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A54085	The people called Quakers cleared by Geo. Keith from the false doctrines charged upon them by G. Keith and his self-contradictions laid open in the ensuing citations out of his books / by John Penington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. Postscript.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1229; Wing P1230; ESTC R40279	25,467	55

and therefore we cannot acknowledge it to be necessary or profitable to the weakest If neither necessary nor profitable to the weakest to whom are they or what have we to do with them say I And if they be Shadows they are no part of the Gospel Dispensation according to Paul's Doctrine saith G. K. p 146. and yet even now as Memorials and Significations that Christ hath already come they were of service to be continued in the Church Reconcile this who can for it is past my skill CONCLUSION MAny more Instances might be given of G. K. his Contradictions and Inconsistencies but I love not to clog my Reader who could have been content to have been more brief than I am Yet if any will take the pains to trace him they will find that in the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation he is the same uncertain Man as in those I have handled if they read from page 9. to 15. of Truth Advanced and compare it with his Book of Universal Grace from page 73. to 79. and from page 105. to the end Also what he says of the Church her coming out of the Wilderness and the Glory of this Dispensation Printed Anno 1665. in a Book called Help in time of need from page 55. to the end which was written I question not in a brighter time than of late he hath known hath no Analogy or Proportion with what he saith upon the same Subject in his Truth Advanced p. 133. to 163. as may be seen by comparing them together What remains is to touch on a few Passages of his Book Stiled Truth Advanced not those many sly false and proofless Insinuations hiddenly couched as with a side-winded blow at us which he seems willing should affect us yet would guard so that if they fall short and cannot his us he may come off and say he did not charge upon us wherewith his Work abounds but an Absurdity or two whereby the Mans Spirit may be savoured and the loss he is come to by leaning to his own understanding may be obvious In p. 16. He opposeth as an Error that the Garden of Paradice was some part of this visible Earth And whereas our Translation hath it That God put Man into the Garden to dress it and to keep it he finds fault with the word Dress saying p. 18. That it answereth not to the Hebrew which signifieth to work in it for it cannot be well understood saith he that it needed dressing after the manner of our common Gardens And his Reason is Man's Food both for his Soul and Body was to have been Paradisical but the Probation of both is to seek To this I shall only object What Work hath a man to do in a Garden if not to dress it and if the Garden had been no part of this visible Earth what work had there been to do there Surely if this visible Earth were made for Man he was not always to live in another Region above So p. 21. He tells us Though God made Man of the Dust of the Ground yet that Dust was not common Dust but much more pure and refined than that of which the Bodies of Men since the Fall were made of This shews he loves to be a Dictator and thinks well of his own Notions but proof he gives none knowing it is easier to assert than prove nor when he saith p. 26. That the Beasts of the Field are the Fallen Angels have we any more than his say so for it which considering how often he hath said and unsaid in the Instances above will not go a great way with such as well know him He also accounts it as an Error to assert That Adam and Eve were naked before the Fall saying it is no where so affirmed in all the Scripture and makes nakedness the Fruit of Transgression and that Adam and Eve were not ashamed of their Nakedness doth not adds he imply their Innocency but rather their Impudency and too great boldness that they had after the Fall See p. 24. 25. To this I say the Scripture give us an account of their eating the forbidden Fruit Gen. 3. 6. and in the next Verse of an effect thereof thus And the Eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed Fig leaves together and made themselves Aprons v. 7. What sign or token of Impudence is it in People to endeavour to cover their Nakedness But here was the difference between their two States before their Fall they were Innocent They were both naked and were not ashamed chap. 2. 25. after the Fall they knew that they were naked and sewed Fig leaves c. chap. 3. 7. and hid themselves v. 8. whereby they betrayed both Shame and Fear He goes on and Expounds their hiding themselves among the Trees of the Garden to be in a Tree of the Garden and that one Tree may be well understood to be the Divine Mercy or Clemency saith he p. 25. But how got they thither say I The Divine Mercy is in Christ Jesus and if they were got there methinks when they heard the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden they should not have been afraid for they were already safe But his whimsical Notions ●o interfere as doth their Author Now as to their Clothing he tells you what that was if ye can believe him Whereas saith he p. 27. the Man and his Wife by Sin had contracted a two-fold Nakedness one of the Soul the other of the Body or one inward the other outward he provided a Clothing to both Clothing them inwardly with the Righteousness of the Lamb and Clothing them outwardly with the Skin and Flesh of this Frail Mortal and Corruptible Body Qu. Did he Cloth them with the Righteousness of the Lamb and yet at the same time debar them access to the Tree of Life See Gen. 3. 21. 22. What strange Doctrine is this I thought whoever were Clothed with the Lamb's Righteousness had right to the Tree of Life This is Doctrinally unsound the other Monstrous that we should have a Body a top of a Body and Clothes over them But it seems the first Body had no Skin for Skin he gives as the additional Clothing Query Whether it had Belly Guts and Draught which he denies the Resurrection Bodies to have p. 111. or whether it had need if its Food was to be Paradisical In p. 28. He is for mending or marring our Translation again The word Rib he renders Side The Woman saith he therefore is one side of the Man as to say one half of him as when a round or square Body is split or divided into two sides or halves Whether this Separation was made before o● after the Fall is much questioned by many adds he and then enumerates the Reasons o● them that think it was after the Fall From all which they conclude saith he that the Woman being separated from the Man was a consequent of the Fall

and that therefore it was not good that Man should be alone to wit that his Wife should remain barren in him for the effect of their Fall was such that they could not multiply their Species in one Body as they mought have done if the Fall had not been And so as to that manner of propagating their Species or Kind they became unfit unfruitful which is by way of Allegory exprest by some My stick Writers that their Backs were joined together and their Faces averted i. e. turned the one from the other but when they were divided their Faces were set one to the other according to the words in Gen. 2. 18. I will make him an help as before him i. e. Face to Face so the Hebrew see p. 28. 29. This is indeed to refuse the Waters of Shiloah that go softly and to rejoyce in Rezin c. for these Monstrous Births have more place with him than what is truly solid and edifying And as Esau parted with his Birth right for a Mess of Pottage so such trashy Notions he can catch at while he disdains plain Jacob's Tents who is more for Heart than Head-food Thus shall I close my Animadversions upon him the former part whereof viz. all but the Conclusion have lain some time by me though undigested till now expecting when his restless Spirit would give occasion for them Now although he seems averse to answer us in Print where he hath abused us alledging want of time and ability of outward Estate yet inasmuch as he is still as industrious to make us a derision to Fools if he can or to stir up the Populace against us surely it will not be unbecoming us to wipe off his Obloquy and Detraction and declare what the Man himself thought when he was more himself and less agitated with Passion and Prejudice This is the scope this the aim of my present Undertaking not in ill will or vindictiveness to the Man but in defence of Truth and the Friends thereof which he hath calumniated J. P. A POSTCRIPT BY G. W. 1. HAD we first Condemned George Keith in Print as Guilty of gross Errour Hypocrisie Unbelief and afterward in Print Challenged and Summoned him to a publick Tryal before us at a Meeting appointed in our own time and place without his Privity or Concurrence as he has done by some of us he and others more indifferent who better know common Law and Justice than himself might have justly reflected upon us as very Arbitrary and Unjust Judges to be thus preposterous and extra-judicial in first Condemning and then Summoning Men to Tryal 2. Had we for some weeks aforehand raked in George Keith's Books to pick out Matters against him and only given him a General Charge of most Erroneous and hurtful Principles or of his self Contradictions or Calumnies against us contrary to the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith and Relegion and then in Print Advertisement and Summons to a publick Trial i. e. to hear himself Charged and Proved Guilty without so much as affording him any Copy of the particulars of his Indictment or Charge before Trial or of the Books and Pages referred unto therein for a due preparation to answer as he has done against us I am perswaded he would not be so served or surprized but might have justly deemed this procedure very unfair precipitant and unjust 3. All which undue Arbitrary and Extrajudicial Proceedings and new Court of Judicature as erected by George Keith I with the rest of my Friends and Brethren concerned both as Men and Christians have refused and rejected and do protest against the same as unwarrantable both in the sight of God and just Men As Christians we are not to be subject to George Keiths Summons without God's Call nor allowed to gratifie his Ambitious Contentious Spirit or such as cause Divisions or Offences c. As Men we are obliged to have respect to the Civil Government and Peace and not to Countenance or Abet Strife and Contention in any Publick Meeting tending to Divisions and Confusions contrary to the Intent of the Law it self which is Enacted For the Ease and Liberty of Dissenting Protestant Subjects in the exercise of Religion and Religious Worship in order to unite them in Interest and Affection as the Words and Reason of the Statute are for which end only Meetings and Meeting Houses are tollerated and entred on Record and not for Stages of Contention 4. The first point in Difference between George Keith and my self that I remember and which I was really dissatisfied with was his Notion of Twelve Revolutions or Transmigrations of Humane Soulr whether of all or some of them passing out of one Body into another to have Twelve Intervals of Life to accomplish one thousand years on Earth Arguing from these Scriptures John 11. 9. Psal 90. 4. 2 Pet. 3. 8. and some others if I mistake not if he says I do let him give us a plain State of his own Notion herein which as I understood him was according to some passages in the Book of Two Hundred Queries concerning that Opinion of the Revolution of humane Souls For which Notion I am sure he argued in a Book of his in Manuscript which he shewed me before he went over into America and then would have had it Printed but I then in dislike to it and love to him disswaded him from Printing it yet he told me since his return he had brought it over with him but I suppose is afraid to Print it with his Name to it how he has covertly Writ and Discoursed in Favour of his Notion of the Revolutions or varied about it he and some others knows 5. I am not conscious to my self of Errour either in Reference to the Resurrection Christ's Satisfaction or Sacrifice or his visible coming again in his Glorified Body without us to raise the Dead at the great day of Judgment or of having denied the same as he has in that and other things unjustly accused and aspersed me in two of his late Pamphlets The one styled A True Copy p. 31. and the other Gross Errour p. 4 5 6 7 8. I say I am not conscious of denying Christ's coming again without us in his Spiritual Glorified Body c. By my Questioning some Anabaptists as William Burnet and John Newman about their Carnal Expectations of Christ's coming again in the Flesh t● be seen with their Carnal Eyes in opposition to his Appearance and Light within G. K. has dealt very unfairly by me in leaving out Blood and Bones after the Words Body of Flesh in my Answer to Newman and thus partially Cited by G. K. in his said Gross Error p. 3. And to prove me Guilty of Unbelief because I said We do not Read of a Third coming of Christ in the Flesh yet to be expected Hereupon seems his most colourable Charge against me but I think it no more proves me an Unbeliever in this point than himself for our not Reading of a third coming of Christ in the Flesh only Questions such a manner of his Coming and proves not me Guilty of Unbelief of his Coming in a more excellent manner viz. in great Glory in hir Spiritual Glorious Body For George Keith has confessed the Body of Christ to be wonderfully charged as to the mode and manner of its being it being no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones but a pure Ethereal or Heavenly Body like unto which the Bodies of the Saints are to be at the Resurrection Way cast up page 131. and endued altogether with Heavenly Qualities The Husk or Dressy part not the true Body c. as more fully in his Book stiled Gross Error p. 9 13. Now if Christ's Glorious Body be no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones as George Keith saith How should his Coming a third time in the Flesh or in a Body of Flesh and Blood c. be expected again to be seen by the World with their Carnal Eyes or Eyes of Flesh 6. George Keith's formerly Writing and Arguing against the continuance of Water-Baptism Altogether denying it to be commanded to the Apostles by Christ Matt. 28. and being but a Shadow buried with other Shadows not to be raised up again in a Book Intituled Quakerism Confirmed Printed 1676. Sec. 6. And his lately Writing and Arguing for the continuance of Water-Baptism as a badge of Believers Christian Faith and Profession and of Service to be continued in the Church by true Christians under the Gospel in his Book Intituled Truth Advanced Printed 1694. p. 173 174 175 c. Such his Wavering Variation Uncertainty and Inconsistency together with his great Envy in repreaching us in his Printed Books contrary to his own former Testimonies in Print shews he is now no Quaker nor Friend but Adversary to the People called Quakers Both John Whitehead William Penn my self and divers other Friends have patiently suffered under G. K.'s Abuse and Misrepresentations in Print for sometime I having writ a Letter to him to clear my Conscience in great plainness for which I suppose he Envies me the more I have hitherto forborn and do yet forbear to publish an Answer to detect him He being fallen into other Hands to deal with him and Load him with his own Fruitless Work for I find it no great Difficulty to Answer him And I believe that they i. e. T. Ellwood and J. Penigton have Conscientiously Opposed and Obviated his Injurious Attempts even about divers of those points Charged by him against us We now wait to see where he will Center after all his Hovering Waverings Turnings and Labouring to Gratifie our Adversaries London the 30th of the 4th Month. 1696. G. Whitehead FINIS See G. K's Suggestions True Copy p. 23.