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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

28.19 20. mu●t be Water-Baptism because the Apostles ever renounced doing any of th●se things as begetting or converting men unto Go● and baptizing with the Spirit by their own virtue But ●his is a most poor Evasion we do not say they either did or could do any of these thi●gs by their own virtue that is not the thing in Controversie for what they did they did not by their own Virtue but by the Virtue and Power of Christ Ye still beg the Question tho' to deny it ye call Infatuation but the Infatuation is your own that Christ commanded these words to be used as words of Institution In the Name of the Father c. for we find not that he bid them say or repeat these words Ye put a meer precarious gloss on Pauls words That he was not sent to Baptize That he was not obliged by any necessity to do it ordinarily personally And hendes this is as much as to say that Paul thought it enough to obey Gods Command by a Proxy and so ye may as well say he was not under any necessity to preach but by a Proxy or Deputy this is to abuse Scripture and not to expound it for if Paul might obey one Command of God by a Proxy why not all others And thus ye teach men to excuse themselves from Personal Obedience to Gods Commands it is enough according to your gloss that others obey for them but would Paul thank God for not obeying a Gospel-Precept and yet he said He thanked God for not baptizing any of them but some few Paul might have baptized some without a Commission as well as he circumcised Timothy Pag. 142. Ye say Ye have alwayes professed your zeal for the inward Baptism with the holy Ghost But this is a great Falshood and Contradiction when ye deny all present inward divine Revelation and Inspiration and the real in being and Presence of Christ or God immediately in the Saints Pag. 143. Ye most grosly pervert and abuse my words because I said Christ had an outward Supper with his Disciples when he did eat the Paschal Lamb with them ye put this your false gloss on it as if I said or thought That he had the thing without the thing signified i. e. that Christ ate the Passover hypocritically Nothing can be more grosly alledged for I said expresly that the Disciples at that time when Christ had that outwa●d Supper with them had an inward enjoyment ●f him given them by Christ in the use of the Bread and Wine see pag. 190. And by your many su●h gross Perversions that seem wilfull in you ye show what men ye are Ye alledge The first Cup belonged to the Passover Luke 22. But ye may as well say so did the second for ye give no Reason why one rather than another and ye may with as much colour say that the second Cup did not belong to the Supper because it is said Luke 22.20 He took the Cup after Supper c. Pag. 143. Ye alledge I arrogate Gods Prerogative who only can judge the heart immediatly when I say your Sacrament hath no inward spiritual signification unto you But I speak not so simply nor absolutely as I can and do appeal to the impartial Reader for ye leave out my following words that qualifie them viz. As ye use it while ye altogether deny that the Saints are partakers of the Substance of Christ or that Christ really and substantially dwelleth in his Saints while ye also deny all inward Revelation of him in these latter Ages And thus I presume not to judge you as if immediately I did know your hearts but by your words ye are judged even as I may judge of that man who denyeth that he hath eat any substance of Bread or Food that he hath not received of Bread c. For as he who eateth Bread receiveth the Substance of it into his body so he who eateth Christ the Bread of Life receiveth some measure of him substantially into his Soul And though this is denyed by many of you and as I said in my former Book the man● lean and dead Souls among you void of inward and spiritual discerning taste or savour too manifestly demonstrate ye are generally strangers to the Supper of the Lord here Note I say not universally but generally yet I have that charity that some called Presbyterians and Independents of the more sober kind and who allow in part of inward divine Revelation and of a real inward indwelling of Christ in Believers may truly know some-what at times of the inward and spiritual Signification of that Figurative Supper yet not because of that outward manner of using it but indeed because there is some secret breathing and desires after the Lord in some of them and such are sober and tender and not of a malicious and persecuting Spirit as too many among you are who continue to justifie the putting to Death our innocent worthy Friends at Boston and thus our Charity is greater than yours for ye call me a fearful Apostate and so ye and not I arrogate Gods Prerogative who only can judge the heart immediately for ye can give no probable signs of my Apost●cy seeing in the judgment of all sober Protestants I own all the Fundamental and most necessary Doctrines of the Christian Faith and ye can charge nothing in my Conversation or manner of Life inconsistent with true Christianity I have departed from no good thing either of Doctrine or Life that I had when among these called Presbyterians I have only relinquished their Errors and that will no more prove me Apostate than Luther and Calvin their relinquishing Popish Errors doth prove them Apostates altho' the Papists have so charged them yea I have known Presbyterians accuse the Independents for being Apostates But as I value no● your uncharitable Judgment against me so I cannot but take notice how guilty ye are to blame me for Vncharitableness in judging when ye are so deeply guilty in that very thing Pag. 144. Ye grosly abuse and pervert my words when ye alledge That I say ordinary eating as it is the common Duty of all men is the Supper of the Lord. I said no such thing but that often in the use of outward eating and drinking being sanctified and blessed by the Word of God and Prayer we have together with the outward ●●ting eat the inward and spiritual Bread and together with the outwar● Cup ●●re drunk that spiritual Drink and withal remembring the Lords Death and what he hath done and suffered for us And I distinguish betwixt the Saints more solemn eatings together upon frequent occasions where their thus eating together was a figure or sign of their inward Communion and their daily eating a part and withal I declared how in all our eatings and drinkings and at all times we should remember the Lords Death even until his last coming and to the end of the World see pag. 188 to 19● And when the

Saints outwardly eat together and then also inwardly eat of that inward and spiritual Food and have together an inward enjoyment of the Lord in their hearts that may be called the Supper of the Lord which both may be without and with the outward eating but I did not say nor do I now say that alwayes when the Saints eat outwardly at their ordinary Meals they eat together inwardly but that the times are very frequent of their outward and inward eating together at one time wherein they remember the Lords Death and praise him as for all his Mercies so for what he hath done and suffered for them and this Solemnity may be well used by any Number as well small as great and without any Gown-Man or ordained Priest either of Pope Prelate or Presbyter for all the Faithful are a Royal Priesthood unto God and there is no shadow of ground in Scripture that Saints may not eat and drink together remembring the Lords Death with Prayer and Blessing and Thanksgiving and enjoying an inward and spiritual Communion together though they be ever so small a Number and though having no Priest outwardly ordained as above said And seeing outward Ordination of Priests or Presbyters either by Pope Prelate or Presbyter none of whom have any inward and immediate call is a meer human Invention as John Owen whom ye esteem your reverend Brother hath sufficiently proved and that ye lay the main stress of this Ordinance its being observed or practised hereupon that some ordained Minister consecrate it or Independent Pastor which is of no better Authority than the former Ye can never prove that that ye call the Supper is any thing beyond what is frequently practised among us even as outwardly although as to the inward to Gods praise we know we have the advantage incomparably beyond all of you And instead of proving that your eating together hath any advantage above ours ye say Ye think your Supper is beyond ours as being an holy Ordinance of Gospel Worship and ours is only the common Duty of all men But as ours is not the common Duty of all men as ye falsly alledge so yours is not an holy Ordinance of Gospel Worship for it is essential to all Gospel Worship to be performed in the Spirit because God is a Spirit but ye plead That men called Ministers who have nothing of true Piety or the Spirit of Truth and Holiness may consecrate the Bread and make it a Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord. Pag. 145. Ye commit another gross Abuse falsly alledging on me that I said All outward eating and drinking is a natural and necessary sign of the inward see my Book p. 192. I say not All outward eating drinking but I say such a figure as is natural and necessary to be used by us all c. where ye may see I restrict it to Believers so that the outward eating and drinking of Believers is a natural and necessary sign or figure of the inward to Believers but not to Unbelievers as the whole outward World is a figure of the inward and spiritual as Paul doth expresly call it 1 Cor. 7.31 But whereas ye say There is not one Syllable expresly nor consequentially intimating any such thing there ye show your great Rashness or Ignorance for in the Greek to which I did refer the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine Scema and Englished Scheme that most commonly signifieth figure and is expresly translated Figure in that very place by Pasor a zealous Protestant in his Lexicon thus Figura hujus Mundi preterit i. e. the Figure of this World passeth away Hence in all Mathematical Schools in teaching Geography or Astronomy we call the draught or figure proposed in the Lesson the Scema or Sceme and any ordinary School-boy or common Shepherd or Plow-man may inform you that this visible World is a Figure of the invisible and the outward a figure of the inward which is a common Saying in the mouthes of men generally and is further confirmed by Paul saying The invisible things of God are understood by the things that are made Rom. 1.20 and by the fore-cited Saying of Luther That in all Creatures we see a Declaration and Signification of the holy Trinity And whereas I said That in our outward eatings sometimes we do use both inward outward Prayer and Thanksgiving and sometimes only inward this in a way of Scoff ye call A new way of Consecration whereby ye declare your selves too great strangers to inward and mental Prayer performed only with the heart and mind for if ye did rightly understand inward and mental Prayer ye would acknowledge that the outward eating is sanctified by the Word of God and by inward Prayer as well as both inward and outward but the outward without the inward hath no virtue to sanctifie the Creatures of God and yet certainly ye give too much cause to judge that your outward Prayer wanteth the inward when ye allow both the Members Ministers of your Church to be Members and Ministers without all inward Holiness or working of the Spirit of God And how the Prayer of Unholy Men as ye allow your Ministers may be that consecrate the Bread and Wine to be the Sacrament of the Supper can consecrate sanctifie or make holy ev●●●es Instruments these Elements is as strange a Paradox as how an unclean thing can bring out a clean or one contrary another Pag. 146. Ye alledge That the Seventh day was appointed viz. for a Sabbath before the Fall and so was no Type of Christ. But the former ye barely alledge for that the Seventh Day its being said to be blessed c. suppose a natural or common Day before any mention is made of the Fall of Adam no more proveth its Institution before the fall for a Sabbath than that it can be proved there were diversities of Languages before Babel because Languages or Tongues are mentioned Gen. 10.5.20.31 and yet in the following Chap. vers 1. it s said The whole Earth was of one Language for divers things are recorded in Scripture by Anticipation Pag. 147. Ye say Heb. 4.9 10. it is said Christ entred into his Rest and doth that mean that he entred into himself Answ It is not said that Christ or God entred into his Rest but That God ceased from his Works but allow it That Christ entred into his Rest is not That that he entred into that Glory he had with the Father before the World was and can God or Christ have another or better Rest than Himself or can any natural or common Day be a Rest unto God O blind Man Ye call an inward Day Non-sence but it is because ye have not sence to understand it Is not the Day of Gods Power and the Day of Salvation mentioned in Scripture an inward and spiritual Day Ye say again If I can find an inward Seventh Day in Scripture it will be a rare Invention I Answer As I