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A54079	An apostate exposed, or, George Keith contradicting himself and his brother Bradford wherein their testimony to the Christian faith of the people called Quakers, is opposed to G.K.'s late pamphlet, stiled, Gross error and hypocrisie detected / by John Pennington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1223; ESTC R4585	12,784	30

AN APOSTATE EXPOSED OR George Keith Contradicting himself and his Brother BRADFORD WHEREIN Their Testimony to the Christian Faith of the People called Quakers is opposed to G. K.'s late Pamphlet Stiled Gross Error and Hypocrisie detected By JOHN PENNINGTON For where Envying and Strife is there is Confusion and every evil work James 3.16 What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false Tongue sharp Arrows of the Mighty with Coals of Juniper Psal 120.3 4. London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street 1695 An APOSTATE Exposed or George Keith contradicting himself c. WHEN I first read G. K's last Sheets miscalled Gross Error c. I did not think to have taken publick notice of it and that for two Reasons First that tho' the said Book smote hiddenly at the Yearly Meeting and mored directly at the People called Quakers in general yet that the Title-page and much of the Book reflects on Three Friends by Name whom he would single out as leading Men in the said Meeting and pretends by their former Writings to make good his Charge the least of whom as they are far my Superiors in managing of Controversie so are they Elders in the Church of God and whom it would have more immediately have concerned to have returned an Answer were that to do now both on behalf of themselves and of the blessed Truth he hath blasphemed But this leads me to my Second Reason viZ. That most of the passages he finds faults with and would labour to pervert have been already brought by himself in two printed Papers the one called A true Copy of a Paper c. The other The pretended Yearly Meeting of the Quakers their Nameless Bull of Excommunication c. and refuted by T. E's in a Book Entituled Truth Defended which he so far takes notice of in his Postscript as bespeaks it was come to his Hands for he makes some idle Observations on a passage or two and so leaves it which he had better have let quite alone except he had done it more fairly and more to purpose and withal makes a faint offer that it is probable a due Answer may be given in due time to it and that other Book of his called a further Discovery So that G. K. would he mind his busines mought have found work enough upon his hands without writing one thing twice over who for all he once told us when pressed to defend himself that of making many Books there is no end yet seems to have an itch to be doing though it be but actum agere rather then cope with what 's ad rem and argumentative for till better enformed I must assign his shifting to a diffidence of his cause and an uneasiness to buckle close to the work who after all his vain flourishes empty not of malice but matter manifests himself to be at a low ebb his stock almost exhausted if he be no more fruitful of his instances against those Friends and others of their Brethren that so sorry inferences once before brought and found too light are become his last refuge and for want of more must be repeated though the invalidity of them hath been sufficiently laid open Now that which drew me to be concerned with him at present is this As I have of late compared his former Books with his later Pamphlets so observing in a Book which by the difficulty of obtaining I find to be but in few Hands that he in the Year 1692. even since his work of Division began as I gather from a paper of his Parties signed in 1691. Reasons and Causes p. 19. had expressed a different sentiment of the Quakers Principles then he hath of late instead of enervating by argument a work done by another Pen his fallacy and groundless deductions I chose to confront him by his own handy works and detect his self-tinconsistency with what he himself wrote about three Years since The Title Page of this last runs thus Gross Error and Hypocrisy Detected in George Whitehead and some of his Brethren as doth appear from the disingenuous and Hypocritical answer he and some others hath given to some Queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers in the third Month 1695. by comparing the said answer with the printed Books of the said George Whitehead Willam 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 Sentences of their printed Books is discovered with a further account of their vile and pernicious Errors The Queries he here mentions seven in number Indeed not transcribe but refer to the Book it self They are said to have been proposed by the Bishop of London his Chaplain but probably were composed by G. Keith himself or some such others Apostate the substance was to demand our Faith relating to Christ's being in Heaven in the Body in which he suffered his coming therein to Judge at the last Day the Resurrection of the Dead and his Blood propitiating for the Sins of the World Now here what G. K. and some others in Rhode Island say on behalf of the Quakers in a Book of theirs printed by William Bradford at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania Anno 1692. The Title is thus The Christian Faith of the People of God called in scorn Quakers in Rhode Island who are in Unity with all Faithful Brethren of the same Profession in all parts of the World Vindicated c. To which is added some Testimonies of our Ancient Friends to the true Christ of God Note These Collected Testimonies were left out in a later Impression at London by R. Baldwin So the Reader will not find them there Collected out of their printed Books for the further convincing of our Opposers that it is and hath been our constant and firm belief to expect Salvation by the MAN Christ Jesus that was outwardly Crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem From whence I observe that in the Year 1692. and before the Quakers were found in the Faith then G. K. with others labour to convince our Opposers that our belief and expectation of Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus that was outwardly Crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem IS and HATH BEEN constant and firm whereas now he insinuates the leading Men as he terms them viz. G. W. W. P. and J. W. are inconsistent in their present late Answers to the express words and sentiments of their printed Books So that with him one while Friends former Printed Books are Authentick their belief constant and firm other while they must lye under the imputation of vile and pernitious Errours This will be made further appear by his Epistle prefatory to the Book called Gross Error c. Which begins thus 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 G. Whitehead and Some of his Brethren and signed 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 further 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 acknowledgement of the vile and gross Errors boldly asserted by them in their printed Books I should have been so far from charging them with Hipocrisy 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 refer to the answer given by them in publick to the objections made against them in publick Now it is plain by their answer made in publick they mean their Answer and Doctrine Sayings and Sentiments contained 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 Though I thank God those vile Errors c. which he calls the Quakers Principles were never my Principles and in Charity I am to believe nor the Principles of divers others that have with me gone under that Designation They are not so sincere as to own and retract in publick their Errors exposed 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 have all doubt have suffered themselves to be too much influenced and led by them into the same Errors And in the next page And however in some things of weight it is possible that G. Whitehead and some others have changed 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 This is the basis of the Work and gives us Light into the design of his undertaking The vile Errors he ascribes to Friends former Sayings Sentiments and printed Books their Hypocrisie to their not acknowledging them but referring to their Answers made publick and yet allows some Reformation of Judgment but not total but that they are still under great Blindness Darkness and Error This Charge is extensive enough reaching the publick Labourers who have been Conversant in Print without any exception and how wide he will stretch it to fetch in the rest under the notion of credulous Followers and Admirers himself best knows if any That these were not his Sentiments formerly or at least that he hath declared otherwise is what now lieth before me to evince and that out of the Book even now mentioned called The Christian Faith c. for further notice I design not to take at present of him and his mischievous Work he being Debtor to T. E. for not offering himself from the incongrous and absurd Inferences he hath already drawn from those Friends Books than to turn his own and his Friends Weapons upon himself Suo se jugulet gladio In Pag. 3. G. K. and others in order to vindicate the people called Quakers from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick say Whereas divers of us challenged by him declared sincerely their sincere Faith as concerning the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth and what the Holy Scriptures testifie of him yet he did continue to accuse them still as denying the true Christ alledging they had another Sense than the Scripture-Words did bear and that his Sense was true but their Sense was false G.K. hath done the same since appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so thus making himself Judge over our Secret Thoughts as having a secret Sense in our thoughts of Scripture-words page 4. contrary to the true sense of them though we have not given him or any other occasion to judge so rashly and uncharitably of us and our Consciences bear us witness in the sight of God that we do sincerely believe and think as we speak when we say according to the Holy Scripture that Jesus of Nazareth is the true Christ of God and the only true Saviour and there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby Men must be saved and that this same Jesus was in fulness of Time born of the Virgin called Mary being conceived of the Holy Ghost who dyed for our Sins and rose again for our Justification who is exalted at the Right Hand of God and ever liveth to make Intercession for us and that Christ hath his Body in Heaven a most glorious Body not changed in Being or Substance but in condition and manner of being and that Christ is true and perfect God and true and perfect Man the Son of God begotten of God from everlasting glorified with the Father before the World began and that Christ as Man hath both Soul and Body and his Manhood is most excellently and wonderfully united with his Godhead yet his Manhood is not his Godhead nor is his Body that he had of the Virgin and now hath in Heaven his Godhead but the Temple of it as Christ called his Body the Temple and is the GARMENT or Cloathing ☞ wherewith the Eternal Word did cloath himself who is that New and Living way that he hath consecrated for us through the Vail that is to say his Flesh And we believe that God the Father hath appointed the Man Christ Jesus to be the judge of the quick and the dead page 5. and that he is to come to judge all Mankind with the great and last Judgment at the end of the World the which end of the World we do believe is Not come either within us or without us Therefore hath this Accuser joyned with Tho. Hicks a Baptist Teacher at London and John Faldo an Independent Teacher and divers others to accuse us as denying the true Christ because we believe and confess to Christ's inward and outward appearance This Charge was groundless then how comes it to be true now as if to believe and confess to Christ's inward Coming and Appearance were certainly to deny his outward ☞ or to hold forth two Christ's which is but their great ignorance and unbelief and no just Consequence of our Principle for the true Christ of God is one and the true Christian's Faith receiveth and embraceth him whole