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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47147	A further discovery of the spirit of falshood & persecution in Sam. Jennings, and his party that joyned with him in Pensilvania, and some abettors that cloak and defend him here in England in answer to his scandalous book, called, The state of the case.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing K170; ESTC R784	61,330	54

for us now in Heaven for that is no small part of our salvation to be saved from Wrath and from the guilt of sin and from that fearful sentence of Condemnation and the Curse of the Law due to us for sin and no Internal Revelation can save us from that Curse Condemnation and Wrath but it was necessary that Christ should suffer for us in the true Nature of Man that cursins might be forgiven and we might be saved from the Wrath of God and the Curse and Condemnation of the Law of God and Christ's suffering Death and sheading his precious Blood for us was not only necessary to our Justification but to our Sanctification because by his Obedience unto Death and precious Blood he hath procured and pur●●●sed for us that inward principle of God's Grace whereby we are sanctified and we are sanctified through a living Faith in Christ as he died for us and that Faith is necessary to mens Regeneration and Sanctification as well as to Remission of sins and therefore is necessary to all But that he saith a great part of Mankind will be included who have not had the means opportunity or capacity to know or receive it which carries with it a very harsh and uncharitable Judgment upon all that part of mankind Answ But where is then the sufficiency of the Light he and many others seem so warmly to plead for if it be not sufficient not only to make them capable but also to give them the Knowledge of it viz. the Death of Christ But why should this sound more harsh and uncharitable to say a great part of mankind die as much without the Knowledge of Christ within as of Christ without for as Christ came in the flesh is called a great m●stery in Scripture so is Christ within also called a great mystery yea the mystery that had been hid from Ages and Generations and he cannot give me an Instance of any that ever knew the mystery of Christ within but also knew in some measure the mystery of Christ without for that which is able to reveal the one is able to reveal the other But that any are saved without the knowledge of Christ within I suppose he will not say seeing the Scripture saith Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you unless ye be Reprobates Or rather disapproved or want a Proof But the Scripture also saith That it is one God who shall justifie the circumcision i.e. the Jews by Faith and the circumcision i. e. the Gentiles through Faith And the true Faith is one whereby both Jews and Gentiles are justified which is a Faith in Christ as he died for us as well as that he doth inwardly enlighten us But to suppose a Faith in Christ that doth not respect his outward coming in the Flesh and Death and sufferings but only and alone that inward common illumination that is in all mankind is to set up an unscriptural and Antichristian Faith opposite to the true Christian Faith which I charge on Sam. Jennings and on all that join with him in this his absurd Doctrine to be a pernicious Error tending to make v●id the true Faith of Christ and the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures and to teach men to rely upon their Obedience to the Law or Light within for Salvation and Life Eternal without the Faith of Christ crucified that s●p●ain contrary to the Holy Scripture that saith Both Jews and Gentiles were all under sin and whatsoever the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world become guilty before God Now this Law that steppeth every mouth and maketh the whole world guilty before God is the Law or Light in these Gentiles who have not the Scriptures or written Law without and whatever feigned pretence of Charity S. J. or any others that hold this gross Error That men may be eternally saved without all knowledge and faith of Christ crucified may have towards that part of mankind who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them yet it is a real undervaluing and seeking to undermine the Christian Disp●nsation and make it as a mee● Indifferent thing yea unprofitable to be under it for if men commonly obtain Eternal Life and Salvation without all knowledge and faith of Christ crucified and raised again and can be perfectly sanctified without it then there is no need to have that Faith at all But for such who say it is needful because it is preached they use a deceitful but silly evasion for if it 's only needful because it is preached then the way is not to preach it that it may not be needful and if so why did the Apostles and many other faithful men preach it and seal to it with their blood Surely this is the way to lead people generally both to neglect preaching Christ crucified and to hear it preached yea and if they destroy or bury the Bible in oblivion from their posterity by this wicked doing they shall excuse them from being under a Necessity to believe the Death of Christ in order to salvation But whereas some say it is profitable tho not absolutely necessary to salvation to have the Faith of Christ's Death but seeing they say men are commonly saved eternally without it as well as with it they cannot shew wherein it is profitable unless it be necessary Indeed they may as well say with Pelagians and Socinians that inward Grace or the Spirit 's inward operation is only profitable but not absolutely necessary to mens salvation But we find the Terms of salvation universally without exception set down Rom. 10. 9 10. that plainly holds it forth that to believe that Christ rose from the dead and that with the heart as well as to confess it with the mouth is necessary to all that shall be saved And tho this Faith is wrought in men in God's ordinary way by an outward Ministry yet the Word or Light within is suffitient to work it without an outward Ministry and doth so work it when God pleaseth as he wrought it in Abraham Job and many others But that S.J. saith page 12. he hath heard T. Lloid affirm he did believe it to be our duty who had the advantage of having the Holy Scriptures and hearing the Faith preached to receive and believe it This I suppose is possible but when was it that he did so profess to believe viz. after that the Publick Letter signed by G.W. and others from London came to them and us holding forth that Faith as necessary but before that Letter came it is well known to many as well as to me that he had oft denied it but before that the Breach was made And since it was made tho we for our part used great Endeavors to be reconciled to them in the Truth yet we could never effect it in Truth 's way XXXIII page● 3. He proceeds in the next place to shew which most deceitfully and

Authority for it but that S. J. or W. S. said so and J.M. his denying it with the circumstances related is sufficient to counter-ball●nce But supposing it to be true what is alledged of W. S. being so kind to J. M. it is false what S. J. relates that J. M. used any fly unmanly or ungrateful way in a Visit to W. S. to pump him by questions concerning G. K. For the said J. M. came to me next morning after the discourse that past betwixt them and told it to me no ways as one that sought any occasion against W. S. but simply as one much grieved in Spirit to find so great a difference in Judgment betwixt W.S. and me in a thing of so great moment and he told me also the Visit and Discourse were both occasional and it came altogether from W.S. of his own accord without any such thing as pumping him by questions as S. J. falsly alledgeth XXVII p. 8. He grosly prevaricates in falsly accusing me That I liberally bestow my Anathema Maranatha upon W.S. without more a-do telling him he was an ignorant Heathen not worthy of any place in the Assembly of Friends For I never pronounced an Anathema upon W.S. or any other of them tho some of them have pronounced many woes upon me in the Hearing of many together with their false Prophecies which God hath frustrated and my faith is in him he will still frustrate But S. Jennings is very ignorant that he knoweth not an Anathema Maranatha is one thing being a very severe Curse and to tell a man If he believe not in Christ without him as well as in Christ within him which were my words to W. S. he is but an ignorant Heathen and not worthy of any place among Friends which I still affirm to be true and is the true character of one so grosly ignorant XXVIII It is a gross perversion and false accusation in him to say Because Judgment was not given against W.S. in my way and time altho as he falsly alledgeth my own turbulency was the great obstruction he therefore sticks not to unchristian many c. For I have sufficiently shewed in my printed books and now lately in my Answer to T.E. That they gave no due judgment or censure at all against him to this day and the shadow or bare formality of judgment the● published at last against him was like Mustard after Meat and at an 〈◊〉 or one born out of due time being 9 months after my complaint made to the Yearly meeting and about 13 months after my first complaint made to a meeting of Ministring Friends at the house of Robert Ewer and several months after the breach began at Philadelphia And it is a most deceitful Excuse to say my own turbulency was the great obstruction which is meerly said but not proved after long and much earnest Reasoning and expostulating the matter with them at the Yearly meeting at Philadelphia At their desire I went out of the meeting that they might agree upon a Judgment among themselves tho T. E. grosly printeth a falshood in the face of the world citing my book Some Reasons and Causes of the Separation That I refused to go out and my book p. 18. saith expresly I did go out at the meetings desire and yet they would not suffer any Judgment to be intimated to me neither at that time nor for many months thereafter Yea the Judgment that was duly given by the monthly meeting adjourned they denied it to be a due Judgment and disowned the meeting that gave it as is shewed in my former printed books and particularly in my late Answer to T.E. However he acknowledgeth That judgment was not given against W.S. and giveth the Reason why because they would not give it in my way and time But I say they gave it not in Truths way and time but delayed it most unreasonably and unchristianly till the time was expired and at last what they gave was but a shadow XXIX p. 9. He boldly but most falsly chargeth me That I have falsly accused the innocent and that knowingly too because as he alledgeth I have heard very many of them often declare their Faith in the aforesaid particulars and what else is necessary to be believed and owned by true Christians But I deny that ever I heard any of them give a satisfactory account of their Faith in the particular things of Controversie but generally from time to time increased our just dissatisfaction both by their most unchristian and unsound expressions and doubtful and equivocous terms Yea both I and many others do well remember that we have heard Sam. Jennings himself declare in a publick meeting at Philadelphia That Friends were not gathered by the faith of Christ as he came outwardly to die for us but by faith in the power of God inwardly revealed Thus setting things asunder that go together And divers others of them have declared to the same effect and John Willford to the offence of many declared in the Hearing of Hundreds at Philadelphia That he had the true faith of Christs Death and Sufferings before he came among Friends but it did not gather him to God but left him in his sins XXX p. 10. His boldly and most perversly challenging me to name the person among us that any orderly complaint hath been made against and the matter proved that hath been cloaked yea that hath not been testified against What greater impudence can be supposed in a man than for Him thus to challenge me when he not only knows in his conscience but doth confess in this his scandalous Pamphlet the complaints I made against both William Stockdale and Thomas Fitswaters from meeting to meeting and yet they never did any thing effectually to pass due Judgment against them And as for Thomas Fitswaters their monthly meeting at Philadelphia instead of passing a due Censure on him for his falsly accusing me That I denied the sufficiency of the Light to salvation did clear him from the Evidence given by four persons of their own Party that said They heard me affirm the Light was not sufficient to salvation without something else But this was no proof to confirm his accusation for the thing they should have proved against me was That I denied the sufficiency of the Light to salvation But instead of proving that they gave Evidence to prove another thing quite different even as far different as to say Sam. Jennings is not an honest man without honest dealing and to say simply he is not an honest man For the first is certainly true tho the second were questioned Besides he knoweth in his conscience that I complained to their Quarte●ly meeting upon the unsound and vile expressions in John Humphreys Letters the Original Copy of which was read at the meeting at London last 1694. and yet I received no Answer but a meer abuse S. Jennings being present who told me I was none of them and what had I to do