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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45134	A letter to George Keith concerning the salvability of the heathen together with a testimony to the same doctrine, as long held and not newly taken up, out of several former books of him that writ it / by J.H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing H3684; ESTC R25550	27,967	37

A LETTER TO George Keith CONCERNING The Salvability of the Heathen Together with A Testimony to the same Doctrine as Long held and not Newly taken up out of several former Books of him that writ it By his Respectful Neighbour J.H. If therefore the Doctrine of Christ hath demonstrated to all Nations the same God whom the Ancients even before Moses have served there is no doubt but that we are made Partakers with them of the same Divine Worship and having moreover the same common Religion it is manifest that we shall likewise enjoy the same Blessedness or Benediction Eusebius de Demonstratione Evangelii L. 1. C. 5. London Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. A Letter to George Keith c. Mr. George Keith UNderstanding that you came to live near me I was willing to be acquainted with you as a Person learned and whose Converse is profitable but I am sorry to find you so engaged and hot in your Opinion though Zeal in a good Cause is commendable that you cannot let another differ from you without Anger when if he be angry too whom you differ from there must be Contention Which is to be avoided by a prudent Man Prov. 17.14 Look you George You and I do believe a Salvability for some Heathen You and I for all that do believe That no Man is was or ever can be saved but through the Name Mediation or Redemption of Jesus Christ neither of us are Deists therefore but both Christians You proceed further and say That no Man ever was is or can be saved but by Faith in Jesus Christ and the knowledge of him Crucified and Risen again Here I must differ from you for though Redemption be Universal and it is true That no Man ever could or can be saved without the Benefit thereof Yet must we not make the Redemption of Christ or the Benefit of his Death and our Knowledge of it to be Commensurate God forbid it should be so for then indeed no Heathen could be saved In your Truth Advanced p. 40. you very candidly declare That to conclude all Gentiles however diligent they have been to live up to their Illumination to be finally and irrecoverably Lost and Damned is a rash and uncharitable Opinion And in the same page you say I do positively affirm according to the Scriptures That Eternal Salvation is to be had only through Faith and Knowledge of Christ crucified and raised again This is to maintain two things inconsistent with one another And here I ask'd you therefore how you could make out the Mystery And you answered me That you had three ways to do it Two of them you expressed but because they were to me unsatisfactory I can remember neither and the third upon which you lay'd most stress you would not deliver thinking me at present not like to receive it I very much desire to know what that reserve was but what you have in your Book and in the same Page I see Though God giveth this Knowledge and Faith say you ordinarily by preaching and reading the Scriptures yet I nothing doubt but that God hath inwardly Revealed it to divers without I cannot but remember upon this what you told me That when W.P. put this Question to you and pressed you with it as unanswerable asking you how you could hold any Heathen to be saved seeing you do maintain that a Faith in Christ without is necessary to Salvation You answered him That the Light within is sufficient for the Revelation When you told me this I could not but commend it as a present ingenious Repartee ad hominem or to a Quaker but that is no answer to me or any other Man that is no Quaker nor fit for you to own as good for then it renders you still to be one of them who take Enthusiasm for your Guide W.P. would never have declared you an Apostate over the Head of you for this saying That you nothing doubt but God doth inwardly Reveal whatsoever is of necessity to be believed without Preaching or Reading Whereas I for my part am so far from an assent to you that I am perswaded to the contrary by those express words of the Apostle How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a Preacher Rom. 10.14 We read in the Acts of the Eunuch that Man of Authority a Proselyte reading in Isaiah Philip asks him Understandest thou what thou readest And he answered How can I except some Man should guide me Acts 8.31 From whence we may see that though the Prophets speak of Christ in many places and in none more amply than in this yet the Readers understood them not nor indeed could they the Understanding being reserved till the time of the Apostles who had the Spirit with-held till Christ was Glorified John 7.39 to enlighten them with that Knowledge which they were to communicate to us The Knowledge of Christ and Faith in him is indeed a Treasure and those Riches of the Gospel which as to the times before were unsearchable for it was to them a Treasure in the Field Hid in those Ages till Found by the Apostles through the Revelation thereof by the Spirit for the Publication of the same to the World And this is to be noted for a matter exceeding remarkable That though God had declared to Abraham that in his Seed all Nations should be blessed whereby the Gospel is said to be Preached to him Gal. 3.8 Yet was the Preaching the same by Peter to the Gentiles such a strange thing to them who were of the Circumcision that they contended with him for going to the Uncircumcised as what ought not to be done until Peter rehearsed from the beginning and expounded in order to them the Visions that he and Cornelius had and how the Holy Ghost fell upon them before he Baptized them which put them to silence so that they held their peace and glorified God saying Then hath God also unto the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life Acts 11.18 This was the thing they wondered at this the Mystery hid from them the Apostle so calls it though Preached so long ago to their Father Abraham himself That the Gentiles should be fellow Heirs and of the same Body and partakers of his Promise in Christ by the Gospel Ephes 3.6 I deny not therefore but the Old Testament Scripture speaks of Christ and that so fully as to his Person his Office his States of Humiliation and Exaltation that Christ in his appearing to the two Disciples going to Emmaus did shew them how Moses and all the Prophets speaking concerning him fore-told that he was to suffer and so to enter into his Glory Luke 24.26 St. Peter likewise preaches the same That unto him gave all the Prophets witness collecting from thence that through his Name whosoever believes in him shall receive Remission of Sins Acts 10.43 Nevertheless it is very manifest that the