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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

is as unchristian as the other two viz. because the Seed bruised in good measure the Serpents Head in the Holy Men and Women of all Generations before that outward appearance this is a Truth but the Consequence he draws from it is a notorious Falshood and a most Antichristian Doctrine viz. That therefore the Seed of the Woman and the promised Seed of Abraham figured by the Types and Figures of the Law as the Pascal Lamb c. was not any outward thing or person but an Holy and Spiritual Principle of light Life and Power and at this rate Christ was not a Lamb without nor a Man without but a Lamb within and Man within And though he pretendeth to overthrow his Adversaries Opinion viz. Some called Baptists and others yet he Fighteth against his shadow by limiting the question by the phrase strictly considered for I know no Baptist that ever said the Body strictly considered i. e. without the Soul of the Man Christ and without the Godhead is Christ or that promised Seed of Abraham and Seed of the Woman And though Christ did not become the Seed of the Woman according to the sense of that place of Scripture Gen. 3. until the fulness of time that he was made of a Woman yet seeing that Divine Power that inwardly did destroy the Power of Sin and Sathan in true Believers in him that was promised to come was the real Power of him that was to come and the gift of it was the real purchase of his most Holy and Perfect Obedience unto Death when he came it is truly said That he bruised the Serpents Head in all true believers in all Ages And thus having shewed the Antichristian Doctrine of these 2 great Champions that have appeared against me to give out this Nameless Bull of Excommunication in some Particulars that are Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith I shall in short present to the Reader 's View the Antichristian Doctrine of the Third Champion John Whitehead not only contradicting the plain Doctrine of the Holy Scripture in a Fundamental Article of Faith but also contradicting his Brother William Penn for William Penn saith the Body of Christ is not so much as in any One but John Whitehead saith indeed That Christ hath a Body or is in a Body suitable to his Spirit consisting of heavenly flesh and bone and doth not deny that Christ has any Body now beside his Church but he confesseth he hath several times denied that Christ hath now a body of flesh and bones circumscript or limited in that Heaven which is above and out of every man on Earth See pag. 40 41. of that book called The Quakers Refuge the Postscript of which is here cited And he saith plainly Wheresoever the Spirit and Life of Christ is that is in the body of Christ and thus as he owneth that Christ has a body that is not the Church yet he owneth no other body beside his Church that is circumscript and out of every man on Earth And yet not only W. P. saith The body of Christ is not so much as in any One a plain contradiction to John Whitehead But George Whitehead in his Printed Postscript in answer to W. H. queries in the book called The Malice of the Independent Agent Rebuked saith concerning the flesh of Christ that was raised from the Dead it is so far circumscribed or incompassed in the Heavens as it 's capable of and as is proper to it and though it be spiritual and glorious yet a body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to bodies See how like Sampson's Foxes though tied by the Tail their Faces look contrary Again In the Collection of Stephen Crisp's Treatises commended and signed by George VVhitehead John Whitehead Francis Camfield John Vaughton VV. Bingley John Field my chief opposers and adversaries and others ye have these following gross and absurd passages most offensive to Christian Ears concerning Christ's Generation in time and expiation of sin by his Blood In his Treatise called The Backslider Reproved being a Reply to one Robert Cobbet he blameth the said R. C. for affirming pag. 194. that to be the Seed of Promise which came by Generation of and from the Properties of Mary He further adds Is not that the Seed of Promise mentioned in Isaiah 9. 6. who is called the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace And what is Mary the Mother of God this will please the Papists well and where is thy Scripture to prove that Jesus the Saviour was Created And pag. 197. he saith But indeed we never believed him to be produced by Coagulation as R. C. doth nor by the Generation of and from the Properties of Man in Mary for then some might have declared his Generation which the Scripture saith who can do Obs 1. It is denied here by S. C. That that was the Seed of Promise which came by Generation c. This is plain contrary to Matt. 1. 1. The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ the Son of David the Son of Abraham 2. As it is Evident from Scripture so it is the consent of all sound Christians That Christ was the Son of God by an eternal Generation before the World began and the Son of Abraham and David by Generation in the fulness of time and though this Generation was Miraculous yet it was of and from Mary therefore he is said to be made of a Woman 3. His denying that Jesus the Saviour was Created or calling for Scripture to prove it doth sufficiently prove that he understands Christ only to be God and wholly excludes the Manhood of Christ from being Christ or any part of him 4. That Prophecy in Isaiah 9. 6. Unto us a Child is Born c. which is a plain Prophecy concerning Christ's Birth in the fulness of time he plainly denieth it to be understood of Christ as he was born of Mary 5. I believe with all sound Christians against Jews and all Infidels that he who was born of Mary is that Child or Son given who is both God and Man and yet one Lord Jesus Christ and though none can fully and in all respects declare either the Generation of Christ before the time of this World was or his Generation in the fulness of time yet in some degree and respect it hath been declared both by the Prophets and Evangelists and Apostles but none ought to declare it but Holy Men to whom it hath been in some measure Revealed 6. I find that not only S. C. but G. W. quarrels with that Expression calling Mary the Mother of God as if it were Popery But are they wiser than the Holy Ghost who giveth these Names to the Child that was to be born according to Isaiah's Prophecy wonderful Counseller the mighty God c. Again in the same Treatise pap 192. concerning the Blood of Christ's Humanity he saith And then again