whether the tenour of their Lives be agreeable to an imitation of Chrift before God who judges Men according to the most intimate Secrets of their Hearts. Andrew Frey. Copy of a LETTER from Jofeph Muller*, to William Frey. re Dear and tenderly beloved Parents, W Side E often falute and kifs you from the Side-hole, and from the Community of the Lamb, which he has purchased with his "Blood. How bleffed are we! we reft in his Side; "the Side-hole and the Lamb-kin fill the exult"ing Heart with Flame; and that is all which "we wish and can wish you, that you and our "dear Relations may from the Womb be brought "into the little Side-hole, and there enjoy all "the Felicity which the Lamb can impart to a juftified Sinner. I thought to have been with 66 you this Summer, but it has proved otherwife; "poffibly I may come in 1748, if nothing in❝tervenes. That I earnestly long foon to fee you I cannot deny; but to go away in fuch .. a manner as Andrew is gone, is what I will "never do whilft I have Breath, he being gone "in great Confufion: Had ftrove continually to "the utmoft to conceal that Wickedness which "had first shewed itself at New-York, 'till at " last it broke from him as a Stream which had *Fofeph Muller was first a Baptift, but was drawn over by Count Zinzendorf. A 3 "been |