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A47188	The true copy of a paper given in to the yearly meeting of the people called Quakers at their meeting-place in Grace-Church-street, Lonon, 15 day of the 3d. month 1695. By George Keith, which was read by him in the said meeting, by their allowance. With a brief narrative of the most material passages of discourse betwixt George White-head, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, and the day following, betwixt George White-head, William Penn, and Francis Canfield on the one side, and George Keith on the other; ... Together with a short list of some of the vile and gross errors of George Whitehead, John Whitehead, William Penn, their chief ministers, and now having the greatest sway among them (being of the same sort and nature with the gross errors charged on some in Pensilvania) most apparently opposite to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion ... And a proposition to VVilliam Penn, to prove his charge, that G.K. is an apostate.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing K220; ESTC R220379	30,855	34

I never judged my self absolutely infallible but as my own former books have plainly declared I did judge both my self and all others now Living liable to mistakes and I far rather upon Divine Illumination and sound Conviction contradict my former books than persist in any known Error But 2dly Upon the most impartial search that I have made I find not any cause to correct either my Judgment or Books as touching any of the great Doctrines and Principles of the Christian Religion nor do I know that I am of another Faith in any One Principle of Christian Doctrine contrary to what I believed ever since I went under the Profession of a Quaker so called The Words and Passages generally if not universally that I find cause to correct not being so much relating to the Truth of Principles of Christian Doctrine as to some places of Scripture unduly applied to prove or defend things that were Truths but did not really prove these Truths either by express words or yet by any real and true and proper consequence or Relative to some other Lesser and more Circumstantial Matters But as to the Fundamental and otherwise great Articles of the Christian Faith I think my gracious God that I have been well preserved and have not found any thing in any of my former or latter books contradictory to any One Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith and I wish I had not found too much just Cause to blame others for their great Errors in Fundamental Doctrines and had they been so humble as to have Corrected their own Errors I had not thus exposed them and if any shall judg it to be an Act of Prejudice or Malice in me thus to Expose them after due warning given in private to most of them and after they have thus publickly disowned me I have this comfort that they judg a miss of me and that nothing of Prejudice or Malice hath moved me to this undertaking but love to Truth and Men and next to the Honour of God the regard to my Christian Name and Reputation which these men have sought to slay and by so doing to expose me and my Family to outward want and necessity but I trust in God's Mercy their design will be disappointed and God will in due time clear me of that cloud of unjust Infamy they all seek to cover me with and that he will plead my righteous Cause for to him I do commit it But now to proceed to give the short List I promised All sincere Christians believe that by that bloody Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross through Faith in him they are cleansed from their sins and that by the Blood of Christ by which true Believers are said both to be Justified and Sanctified is to be understood the real and true Blood of Christ's Body that suffered on the Cross which George Whitehead calleth Visible and Material Blood and positively denieth that the Saints are cleansed by that Blood and giveth divers Reasons of his positive denial all which are most false and absurd First because that Blood is not in being giving for his Authority W. Burnet pag. 40. of his Book 2dly Because the Blood that came out of Christ's Side when peirced by the Spear was not shed by Christ the shedding of it was no Act of Christ but of a wicked Soldier and therefore not Efficacious or Meritorious for remission of Sin or cleansing from Sin 3. Because as the New Covenant is inward and Spiritual so is the Blood of the New Covenant but so was not that Material Blood and the material Blood of the Beasts that were Offered in Sacrifice under the Law was not a Type of that material Blood that was shed upon the Cross for that were to say one Type was a Type of another See G. VV. his Book called The Light and Life of Christ within in Answer to W. Burnet a Baptist Teacher And this Antichristian and wretched Doctrine he giveth out as the Quakers Principles withal telling the Quakers see no need of Directing men to the Type for the antitype viz. Neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood knowing that neither the Righteousness of Faith nor the word of it doth so direct Rom. 10. And a little after he saith And where do the Scriptures say the Blood was there viz. at Jerusalem shed for Justification and that men must be directed to Jerusalem to it See his pag. 38. 39 59 60. Agreeable to this is that Doctrine published by W. Penn in his Part of the Christian Quaker p. 97. This Seed said he viz. the one Seed Christ as he calleth him there must be Inward and Spiritual since one outward thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the way of Holy Scripture so to teach w● the outward Lamb shows forth the inward Lamb the Jew outward the Jew inward If this be not as plain a denial of Christ to be any outward Being having any bodily Existance without us I know no English He goes on at a most Antichristian rate to prove that this Seed of the Woman that bruiseth the Serpent's Head was not Christ's Body or what he had from the Virgin strictly considered as such 2dly Saith he It is clear from hence the Serpent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something that is also Internal and Spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an Holy and Spiritual Principle of Light Life and Power that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpents Head and because the Seed which cannot be that body is Christ as testify the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed Christ and Christ God over all Blessed for ever we do conclude and that most truly that Christ was and is the Divine word of Light and Life that was in the beginning with God and was and is God over all blessed for ever But as it is readily granted by all true Christians that Christ is God so by Christ as he is called the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of Abraham in whom all Nations of the Earth are blessed is understood Christ not as he is God only or the word only for it is wonderful blindess or inconsiderateness to say God is the Seed of the Woman or the Seed of Abraham without any respect to the word becoming Flesh or taking Flesh But it is neither the Body of Christ strictly considered nor the Soul of Christ strictly considered without the Godhead nor the Godhead strictly considered without the Soul and Body of the Manhood of Christ that is the Seed of the Woman or Seed of Abraham but the Godhead and Manhood joyntly considered and most gloriously united And his third Argument

which convinced me and was in Unity with Faithful Friends but it was my desire that both I and all of us might more come down to God's Witness in our Hearts and if they did so they would do Justice impartially and to be sure he needed very much to come down out of his Height And for his saying he had a mind to come to my house and deliver his Message he had time enough for a Year past to have once visited me but he never did and if he hapned to pass by me in the street scarce to look to me though his former Acquaintance but with scorn and disdain so that I looked on his present Exhortation very unseasonable especially after his many Curses and False Prophecies poured out against me in divers Publick Meetings since the last Yearly Meeting as is known to many And a little after the Meeting desired me to withdraw which I did When I came before them the next day after some silence Geo. Whitehead began and made a long Speech repeating what he had said the day before and adding new matter he said He was not forward to be the Speaker but it being laid upon him by the Meeting he was willing He said I had not only given great dissatisfaction by my Printed Paper called The Causless Ground and by my Reflecting on Friends Testimonies in Publick Meetings and refusing to hearken to Friends Advice to clear the Body of the People called Quakers and their Ministers from those gross Errors c. but by the Paper I had given in Yesterday I had greatly increased the dissatisfaction in Friends against me I charging Ancient Friends in the said Paper and who have been always owned by Friends as Faithful Ministers with high Charges and not them only but the Second Days Meeting also and had taken upon me to Judge Ancient Friends and Brethren and the Second Days Meeting yea and all Friends that will not say as I say And for me to oppose my self thus generally to Friends and judge them all as I had done was a great dissatisfaction and did bespeak or prove me very far declined from Friends and from a true inward sense of Truth After he had spoke a great while to the same purpose but chiefly finding fault that I had excepted against some of the most Antient and most approved Friends of the Ministry as not being worthy either to be my Judges or so much as Evidences against me after some time of silence in great coolness I replied to him It cannot be expected That I can Reply to every thing particularly in this long Discourse of G. W. It were better to speak but to one thing at once I cannot remember all the particulars but so far as my Memory serves me I shall endeavour by God's assistance to answer to some of the chief things I deny that I have as yet judged all Friends I reserve to my self a Judgment of Discretion as a private person the due priviledg of every true Christian but why is it thought such a crime in me to lay my Complaint before this Meeting against some particular persons who have greatly injured me and abused me and why ought not my Complaint to be heard against them as theirs is heard against me The Advice of that called the Paper of the last Yearly Meeting was that Friends should be tender and kind to me and to avoid Reflexions on both sides It will appear to be great partiality only to examine whether I have kept to this advise or transgrest it and not also to examin impartially whether these that have reflected on me in Publick Meetings and have interrupted me in my Testimony in Meetings and falsly accused me as VVilliam Penn some Weeks ago did at Ratcliff Meeting calling me in the open Meeting Apostate and an Enemy to Truth and Friends Have I not just cause to except against such as being either Judges or Evidences against me and particularly against thee George VVhitehead whom I can sufficiently prove greatly prejudiced against me And as for that other part of the Advice said to be given by the last Yearly Meeting viz. That I should clear the Body of the People called Quakers and their Ministers charged on some in America to this I have some things to say and first I would have you to consider that Advice is one thing and Command is another even as Paul distinguisheth in the case of single Life when he giveth his Advice or Judgment but no command in that Case 1 Cor. 7. 25 40. And surely Paul was not so severe to disown them that gave not obedience to his Advice and I know no Church nay not the Church of Rome that is so severe as to disown them that will not hearken to her Advice simply if they obey her Commands I find not that the Yearly Meeting Paper so called gave me any Command in this case and therefore no Transgression But again as I have declared in my late Paper to you I want to know what ye mean by the Body of the People called Quakers and their Ministers if only the Faithful I never charged them and have again and again cleared them in print but if ye mean all that go under the same profession of Quakers not di●owned by you I say that is a most unfair and unjust thing to require of me for as I know not one of many hundreds of that People in divers Places nor their Faith whether it be sound or unsound in these matters so to my certain knowledg some of great note among you yea here sitting before me pointing to W. Penn George Whitehead and John Whitehe●● but not mentioning their Names are guilty of some of those gross Errors charged on some in America and how can I clear them that are thus guilty until they Correct these gross Errors in their Printed Books that are standing Evidences against them and what Justice could I expect that these being the leading men at the last Yearly Meeting should fairly or sufficiently Condemn these mens gross Errors in Pensilvania charged on them when they themselves are guilty of the same as I offer to prove out of their Printed Books never retracted by them But by this my free Discourse many in the Meeting began to be very uneasy After I had ended George Whitehead began again and resumed some Heads of my Discourse he told the Meeting the word Advise had a twofold signification one when it was relating to an indifferent matter another when it related to that which was a Command of God to wit to keep in Unity with Friends and in Charity and Peace and not to break the Peace of the Church by contentions and exposing Friends to the World Next as to my Question about what they meant by the Body of the People called Quakers he wondred I could pretend ignorance in that seeing I had Printed divers Books in defence of the Body of that People and had answered the Books of Adversaries against

because he saith The one is but the History and the introduction to the Mistery but the other viz. God and Christ in W. P. and other Saints is the mistery it self and Christ without and all that he did and suffered without men is but so many facile Representations of what was to be accomplished in man Thus as the Scenographical Description of an House is far inferior to the House being but a facile Representation of it a mean cheap thing that ye may have for a Penny and less and the very making the Draught of it a facile thing easily made with little either labour or cost whereas the House is a great work not built but with great labour and cost so Christ without and those transactions of his are but facile representations of what was to be accomplished in Man if this be not to make the man W. P. and what is accomplished or to be accomplished in the man W. P. and other Saints of more value and consideration than the man Christ Jesus of Nasareah and than all his most worthy and most highly valuable Actions and Sufferings which W. P. calleth Transactions I appeal to all sincere Christians How much more Christian would it have been in W. P. to have said what was done or accomplished in the Man Christ Jesus of Nasareth and his most Holy and Perfect Obedience both active and passive so far as is imitable by us and so far as men are capable of being made conformable thereunto is that original and most excellent Exemplar and archetipe patern according to which the Saints are made conformable and the Virtues and Fruits of the Spirit which are accomplished in the Saints and remain to be fully accomplished in them answer to these Virtues in Christ by way of Analogy and Similitude so that both these in him the Head and in them the Members are real and substantial Virtues but more eminently and Transcendently greater in the Man Christ than in any other men however so Holy that ever were or shall be And as the Saints which are Christ's Members are to be made throughly conformable to him both in his Virtues and active obedience so in his Death and Sufferings so as to be Crucified with him Buried with him Risen with him c. Yet this is not to be so understood as if what was accomplished in the man Christ without us above Sixteen hundred years ago is but the Figure or Type or History and facile representation as W. P. phraseth it more Ranter like than a sober Christian of what is to be accomplished in man And tho these called Socinians do greatly Err in not owning Christ to be God as well as Man in the two fold Nature of his Godhead and Manhood most wonderfully United and so greatly derogate from his great and high Dignity yet I know not that any of them all have such mean and low Thoughts of the Man Christ as to hold That the manifestation of God in the man Christ was a less mistery and of less consideration than the manifestation of God in holy men And if W. P. thinks to evade by answering that tho the manifestation of God in the man Christ is greater than the manifestation of God in the man W. P. simply as in it self considered yet as to W. P. and as to his Spiritual Advantage and well being and Spiritual Blessings the manifestation in W. P. is greater and of greater consideration than the manifestation that was or is in the man Christ Jesus But if he take to this evasion he runs himself into as great an Error as the former and makes himself not a member of Christ the Head but an independent man neither having nor needing any dependance on the Man Christ who considered even as man as truely as God is the Head of all the Faithful and if he take to this Error he will be a compleat Deist that professeth a dependency on God but not on the man Christ whereas every true Christian doth believe and profess a dependency both on God and on Christ and as God is the Head of the man Christ so they believe that Christ is the Head of his Church and de jure the Head of all men And therefore as their Faith respects God by which they exercise a continual dependency on him so the same Faith respects the man Christ now glorified in Heaven as a real object without them as the way and conduit of conveyance by and through whom they daily receive new and fresh supplies of Grace from him who is the God of all Grace the Father of Lights and Father of Mercies And whereas the Saints dependence on Christ is resembled in Scripture to that of the Members on the Head and of the Branches on the Vine let W. P. tell me whether his Philosophy or not to use that offensive word which seemeth to many of his Ignorant Brethren with whom Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion as too plainly appeareth by their crying out so much against Knowledg without a true distinction as a sort of Witchcraft or the forbidden Fruit or rather his Understanding and common sense of a man teacheth him not that the manifestation of Life in the Head is great and more to the members as well as in it self than what is of Life in the members also the Life n●● the Tree or Root is more to the Branches as well as in it self than the Life in the Branches and water without W. P's Belly is more to W. P. as well as it is in it self in Rivers or Fountains than as it is in W. P's Belly for let him have ever so much water or other refreshing Liquor that quencheth his Thirst in his Belly he will Thirst again and need more from the Fountain without him than what he hath at present in him But if he say as some ignorant persons have said wresting and misapplying Christ's words John 4. He that drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing vp into everlasting Life he has the Fountain in him so needs not to have his Faith exercised in Christ as an object without him I answer as I grant all true believers have the water of Life as a Fountain in them but this Fountain they receive it from out of the great Fountain and fulness that is in the Man Christ without them and this Fountain and Well of Living Water in them is daily encreased and multiplied in them by what comes into them from out of the said Fulness in the man Christ And these words Colos 1. 26. Christ in you the hope of glory perverted and misapplied by William Penn do not prove that the Manifestation of God in his Children is greater or a greater Mistery or a greater concern and ground of Consolatiion to them than what is in Christ without them for if Christ in us be our hope of glory then we have not all in us that we hope for hope looks beyond what is presently enjoyed or possessed to the stock and full inheritance that is treasured up in Christ and is not in us but in him and what we or the best of Men have in them is but the earnest and first Fruits of Glory but not the full possession of it and this full possession is laid up for us in Christ our Head who is in Heaven for we read in Scripture not only of Christ in the Saints their hope of Glory but also of the Hope which is laid up for them in Heaven Colos 1. 5. And surely that Hope is laid up for us in Christ who is in Heaven even that Heaven into which Christ hath bodily Ascended and this Heaven is without men and cannot be confined to the narrow Bounds of Mens Breasts unless William Penn will turn Ranter in this also and not allow that Christ did Bodily Ascend into any Heavens without men of which some of his former Books have given too great cause of Suspicion representing a Local Heaven as a Carnal Mahomotan Notion and to deny the Locality of Heaven and Hell that is void of outward place is to him no very Offensive Opinion See his Rejoynder to Jo. Faldo page 179 compared with 180. I have divers other gross and vile Errors wherewith to charge George Whiteaead and William Penn in reference to the Resurrection of the Body and Christ's Satisfaction and particularly George VVhitehead in reference to Christ's outward coming in his Glorified Body or Person at the general Judgment which I can sufficiently prove in divers of his former Books he hath denied let him quible and shift as he will to defend himself and for all his confession to God Almighty in Prayer as he was Heard lately by me and hundreds more at the publick meeting in Grace-Church-street in Prayer saying Lord thou knowest we received our gifts of Ministry in a spirit of Charity and a sound mind yet by what I have already proved him guilty of and others of his Brethren and doubt not I shall yet further prove him and them guilty it is manifest he told to God in his Prayer a great untruth if not a wilful Lye But I shall keep these others to a further reserve And now I propose this Just Demand to VVilliam Penn that when at Ratcliffe Meeting some few Weeks ago he called me an Apostate and judged me so to be in the Name of the Lord That he give me an opportunity either at Ratcliff-Meeting where he passed this Sentence in a publick Meeting against me or at Grace-Church-Street Meeting or any other publick Meeting of the People called Quakers in or about London to make good his Charge against me and let him signify to me the time and place where he will make it to appear that his charge against me is true or retract his false charge and confess his Error otherwise not only I but many others yea all that rightly understand the Case will say as VVilliam Penn is not a sound Christian in his Doctrine no more is he in his Morals and the Baptists so called will rise in Judgment against him who heard his complaint against Thomas Hicks if he will not hear this my Just complaint against him 26. Day of the 3d. Month 1695. G. Keith FINIS