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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

may observe in both my Treatises but because these men who are our Opposers thinking to render our Doctrine odious do accuse it either as Novel or as Old Heresies revived by us and as contradicting almost all Fundamentals of Christian Religion for almost Seventeen Hundred Years past held by good Christians Therefore I found it convenient to cite these Testimonies to show our agreement not only with the holy Scriptures but also with other Writers of good esteem among Protestants even in these very Heads called by our Opposers Heresies and Blasphemies that their Ignorance and Partiality may appear and their evil Design to render the Truth Odious may be discovered In the end I desire the Reader to take notice how that after C. M. and his Brethren have been disputing against all divine Inspiration as a most absurd and false Doctrine so much as to suppose it remaining or in being whereby men may be assisted to preach or pray yet in his Postscript to his Thanksgiving Sermon printed in 1690. he giveth an account of some prophecying Boyes and Girles and other Men Women now in France that both pray and preach by Inspiration and he saith expresly He dare not say what Authority or what Original is to be assigned unto these Inspirations But seeing according to his Doctrine all divine Inspiration is ceased he ought to conclude they are not of God but of the Devil but because he dare not so conclude he alloweth it to be possible they may be divine which is a manifest Contradiction and giving away his Cause as also that he alloweth that Girles and Women may preach and pray in Christian Assemblies which the Priests of N. England have so much opposed G. K. An APPENDIX AMong the many Writers this scribling Age hath furnish't the World with there is none in these American parts hath been so busie as one Cotton Mather a pretended Minister of the Gospel in Boston whose publick Discourses in print sufficiently evince● to the serious Intelligible Reader how little reason himself hath to assume that Title or his Brethren to confer it upon him I shall only at this time take notice as the Lord shall assist me of that by him sent forth to publick view under this Title The Serviceable Man A Discourse made unto the general Court of the Massachusets Colony in New-England at the anniversary Election the 28th of the 3d Mo. 1690. The stile tendency and purport of this Discourse more resembles the Harangues of a Mountebank or Comedian than of a serious sober Christian much less a Minister of Christ its plain this Author hath been more solicitous to please the Ears of his credulous Auditors than to consult how Truth would vindicate his Assertions as appears partly by his Self-Contradictions and also by his false malitious Slanders and Reproaches of an innocent People by him and others in scorn call'd Quakers whose Principles he is either unacquainted with or else wickedly perverts them if the first he manifests his Ignorance if the latter his Envy and Malice both ill Companions for a Minister of Christ In proof of his Self-Contradiction read pag. 28. of his said Book compared with pag. 57. Pag. 28. thus 'T is the Prerogative of New-England above all the Countries of the World That it is a Plantation for the Christian Protestant Religion You may now see a Land filled with Churches which by solemn and aweful Covenants are dedicated unto the Son of God there are I suppose more than an hundred of these holy Societies among us which would in Luthers judgment render the meanest Villiage more glorious than an Ivory Palace in these you may see Discipline managed Heresie subdued Prophaness opposed and Communion maintained with a careful respect unto the Word of God in all you may see faithful Ministers and sincere Christians and multitudes of Souls ripening a pace for the Kingdom of God you may see proportionably as much of God among them as in any spot of Ground which the Children of Adam walk upon This is greatly in praise of N. England if he had not as fully amply contradicted it p. 57. in this manner But if our Fathers were to write unto us from that Heaven unto which they are gone I am thinking what they would say Would they not write in very disgracing Terms unto us and say Alas you don't walk in our wayes we left in your Hands a work to be done for the People of God but you have thrown by that work and found something else to be concern'd about We hop'd that you would have trod in our Steps and that we should have shortly congratulated your Arrival to the Glorious place which we are Triumphing in But we now fear That we have dropt you and lost you forever and that we shall never see you more till we behold you wringing your Hands and Gnashing your Teeth among the Goats at the Left Hand of the Lord Jesus in the Day of His Appearing If what this Writer so confidently affirmed before were undeniably true let the Reader judge how unlikely it is an Epistle from Heaven should be filled with such Contents against so holy a People and for the future the Author will do well to avoid the like Contradictions It cannot be counted Breach of Charity in me or any other to give greater credit to what I am ready with him to believe would be the Contents of an Epistle from Heaven from such of their Fathers as are gone unto those heavenly Mansions prepared for them by our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ than unto this Author's Character directly Contradictory hereunto This Author hath plentifully vented his Envy and Malice against an innocent quiet peaceable People whose behaviour under all Governments where by the Providence of God they have had their abode hath been such as loudly gainsays the bitter Invictives belched forth against them by this Satirical Author in pag. 34 35 36. of his book I shall cite the Passages verbatim and so make some short Reply C. M. While these Enemies are seeking to involve our Civil Concerns in Confusion there are Sectaries and Seducers that are using their Batt'ring Rams upon our Sacred Ones And among those the Quakers are certainly the most Malicious as well as the most Pernicious Enemies Reply Here is a heavy Charge against an innocent People that they are not only Sectaries and Seducers but the most Malicious and Pernicious Enemies among those Were this as firmly proved as 't is boldly asserted it were enough to render us Odious It s no less just than strange this man should be so infatuated as to imagine those many thousands unto whom his Discourse is made publick by print should be so easily imposed upon as his credulous Auditors were that day for may not by this manner of Reasoning without the least shadow of proof the best of Societies as well as particular men be grosly abused A Method the Papists-use against the Protestants C. M. They

proof and that ye say Antient and Modern Interpreters agree therein y● show your rashness for ye name no antient Writer that saith so And Theodoretus a very antient Writer expoundeth that place Psal 89.15 in his Commentary on the Psalms of the J●bilation or joyful Sound in the Gentiles in Gospel-dayes who should believe in Christ and it is evident that the Psalm is a Prophecy of Christ and of the great blessings that should come to all Nations both Jews and Gentiles by him as both Theodoretus and other antient and modern Writers understand it as is clear from vers 25 26 27 28 29 c. that is not applicable to David but to Christ whereof David was a Type And that ye say The Quakers give notice of their Meetings we grant but yet we use neither Bell nor Drum to give such notice and find no need nor occasion for any such superstitious Custom Pag. 135. Ye query May ye not succeed the Apostles in their Ministry though not in their Apostleship I Answer Nay seeing ye deny that which qualifieth all true Ministers of Christ which is the Spirit and Power of Christ inwardly revealed and that ye require nothing of real inward Godliness necessary to constitute a Minister of Christ ye have no President for your Ministry that ye plead for without true piety from the true Apostles but from Judas the Apostate that betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ and in so doing fell from his Ministry yea ye are not ashamed to mention him and the Pharisees for your Presidents and Patrons to which I have formerly replyed And though the Apostles ordained Elders and Over-seers over gathered Churches yet it was by the direction of the holy Ghost and this ye deny that your Ordination was such Nor was it proper and peculiar only to the Apostles to travel through the Nations to preach the Gospel but was common to other Pastors and Teachers as to the Apostles as is clear from the Acts of the Apostles and from Christs Commission And every true Minister of Christ is to know his place and calling by the Spirit of the Lord how long he is to stay among a People whether all his Life time or for some season But if ye were indeed called of God to sit down all your dayes in one pl●ce how cometh it to be so usual among you to remove from one place to another and most commonly to some new place where ye can have a greater Benefice or some better outward Accomodation Pag. 136. Ye say I reflect a Scandal upon you in respect of the endeavours for the Conversion of the Indians for this ye refer to the printed Accounts But ye should have mentioned in particular what these printed acounts say that they might be examined whether true or false for we know many printed Accounts are false and it is most manifest that great Sums of Money have been sent out of Old England to encourage that work of preaching to the Indians and it is as manifest that much of that Money hath been ill bestowed and improved as the Country of New-England knoweth well enough and these called Christian Indians your pretended Converts are known generally to be worse than the poor Heathens CAP. X. PAg. 136. Ye say so little in defence of that ye call your Two Sacraments confessing withal That the Scripture saith nothing of the word Sacrament that I shall not spend Paper nor Time to answer all your Impertinencies considering that I have said enough that may suffice to answer you in my former Reply to Pardon Tillinghast for if Water-Baptism be no Gospel Precept then surely sprinkling Infants is none only I shall consider some of the grossest of them Pag. 137. As for sprinkling ye say ye plead not for it but for pouring Water not on the fore-head only but on the face This seemeth a learned distinction that may pass current among ignorant People what difference betwixt sprinkling and pouring seeing all the Water ye pour is neither gallon nor pint but so much as ye can hold in the hollow of your hand which cannot well wet the whole face and therefore is more sprinkling but still ye are to seek for a proof that either sprinkling or pouring Water on a childs fac● was ever commanded by Christ or practised by any of the Apostles or Ministers of Christ record●d in Scripture Ye say Origine and Cyprian tell us that the Apostles gave order for the baptizing of Infants withal citing Augustin but this is no Scripture-proof and Authority of antient Writers without Scripture ought to be of no weight among true Protestants The Church of Rome doth so argue for her unscriptural Traditions and is more ingenuous than ye that she doth confess There is no A●t●ority for Infant Baptism but only the Tradition of the Church and if ye have no better Authority than Tradition your cause is desperate and your Refuge to the Tradition of antient Writers proveth you more Popish than Protestant And as for Origine Cyprian and Augustine they lived long after the first Century and ye can give no evidence in Church History that Infant Baptism was practised until Cyprians time past two hundred years from Christs Resurrection and whereas while the practice of Water-Baptism continued in the Church it was required that before Baptism the Persons that were to be baptized should confess to the Truth and also that they did confess their sins and declare their Repentance and Faith which Infants could not do and therefore were incapable of Water-Baptism to supply which defect in after Ages the invention of God-fathers that should confess and vow for them was set up that hath no shadow of ground in Scripture Pag. 139. Ye say I fraudule●tly omit that clause citing Luke 18.15 16. For of such i● the Kingdom of God Answ I do not fraudulently omit it but saw no necessity to repeat it as having not the least seeming strength in it for Water-Baptism to Infants for granting that those Infants or such belonged to the Kingdom of God it doth not therefore follow that they were baptized with Water ye must show either Precept or Practice but ye do neither and that ye say It is above the capacity of Children to receive the Lords Supper so call'd ye give no instance wherein that is more above their capacity than to receive Infant Baptism by sprinkling or pouring seeing both ye say are signs of spiritual Mysteries and in Augustines time that call'd the Supper was given to Children or Infants if they be uncapable of understanding the thing signified by the one so are they of understanding the thing signified by the other Ye falsly alledge That Contra-distinguished signifieth two Contraryes the one to the other but I did not un●e●stand any c●ntrariety betwixt John's Baptism and Christ'● but only a diversity nor doth the word contra-distinguished import any other contrariety but as the Type hath to the Anti-type i. e. counter-type Pag. 140 141. Ye contend that Mat.