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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

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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