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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

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like manner is not the very same nor all Clouds the same and seeing George Whitehead has formerly oppos'd Christ's Personal Coming or his Coming in Person without us as a thing yet to be expected he ought to clear it what manner of Coming and what sort of Clouds he doth now understand to be intended in these Words Acts 1.9 10 c. For though it be a real Truth that Christ is Ascended above all Clouds of Sin and Ignorance and Errours as well in George Whitehead as in others yet I am well assured that was not the Sense intended by the Spirit of Truth in these Words nor was it the Sense of them that spoke these Words to the Disciples Query IV. Will our Dead Bodies then arise the same Bodies in Substance though altered in Qualities and Properties which we now have Answer Hear what George Whitehead hath said in Print in his Answer to Mat. Coffin about the Resurrection That may be a proper Reply to this Query in shewing George Whitehead's Unbelief and Errour as touching the Resurrection of the dead Bodies of Men. See his Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within page 69. There is saith George Whitehead a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body and there are Bodies Celestial and Bodies Terrestrial The Sun Moon and Stars are Celestial Bodies but Birds Beasts and Fishes are Terrestrial Now you might reckon him a very Blind and Ignorant Man that should put no difference between the Bodies Celestial and those that are Terrestrial or that should reckon the Bodies of the Sun Moon and Stars and the Bodies of Birds Beasts and Fishes to be all one in Matter and Substance Note At this rate Christ's Body now in Heaven is not the same Body he had on Earth in no respect for if it be not the same in Substance i. e. Being or Essence it is not the same any other way considered For a great difference it is if one thing differ from another in Qualities and Properties or in their Modes and Modifications and one thing may differ from it-self with respect to divers Times States and Conditions But to say a thing is changed Substantially or Essentially is to say that thing is no more that thing in any respect but is annihilated For whatever Heavenly Excellency and Dignity Christ's Body had when it was upon Earth which may be in a true Sense acknowledged being Miraculously and Supernaturally conceiv'd and form'd by the Power of the Holy Ghost yet seeing Christ did both Eat and Drink and did Sleep and Hungred and Thirsted c. it is certain his Body had the Properties and Qualities of our Earthly Bodies otherwise how could he be said to be made like to us in all things but without Sin And seeing Mens Bodies are universally nourished with what they eat and drink and their Food by certain Digestions becomes a part of their Bodies the Excrementitious part being excepted we must needs think that Christ's Body was really Terrestrial i. e. had Terrestrial Qualities when it was upon Earth But now it is Heavenly endu'd altogether with Heavenly Qualities as the Bodies of the Saints will be at the Resurrection And it is false Philosophy to say the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars are in kind quite other Substances from Earthly Bodies The more true Philosophy and Knowledge of Natural Things is that the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ not Substantially or Essentially from Earthly Bodies otherwise they cou'd not nourish Earthly Bodies as they do Yea George Whitehead in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent rebuked page 17. Treating on the Body of Christ saith And we believing such a Change of the Glorious Body of Christ we do not thereby nor never did believe that the Body of Christ which suffer'd was annihilated and that his Flesh saw Corruption No such matter May there not be then saith he a very wonderful Change in the Body and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed Note here how George Whitehead hath contradicted George Whitehead and how inconsistent is he with himself One while he is a very blind and ignorant Man according to George Whitehead's Philosophy That a Body that is Terrestrial and a Body that is Celestial are one in Substance Another while again by George Whitehead's Philosophy There may be a very wonderful Change in the Body viz. of Christ and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroy'd And then I say why not also may there not be such a wonderful Change in the Bodies of the Saints and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed And though the Scripture distinguisheth betwixt Bodies Terrestrial and Celestial yet it doth not say these visible Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ in Substance from Earthly Bodies George Whitehead hath not learned this sort of Doctrine either from the Letter of the Scripture or the Spirit of God that gave it forth or from true Reason but hath it either from his own dark Imagination or from the dark Imagination of other Men as dark and ignorant as himself I had not been so large thus to correct his false Philosophy but that he maketh use of it here and elsewhere to overthrow the Faith of that great Article of Christian Doctrine plainly testify'd in the Holy Scripture to wit The Resurrection of the Body But seeing George Whitehead in his Book called The Malice of the Independent Agent owneth or seemeth to own That Christ's Body he had on Earth is now in the Heavens and is not annihilated nor the Substance of it destroyed how comes it that he so peremptorily disputeth against Christ's Personal Existence and his Personal Coming again or Appearance or Personal Being alledging it implies him to be a Personal God or Christ like the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians conceit of him and he Argues against any Limitation of Christ's Personal Existence or being at the Right-hand of God without all Men. But how George Whitehead will reconcile this to his Assertion in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent where he owns that Christ's Body of Flesh saw no Corruption but is in Being and not annihilated And in his Postscript to the said Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent he saith of Christ's Body Though it be Spiritual and Glorious yet a Body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to Bodies In my former printed Treatise call'd A short List of some of the Vile and Gross Errors of George Whitehead c. I noticed George Whitehead's Contradiction to John Whitehead about the Body of Christ But here I would have the Reader notice George Whitehead's Contradiction to himself in the two above-mention'd Books as if George Whitehead since he argued against the Personal Being of Christ without every Man had turn'd Anthropomorphite and Muggletonian for asserting that Christ hath a Body in Heaven that is not every-where But to assert that
or was a Co-creator with God is to imply two Gods Thus by George Whitehead's way of Reasoning Christ was neither visible Man nor the invisible God but what else he cannot tell It is strange that he should thus Argue against Christ's being God with God when the Scripture saith expresly John 1. The Word was with God and that Word was God And Christ said he was glorify'd with God before the World was And was he not the Son of God by an Eternal Generation and yet One God with the Father If Christ had only a Father as he was Man then he was not God by Eternal Generation Query 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 Men For a Suitable Reply to this hear George Whitehead who if he hath not denied him to be Man yet whether he hath not denied him as Man without us to be the Object of our Faith let the Judicious Reader judge in his Book call'd The Light and Life c. page 61. Another while saith he People must seek their Saviour above the Clouds and Firmament contrary to the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 10. Another while they must seek to Jerusalem for Justification to the Blood that was there shed contrary to Deut. 30.13 14. and Rom. 10. And in page 45 46. he saith But if he say he hath sought Christ at such a Distance by Faith He goes on I ask if the Object or Foundation of Faith be divided from the Faith or if the living Faith doth not stand in the living Power of God And whether the Righteousness of it doth tell of seeking and finding Christ above the Clouds Stars and Firmament But why tells he so much of above the Clouds are not the Clouds and Circumference of the Heavens as well under us as above us Note It is evident here from George Whitehead's Words That to him Christ without us is not the Object of Faith and to direct Men to Christ above the Clouds is contrary to Deut. 30. and Rom. 10.6 and oft he perverteth this place of Scripture in that and other his Books and hath led many into the same gross and vile Errours with him as if it were contrary to Deut. 30. Rom. 10. to direct Men to Christ without But no such thing doth so appear either from Deut. 30. or Rom. 10.6 or from any other place of Scripture But on the contrary there is a plain Direction Rom. 9.10 to Christ without as well as in Rom. 10.7 8. to Christ within For the one doth not exclude the other and yet Christ is but One. For though we have not his Person and Body as Man within us yet as he is that Word that was with God in the beginning and is God he is in all Men. But there is a plain Direction in Rom. 10.9 10. to Christ as he rose again from the Dead and to be sure that was without us And a great stress the Scripture layeth on the true Faith and Confession of that great Truth as being a necessary Terms of Salvation If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth and believe with thine Heart that God hath raised Christ from the Dead thou shalt be saved This is more than a bare Historical Faith It must not be a Faith or a bare Notion of Faith only in the Head and Brain but it must be in the Heart and have its Root and Rise from the Word of Faith in the Heart And in Heb. 12.2 as in many other places there is a Direction to Christ without us as the Object of Faith together with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit not only as without us in Heaven but every where present as well as within us And to deny that both God and Christ consider'd as without us as well as within us is the Object of our Faith is not only great Unchristianity but worse For to deny God to be the Object of our Faith without us is as much as to say God is not without us or if he be we are not concern'd to believe it But did not Christ direct his Disciples to pray to God saying Our Father which art in Heaven and was that only within Men It is strange how he would limit and confine the Object of Faith only to God and Christ within This has given great Occasion to some to charge George Whitehead and others with Idolatry For if the God and Christ that is the Object of George Whitehead's Faith be only within and not without he has not the true God and Christ for the Object of his Faith But if this be an Inadvertency in George Whitehead he ought to correct it and remove the great Offence he hath cast in the way of many who have occasion given them by his unsound Words to think he and many of his Brethren neither worship the true God nor the true Christ who would confine the Object of Faith only to be within And for George Whitehead so to taunt William Burnet for his saying Christ is to be sought and found above the Clouds Stars and Firmament bespeaketh him that he was then at least when he so wrote too much leavened and corrupted with Ranter's Notions that held God and Christ Heaven and Hell and Devils to be no-where but within Men or at least as some of 'em held That God is no-where to be minded but as within For though no Man can have a true and saving Knowledge of God and true and saving Faith in him but as it is wrought in him by the Spirit of God within yet that true Faith and Knowledge respects him as Omnipresent as well as Omniscient and Omnipotent and in his other infinite Perfections And it is a miserable wresting and perverting of that place Rom. 10 as if Christ were not as really to be minded as an Object of our Faith in Heaven without us as within us whereas it is plain that place is to be understood of Christ's Body So that we are not to say Who shall bring it down to us from Heaven and the Jews were not to expect that Christ in Moses's time nor long after should come down from Heaven to assume and take a Body until the fulness of Time And now that Christ's Body is ascended that we are not to say Who shall bring him down to us in that Body But this doth not hinder that by Faith and Meditation we should respect him now in Heaven as the real Object of our Faith Love and Obedience or that we should not in Faith hope for his real Coming again in his Glorify'd Body in the time appointed And his Philosophy wherein he would seem to be some Body is false and vain in taking William Burnet to Task for telling of Christ so much above the Clouds and querying Are not the Clouds and Circumference of the Heavens as well under us as above us I say to speak properly according to the best Rule of
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
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