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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

us is to them but History and to believe in him without us is but History and an Historical Faith But if these Men were not extreamly dark and blind they could see and own that as Christ within is a Mistery and a great Mistery and if John Faldo did deny it I shall be far from Justifying or excusing him so Christ without us is not only a Mistery but a greater Mistery or rather as Christ both without us and within us is but one Christ so one exceeding great and glorious Mistery but if we may distinguish this one great Mistery as it were in two parts as we commonly distinguish a two fold appearance of Christ one without us in the Flesh another within us by his Spirit and yet but one Christ so we ought to own and confess if we have any Spiritual Sight and knowledg of Christ that Christ without us as he is both God and Man God manifest in the Flesh in whom dwelleth all fulness of Grace and Truth is a far greater part of the Mistery than Christ within us for the fulness dwelt and still dwelleth in the Man Christ without us but the best of the Saints that ever lived have but their respective Measures and the Mistery of Christ his being both God and Man his miraculous conception and Birth his being that Universal Offering for our Sins his Death Resurrection and Ascension and continual intercession for us in Heaven and his continually giving forth and sending down to his Saints on Earth new and fresh influences of Life Light and Grace yea and by what he conveyeth into mens Hearts of his Power and Virtue both to begin and carry on the work of Regeneration in men what a complex of Misteries is here who can sufficiently declare them or who that is not grosly ignorant of the inward work of Regeneration can prefer the inward work of Regeneration tho a great and glorious mistery to Christ as he is both God and man without us who hath the Spirit given him without measure Is not this to prefer the measure to the fulness the stream to the Fountain the Effect to the Cause the Gift to the Giver and the Life in the Hands and Feet and other Members to the Life in the Head and the Sap and Vertue that is in the branches to that which is in the Tree and Root And seeing the work of Regeneration and Sanctification in the Saints is a great mistery must we not own him who is the Author and great Cause of it to be greater Unless VV. Penn will say that it is not Christ without us but only Christ within us that is the Author and Cause of Regeneration Indeed if he can prove that only Christ within men is the cause of Regeneration he hath gained his Point but this he will never be able to do and he may expect as soon to perswade men of understanding that the Sun is no cause of the Generation of Herbs and Plants in the Earth being without them as that Christ without men is not the Cause of the work of Regeneration within for if we ascribe the work of Regeneration within men to Christ or to his Spirit Light and Life within as the measure that measure within comes from the fulness in the Man Christ without them yea and from the Man Christ in whom the fulness dwelleth and the measure acteth in the Saints by the Power and Strength of the Fulness thereof for and VV. P. or G. VV. to suppose the Mistery of Regeneration can either be experienced witnessed or understood without the Mistery of Christ without us argueth as great ignorance in them as if one should think he can demonstrate the Generation of Herbs and Plants Springing out of the Earth without the Sun But it is a further instance of VV. Penn his great Ignorance in the Mistery of Christ that by his words above named he maketh Christ without but the introduction to the Mistery viz. Christ within as to say The Life in the Head is but an introduction to the Life in the Members and thus the Members shall be more valuable than the Head And lastly It is a most ranting strain in him to say That what Christ did and suffered without Men which he calleth Transactions to be so many facile Representations of what was to be accomplished in Man Thus Christ without is made but a Type Figure and Shell and the inward is made the Kernel and Antitipe But was there not more in Christ of the inward incomparably than in all men For what of the Kernel or Substance any or all the Saints have they have it out of him and by and through him even the Man Christ without them And whereas it is plainly evident from VV. Penn his words abovementioned That he will not have the Manifestation of God in the Flesh of Christ to be the true Mistery of Godliness but Christ manifested in his Children the hope of Glory he sets things in opposition which ought not to be opposed but joyned together and he perverts most grosly these words of the Apostle Paul even as some of his late Brethren have done 1 Tim. 3. 16. without controversy great is the mistery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh Justified in the Spirit c. Jumbling two places of Scripture together and confounding their sense as if because that place Colos 1. 29. mentioneth Christ in you the hope of Glory that therefore by God manifest in the Flesh c. Of which Paul saith without controversy great is the mistery of Godliness is to be understood Christ in the Saints and not Christ without us as he was both God and Man whereas it is most evident That place is to be understood of the Man Christ in whom was and is the most Glorious Manifestation of God that ever was and no otherwise of Christ in the Saints but by way of concomitancy or consequence because whatever Manifestation of the Life Virtue or Measure of the Spirit of Christ any of the Saints have they have it out of the fulness of the Spirit and of Grace and Truth that dwelleth in the Glorified Man Christ Jesus and out of his fulness it floweth into their is water in the cteeks floweth into them out of the Ocean or fulness or Water that is in the Sea and as the outward Light we have on Earth daily floweth from the Fountain and Fulness of Light that is in the outward Sun and this the last clause of that Verse 1 Tim. 3. 16. plainly proveth viz. Received up into Glory manifestly pointing at Christ's Ascention into Heaven and the Glory he is stated into And let W. P. plainly Answer me whether he Judgeth that the manifestation of God in the man W. P. or in the man G. W. or any other man whatsoever is greater or a greater mistery than the manifestation of God in the man Christ Jesus as his words plainly import at least by a natural and necessary consequence