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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

that Outward Blood so outwardly shed as the Payment of our Debt and Satisfaction for our Sins is this the true saving Faith Was not his outward Blood that Blood without sheding of which there cou'd be no Remission Heb. 9.22 But if your Mystical and Allegorical Notion of Inward and Spiritual Blood that is Only Light and Spirit within may be constru'd to be that Blood and that it is shed inwardly at this Day when as you say in the above Queries that he has no outward Blood then it might have been shed before Christ came in the Flesh or if he had never come And so renders his coming unnecessary and our Faith in him as come in the Flesh to be altogether vain These Questions may be propos'd to the Assembly and their Answer demanded W. Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London May 15. 1695. Return your Answer to Dr. Lancaster at Mr. Wiseman ' s House a Chirurgeon in Long-Acre London 3. Day 4. Month call'd June 1695. Friend William Lancaster HAving received a Paper of great Objections against Us the People call'd Quakers with Seven Queries therein subscrib'd William Lancaster directed to our Yearly Meeting in Whitsun-Week 1695. and deliver'd to some of Us very near the Conclusion thereof and therefore only read in the said Meeting which not having any further Time to consider the Contents thereof or to give any particular Answer thereunto it was by the said Meeting left to a few to consider and answer as in the Fear of God and Meekness of Wisdom we should see Cause Wherein we observe is noted Great Objections have been made against Vs by those who have departed from our Communion as by others To which we reply That 's True and they have been answer'd to which we referr And we observe in the said Paper it 's said We would not take an Account of you only from your Adversaries c. and We have chosen this Solemn Time and again And We have chosen this most proper and convenient Opportunity c. And then states the several Queries and says These Questions may be propos'd and their Answer demanded Now the Objections having been publick and our Answers publick we desire to know who the Wee are that are intended in this Paper that we may apply our selves to them or give such Scriptural Answers as we hope may tend to Satisfaction But to repeat Answers in Writing or Print to we know not who so often as demanded to the same things already answer'd we think it not needful Therefore have herewith only sent thee a few brief Lines being grosly wrong'd and mis-represented in the said Objections And divers of the Queries contain several Questions in them in different Terms and some Unscriptural so not plain and direct Queries therefore cannot positively be answer'd by our single Yea or Nay to each Query as desir'd We therefore at present send this general Answer to the Queries for thy Information as followeth viz. We sincerely believe and profess Jesus Christ and the Resurrection according to the Holy Scripture-Testimony and to that measure of Understanding which God hath been pleased to give us by his Holy Spirit We sincerely believe in Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of the Living God both as He is True God and Perfect Man our Emanuel and Mediatour and as in the Fulness of Time he was Conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judaea Suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was Crucify'd and put to Death was Buried Rose again the third day and visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucify'd shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory to judge both the Living and the Dead according to their Works at the last and great Day of Judgment in that great Harvest which is the End of the World And that by Jesus Christ there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead both of the Just and Unjust unto the Righteous Judgment of the great Day consequently That the Resurrection is not past as Hymeneus and Philetus said 2 Tim. 2.18 And that the Dead shall be rais'd Incorruptible every Man in his own Order and that our low Body shall be chang'd and made like unto Christ's glorious Body The Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints we believe shall be Spiritual and Glorious and that the Sons of God and of the Resurrection shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven and shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father and yet there is such a great Mystery in the Resurrection as that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption 1 Cor. 15. The whole Sacrifice of Christ whereof his Blood outwardly that was shed was a Part was of great Price with God for Man's Redemption Christ's Blood that was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem together with the whole Sacrifice of Himself both of Soul and Body was a true Propitiation and Atonement for Man's Reconciliation and Peace with God for Remission of Sins through a living Faith and true Repentance in his Name given and wronght by his Spirit and Word of Power in Mens Hearts whose sincere Obedience to Christ and walking in his Light being required of them in order to experience Christ the Author of their Eternal Salvation and to wash them from their Sins in his own Blood for without this true Faith Repentance and Obedience to Christ Jesus Men lose and forfeit the great Benefit of Christ's Sufferings and deprive themselves of that Eternal Redemption and Salvation which he hath thereby obtained for Us tho' he dy'd for all Men tasted Death for every Man and gave himself a Ransom for all to be testify'd of in due Time being a true Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World From thy Friends and Well-Wishers John Gratton Samuel Wattson Thomas Lower James Parke John Bowater Geo. Whitehead John Vaughton A True Copy THE SEVEN QUERIES Delivered to the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers met at Grace-Church-Street Meeting-House the 15th Day of the third Month 1695. Signed by William Lancaster with these Words prefix'd to his Signing These Queries may be proposed to the Assembly and their Answer demanded by William Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London Answered plainly and directly out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead and William Pen. Query I. DO you believe in Christ without you now in Heaven Answer To this G. Whitehead's Words in his Answer to William Burnet in his Book called The Light and Life of Christ within c. Printed at London in the Year 1668. may be a proper Reply to signifie his Perswasion touching this weighty Question I shall first recite the Words of William Burnet as I find them quoted by Geo. Whitehead in the 38 th page of his Book The Light and Life of Christ within Baptist Now the

Christ hath a Body in Heaven that is not every-where is neither Anthropomorphism nor Muggletonism but found Christian Doctrine according to Scripture For the Errour of the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians was and is That the Godhead is a Body and circumscript and limited to one Place and not Omnipresent But the true Christian Doctrine is That Christ as God is no Body and yet that the Godhead of Christ dwelleth in that Body and is most gloriously united to the Soul and Body of Christ's Manhood now in Heaven and yet that the Godhead is not circumscribed within that Body but is every-where present and by special Manifestations and Operations of his Spirit dwelleth in the Saints But again That it was and for ought I know now is the Mind of George Whitehead That the Bodies of the Saints are not to rise again to be re-united to the Souls with which they were formerly joined Let us hear what he saith in his part of the Christian Quaker page 153 where he hath these Words Both Calvin T. D. the Schools and divers Anabaptists are mistaken in this very Matter and see not with the Eye of true Faith either that the Happiness of the Soul is not perfect without the Body or that the Soul hath a strong Desire to a Re-union to the Body while they intend the Terrestrial and Elementary Bodies For this implies the Soul to be in a kind of Purgatory or disquietness till the suppos'd resumption of the Body And their Assertion and Determination herein is contrary to what the Apostle saith 2. Cor. 5. Note From George Whitehead's own Words here cited the Argument is as much against the Souls of the deceased Saints now in Heaven having a desire to be united to any Body whatsoever for suppose they now desire and expect to be united to a Heavenly Body they were not formerly united to this would as much imply that they are in a kind of Purgatory as to suppose them to desire to be united to that Body they formerly had But it is disingenuous and unfair in George Whitehead to represent it as the general sense of Calvin and the Schools That the Body to which the Soul of a deceas'd Saint hath a desire of Re-union shall be Terrestrial and Elementary such as it was on Earth For the more Judicious of all sorts hold That the Bodies of the Saints at the Resurrection shall be changed in Qualities and Properties from Terrestrial to Celestial and from Animal to Spiritual yet retaining the same Substance and Essence Next Let us hear William Penn in his Answer against Thomas Hicks call'd Reason against Railing treating on the Estate of the deceased Saints page 138. Is the Joy of the Ancients now in Glory saith he imperfect or are they in Heaven but by halfs If it be so unequitable that the Body which hath suffer'd shou'd not partake of the Joys Celestial is it not in measure unequal that the Soul should be so long rewarded before the Body This brings to the Mortality of the Soul held by many Baptists or I am mistaken But why must the Felicity of the Soul depend on that of the Body Is it not to make the Soul a kind of a Widow and so in a State of Mourning and Disconsolateness to be without its beloved Body which State is but a better State of Purgatory Note Here he plainly maketh his Ignorance and Unbelief to appear concerning the Resurrection of the Dead and the deceased Saints By his Arguing all the Saints between deceased Abel and Christ got all the Resurrection they expected either in the Mortal Body or immediately after Death and so Thousands were raised from the Dead before Christ quite contrary to Scripture that saith Christ should be the first that should rise from the Dead and he is the First-fruits of them that sleep And it is not Christian in William Penn thus to ridicule that great Article of the Christian Faith and to Argue against the inequality of Divine Providence if the Soul shall be so long rewarded before the Body whereas the full Reward is reserved for both at the Resurrection of the Just And yet this neither proveth the Mortality of the Soul or that it is in a State of Purgatory before the Resurrection And as I have noticed in George Whitehead the like I wou'd have the Reader to notice in William Penn who as they both deny the Resurrection of the Body as a thing which the deceased Saints wait for so they both Argue against it from false Principles of false and spurious Philosophy As that a Body that is Earthly and Gross cannot put off its Earthliness and Grossness without any change of its Substance or Essence a thing so commonly known not only among Chymists but to all ordinary Stillers who know by daily Experience how gross Bodies are changed from their grossness in great part and made Subtile or Volatile and yet remain Body still and the same Bodies in Substance And if the Operation of Fire and Mens Art have this Effect upon gross Bodies of Herbs Stones and Flesh to change them in great part how much more ought we to acknowledge the Wisdom and Power of God not only can but will change the Bodies of the Saints from all Gross and Terrestrial Qualities to be Heavenly and Spiritual the Husk or drossy part that is no more the true Body than Dross in a Lump of rich Oar of Gold is Gold being excepted Query V. Do ye believe that Christ or the Eternal Word was so made Flesh that he truly and really became Man as truly Man as he was God c For Answer to this let us hear what George Whitehead saith in his Book above-cited The Life and Light c. page 39. As for those Expressions saith he God-man being born of Mary we do not find them in the Scriptures nor do we read that Mary was the Mother of God but in the Pope's Canons Articles c. And page 47. he saith What Nonsence and Unscripture Language is this to tell of God being Co-creator with the Father or that God had Glory with God doth not this imply two Gods and that God had a Father let the Reader Judge Note Is not this the very Argument of Arians c I wonder what George Whitehead will make or hold concerning Christ at last One while that visible Man born of the Virgin was not the Christ for Christ was never seen with a Carnal Eye Which Expression George Whitehead defends The Light and Life page 62 and brings that place in John 14. to defend it He that seeth me seeth my father also Where it is plain by sight in that place Christ meant a Spiritual Saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ which whoever have they know the Father also But Christ told the Jews they did see him and did not believe in him Another while with George Whitehead to say Christ or the Word was with God and had Glory with God before the World was

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

those vile Errors that not only too many in America did hold but George Whitehead and other leading Men among the People call'd Quakers here in England are as much guilty of and which by their unsound and hurtful Books they have led them in America and many others elsewhere into And here in the Close of this Preface and Introduction I think fit to add that which commonly goeth for George Whitehead's Curse he sent to me in Writing the same Day Month he and others gave out their False and Vnjust Sentence of Excommunication against me which by his means was gone abroad and was clandestinely handed about against me before I gave forth any Copy of it to any And let the Spiritual Reader that hath Salt in himself to savour withal savour and judge whether this his Prophesie or Curse as it may be called hath not come from a malicious Spirit full of Wrath and Enmity and doth not greatly bewray and discover his great Hypocrisie as well as Malice in charging me so much as he and they have in their Bull of Excommunication with bitter Expressions while he is so extremely Guilty himself persisting in his old way he hath used against some others that differed from him in other Matters calling them incarnate Devils Wolfs Dogs c. But I am sure neither he nor any can give any such Instance of my bitterness as he hath done in this his pretended Prophesie wherein I do really judge him as false a Prophet as Zedekiah was and they may be ashamed and he in particular to give these odious and uncharitable Names to many others having better Works and Fruits of Christianity than themselves of Baal's Prophets while several of themselves do more deserve such Designations The false Prophesie or Curse thus followeth And thus saith the Lord Because thou hast poured out great Contempt Scorn and Reproach upon my Servants and People I will assuredly pour out and bring great Contempt and Confusion upon thee Signed Geo. Whitehead TO THE QUAKERS Assembl'd in their YEARLY MEETING at LONDON this Whitsun-Week 1695. GReat Objections have been made against you in many Books which of late Years have been wrote as well by those who have departed from your Communion as by others But because we wou'd not willingly take an Account of you only from your Adversaries no nor yet the Advantage which may be had from some of your own Apologists We have chosen this Solemn Time of your most General Assembly that you have in the World when there came of your Number out of all Parts where any of your Profession live even as far as from the West-Indies on purpose to attend this your Yearly Meeting at London we have chosen this most proper and convenient Opportunity for you to vindicate and clear your selves and to give satisfaction to the World particularly to the Church of England as to these great and grievous Objections which are made against you It is said of you That as Hymeneus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2.18 did construe the Resurrection Spiritually saying that it was perform'd Inwardly within us in our Souls and so avoided the Literal and Outward Resurrection of the Body which the Scripture calls overthrowing the Faith so that you do construe the Resurrection in the same Spiritual Manner To be the rising again of Christ or the Light in our Hearts and consequently that the Saints generally have attain'd the Resurrection already and that there will be no Resurrection of these our Bodies after they lie down in the Dust And not only this But that you construe likewise those Scriptures which testifie of our Lord Jesus Christ in this Allegorical manner to mean no more than what you call the Light within and that this Christ or Light is Born and Crucified Died is Buried Rises again Ascends and is Glorify'd within you that it sheds its Blood within you and thereby quenches the Wrath of God in you as your Sacrifice or Propitiation and that Christ has now no other Blood or Body than what he has within his Saint or others than he had with his Father before the World began That the outward Blood of that Man Jesus which was shed at Jerusalem was not the Propitiation or any Satisfaction to the Justice of God for our Sin But only the Spiritual Blood shed inwardly within us And by these means when you are ask'd Whether you believe in Christ that he Dy'd for our Sins Rose again and Ascended That by his Blood we are sav'd c. You can answer Yea That you believe all this and yet mean it all in an Inward and Allegorical Sence that is The Blood shed within you the Light or Christ suffering within you c. and thereby deceive others and your selves and keep your Meaning hidden and double that the Truth of what you hold may not be known which if in plain Terms told and asserted wou'd grate all Christian Ears and shew you to be those miserable Heraticks before-told who brought in Damnable Doctrines denying the Lord who bought them Therefore that you may clear your selves from this grievous Charge you are desir'd to give a plain positive and direct Answer to these following Queries Your Reasons or Explanations are not requir'd this not being intended for a Dispute but only your plain Yea and Nay to each of these Queries that your Doctrine and Faith may be known I. Do you believe in a Christ without you now in Heaven II. Hath he now in Heaven the same Body tho' now chang'd in Qualities and Glorify'd which he assum'd in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin in which he Suffer'd Dy'd was Bury'd Rose again and Ascended outwardly III. Will he return in the same Body outwardly or without Men to judge the World in the last Day IV. Will our dead Bodies then arise The same Bodies in Substance tho' alter'd in Qualities and Properties which we now have and shall lie down in the Dust Or do you believe an Outward or Literal Resurrection to come contrary to Hymeneus and Philetus Do you believe that the Saints generally or any of them have already attain'd the Resurrection either before or since Christ came into the World V. Do you believe that Christ or the Eternal Word was so made Flesh as that he truly and really became a Man as truly Man as he was God and not only as the Socinians say That he dwelt in or did inhabit the Person of that Man Jesus Christ as a Garment or a Veil as he dwells in or inspires other Holy Persons tho not in so high a degree or as Angels assume Bodies like Men wherein they appear without taking them into their own Nature or thereby becoming Men. VI. Is Christ now at this Day and for ever to come truly and really a Man in true and proper Humane Nature without all other Men VII Was his outward Blood outwardly shed at Jerusalem the true Propitiation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the World And is Faith in

Quakers would be so far from directing Men to go to the Material Temple That they make it a vain thing to look to Jerusalem to the Antitype of that Temple viz. To Jesus Christ as he was there Crucified or unto that Blood that was there Shed for Justification p. 24. G. Whitehead answereth The Quakers see no need of directing Men to the Type for the Antitype viz. Neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood knowing that neither the Righteousness of Faith nor the Word of it doth so direct Rom. 10. And a few Lines after he saith And where do the Scriptures say The Blood was there shed for Justification and that Men must be directed unto Jerusalem for it Query II. Hath he now in Heaven the same Body though now changed in Qualities and Glorify'd which he assum'd in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin in which he Suffer'd Died was Buried Rose again and Ascended outwardly In Answer to this take John Whitehead's Words in his Postscript to a Book call'd The Quakers Refuge pag. 90.41 I have several times saith he deny'd that Christ hath now a Body of Flesh and Bones circumscript or limited in that Heaven which is above and out of every Man on Earth Again he saith ibidem Christ hath a Body or is in a Body suitable to his Spirit consisting of Heavenly Flesh and Bone Also he saith Wheresoever the Spirit and Life of Christ is that is in the Body of Christ Note As he owneth that Christ has a Body that is not the Church yet he owneth no other Body of his besides his Church that is circumscript or limited out of every Man on Earth Now by John Whitehead's Words it plainly appeareth either that Christ hath not that real Body he had on Earth which was Crucify'd c. or if he hath it is such as not only every one of the Saints but every Man yea and every Creature hath he denying it to be circumscript or limited And is not this a fair Inlet to the Popish Doctrine of the real Presence of Christ's Body that suffered to be in the consecrated bread as they imagine Query III. Will he return in that same Body Outwardly or without Men to judge the World c Answer To this George Whitehead's Words in his Book before-mentioned call'd The Life and Light of Christ within page 4 1. are a fit Reply whereby to give us an Account of his Belief or rather Unbelief in this weighty Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith But three Comings of Christ saith George Whitehead not only that in the Flesh at Jirusalem and that in the Spirit but also another Coming in the Flesh yet to be expected we do not read of but a second Coming without Sin unto Salvation which in the Apostles Days was looked for And one John Newman whom George Whitehead answereth in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds having said from Rev. 1.7 Those that pierced him in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly come again To this George Whitehead answereth These are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty Rev. 22.18 19. yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that See also for Answer to him Rev. 1.7 8. and 13 14 16. in none of which is Jesus Christ either call'd or represented as a Body of Flesh visibly to come again but that he is Alpha and Omega the first and the last And Christ in the Days of his Flesh wherein he visibly appear'd to the World said Yet a little while and the World seeth me no more John 14. and 19. But his second Coming and Appearance without Sin unto Salvation I own and witness page 21 22 of that Book and page 23. So where they add the Word Personal or his coming again or Personal Being do they not herein shew their carnal Expectations c And George Whitehead in his Answer to William Burnet The Light within c. page 40. replyeth to two places of Scripture brought by William Burnet to prove Christ's Coming again without us to judge the Quick and the Dead where he answereth in these express Words And as to that 1 Thes 4.17 which William Burnet brings to prove that Christ shall come in the latter end of the World from Heaven above the Clouds Now in p. 15. it 's said that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of our Lord now I ask saith George Whitehead 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 c. And in Answer to that other place of Scripture which William Burnet had brought to prove the Resurrection of the deceas'd Saints after the Bodily Death George Whitehead saith again that the Dead in Christ shall arise first we own to be an Effect of Christ's Coming and know that there is a Dying in Christ and being Baptized unto his Death before a Coming forth or Rising in the likeness of his Resurrection c. And a little after saith But to know the said States what it is to Die with Christ to be conformable unto his Death and to partake of the Power of his Resurrection these things are hid from that Eye that is Carnal c. Note He grosly perverteth and misapplyeth these Scriptures only to an inward Dying and Rising with Christ and to his inward Coming into the Saints But though the inward Work of Mortification and an inward Death and Rising is to be own'd and which I find not that William Burnet in his Words deny'd and is according to the Scriptures Testimony and the Saints Experience yet surely to understand these above-mentioned places of Scripture of that inward Dying and Rising and inward Coming of Christ in the Saints is a gross Perversion and Misapplication of Scripture yea and a gross Abuse of it especially when it is brought by George Whitehead on purpose to contradict William Burnet's Assertion held in common by all sincere Christians viz. That Christ is as visibly to Come again as he did visibly Ascend and that the Bodies of the Dead Saints shall be Raised And George Whitehead's Reason that he brings to refute William Burnet's sound Assertions in this matter is most weak and impertinent As because Christ said John 14.19 Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more which he brings to contradict Christ's coming againg in Person without us to judge the World It proveth no such thing as that he should never at any time appear to the World for he limits it for a little time that they shou'd not see him And the Greek Word or Particle may be well translated not as yet as it is elsewhere translated And what a trifling and empty Reason brings he to prove that 1 Thes 4.17 is not to be understood of