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A47132	George Keith's Complaint against the Quakers: or, An answer to the Quakers complaint against George Keith humbly presented to the clergy of the Church of England.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing K155; ESTC R216623	6,858	11

George Keith 's Complaint Against the QVAKERS OR AN Answer to the Quakers Complaint AGAINST George Keith Humbly Presented to the Clergy OF THE Church of England LONDON Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. George Keith 's Complaint Against the QVAKERS c. Learned Sirs IT 's unto you into whose Orders I am now Admitted and by whom I am Owned since the Quakers have denied me that I make my Complaint of the Quakers that cast on me such Aspersions that its evident and demonstrable out of my Books what I have said of you as these following evince viz. That you Ran and the Lord never sent you and that you were Covetous and Ambitious seeking how to please Men for your own Ends and it 's true That I cried against your Philosophy and your Universities saying They are the Stews of Antichrist out of which comes your ignorant profane scandalous Ministry and that the Generality of you have not the True Faith and that in process of Time your whole Ministry will consist of ungodly Men the Wicked being still preferr'd by the Wicked And so they say I am preferr'd among the rest and by contrivance and design now I am so Old as to have so much Natural Wit as to see I must make some shift how to live having cast my self out from among the Quakers and seeing it is the far easiest of many or most Trades to be a Preacher to get Money and become one of the Man-made Ministry where All is done for Money Therefore Learned Brethren I come among you for you know No Money No Preaching as the Old Proverb is No Penny No Pater Noster And the vile Quakers slander me in these and other matters of Truth by saying You and I may now say We Brethren Preach not Christ but say contrary That is not Christ which convinceth every Man of his sins and tells him all that ever he did it is but a Humane Principle and not Divine And to Read Set-Forms of Prayers out of a Book which to read whether in private or publick and call that Reading Prayer is not I affirm any part of Gospel-Worship neither was it known in the Church either in Justin Martyr or Tertullian's Time who lived above 300 Years after Christ And Learned Brethren these Heathens as I call the Quakers in my late Sheet Reproach me with another thing that I said of them whilst I was one of them concerning such as you and I that now oppugn the Quakers with gross and horrid Lyes and false Calumnies and meer Abuses like unto the ways that ever the worst of the Adversaries of Truth have used against the True Witnesses of it and yet said I It never yet hath been proved nor never will that the Religion professed by the sincere and faithful People called in scorn Quakers is either Paganism or any other thing than Real Christianity and notwithstanding I have so said I do Retract Disown and Deny whatsoever is to be found in any of my Books contrary to the Holy Scriptures Yet these Heathens Learned Brethren do not forbear to Reproach me with what I have truly said concerning the Sacraments Christ hath ordained in his Church viz. Two only as generally necessary to Salvation as we profess that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Viz. As for Infants Baptism and Sprinkling a Child of Eight Days Old more or less on the Forehead and call it Baptism I said hath no footing in all the Scripture neither of Precept nor Practice neither was it in use for an Hundred Years and more after the Apostles days among Professors of Christianity and that we cannot Prove it altho' we Practice it and get Money by it but do it by a bare Imitation and a meer pretended Call which is great Presumption yea Superstition altho' we call it Christ's Ordinance and say It 's Commanded by Christ yet he hath given us no Command but we set up the Commandments of Men in the Room of God's Commands like the Pharisees as they shew in their late Sheet entituled The Christianity of the People called Quakers asserted by me George Keith and in their Book called The Creed-Forgers detected they shew that I said Tertullian was against Infant Baptism and that we cannot as true it is give any Evidence in Church-History that Christ commanded those Words to be used which we use in Baptism and Zuinglius is against us in this Case and that 1 Cor. 11.23 24. proves no Institution of the Lord's Supper at all and that we Learned Brethren own as you know we do and acknowledge that there is no absolute necessity of using that called the Supper so as that none can be Saved but such that partake of it And that whatever Outward thing God Commands brings along with them a real Advantage to Men's Souls and you know we hold this to be an Outward thing and Visible Sign And for my part I still adhere as I said in my Retractations to my former Advice that nothing be required by one sort i.e. by us or any others from another as an Article of Faith or Doctrine in common to be Believed but what is expresly delivered in the Scriptures in plain express Scripture-Terms And Learned Brethren you know we hold the Lord's Supper as an Article of Faith or Doctrine to be believed and yet cannot we prove it by what is expresly delivered in the Scripture in plain and express Scripture-Terms What Brethren shall I do with this Gang of Quakers Altho' I charge them not either upon the Generality pray mind that far less the Universality of all them called Quakers yet I must confess I have positively said in my late Sheet That I have proved the Quakers without Exception Heathens notwithstanding those that have but a little sound Judgment may easily find I do not contradict my self in any thing nor do I continue to hold palpable Contradictions for I have declared in Print Those that continue to hold palpable Contradictions all Ingenious Persons will conclude great Hypocrites for none but stark Mad and Crazed in their Understanding will hold perfect Contradictions for what I hold is agreeable to Holy Scripture therefore these Quakers that I have charged with the Gangreen of their Vile and Gross Errors and Heresie that is a Complex of the worse sort of Errors and Heresies Demand of me to prove by plain Scripture and in Plain and Express Scripture Terms that the Baptizing Infants and Signing them with the Sign of the Cross and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as used by us and our set Forms of Prayer and our taking Tythes and pleading for the Divine Right thereof and our requiring they should be paid to us the Ministers of the Nation as Ministers of Christ and that as such we should receive Tythes and Stipends to prove all this and much more from plain Scripture and in plain and express Scripture Terms they do demand because I still

say I adhere to my former Testimony Again If I believe these things to be Articles of Faith or Christian Doctrines to be believed and many other things that we Hold and Practice these Quakers would have plain Scripture for all such things and in plain and express Scripture Terms they would have it proved is not this unreasonable Brethren I have indeed declared in publick Print That I have been above 30 Years among the Quakers and since I left them have publish'd to the World that I Reverence Divine Providence that I became a Quaker And have Affirmed That they held the Fundamentals of Christian Doctrines and that I knew the Quakers and their Principles having been Conversant with them in their publick Meetings as well as private Discourses with the most noted and esteemed amongst them for 30 Years yet have said to Excuse my self since I left them If I had known they had such Errors among them I would as soon have put my Head in the Fire as have owned them Yet in my Retractations I declare I am of the same Faith as I have been above 30 Years Thus they say I say and unsay and pretend Ignorance when I well knew and vindicated those Doctrines stoutly and in the Name of the Lord which I now chargeas Errors upon them many of which were writ before I was a Quaker and therefore as to my pretence that if I had known the Quakers had such Errors I would as soon have put my Head in the Fire as have own'd them which the Quakers esteem an idle Story for they will not believe I was so Ignorant as not to know them because I vindicated them and besides they account there is no need for me to put my Head in the Fire because they think me too hot-headed already and that if what I have said be true That I am of the same Faith still that I was when a Quaker and that I have been for above 30 Years past then I must be a Quaker still and if I never was a Quaker then they pretend they do not understand what reason I had to publish to the World That I reverence divine Providence that I became a Quaker thus they reflect upon me and endeavour to render me in palpable Contradiction and to shew that by my own Saying I prove I am an Apostate a great Hypocrite Crazed in my Understanding and stark Mad But Learned Brethren seeing I meet with these things I make my Complaint to you to whose Service for my Wages Stipend or Reward I am now Devoted And I say and do what I can by calling the Quakers Heathens Deists their Divinity mad Divinity their Religion the Religion of Julian the Apostate and render them Stoicks Platonists and what not and assert I have proved them Apostates telling them in my late Sheet That I think not at present to take particular Notice of the Pamphlets which charge me with some Passages in my former Books particularly the Account of a National Church c. the Animadversions thereon the Portraiture of G. K. and the Broad-Sheet cum multis aliis But they still call upon me to prove that those Principles which I have formerly vindicated in the Name of the Lord are contrary to Scripture and the Quakers tell the World most truly I Deny and Retract what 's contrary to the Holy Scriptures that is to be found in any of my Books by which they conclude that I do more Retract what I have lately writ and done than what I writ or did formerly because they suggest that according to their Opinion I Writ Preached and Practised more agreeable to the Scripture then than I do now and when I had more Charity for them I was better than now I am and less envious and more like a Christian indeed Therefore in my late Sheet I say I do Retract Disown and Deny whatever is to be found in any of my Books contrary to the Holy Scriptures or the 39 Articles of the Church of England which I say I sincerely believe are perfectly according to the Doctrine of Holy Scriptures And now they would have me prove that the Quakers hold any Fundamental Doctrine that is contrary to the Holy Scriptures and the 39 Articles of the Church of England And what Fundamental Principles or Doctrines of the Christian Faith to be believed they i. e. Quakers hold that are contrary to the holy Scriptures and 39 Articles Seeing that I say I am of the same Faith and have not changed in any Fundamental Principle nor indeed in any one Principle of the Christian Faith nor varied therefrom to this Day for all the while I was a Quaker I was Orthodox or Sound in the Christian Faith although I have to render the Quakers odious asserted them to be Erroneous And although I now say Those Texts of Scripture relating to Baptism and the Supper I was mistaken in and when I did particularly Assert Water was not meant and since affirmed that it is meant in Mat 28.19 yet I have not varied in any one Principle of the Christian Faith nor contradicted my self neither doth this prove when I held otherwise than now I do that I was not then found in the Principles of Christianity or Doctrines of the Christian Faith or that I held any thing contrary to the 39 Articles by no means for then I should be an Apostate stark Mad and Crazed in my Understanding if I contradicted my self according to my own Saying and was unsound in the Principles of Christianity or Doctrines of the Christian Faith or that I held any thing contrary to the 39 Articles And Learned Brethren you are not Ignorant how we have encouraged some to write against the Quakers altho' it hath cost some Scores of Pounds and there hath been a Complaint made in the Quakers Names against me humbly presented to the Clergy of the Church of England therefore my Letter-Learned-Brethren that are as False and Conceited as I am and think you can split Hairs strain Sentences quibble about Words to raise Strife use Sophisms draw wrong Conclusions make undue Inferences to Wrong the Living and Desame the Dead that you may render both Erroneous the living Ignorant and your selves Wise and Knowing when it 's well known to them that are truly wise and knowing we are otherwise Therefore such of you that have more Passion than Patience Pride than Humility empty Conceit than sound Judgment Folly than Wisdom that are more taken with Lyes and Railery than Truth and Reason to you I do Address my self as being nearest Related to me and with whom I am in abundant more Unity than with the Patient Humble Wise Judicious and sober honest Men for they may think that I might better Imploy my Time and my Parts and Zeal to much better purposes in furthering the Reformation of Men's Lives and of the Manners of the Nation than by raising or keeping up with an Unchristian Temper to the manifest Injury of the Christian