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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47142	George Keith's explications of divers passages contained in his former books as also his free and open retractations of sundry other passages contained in the same, which may at present suffice for a reply to the late, as well as former books of Tho. Elwood, and John Penington, published against me, in respect of the most material things.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing K163; ESTC R18950	49,736	50

Reprobation rendring salvation impossible either to the greatest part or indeed to any part of Mankind and for the possibility of salvation to all Mankind So that who shall not be saved are left without excuse But this possibility of salvation cannot be understood without it be acknowledged that God has made some Provision of means whereby Men Universally are put under a possibility of salvation the means of salvation are both without Men and within Men the means without are chiefly Christs coming in the Flesh and his suffering Death for all Men and offering up himself a Sacrifice for all c. The means within are the inward Visitations and Illuminations of God by his Spirit inwardly convincing Men of Sin and moving them to Repentance and Conversion unto God and Christ And tho I have plainly enough in this my Book opposed that absurd Doctrine of absolute Reprobation yet An Election even of Persons as well as of the Divine Seed I have owned and that God doth visit such elect Persons with his Mercy that he never leaveth them till he hath gained them to himself which is a wonderful Discrimination of the free Love of God Viz. To them above and beyond others who are not saved See pag. 107 and in p. 108. allowing the common Translation of these words Acts 13. 48. And as many as were ordained to eternal Life believed I say we grant that as whoever believes are ordained to Eternal Life so whoever are ordained to Eternal Life do believe And pag. 109. I denied that Faith foreseen or something in the Creature was the moving Cause of God's Decree of Election And that I said Election was not without respect to Faith my sense is obvious viz. That Election respects Faith not as its Cause but as its Effect and as the means unto salvation so that whoever shall be eternally saved God hath chosen them to eternal salvation And in the same page 109. I own a more special giving according to John 6. 37. by Virtue whereof all that are thus given by the Father unto Christ shall come unto him and cannot but come to him II. Pag. 5. The spirit of Life from God is entred into the two slain Witnesses and yet shall more abuudantly enter Here Note this is said only by an Allegorical and Metaphorical Allusion What my sense of Scripture Allusions is see a little after § 4. III. Pag. 6. Forasmuch as they both deny That the Universal Light that is given unto all is the Light Evangelical or a Light for the Faith of the Gospel to rest in Therefore they viz. Papists and Arminians do not hold it forth as the Immediate Object of the Christian Faith 2dly They deny the way and manner of its Operation to be by Immediate Revelation 3dly They say This Light comes from Christ but Christ himself is not in man Here Note That divers of my late Adversaries among that Sect of Quakers with whom I have had a great Contest of late concerning some of the great Fundamentals of Christian Doctrine have from this passage sought to infer my Agreement with them so as to hold That the Light within was sufficient to salvation without any thing else and thereby not only excluding all outward helps and means of salvation but even the Man Christ Jesus and his Death and Sufferings and Sacrifice of himself from being necessarily concerned in our salvation as because I had said that this Light is Evangelical that is in every man and is the Immediate Object of the Christian Faith and so that Christ is in every man But all this doth not prove that I ever did hold that the Light within is sufficient to salvation without any thing else for I did always believe that Christ is our intire and compleat Saviour in both respects viz. both as he came outwardly in the Flesh and died for our sins and became a Sacrifice of a sweet savour unto God to make a Reconciliation betwixt God and us and also as he cometh into us and is in us as the Eternal Word but I never held that the Word alone was our entire and Compleat Saviour without his taking the true Nature of Man upon him And that I never did exclude him but that still both in this book and all my other books first and last I did respect him both ways viz. both within us and without us as our compleat and entire Saviour and the compleat and entire Saviour of all that shall be saved by him I can sufficiently prove and that I have so considered him in this very book I shall bring sufficient Evidence for thus I write p. 120. of this book That the sufficiency of the Light and Grace of Christ within doth not make void the use and benefit of his Outward Coming Obedience Death and Sufferings For they are not to be set in Opposition to each other as if the one did hinder the sufficiency or usefulness of the other both being sufficient and useful and necessary in their own kind and way consummating and being consummated in one another And p. 10. I say And as concerning the sufficiency of this Light unto salvation we do not understand it in Opposition to either the Necessity or Usefulness of the Outward Coming of Christ and his Sufferings and Death for our sins nor in Opposition to the service and use of any Teachings in the Outward that come from the spirit of God or any Outward things to be done or practised which his spirit leadeth unto And p 11. I say Neither do we assert That men that have received this Light and spirit of God and have given themselves up unto it to obey it and so are become servants of Righteousness do receive at once a full and sufficient measure for the whole course of their lives but only sufficient for the present state condition opportunity and case to preserve protect and defend them from all Evil so that the Creature must be continually exercised in a perpetual dependance and waiting upon the Lord to receive the renewed and fresh Influences of his Divine Life and Light according as its present state condition and necessity may require there being no security of the soul out of this dependent waiting receiving frame And whereas my late Adversaries have much blamed my distinguishing betwixt a first and second Ministration of the Spirit and Light within given to both Jews and Gentiles calling the first Legal and that of the first Covenant the second Evangelical being that of the second Covenant and for my saying That none were justified by the Law or first ministration of the spirit or Light within and their Obedience thereunto but thro' Faith in Christ And they call this distinction New Doctrine and say therein I do contradict what I have formerly delivered in this book But for the Reader 's satisfaction I recommend to him if he please to read what I have writ in that very book from p. 8. to p. 10. where he will