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A47190 Truth and innocency defended against calumny and defamation in a late report spread abroad concerning the revolution of humane souls : with a futher clearing of the truth by a plain explication of my sence, &c. / by George Keith. Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1692 (1692) Wing K224; ESTC R6443 17,150 20

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Truth and Innocency DEFENDED AGAINST Calumny and Defamation In a late Report spread abroad concerning the REVOLUTION OF Humane Souls With a further Clearing of the Truth by a plain Explication of my Sence c. By George Keith To all Christian People to whose hands this may come WHereas I have been lately accused by a certain Person before divers Witnesses for being the Author of a certain Book called The Two Hundred Queries printed at London eight Years a go his Proof being That four or five Years ago he had it from my own Mouth but being put to bring Evidence from Witnesses he said He could prove it by such Circumstances which I told him that I could not deny I answered him It being so many Years ago he might justly question his Memory seeing when I called him to bear witness to things he had heard spoken but some few days or weeks past he hath said He could not remember them his Memory being weak and he had rather forget than remember such things He did also further charge me That he heard me say I believed I should be moved of God to preach the Doctrine of the Revol●tions as he termed it but what Revolutions I meant he did not tell for there are many Revolutions and of many sorts The which I do not remember I ever said to him and as he may understand the Revolutions his so charging me may be an utter Falshood and Slander for there are some sorts of Revolutions relating to the Souls of men that cannot be denyed if we own the Resurrection of the dead according to Scripture and our conveyance and descent out of the Loyns of our Ancestors up to Adam according to the Scriptures see Gen. 46.26 Hosea 12.4 Heb. 7. 9 10 and the word Revolution is the true English of the Hebrew word Gilgal mentioned Josh 5.9 Ezek. 10.13 and this with respect to men see the Hebrew Text and Margen of the English Bible also the Hebrew word Tehupha is translated three several times Revolution by the Translators of our English Bible and set on the Margen by them see Exod. 34.22.1 Sam. 1.20.2 Chron. 24.23 And whereas I declared That I did not remember that ever I owned my self to be the Author of that Book or that I said I did believe that I should be moved of God to preach the Revolutions but on the contrary seeing I do not remember it and my Memory is as good as his if not better I did and do hold it to be rashly and foolishly charged by him and for which he may be accounted a false Accuser nor can I think whatever I said such a thing because I never made the Opinion of the Revolutions as delivered in that Book or as vulgarly held by its Asserters a matter of my Faith or as any divine Opening besides ●is varying the Charge as Witnesses can prove saying first I knew not but I might be moved and last saying I believed I should be moved c. which differ widely and make the whole justly incredible But he did so earnestly assert them that he said As God was in Heaven it was true which some of us that heard him were greatly offended with judging it to be an Oath as that Oath or manner of Swearing under the Law As the Lord liveth Jer. 5.2 And I said to him this is more than Yea or Nay which Christ hath commanded us to keep unto in all our Communications for whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil and many of us have suffered much in Old England for refusing to swear in any case even before a Magistrate However let it be considered whether it be not a Breach of all common Civility or Morality among men to make Publick a thing secretly spoken if the thing had been spoke by me as he affirmeth that he thought might tend to my Prejudice nor doth it excuse him to say I lately told some-what he spoke to me in private for that was such a thing he might have spoke to any and did not tend to his or any mans Prejudice and was no secrecy And whether his asserting a thing without any Proof but what we take to be a very great Oath will be any sufficient Witness or Evidence in point of common Justice among men for if this be allowed not only m●ns Fame and Reputation but Property Liberty and Life it self lieth a● stake to be taken away most unjustly But to answer directly to his Charge I do say after the best Recollection of my Memory that I can make after so many Years past I do not remember that I said to him I was the Author of that book and I know not how he can justly think considering theso very Circustances he alledgeth and some other Circumstances whereof he cannot be ignorant unless he hath forgotten the whole for I told him that divers Persons were concerned in that Book called The Two Hundred Queries and after what manner Besides another Person hath in Print divers Years ago owned that Book and why then should he charge me with that which another hath owned The most he can justly alledge is That I said a considerable part of the Matter of that Book which I had from another I put into Writing which will not prove me to be the Author for I oft put into writing other mens words even such as are Adversaries and many do write for others that whereof they are not the Authors But I further say I never justly could nor do own my self to be the Author of that Book how far I might be concerned otherwise in it in any part or in the writing of a great part of the Matter of it is not material nor necessary for me to determine for others were concerned and he who accuseth me of a thing which he cannot prove by outward Evidence by so doing rather proveth himself a false Accuser and showeth both his own Folly and Prejudice against me And I say yet further as no man living can prove me to be the Author of that Book so I had not the least hand in the Printing it for it was printed altogether without my Consent and Approbation and the Defaults whether in the ●ranscribing or in the Printing it are so many that it hath quite ●●t●red the sence of the Queries in many places and made others of ●●em Non-sensical and there are things in it for which I am no wise accountable and which I never did own or do own to be mine yet I cannot disown or blame the whole but make a distinction for there are things queried in that Book that are no wise unbecoming the best Christians and which mention nothing of the Revolutions so called nor doth imply them except by such remote seeming Consequences which one may as readily deny as another may affirm and they have no more necessary connexion with the Revolutions than the Scriptures have that are cited in them and I am not convinced that it is a Trespass