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A54083	The fig-leaf covering discovered, or, Geo. Keith's explications and retractions of divers passages out of his former books, proved insincere, defective and evasive by John Penington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1697 (1697)	Wing P1227; ESTC R22450	96,997	142

of Christ the One Offering come to be revealed by which One Offering he hath for Ever perfected them that are sanctified as in Truth Advanced p. 71. I have opposed to his saying Way to City of God p. 125. that through the coming of Jesus Christ in the inward even before he was outwardly come or manifest many were saved and attained unto PERFECT Peace and Reconciliation with God in their Souls And to what he alledged in Vni Gr. p. 8. c. that the Gospel lay hid within the Law as within the Vail that Christ Jesus was in the Law and under it that universally in ALL Men both Jews and Gentiles there hath been both Moses and the Prophets in Spirit and also Christ See my Keith against Keith p. 4 12 13 c. Nor yet have we blamed his saying None were justified by the Law or first Ministration of the Spirit or Light within or their Obedience thereunto but thro' Faith in Christ which yet are not delivered as deduced by us out of him but shewed what he meant by Faith in Christ then viz. a believing in the Light nor is the outward Name that which saveth but the inward Nature Vertue and Power which was made manifest in them said he Vni Gr. p. 30. who had said p. 29. That in diverse of these Gentiles the Seed was raised which is that Divine Nature or Birth by which they did the things contained in the Law and SO were JUSTIFIED by him Also in his Postscript to G. W. ●is Nature of Christianity p. 65 and 70. Cited by me Keith against Keith p. 11. and not yet retracted God was in Christ reconciling Men to himself ever since the Fall in all Ages both before and since Christ suffered in the outward having given them or put in them the Word of Reconciliation by which they who became renewed thereby were reconciled and justified in all Ages blaming R. G. his Doctrine that no Men were justified nor reconciled until Christ suffered Death in the outward because then and not till then his Adversary had said was Reconciliation and Justification wrought c. to whom also he assigns as an Error the asserting That Obedience to the Light within in the Conscience is bu● the work of the first Covenant and Righteousnes● thereof and that no Man is justified thereby By a● which the Reader may perceive G. K. hath not fairl● stated what we objected to him out of his Books as we● as that he had no cause to say as he doth here p. 19. ● That upon a diligent search into his Books and an imparti● examination of all the places Cited by us to prove it he ca● find no such thing as that he had formerly asserted M● might be justified and saved without all Knowledge a● Faith of Christ without us as he was Crucified c. Fo● what I have here laid before him of which I hav● Treated more at large in my People called Quakers clea●ed p. 26 to 31. out of his Book of Vni Gr. p. 28 29 3● 34 35 36 56 57 58 115 117 and 120. are sufficie●● to shew both what he formerly called Faith in Chris● and what Faith justified even the Gentiles before Chri● was Crucified even a belief in the inward Manifestatio● in the Word nigh in the Mouth and Heart as Vni G● p. 34 35. and abundantly elsewhere However there is a blunder of his behind p. 18 which having slipt over I now return to where 〈◊〉 saith no Justification is by that Law whether it be underst● of Moses his outward Ministration or the same Ministr●●tion of Moses in Spirit where the Law is writ but in Tab● of Stone till the Seed be raised c. Upon which I Q●ry Whether the Ministration of Moses in Spirit was writ in Tables of Stone or the fleshy Tables of the Heart If upon the former where were these Tables to be found Who had the keeping of them And who wrote them there He had need have recourse to his Metaphorical Allusion again and even that will not help him But it is just with God that such as Fight against his Wrath and are Bladder-blown with their own Learning should expose themselves that others may see if they will not that Pride goeth before Destruction and a haughty Look before a Fall Prov. 16.18 Yet in as much as in the Citation above out of Vni Gr. p. 29. I have shewed that he then allow'd that in diverse of the Gentiles the Seed was raised and they were justified by Christ In as much also as he here recurrs to his late distinction of Express and Implicit Knowledge and Faith for which he widely referrs to his Book of Anti. and Sadd. Detected without either assign●ng Page or Passage or observing that I have Answered him even with respect to that very distinction ●n my Keith against Keith p. 62 to 71. which seems to be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Universal Heal-all of G. K's Languishing Cause brought in at every turn to stop a gap with whether applicable or no I shall tell him He that affirmeth must prove and if he will affirm those Gentiles had an Implicit Faith and Knowledge that Christ was outwardly to be Born Suffer Die and Rise again ●n order to their Justification he must not barely al●edge but demonstrate that they had it either explicitly or implicitly which I have more than once put him upon and he hath not yet attempted to do as well ●s that I have shewed that even then several of the Citations given out of him while unretracted block ●p his way Which I again press upon him to do whatever comes short hereof being meer Trifling § 4 G. K. having so severely as well as unjustly reflected upon G. W. Ex. Narr p. 39 40. as having Allegorized away Christ's Birth Death Resurrection Ascension and coming to Judgment it might reasonably have been expected himself should not have exceeded therein or at least that he would have corrected and retracted his own before he found fault with another Yet when his own Allegories or Metaphorical Allusions as he now tearms them lay at his Door unretracted hath he been casting the first Stone at another so unjust is he The instance before me and which a● length G. K. endeavours here to palliate in his § 4. is in Vni Gr. p. 9. where alluding to Moses his putting a Vail before his Face he saith The Word became Flesh and dwelt in us said John And this inward Appearance of Christ in Flesh is his Appearance i● Weakness as Natural and yet Spiritual the Mystery hid within the Vail of Flesh or Natural Spirit Again This is the Body of Christ that is indeed Spiritual but for our Cause descendeth into a Natural Form or Appearance Thus it is sown Natural but is raised Spiritual and thus also we become changed thereby both in the Soul and Body so as being sow● Natural we come to be raised Spiritual And indeed there was

if it be an Ex●lication then not a Retractation for they are not Syno●imous Tearms and if strained not genuin nor pro●er then not plain and free much less fairly defended ●y Explication Besides that he that will strain an ●xplication beyond what it will bear cannot be supposed to be freely willing to retract it seing it was ●is Unwillingness to do that which drew him to strain ●is Explication So that this profound Scholar hath run himself a-ground miserably Yet surely had he not been conscious to himself of using strained Explications he need not have given this Caution to his friendly and judicious Reader for such are not apt to take things at the worst hand nor so to conceive without just Cause administred Had he given it as a Caution to the Captious and Inimical not to the Friendly and Judicious there had been less ground to suspect he knew he had deserved such a Censure And indeed he hath so managed his Work all along as will be obvious upon the reading of these that he could not expect but it would be excepted against even by the Friendly that do not give away their Judgment To mend the matter he now tells us he freely retracts all Passages in any of his Books in so far as they are inconsistent with the Holy Scriptures and submits them to the Test thereof Answ As this is general no particular passage assigned it is no Retractation at all For who even of them that are least conscious to themselves of having offered what is not perfectly consistent with Scripture may not say so and that the● submit theirs to the Test thereof which may be rather called a Purgation and Vindication than a Retractation Again when at one time he faith the Text saith thus in the Greek the proper and usual Significatio● must be kept to as Vni Gr. p. 43. another while re●tracts that alledgeth the Sense would be marred i● that Translation were admitted and all this upon th● same Scripture as hath been instanced above Sect. ● § 16. and Sect. II. § 7. what must be the Test then Who the Interpreter If G. K. himself It may be 〈◊〉 question how long he will keep of that Mind 〈◊〉 another Who is that other And what Assuranc● will G. K. give that he will stand to his Arbitrement Yet upon this he gives his Reader very oily Words tells him how ready he would be to correct them for tha● possibly divers other particulars may have not been observed and p. 43. That he would receive an Information most kindly as a most friendly Office and judge himself greatly obliged to be thankful to him which I take as an artificial Cover that he might not be suspected to have slipt over so many without the least notice which he had received Information of As for ours he represents them to be without a right Vnderstanding from a Spirit of Prejudice or a Scoffing Taunting Airy Vnchristian Spirit which as it is no Encouragement to any Man to take the Pains to be Scavinger to his Books for what Security can the Reader have he shall be better treated so it denotes not a hearty Desire of Information for why then did he over-look them he was informed of but a design to hide and cover himself under specious Pretences and excuse himself from engaging where he cares neither to retract nor defend Who saith of T. E. C. P. and me That we have blamed and censured the soundest Passages for most part in his Books in relation to Doctrine though generally such as most need Correction we have past without the least Censure To which I answer In as much as he is thus conscious to himself of passages that need Correction why did he not clear his hands of what was depending before he called upon his Reader for more Work To the rest I say It is Contradictions not Doctrines that we have mostly alledged out of his Books And where they have offered themselves we have taken them the censuring his Doctrines any otherwise than by comparing the Contradictory Assertions being the least part of what we have been engaged in He begins p. 44. thus Finally with a free and willing Mind I make a general Retractation of all the hard Names and uncharitable Censures I have at any time past upon any differing from me in p●int of Judgment that have not deserved them But who have deserved them and what Censures such have deserved he that knows can tell For G. K's part the Determination he keeps in his own Breast Wherefore I appeal to the several sorts of Protestants in this Nation Doth this satisfie you whom he thus hath censured and given these hard Names unto Do ye look upon this as a sincere hearty Retractation springing from deep Regret as he gives out or that it is any thing but a meer Shift Is this sufficient Compensation to you the Members of the Church of England for his tearming Prelacy a Limb of Antichrist Help in Time of Need p. 37 That filthy thing set up in the Land p. 38. telling the Presbyterians They did well in departing from you who gave your selves forth to be the Lord's Ministers and Servants running and he sent you not and that your Covetousness and Ambition and seeking how to please Men and not any Zeal for God set you on lording it over the People and that what ye gave forth as his Ordinances c. were the meer Inventions of Men and Babylon's golden Cup of Fornication for whose Pride Pomp Covetousness Tyranny and Ambition God's Wrath was kindled against you and he poured Contempt and Desolation upon you ibid. p. 47 48. Or to you of the Presbyterian way for his alledging in the Title Page That ye have GENERALLY shrunk from what but of late ye so zealously asserted and maintained to be the Cause and Work of God Was not that your Covenant against Prelacy say I the MOST PART actively complying to the building up again and healing old Babylon like the Dog returning to the Vomit and the Sow to the Puddle after the being once washed others lying by and cowardly bowing under and giving up themselves to a detestable Neutrality And p. 50. That when ye got upon the Walls and Bulworks of your Enemies building and levelled it to the Ground when ye had rooted out Prelacy and the many Corruptions and Superstitions that accompanied the same and digged down a good part of Babylon's up-setting that then ye took your selves to build Whos 's Form of Church-Discipline Order and Government is nothing upon the Matter better than the Episcopal saith G. K. p. 52. Or to you Independents and Bap●ists for linking you with the former as ALL of you open and declared Enemies to the Holy Spirit its inward Revelation and Inspiration c. see Presb and Ind. Ch. p. 45. For these are not yet retracted by him and how know ye but he still esteems you as DESERVING these Epithets It is true indeed he pretends