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A47149	Gross error and hypocrisie detected in George Whitehead and some of his brethern as doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical answer he and some others have given to some queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the people call'd Quakers, in the third month, 1695, by comparing the said answer with the printed books of the said George Whitehead, William Pemn, and John Whitehead, leading men in the said Meeting, wherein the great inconistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed books is discovered : with a further account of their vile and pernicious errours / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.; Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing K172; ESTC R3387	26,885	44

Gross Error and Hypocrisie DETECTED IN GEORGE WHITEHEAD AND Some of his BRETHREN As doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical Answer he and some others have given to some Queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the People call'd Quakers in the Third Month 1695. by comparing the said Answer with the Printed Books of the said George Whitehead William Penn and John Whitehead Leading Men in the said Meeting wherein the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answers to the Express Words and Sentiments of their Printed Books is discovered With a further Account of their vile and pernicious Errours By GEORGE KEITH LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1695. TO THE FRIENDLY READER THE Method I propose in this following Treatise is First To set down the said Queries mentioned in the Title-Page Next The Answers given by George Whitehead and some of his Brethren and Sign'd by them Thirdly The Answers I have faithfully and sincerely collected out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead William Penn and John Whitehead that shew the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answer to the express Words and Sentiments of their Printed Books The which Answers will also give a farther Account of their vile and pernicious Errors opposite to some Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith And here I would have the Reader to understand That if these Men had by their late Answers contradicted their former Sayings and Sentiments from any sincere Conviction and professed Acknowledgment of the vile and gross Errors boldly asserted by them in their Printed Books I should have been so far from charging of them with Hypocrisie for their so doing that I should have commended their Ingenuity But they are so far from any such Acknowledgment that in their late Answer they referr to the Answer given by them in Publick to the Objections made against them in Publick Now it is plain that by their Answer made in Publick they mean their Answer and Doctrine Sayings and Sentiments contain'd in their Printed Books so far are they from professing or owning any real Conviction they are under of their former vile Errors Though it is not improbable that some of them and particularly George Whitehead hath some contrary Apprehensions and Sentiments in divers of these weighty Matters to what he hath formerly with great Confidence asserted in Print as not only being his own Principles but the Quakers Principles Tho' I thank God those Vile Errors asserted by him in divers of his Printed Books and particularly in that most Antichristian Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within c. in Answer to William Burnet and which he calls the Quaker's Principles were never my Principles and in Charity I am apt to believe nor the Principles of divers others that have with me gone under that Designation But it is easie to apprehend the Reasons why on supposition that George Whitehead and some other leading Men among them have chang'd their Sentiments of latter times to what they formerly Printed yet they are not so sincere as to own it and to retract in Publick their Errors expos'd in Publick even lest such Retraction or Correction should lessen and abate their Honour and Esteem among their too credulous Followers and Admirers who without all doubt have taken things too much on Trust from them and suffer'd themselves to be too much influenc'd and led by them into the same Errors as I have found by sad Experience how too many of them are guilty of the same Errors with their Leaders And George Whitehead and some others so highly pretending to the infallible Teachings and Leadings of the Spirit both in what they have Preached and Printed they loving the Praise of Men and seeking the Honour from below Pharisee-like and not regarding the Honour of God nor the Danger of Souls by those hurtful Errors wherewith they have poisoned Thousands If they should Retract or Correct what they have formerly Printed and is on publick Record wou'd seem so greatly to reflect on them and their high Pretences that they will rather seek to uphold their Honour and Repute among their Followers than Honour God or rescue Souls out of the Snare they have brought them into by a free Acknowledgment and Retraction But until they so do they can never have any true Character among sincere intelligent Persons who are acquainted with their Books but that they are great Hypocrites And however in some things of weight it is possible that George Whitehead and some others have chang'd their Sentiments yet I have no ground or reason to think otherwise but as touching divers weighty Matters of the Christian Doctrine and Faith he and they are still under great Blindness Darkness and Error Which that they may be recover'd from and brought to a true Sense and sincere Acknowledgment of is my real and sincere Desire And though some of them and particularly George Whitehead notwithstanding his pretended Smoothness at times have utter'd not only most bitter and injurious Speeches aginst me but false and lying Prophecies with a thus faith the Lord yet I can truly say I never felt any thing either in my Mouth or Heart to rise against any of them to render them Evil for Evil Cursing for Cursing but Good for Evil Blessing for Cursing knowing that all sincere Christians are call'd not to Curse but to Bless tho' it hath been too familiar with them so to do to many others in this as in other things wresting and perverting and misapplying some places of the Holy Scripture which mentions the sharp Words and Woes that Christ and some of the Prophets and Apostles gave forth against such as deserv'd them As if because Christ and the Prophets and Apostles did so Prophesie from an infallible Knowledge that these Persons against whom they so declared were guilty and the Woes they pronounced were really Prophetical that therefore they may do the like But as the Gifts and Miracles and Tongues are not George Whiteheads attainments so nor has he any just Ground to profess such an extraordinary Spirit of Discerning and Prophesie nor any at present I know on Earth Although the infalliable Teachings and Inspirations of the Holy Spirit I own with all true sincere Christians to teach us all Truth and lead us into all Truth that concerns the Salvation of our Souls as the common and universal Privilege of all the Faithful but not that Men should lay claim to such extraordinary things which they can give no satisfactory Evidence of far less to pour out bitter Curses and Woes and Prophesies against them who have deserv'd no such things But notwithstanding his bitter Words and false Prophesies against me I have great Comfort that I feel the Blessing of God upon me and the Witness of his good Spirit in my Heart sealing to the Favour of God towards me and his favourable accepting my Service and publick Opposition to

either Philosophy or Divinity or Astronomy the other Hemisphere of the visible Firmament is not under us but above Above hath relation to the Earth as the Centre and so whatever is remote from the Earth more or less whether in this or the other Hemisphere of the Heavens is above And the Scripture also teacheth us this Language Exod. 20.4 Query VII Was his outward Blood outwardly shed at Jerusalem the true Propitiation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the World and is Faith in that Blood c To this Query we have full and plain Answers from George Whitehead and William Penn out of their Printed Books sufficient to shew their Unbelief and Antichristian Doctrine directly contradicting the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures in this great Fundamental Article Let us first hear George Whitehead in his Book call'd The Light and Life c. It is confessed saith he page 56. That God by his own Blood purchas'd to himself a Church Acts 20. Now the Blood of God or that Blood that relates to God must needs be Spiritual he being a Spirit And the Covenant of God is Inward and Spiritual and so is the Blood of it George Whitehead page 56. The Light and Life of Christ within and page 55. Where do the Scriptures use those Expressions and so much vary about the Blood of Christ as one while to say that the shedding of that Blood Outwardly was the meritorious Cause of Salvation Another while the Word shedding to be left out and the stress laid only upon that Blood it-self which the Soldier shed or let out of his Side with a Spear which was after he was put to Death And page 59. of the same To say that Material Blood viz. of the Sacrifices under the Law was a Type of that which was Material viz. the Visible and Material Blood of Christ shed upon the Cross This is to give the Substance no Preheminence above the Type especially if neither of them be Mystical nor in Being or like as if one should say one Type was a Type of another and page 38. of that same Book And where do the Scriptures say the Blood was there shed for Justification and that Men must be directed to Jerusalem to it when as that Blood shed is not in Being citing page 40 viz. of William Burnet's Book And whereas William Burnet had said in his Book as cited by George Whitehead The Blood shed upon the Cross the Material Blood meritorious to Salvation sprinkles the Conscience Sanctifies us Justifies Redeems George Whitehead answereth in these express Words following Observe here a twofold stress is laid upon that Blood First Merit to Salvation Second Works of Sanctification and so he hath set it up above God for God could not save he saith and yet is not in Being gross Absurdity whereas Sanctification being a real Work inward that is certainly in Being which Effects it Note Here it is plain that George Whitehead doth altogether deny Justification by that Outward Blood or that it was the meritorious Cause of Salvation And in this he agreeth with William Penn that saith One outward Thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the way of Holy Scripture so to teach us The Outward Lamb sheweth forth the Inward Lamb. page 97. of William Penn's part of the Christian Quaker And thus by his Doctrine the Priests or High-Priests under the Law were no Type of Christ without and we have no High-Priest without us in any Heavens without us And that most Holy Place made without Hands into which the Man Christ is enter'd that was signified by the High-Priest going once every Year into the most Holy Place made with Hands is not any Place without us The Body that Christ offer'd on the Cross no more than the Blood was no real Sacrifice without us that made any real Atonement But that only Sacrifice and Blood that makes the Atonement is the Body and Blood of Christ within Note again But why should there be any Sacrifice or Atonement made by Christ within to make Mens Peace with God or satisfie Divine Justice according to the Doctrine both of William Penn and George Whitehead more than without It is altogether vain and superfluous First let us hear William Penn's Reason against Railing page 91. And forgive us our Debts as we forgive our Debtors where saith he nothing can be more obvious than that which is forgiven is not paid And if it is our Duty to forgive without a Satisfaction received and that God is to forgive us as we forgive them then is a Satisfaction totally excluded Mark these Words they deserve to be put in Capital Letters But if a Satisfaction be totally excluded then there is no Satisfacton made by Christ within more than by Christ without by his Doctrine And again Let us hear George Whitehead page 51. The Light and Life of Christ within Is it good Doctrine to say that God pacify'd God when he saw himself angry For says the Baptist it was God-Man that did it c. But tho' George Whitehead finds fault with the Expression God-Man as not being Scripture yet Edward Burroughs owneth it saying page 138. in his Collection We prize the Lord Jesus Christ God-Man to be precious unto us And if George Whitehead say by God-Man Edward Burroughs meaneth not Christ without but Christ within as I will not contradict that to be his meaning for he blameth John Buni●n for saying The Spirit of Christ leadeth to Christ without and saith it is contrary to Rom. 10.6 7 8. and asketh his Reader whether this be not near to Popery p. 306. But allowing that by Christ God-Man Edward Burroughs meant only Christ within Where doth George Whitehead find such an Expression in Scripture for Christ his being God-Man within but not God-Man without And seeing according both to William Penn and George Whitehead no Satisfaction is needful to satisfie God for the Debt of Men's Sins for that would hinder free Forgiveness Why do they both justifie William Smith's Saying Christ in us offereth himself a living Sacrifice to God for us by which the Wrath of God is appeased to us See George Whitehead page 44. The Light and Life of Christ within and William Penn's Rejoinder to John Faldo page 284. where he not only justifieth William Smith's Words but laboureth to confirm them saying That Christ offers himself in his Children in the Nature of a Mediating Sacrifice But here it is fit to ask William Penn some Questions If Satisfaction be totally excluded because a Sin or Debt cannot be both paid or forgiven what need is there of a Mediating Sacrifice of Christ within Men more than without them Secondly Seeing it is the Nature of all Sacrifices for Sin that they be slain and their Blood shed how is Christ slain in his Children and when for we read in Scripture that Christ liveth in the Faithful as he did in Paul but not that he is slain in

Christ's Personal Coming yet to be as because Paul said we that are alive and remain c. as if therefore Paul did not mean any Outward or Personal Coming of Christ in that place George Whitehead asking If they did live and remain to a Personal Coming of Christ in the Clouds yea or nay or can it be reasonably thought to be a Coming that is not yet that they lived and remained unto For if George Whitehead had not been greatly blinded and darken'd with Prejudice against this great Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith viz. The Coming of our Lord in his glorify'd Person and Body he might have easily perceived how the Apostle Paul used the Word Wee for They by a common Enallage Personae that is used both in Scripture elsewhere and in other Writers commonly as when James saith herewith speaking of the Tongue curse we men and yet James himself was no Curser Like to this place in 1 Thes 4.17 is that 1 Cor. 15.51 Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed which place however some pervert and misapply as if the Change of the living Saints at Christ's outward appearance at the end of the World were not there meant but some inward Change that the Saints had witnessed before Death is certainly to be understood of the Change of the Saints Bodies who then should be found alive at Christ's outward Coming as generally all found Christians have understood these places of Scripture and as I desire to praise God I have always so understood them And it is too great Evidence of George Whitehead's not being taught and guided by the Spirit of Truth in his opposing such sound Christian Doctrine and plain Testimonies of the Holy Scripture which every Babe in Christ doth better understand than this high Pretender to high Divine Illuminations George Whitehead by his thus opposing found Christian Principles belonging to the Fundamentals of Christian Religion hath laid great Stumbling-Blocks in the way of many that read his Books who conclude it cannot be that George Whitehead is so taught and led by the Spirit of Truth as he pretends seeing he contradicts such manifest Truths so plainly laid down in Scripture And George Whitehead would do well to consider his own Words pag. 36. of that oft-cited Book The Light and Life c. where he saith The Spirit brings to the fulfilling of the Scriptures and doth not destroy the Truth contain'd in them Therefore I say the Spirit that set him on Work to destroy the Truth of Christ's outward Coming to Judgment at the great Day and other great Truths declar'd in the Scriptures is not the true Spirit that gave it forth And here again I cannot but a little take notice how though very severely George Whitehead blamed I. N. for affirming That those that pierced Christ in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly again alledging that these are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that And yet George Whitehead in his late Answer to these Queries useth the Word Visibly with respect to Christ's Ascension saying Article 2 d. of that Paper That be to wit Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory Now I am sure there is the same ground in Scripture for his visible Appearance and Coming again as there is for his visible Ascending But it is worthy of Observation that though George Whitehead professes in his late Answer to these Queries his belief that Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven yet he no where in all the Paper nor any where else that I find doth openly and plainly declare his Faith that Christ shall visibly or outwardly appear at the Day of Judgment so as to be seen as an Object without Men. And though his Words in this his late Answer would seem to imply that he did so now believe for he saith and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucified shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory c. Were George Whetehead ingenuous and not too much given to Equivocation in his way of Writing this might pass currant they being sound Scripture Words and according to Scripture But when we shall consider how when both John Newman and William Burnet did formerly bring these Words for a Proof of Christ's Outward and Personal Coming yet to be how George Whitehead turn'd off this very place of Scripture from Christ's Personal and Outward Coming ● Glory and wholly apply'd it to his inward Coming Allegorizing the Clouds to Clouds of Ignorance and Sin in Mens Hearts And that I do not find that George Whitehead hath made any publick Retractation of his said Perversion of this and other places of Scripture we have but too great ground not to judge this his Confession in his late Answer to be sincere For if he meant not in this his late Answer Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he but deceives his Reader and especially him or them who sent these Queries And if he means really Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he contradicts his former Prints wherein he hath so manifestly oppos'd it and yet he is so extremely confident of his former Books that he referrs to them and others for an Answer to these Queries as if all were sound wholsome Doctrine contain'd in them and as if he were not changed from his former Sentiments in the least Tittle or Punctilio But let us hear his own Words in Answer to John Newman in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds page 22. ad finem But saith George Whitehead the same Jesus as he was seen Ascend when a Cloud came and received him out of their sight who stood gazing Acts 1.9 10 11. it is said shall so come in like manner c. which tho' every like manner is not the same nor all the Clouds the same yet the same Jesus certainly cometh in like manner his Coming being in the Clouds And to let us know in what Clouds he meaneth Christ is Ascended above and in what Clouds he will appear above he giveth this Title in his Book in Answer to John Newman Christ ascended above the Clouds i. e. in his Divinity c. vindicated from the Cloudy Erroneous and Blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren And all this wresting of the plain Scripture Words Acts 1.9 10 11. which John Newman brought to prove his Personal Coming and Appearance without Men George Whitehead makes to destroy if he could the Faith of that great Truth of Christian Doctrine viz. Christ's Outward Coming in his Glorify'd Nature and Person of Man to judge the whole World Therefore since George Whitehead hath told in Print in Answer to John Newman's bringing that palce of Scripture Acts. 1.9 10 11. This same Jesus c. shall so come in like manner That every

them Thirdly If any slay the Life of Christ in them by their Sins doth not that hinder the Life to be a Sacrifice by Geo. Whitehead's Argument That the killing of Christ outwardly being the Act of wicked Men could be no meritorious Act Fourthly Where doth the Scripture say Christ offers up himself in his Children a Sacrifice for Sin Fifthly Is not this to make many Sacrifices or at least to say that Christ offers himself often yea Millions of times contrary to Scripture that saith Christ offer'd up himself once Sixthly Why could no beast under the Law that had a Blemish be offer'd but to signifie that Christ was to offer up himself in no other Body but that which was without all Sin Seventhly Why was it prophesied of Christ A Body hast thou prepared me why not Bodies many if he offer up himself in the Bodies of all the Saints Eighthly Is not this to make the Sacrifice of Christ in his own Body of less Value and Efficacy than his Sacrifice in William Penn's Body Because the Sacrifice of Christ in that Body that was offer'd at Jerusalem was a Type but this in William Penn's Body the Antitype That the History This the Mystery Ninthly Doth not this strengthen the Papists in their false Faith That Christ is daily offer'd in the Mass and unbloody Sacrifice But whereas William Penn argueth That as Christ or the Spirit Prayeth or maketh Intercession in the Saints why doth he not also offer up himself in them The Answer is easie The one is expresly affirmed in Scripture The other not nor is so much as to be proved by any just Consequence in a strict sence of the Word Sacrifice for it is not the Work of the Mediatory Spirit of Christ in the Saints to offer up himself a Sacrifice in Men but to apply the Vertue Merit and Efficacy of that Sacrifice of Christ outwardly offer'd to the Souls of Men for the Remission of Sin Justification before God and Peace with God And tho' it is said in Scripture that Christ remaineth a Priest for ever and he is the Propitiation for our Sins yet it is not said he is so in us but with the Father in Heaven And we have a High-Prist that is gone into Heaven Nor do I judge it safe to allow any such Unscriptural Phrase or Doctrine That Christ offereth up himself in us a Sacrifice in us to appease the Wrath of God though Christ's Mediation in the Saints may be allow'd in a qualified Sence but not in the nature of a Sacrifice but in other respects unless the Word Sacrifice or Offering be taken not to be an Offering for Sin but more generally and by way of Allegory as the Prayers and Alms of the Saints are call'd Sacrifices Note That in the Book of Homilies William Penn's Argument against Christ's Satisfaction for our Sins is effectually answered at large viz. in the Sermon of Salvation First Part. Where the Objection or Argument of William Penn is in Matter and Effect duly and fully answered according to Scripture viz. That God by his great Wisdom in this Mystery of our Redemption hath so tempered his Justice and Mercy together that he would neither by his Justice condemn us unto the Everlasting Captivity of the Devil and his Prison of Hell Remediless for ever without Mercy nor by his Mercy deliver us clearly without Justice or Payment of a just Ransom But with his endless Mercy he joined his most upright and equal Justice c. And whereas George Whitehead in his Reply to W. Burnet as above-cited blameth him for attributing to the Blood of Christ that was shed upon the Cross First Merit to Salvation Secondly Work to Sanctification It is evident he owneth it to be neither But as he is most highly jurious to that precious Blood and to him that gave it for us so he most unfairly chargeth W. Burnet with saying God could not save and so setting up that Blood above God For W. Burnet's plain Sense was as is obvious more especially to him that shall read his Book That Christ as God without being Man as well as God could not save us he having appointed to save us not without but by the Man Christ Jesus as the Scripture testifieth which chargeth no Imperfection or Impotency any more upon God than to say God cannot lye nor do any thing contrary to his Holy Council and Purpose And it is gross Ignorance and Errour in George Whitehead to make it a Contradiction in William Burnet to say as he chargeth him p. 8. Men ought to look to Jesus Christ as he was there crucified viz. at Jerusalem or to that Blood that was there shed for Justification And again to say That Christ that restoreth Man's Loss is both to be sought and found in Heaven viz. above the Clouds and Firmament For this is no Contradiction but a most necessary and comfortable Truth as well as that God and Christ are to be found in our Hearts But it is wonderful Blindness and Inconsiderateness in George Whitehead as well as in many of his ignorant Brethren whom he hath been a great Means by his unfound Books to darken rather than to enlighten not to consider That as God hath appointed divers subordinate Causes to work together in the producing of Natural Effects all concurring in Harmony together with himself the greatest and supreme Cause above all who is in all and through all So in the Work of our Salvation God hath appointed together with himself divers subordinate concurring Causes to effect and perfect it so as that God himself is our Saviour so he hath appointed Christ even the Man Christ Jesus to be our Saviour together with himself and the Blood Death and Sufferings of Christ and his most Holy and Perfect Obedience testified thereby also his Resurrection Ascension and Mediation without us as well as the Work of his Spirit in us together with the other much more inferiour but yet greatly valuable and profitable outward instrumental Helps and Means as the Holy Scripture Preaching c. in harmony to concurr together in the Work of our Salvation A POSTSCRIPT I Take notice of a late Book published against me by Th. Elwood call'd Truth defended c. but whose true Name should be Falshood and Hypocrisie weakly defended being a pretended Answer to my two late Books the one detecting the Injustice of of their Excommunication against me who were a leading Party of the Yearly Meeting of them call'd Quakers the other detecting the unjust Proceedings of that Party at the said Yearly Meeting and giving a List of the vile and gross Errors of some of their principal Teachers as George Whitehead William Penn c. To the which pretended Answer of Th. Elwood abovemention'd as also to some of the chiefest of his Forgeries and Pretensions and gross Abuses in his former Book call'd A farther Discovery it is probable a due Answer may be given in due time But I thought it not