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A47134
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A discovery of the mystery of iniquity & hypocrisie acting and ruling in Hugh Derborough
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Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
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1692
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Wing K157; ESTC R14384
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D. in Hypocrisie hath put upon them for proof of which I refer to the printed sheet called False Judgments Reprehended And for all the great bragging and boasting of these our Opposers of their inward discerning God by his wonderful Providence hath given some evident Examples of it in the face of the World how miserably they are deceived and blinded in that they call their Discerning as first whereas the Meeting in the Country used to be kept at an honest mans house and this man favoured me therefore they had a sense that he was a man of a wrong Spirit but whereas there was another that rise up in great Opposition to me charging me of Blasphemy because I said God was present in all his Creatures and of false Doctrine because I said Christ was in Heaven our Elder Brother and that he would appear again to judge the quick and the dead at the great Day therefore a Company of them removed their Meeting to this man's house whom they thought worthy crying him up as if he were no ordinary Saint whenas at the same time a Negro Woman had his Bastard carrying about in her Womb tho' he has a Wife of his own and tho' some have endeavoured to cloak it yet it appearing with more than ordinary clearness hath caused them now again to remove the Meeting from his House 2dly Another that hath lately given forth a Paper of Condemnation as if he were some great Convert about the very time of his pretended Conversion was discovered to be guilty of attempting to commit Sodomy which he hath partly confessed So that they have little cause to boast of their Converts or yet of their Spirit of Discerning And if some have left us more have left them and come to us and who are Persons of more Sobriety 4thly Whereas H. D. saith It is sealed upon his heart that the Anger of the Lord is kindled as Fire against that Spirit of Division that hath appeared in G. K. and others Answ It is but ordinary to him and such other Hypocrites to take the Name of the Lord in vain it were well if he was sensible of the Fire of Gods Anger that is ready to kindle against him for his Lying Hypocrisie Enmity and falsly accusing the Innocent and seeking to justifie the Guilty We are not divided from faithful Friends and Brethren that are sound in the Doctrine Faith of Christ and whose Godly Life and Practice seal to the sincerity of their Faith but we are divided from Hypocrites Lyars and false Accusers and gross Unbelievers who deny the Lord that bought them and Faith in him and for so doing God is not angry with us but well pleased having done it in Obedience to Christs Command who hath commanded us to be seperate from Unbelievers 2 Cor. 6. 14. 17. 5thly Whereas he accuseth me 〈◊〉 The Light within is not sufficient without some-what else 〈◊〉 knowing in his Conscience as well as his Associates that by that something else I understand not humane Leârning nor the Letter of the Scripture 〈…〉 but the Man Christ Jesus without us in 〈◊〉 all fullness of Grace Truth Light and Life dwelleth and 〈◊〉 Death and Sufferings Resurrection Ascention Mediation all which are something else than the measure of Grace and Light in us In this Accusation H. D. falleth in with J. Delavall and my Answer to the one will serve sufficiently to the other And tho' H. D. seemeth to assent and declare That the Grace of God which is sufficient is the Effect of the Death and Sufferings of Christ Jesus yet either like a gross Hypocrite or most ignorant and inconsiderate Person not to use Sam. Jening's phrase of Ignorant Non-sensical Puppy he doth most palpably contradict his present Assertion for if the Grace of God within us be the Effect of Christs Death and Sufferings then we are not saved only by the Grace within but by the Death Sufferings Resurrection and Mediation of Christ without us seeing the Cause of a Cause is the Cause of the thing caused or effect Beside the Death Sufferings of Christ his most perfect Obedience unto Death and sheding of his most precious Blood without us was not only necessary to procure the inward Grace of God to us but also to make a Propitiation for our sins reconcile us unto God and so was needful to our Salvation as the great Attonement and Sacrifice of Expiation as well as the procuring Cause of his Grace in us But since he chargeth me with an Error for holding That the Grace or Light within is not sufficient without something else then seeing nothing can be an Error but because it is opposite to some Truth that which it is opposite to is That the Light within is sufficient without any or everything else and if so then he excludes wholly the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation 6thly As to the Testimonies he citeth out of Rob. Barclay's Apology they are of the same nature with what J. 〈◊〉 hath formerly cited in his Papers to which I have answered an â—â—â—fer to the same in print where I show that R. B. no where 〈…〉 â—n all his Apology That the Light or Grace within it 〈◊〉 to Saluation without the Man Christ Jesus without 〈…〉 for us on Earth and his present Mediation and 〈◊〉 for us in Heaven All that can be gathered from R. B's words many of his Books is 1st That the express distinct outward and historical Knowledge and Faith of Christ is not necessary to Salvation where it is not preached nor revealed and I say the same 2dly That man may be saved and many have been saved who have not heard Christ outwardly preached to them nor never heard or read the on ward Testimony of the Scriptures concerning him 3dly That a good Work of God may be begun in men that is of a tendency to Salvation and a Salvation begun in a general sence and respect without all Knowledge and Faith of Christs Death and Sufferings which I also grant and have all along granted and therefore neither H. Derborough J. Delavall nor any other have proved me and I believe never can prove me to contradict either Rob. Bareley's Books or any of my own Books and it is great deceit in this H. D. only in general to cite my Book of Universal Grace without mentioning the words of my Book And it is worth noticing that he exactly followeth J. Delavall not bringing one place of Scripture where-withal to prove me in an Error but only some Citations out of R. B. perverted and falsly applyed by him And it is another piece either of gross Hypocrisie and Deceit or bold and impudent Rasnness in him to say That R. Barclay doth not say the Express Knowledge of Christ who as Man dyed for the sins of the World for tho' he doth not say it in one place yet he hath it in another as pag. 86. of his Latine
A DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity Hypocrisie Acting and Ruling in Hugh Derborough HAving seen a Paper of Hugh Derboróugh's which was read by Sam Jenings at their last Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphiá and approved by the Meeting and he received owned as one of their Church Members I found it convenient to say something in Answer to it he most falsly and maliciously accusing me in some things and also discovering manifestly his and his Brethren's Ignorance Unbelief and Hypocrisie with whom he hath joyned himself 1st He saith He was deceived in me and ensnared by me hearing such Chárges c. as if there were such as did divide Christ not preach Faith in the Man Christ Jesus nor own the Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven but the Grace of God within only and such like Charges as that they did not own the Resurrection of the Body and the Coming again and glorious Appearance of that heavenly Man Christ Jesus to judge the quick and the dead at the great Day of Judgment Answ That such Charges were true I have many Witnesses that may be produced in due time to discover this Hugh Derborough to be a Lyar and false Accuser who hath writ Lyes against his own Conscience and Knowledge for does not H. D. know that we have sufficient proof that Tho. Fizwater said He owned no Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven without him but the Grace of God within him and of which T. Budd complaine◠to the Meeting of Ministring Friends at Burlington where Tho. Fitzwater himself was present and did not deny it nor they call him to an Accounot for it And was not Hugh Derborough at the Monthly Meeting where W. Stockdale openly renewed and confirmed his former Charge viz. That G. K. preached Two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within Christ without beside the pretended Judgment given forth concerning W. S. says the same And the Judgment given forth by their Monthly Meeting which is also in print clearing T. Fitzwater for accusing me That the Light within was not sufficient without somewhat else that something else being the Man Christ Jesus in whom all Fullness of Light Grace and Truth is lodged and out of whom all true Believers receive a daily supply increase of Grace and he may remember what work we had at a Mo. Meeting a little before where it was affirmed That they knew but one Principle owned by Friends and that was the Light within which I refuted both from Scripture and Friends Books then T. Lloyd said There was but one Fundamental Principle which was the Light within which also I denyed From this it is evident that they exclude the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation placing it wholly only upon the Light within and this H. D. has heard John Delavall publickly accuse me of Heresie for saying The Light within is not sufficient without something else yea and H D. himself hath renewed this in his Paper against me which he calleth The Mystery of Iniquity discovered by the Spirit of Truth but his Paper is the fruit of the Mystery of Iniquity that ruleth in his heart who is acted by a Lying Spirit Now that some approved among them deny the Resurrestion of the Body after Death and Christ's Coming to Judgment without us at the great Day c. we can sufficiently prove and it s in vain for H. D. to tell us these are false Charges while their Preachers are found preaching against these things and the hearers generally arguing and contending with us against them A. Jenings a Preacher among them has been heard not only by me but divers others to deny That any thing of this Body riseth after Death And Henry Willis one of the 28 now 27 false Judges told me That the only cause why he set his hand to that Paper was because I had affirmed Christ would come again without us at the great Day of Judgment to judge the quick and the dead And W. Southyby's Letter and J. Humphery's Letter and Paul Saunders Letter to me giving an Account of William Southyby M. Hodgskins their Unbelief in these principal things of the Christian Faith are sufficient proof and which Letters with other Instances and Proofs may in due time be made publick mean time take one Sentence of J. Humphery's Letter which is this I am grieved to hear some say They expect to be Iustifyed by that Blood that was Shed at Ierusalem To which Blasphemous sentence I shall not make any Reply at present but let all impartial Readers judge of it I have complained of it in private to John Humphry himself to several of his Brethren to their Quarterly Meeting to which he belongs and to their publick Meeting several moneths since and yet no calling him to account but of late he hath writ his second Letter confirming and justifying his former And therefore Hugh Derborough falsly accuseth me in saying I have deceived him for its the Lying Spirit in himself them he now owns to be his Brethren which have deceived him 2dly To his accusing me of Extream Heat and Passion when little occasion was given me if any but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them calling of them Hypocrites abominable Hypocrites bidding them Cut him in pieces Chop him Fry him with many more unsavoury words which he saith appeared to him indeed to be but Bryars and Thornes Answ This is another Evidence of his great Hypocrisie and Lying Spirit as well as of his gross Prejudice and Partiality Enmity and Malice I called none Hypocrites or abominable Hypocrites but such whom I can well prove to be such And did not Christ call them Hypocrites Serpents Generation of Vipers c. who had discovered themselves to be such and the Apostles called such Hypocrites and deceitful Workers c. How then is this Bryars and Thorns in me when those I so called were such Have not also our Friends called their Opposers Hypocrites who were such yea and much harder Names than ever I did to any of them as Dead Beast dark Sot Incarnate Devils Wolves Dogs c. But what says Hugh Derborough to his Brother Sam. Jenings who at their last Quarterly Meeting being the 6 of the 1st Month called one of his Fellow Members Ignorant Idiot and Non-sensical Puppey Which Fruits are most like to Bryars and Thorns to call a deceitful man a Hypocrite or for Sam. Jenings to call a man of as good or better sence and understanding than himself Nonsensical Puppey Let H. D. answer to this and wipe off this and many other foul Expressions justly charged on his Brother Ienings if he can and yet this is he who did read H. D 's Paper and pronounce my Fruits to be Bryars and Thorns but accounts his own Fruits no doubt to be Figs and Grapes tho' at the same Meeting he call'd one of his Church Members Non-sensical Puppey i. e. A Whelp