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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03937	Mr. Keith's sermon, preach'd on May the 12th, 1700. At Dr. Bedford's church, being Saint George Butolphs-Lane, by Billings-Gate. On Luke the 1st and verse 6th.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing K210; ESTC R179321	14,369	16

Mr. Keith's SERMON Preach'd on May the 12th 1700. At Dr. Bedford's Church BEING Saint George's Butolphs-Lane by Billings-Gate On LVKE the 1st and Verse 6th And they were both Righteous before GOD walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the LORD Blameless ☞ You are to take Notice this is the Genuine Copy LONDON Printed for the AUTHOR and Sold by most Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. Mr. George Keith's SERMON c. LUKE 1st Chap Vers 6. And they were both Righteous before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Beloved YOU have an Account of a Priest or Teacher with his Wife both which being ancient and as Saint Luke here saith Righteous too before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances blameless yet for all those gay pretences the Man was turned Infidel and did or at least could not believe the Commands and Ordinances of the Lord and so in Justice was stricken Dumb because he did not believe God's Words which shall be fulfilled in their season vers 20. Now in taking my leave of my Old and well-Beloved Friends namely the People called Quakers to which I was once joyned and made as Zacharias was a Teacher among them and according to their and my weak Opinion righteous before God walking in as they and I thought all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless c. But since growing in Years so in Knowledge too being I hope as Zacharias was better instructed by the blessed Spirit Gabriel which stands in the Presence of God and so comes from him to bring as glad-tydings to me as it did to Zacharias to strike me for my Infidelity Dumb and not able to speak until the time be accomplished or fulfilled in their Seasons vers 19 20. And some People ●●●ted for the man Zacharias and marvelled but when he came out he could not speak to them Now you my dearly Beloved with whom I now travail in this New Birth to apply this to my self and you for your 〈…〉 you are 〈…〉 Spou●e both 〈◊〉 and in 〈…〉 nay and also as we then thought 〈…〉 fore God walking in all the 〈…〉 Ordinances of the Lord blameless but finde it has pleased the Almighty to send to me his blessed Spirit to 〈◊〉 not duty my but your Infidelity also that we have not been so Righteous as we should have been as to have had Consciences always void of Offence both towards God and Man neither have we walked in the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless And since God Almighty ha● as he did to Zacharias been pleased to send his blessed Spirit to discover our Errors which I must confess were like to the Jews altogether through Ignorance and so I hope pardonable and to shew those glad Tydings viz. what the real Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord are that we may walk in them and be blameless And since for my Infidelity the All-wise God suffered me to be struck Dumb till the accomplished Time and Season which I hope and find is now for you are not ignorant that those People before mentioned which both you and I had being then joyned to had and I hope still have a tenderness for they I say for my Infidelity by God's permission struck me Dumb So that both in Penstlvania and here I being Anathamatized or Excommunicated by them became as it were to them Dumb and Speechless at which you and some others which waited upon me there marvelled as those did at Zacharias vers 21 22 23. thinking and truly supposing that I as he had seen a Vision or Spirit which made me as it did him depart from them to his and mine own House So that it is no Mystery neither to them nor you that I was obliged to Teach and Instruct privately in Holes and in Corners as in this little Hall c. But thanks be to God being by the blessed Spirit better instructed in Righteousness in general and in all the Commands and Ordinances of the Lord to be without spot or blame the Time being accomplished and my Tongue loosed to speak of the Righteousness towards Man as well as God and to walk not as you and I have formerly not only Ignorantly but Obstinately and Maliciously in 〈…〉 in all of the Commandments and Ordinances 〈…〉 Lord Blameless And now having by the aforesaid Spirit had a Call to the true Church which I find has a Righteousness to Men as well as God and walks in and keeps not only some but all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless I must humbly and heartily take leave of this private Place herein Errors have been both as I must sincerely confess ignorantly and wilfully broached and taught but I neither shall nor will take leave of you my dearly Beloved for whom I have been as it were in Bonds and travailed and do now travail that both you and I resorting and fleeing to the true Church as a Sanctuary may with old Zacharias vers 68. to the 80th Bless the Lord God which hath visited and redeemed us his People by raising up an Horn of Salvation for us that we should be saved from our Enemies and from the Hand of all that hate us to serve him for the future without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the Days of our Lives for having given a better knowledge of Salvation unto us his People by the Remission of our Sins through the tender Mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on High hath visited us to give Light to them that is others of our Friends that are left behind that now as we once did sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death and to guide both their and our Feet into the Way of Peace Thus having explained the Text by declaring and comparing Old Zacharias's Condition with mine own I come now from the Words so read First To declare what the True Church is which may easily be discovered by the Infallible Marks following Secondly What that Righteousness is which makes and will make any blameless And Thirdly What the Commandments of God were and are And Lastly What Ordinances the Lord has appointed in his Church that all true Christians may walk in and so observe and keep them so as to be blameless and then shall make some Inferences and Applications from and of what I have said c. True since amidst the great diversity and contrariety of Opinions which at present are in the Christian Church each entitu●ing it self to the true Faith which as St. 〈…〉 seem a matter of extream 〈…〉 is 〈…〉 true Faith of the Gospel Yet I 〈◊〉 and can 〈…〉 that the difficulty doth not ar●e so much 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 of the thing as it doth from Men and Womens 〈◊〉 Interests and Affections in disputing about the Faith Therefore abstracting from these I shall now first by God's assistance endeavour to set before you the chief 〈◊〉 racters of a True