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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54084	Keith against Keith, or, Some more of George Keith's contradictions and absurdities collected out of his own books (not yet retracted) upon a review : together with a reply to George Keith's late book, entituled, The Antichrists and Sadduces detected among a sort of Quakers, &c. / by John Penington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1228; ESTC R23208	84,028	154

the Virgin Mary but not to him as manifest in the Saints which saith G. Keith contradicts the Scripture Testimony Ibid. And G. Keith doth the same in Effect in representing the Word or Law within weak and imperfect before that Manifestation My next Citations shall be out of his Postscript to G. Whitehead's Book stiled Nature of Christianity c. in Answer to the same Rob. Gordon Printed Anno. 1671. 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 But according to R. G.'s Doctrine no Men were justified nor reconciled until Christ suffered Death in the outward because then and not till then was Reconciliation and Justification wrought c. p. 65. And according to G. Keith it is the same except Men were reconciled and justified by a Law that made not perfect Page 70. He reckons up R. Gordon his corrupt Doctrines the fourth whereof is this That Obedience to the Light in the Conscience is but the Work of the first Covenant and Righteousness thereof and that no Man is justified thereby Query Is not the Light in the Conscience the Law within Or is that sound in G. Keith which is corrupt Doctrine in R. Gordon But G. Keith is yet more full in asserting the Light and Grace given the Gentiles to be Saving and Evangelical even before Christ's coming in the outward for which hear him in his Book of Universal Grace Prted Anno 1671. For the better Understanding saith he of the Matter in Hand how that the Saving and Evangelical Light of Jesus Christ hath been communicated unto all Men IN ALL AGES AND GENERATIONS of the World we are to consider the Words of the Apostle to this purpose There are Diversities of Operations saith he but ONE Spirit Is that one Spirit the Holy Spirit or another and diversity of Administrations but one Lord which diversity of Operations and Administrations are reducible unto these two the Law and the Gospel or the first Covenant and the second Which two as they were very distinguishable among the Jews so were they also among the Gentiles As concerning the Jews they had first the Law which came by Moses and secondly they had the Grace and Truth which came by Jesus Christ was that saving The Righteousness of the Law and the Righteousness of Faith and these two though they were distinguishable yet as they were administred of God they were not separated nor divided but the Gospel LAY HID within the Law as within a Vail And thus Christ Jesus was in the Law and under it The Dispensation of the Law was as Darkness in respect of the clear Dispensation of the Gospel yet even in this Darkness did Jesus Christ the true Light shine And also in or among the Gentiles UNIVERSALLY there was and is somewhat which by way of Proportion doth answer unto the Law and Gospel first Covenant and second which was so distinctly held forth among the Jews And as among the Jews there was Moses and the Prophets in the Letter so universally in ALL Men both Jews and Gentiles there hath been Moses and the Prophets in Spirit and also CHRIST p. 8. Compare this with Truth Advanced p. 70 71. above recited To an Objection How it is that in the Gospel is revealed the Righteousness of God from Faith to Faith unto the Just and also that the Wrath of God is from Heaven revealed therein against the unrighteous seeing the Gentiles have not had the Gospel preached unto them all this TIME BY PAST in which they have lived in their Ungodliness and Unrighteousness G. Keith replies To this Paul Answers That which might be known of God is manifest in them for God had shewed it unto them which is as much as to say though the Gospel came not unto them outwardly by the Ministry of Man yet it came unto them inwardly by the Ministry of God himself because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them So that it is manifest that by this Expression That which may be known of God and as it is in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is understood the Gospel See p. 20. By this Manifestation of God in the Gentiles adds he our Adversaries deny that the Gospel or any Manifestation that is of a SAVING Nature is understood to which a little lower he thus replies If it were not Evangelical and the very Gospel it self in an inward Ministration it would quite render the Words of the Apostle impertinent and contrary to the purpose he treats of For Paul is here shewing what the Gospel was and what was revealed in it both to the Just and the Unjust and because the Unjust among all the Gentiles and Nations had not the Gospel outwardly administred he shews they had it inwardly God having shewed it unto them p. 21. Doth this agree with his Asserting the Law within made nothing perfect till the Faith of Christ the one Offering come to be revealed Or will he say the very Gospel it self in an inward Ministration was not saving and perfecting before Christ was offered up in the outward But the foregoing he corroborates by a fourthly thus This Manifestation is said to be that which may be known of God which he had shewed unto them therefore it is of an Evangelical and Saving Nature 5thly By this Manifestation here mentioned they did CLEARLY see the Invisible Things of God even his ETERNAL POWER and Godhead p. 22. There was a Time saith G. Keith when God dwelt in their the Gentiles Knowledge whereby they knew him through what he had made manifest of his Eternal Power in them p. 24. Was God known through the Eternal Power made manifest in them and the Holy Ghost not received What Confusion doth he run himself into Descanting upon Rom. 1. 20. he tells us By the things that are made may be understood those things which are inwardly made those MARVELLOUS Works of the Lord which are wrought in Mens Hearts both of Judgment and Mercy through the Appearance of God and the Revelation of his Almighty Arm and Power in that Heavenly and Divine Principle of his own Seed by which indeed the Invisible Things of him are clearly seen And until a Man come to see the Lord in the things that are made of him in himself he can never see him in the things that are made without him which gave occasion to many of the Gentile Philosophers to bid People seek God within themselves p. 26. Now I query Are these marvellous Works of Judgment and Mercy wrought in Mens Hearts and the Holy Ghost not received Or is the Divine Principle of his own Seed separable there from This is certainly to divide Christ But a little lower he tells us what