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A87658	The pretended antidoe [sic] proved poyson: or, The true principles of the Christian & Protestant religion defended, and the four counterfit defenders thereof detected and discovered the names of which are James Allen, Joshua Moodey, Samuell Willard and Cotton Mather, who call themselves ministers of the Gospel in Boston, in their pretended answer to my book, called, The Presbyterian & independent visible churches in New-England, and else-where, brought to the test, &c. And G.K. cleared not to be guilty of any calumnies against these called teachers of New-England, &c. By George Keith. With an appendix by John Delavall, by way of animadversion on some passages in a discourse of Cotton Mathers before the General Court of Massachusetts, the 28th of the third moneth, 1690.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Delavall, John, d. 1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing K192A; ESTC W42984	110,748	234

he did fore-know them before they were brought forth as they lay hid in their seeds and causes which yet con'd not be without his Permission and the k●owledge of God is one of t●ings past present and to come without any variation in h●m however the reatures and their Operations va●y and as all Effects he hid in their Cau●es whether necessary and natural or free and voluntary before they come to pass so God doth know them all most perfectly for they are but hid as unto us and not unto God who seeth into the most hidden things of all his Creatures Pag. 74. Ye say My assertion is extreamly ridiculous viz. That Election and Reprobation are not contradictory But ye only say it without proof They are not contradictory because both positive and a contradiction can never be betwixt two positives but one positive the other nega●i●e or privative and Election signifieth a preference or Gods choice of some above others and yet no absolute Reprobation of any and the fore-sight and purpose of God considers them as having sinned out the day of their Visitation and as such only they are Reprobates and not before and Reprobation is not the Decree of God as Creation is not Reprobation is the casting away the Wicked out from his Mercy and Favour and this is not but for their final Impenitency and Unbelief and therefore cannot be before it and this ye might easily understand did not Prejudice blind you Pag. 76. Ye say The very notion of a sufficient E●ficacy of means used without the effect wro●ght in them with whom they are used is an unintelligible Quakerism Answ Ye say it but prove it not as your manner is and the contrary is manifest and generally acknowledged by all rational men that a Cause may be sufficiently effectual to produce an Effect and yet the effect not produced not for any defect in the Cause but some one thing or other that is wanti●g in the Subject by way of condition as when good Seed is sown in two sorts of ground in o●e it b●ingeth forth fruit but not in the other and the seed is the same in kind equally good a●d the labour of the Hu●band-man is equally the same and th● heat and influence and Rain of Heaven is the same but yet the other ground is unfruitful Pag. 78. Ye say It concerns you not to dispute whether Esau himsel● was saved or not but if an eternal Election be typified in Jacob the Reprobation must be of the same kind Answ Election was typified in Jacob but it doth not follow that an absolute Reprobation was typified in Esau if Esau was saved as ye say it concerns you not to dispute it for if the Type was saved the thing typified could not be damned for that would destroy the Analogy betwixt the Type and the thing typified And surely many of your Brethren have been highly concerned to affirm That Esau was reprobated absol●tely before he was born witness Seaborn Cottons Sermons on Rom. 9. at Hampton which many yet living heard him preach and if this doth not concern you your strength is gone The things typified in Jacob and Esau are That Esau signifieth the Nature of Man simply as such but Jacob signifieth the divine Principle and Seed in man which is worthily exalted over the nature of Man and made Lord over it and Esau's blessing is That he is subject to this divine Seed and Principle and made one with it and this divine Seed is typified by Jacob the younger Brother because the said divine Seed is commonly brought forth in men after the nature of man hath acted its part but because of its weakness and imperfection the other is preferred as Lord over it and as John said He that comes a●ter me is preferred unto me for He was before me which as it was true with respect to Christ as he came in the flesh so with a respect to his inward spiritual coming in this divine Seed and birth Pag. 79. Ye say God hath no where revealed it that he hath accepted the Satisfaction of C●rist for all that dye in Infancy Answ As much for all that dye in Infancy as for some seeing the Scripture saith Christ dy●d for All and no Infants have made themselves guilty by actual Unbelief as many men come to Age have done Ye say again from Rom. 5.14 That the Sentence of Damnation hath b●en actually executed upon some Infants If ye mean the final Sentence of Damnation ye meerly begg it it could be no other Sentence at most but what passed on Adam but that was not final for the Promise came after it to him and all his Posterity And indeed that Rom. 5.14 is to be understood of Infants and especi●lly of one part of Infants and not another ye me●rly beg it without all proof Ye do very u●advisedly to ground your uncharitab●e judgment of eternal Damnation of many Infants on this place of Scripture that the sence of it is so hard to be reached that it is understood af●er several wayes some understanding it of men so and so considered others otherwise this may well be thought one of these places in Paul's writings that are hard to be understood as Peter d●clared which the ignorant and unlearned wrest to their own destruction and should I say I could declare unto you the true sense of it your Prejudice would not suffer you to believe it Ye are so presumptious to declare it to be a Slander that some of your Church-Covenant gloried that none o● their C●ildren w●ile In●ants were Reprobates as if ye were omniscient and knew all that any of your Church-Covenant say or do when they are not present with you if it were worth the while I could produce the Name of a person of your Church Covenant that s●id it in mine and others hearing and your Federal Holiness is little worth if any Infants within or under it perish and I cannot find that ye understand any thing by your federal Holiness but a meer Nothing cloathed with an outward Name or Denomination o●herwise if it have any being or reality in Infants how can they perish and go to Hell with it Pag. 81. Ye grosly wrong my words alledging That I call that Holiness mentioned 1 Cor. 7. a Capacity of Holiness Whereas my words are a more near capacity in Holiness in C●ildren of believing Parents than in the C●ildren o●Vnbelievers Whereby I imply that there are several degrees of this capacity some more near and some more remote even as the Land that is sown with good Seed that hath not taken root hath a nearer capacity to bring forth Corn than another field where no seed is sown and there may be another field that is yet in a nearer capacity to bring Corn being helped by greater advantages and conveniencies than the other and the grounds may differ also And ye seem to think it very islogical to call a capacity of Holines● Holiness Answ A bare

The Pretended ANTIDOE PROVED POYSON Or The true Principles of the Christian Protestant Religion Defended And the Four Counterfit Defenders thereof Detected and Discovered the Names of which are James Allen Joshuae Moodey Samuell Willard and Cotten Mather who call themselves Ministers of the Gospel in Boston in their pretended Answer to my Book called The Presbyterian Independent Visible Churches in New-England and elsewhere brought to the Test c. And G. K. cleared not to be guilty of any Calumnies against these called Teachers of New-England c. By George Keith With an Appendix by John Delavall by way of Animadversion on some Passages in a Discourse of Cotton Mathers before the general Court of Massachusets the 28th of the Third Moneth 1690. Philadelphia Printed by Will. Bradford 1690. Introduction To James Allen Joshua Moodey Samuell Willard and Cotten Mather Men and Neighbours I Have seen your pretended Answer to my Book which ye call The Principles of the Protestant Religion maintained c. which I have also read and well considered and I find that upon the matter ye have left the substance or principal matter of it wholly unanswered and that your said pretended A●●wer contains little else but Railing after an extraordinary and unusual manner of Speech scarcely to be paralell'd and many very gross Mistakes and Perversions of my words and some absolutely false Quotations and Recitations alledging Words and Sayings and Doctrines to be mine and delivered by me in my Book which are neither directly nor indirectly to be found there and which are neither my express words nor so much as the most remote true and just Consequence of them But it is altogether unfair and absurd to alledge any thing upon a man which are not either his express words or the plain and manifest sence of them obvious to every intelligent and impartial Reader For to alledge a consequential sense of a mans words which they will no wayes bear is most uncivil and inhumane and argueth at most a weak and desperate Cause when ye are put to use such mean and unlawful Arts to make your part seem fair And surely ye who pretend to find so great fault at the supposed Calumnies of G. K. should have at least upon some prudential consideration as men shown your selves not to be so deeply guilty of that Vice of Calumniating which ye only with great confidence alledge but can never prove against him I find ye are not a little vexed at my Book but since it containeth little else but Non-sence Tautologies Nauseous Repetitions Cavils and Sophisms as ye alledge why are ye so angry fretted why should Non-sence Tautologies Cavils and Sophisms vex you so very much what aileth you that ye come with such a company ye seem in great part to resemble Micah pursuing some of the Children of Dan to recover your lost gods and to answer with him after some manner Ye have taken away our gods which we made and our Priests and ye are gone away and what have we more And what is this that thou sayst unto us what aileth us But I assure you I intend to make no such usage of your gods as the Danites did of the gods of Micah nor have I robbed any of your gods or idols from you but as becoming a true Christian I have fairly and honestly laboured to convince you of your many evil and hurtful Errors which ye set up in your hearts as Idols and false Godds for ye may know that the Scripture telleth of fome that did set up Idols in their hearts yea whatever any men set up in their hearts in the room and place of the true God and his Precious holy and living Truth and the divine dictates and Testimonies thereof are but false gods and idols of mens making It is a most false and injurious Accusation ye insinuate against me as if I did seek to perswade any to part with an infinite and eternal God and having a created Soul blasphemously place in his Throne or to p●rt with the precious Bible viz. the holy Scriptures as a dead Letter and to have silent postures of their own in the room thereof or that I seek to perswade these called your Congregations to part with an inestimable Redeemer for a dim Light within them which may prove Darkness it self or to have the whole Gospel Baptism of Christ his Supper taken away from them and the glorious Doctrines of Election Justification Perseverance depraved with Opinions that make man to be all and Grace to have small or no share in the matters of Salvation All which are most false and injurious Accusations with many more of that sort which ye very unchristianly cast upon me as I hope will clearly appear in the sequel and doth sufficiently appear in my former Book My desire and earnest travail of soul is That ye and all others who remain ignorant of God may come to the true knowledge of him and of his Son Christ Jesus whom to know is Life eternal I assert no created Soul or thing to be plac'd in the room of God in his Throne but plead against you that as God and Christ dwell in Heaven so they dwell in the hearts of all the faithful and that not divided or sepera●ed from ●heir Operations and Influences but together with them and one with them tho' ye would divide and seperate them asunder and that the same God and Christ as they are one so their operation and influence of Light and Grace are one and that by some gracious operation influence they are pleased to visit the Souls of all men more or less and as God and Christ are every where present in all the Creatures so in a more special way and manner of manifestation beside that universal Omnipresence they are in all men and cannot be excluded from any of the Creatures and therefore it is a most injurious Calumny as if either I or any of my Friends did set up any thing in the room or throne of God for whatover illumination operation or influential Effect of God and Christ we assert to be in men we do not say that it is God or Christ for we do not confound the Cause the Effect nor the Worker and his work but we say God and Christ the Word by which all things were made are most inwardly present in all Creatures and if ye deny this ye and not we deny the true God and God and Christ are Light as the holy Scripture declareth and are no dim Light which is in you Blasphemy to assert but both your Eyes and the Eyes of many are dim yea and blind that ye cannot in this your blind state see the glory of God And for the holy Scriptures ye your selves say The MIND and true SENSE of the Scripture is the Scripture or Word and that was never called by us a dead Letter nor is the Scripture dead to any but to such who are dead and