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A47149	Gross error and hypocrisie detected in George Whitehead and some of his brethern as doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical answer he and some others have given to some queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the people call'd Quakers, in the third month, 1695, by comparing the said answer with the printed books of the said George Whitehead, William Pemn, and John Whitehead, leading men in the said Meeting, wherein the great inconistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed books is discovered : with a further account of their vile and pernicious errours / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.; Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing K172; ESTC R3387	26,885	44

Quakers would be so far from directing Men to go to the Material Temple That they make it a vain thing to look to Jerusalem to the Antitype of that Temple viz. To Jesus Christ as he was there Crucified or unto that Blood that was there Shed for Justification p. 24. G. Whitehead answereth The Quakers see no need of directing Men to the Type for the Antitype viz. Neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood knowing that neither the Righteousness of Faith nor the Word of it doth so direct Rom. 10. And a few Lines after he saith And where do the Scriptures say The Blood was there shed for Justification and that Men must be directed unto Jerusalem for it Query II. Hath he now in Heaven the same Body though now changed in Qualities and Glorify'd which he assum'd in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin in which he Suffer'd Died was Buried Rose again and Ascended outwardly In Answer to this take John Whitehead's Words in his Postscript to a Book call'd The Quakers Refuge pag. 90.41 I have several times saith he deny'd that Christ hath now a Body of Flesh and Bones circumscript or limited in that Heaven which is above and out of every Man on Earth Again he saith ibidem Christ hath a Body or is in a Body suitable to his Spirit consisting of Heavenly Flesh and Bone Also he saith Wheresoever the Spirit and Life of Christ is that is in the Body of Christ Note As he owneth that Christ has a Body that is not the Church yet he owneth no other Body of his besides his Church that is circumscript or limited out of every Man on Earth Now by John Whitehead's Words it plainly appeareth either that Christ hath not that real Body he had on Earth which was Crucify'd c. or if he hath it is such as not only every one of the Saints but every Man yea and every Creature hath he denying it to be circumscript or limited And is not this a fair Inlet to the Popish Doctrine of the real Presence of Christ's Body that suffered to be in the consecrated bread as they imagine Query III. Will he return in that same Body Outwardly or without Men to judge the World c Answer To this George Whitehead's Words in his Book before-mentioned call'd The Life and Light of Christ within page 4 1. are a fit Reply whereby to give us an Account of his Belief or rather Unbelief in this weighty Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith But three Comings of Christ saith George Whitehead not only that in the Flesh at Jirusalem and that in the Spirit but also another Coming in the Flesh yet to be expected we do not read of but a second Coming without Sin unto Salvation which in the Apostles Days was looked for And one John Newman whom George Whitehead answereth in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds having said from Rev. 1.7 Those that pierced him in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly come again To this George Whitehead answereth These are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty Rev. 22.18 19. yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that See also for Answer to him Rev. 1.7 8. and 13 14 16. in none of which is Jesus Christ either call'd or represented as a Body of Flesh visibly to come again but that he is Alpha and Omega the first and the last And Christ in the Days of his Flesh wherein he visibly appear'd to the World said Yet a little while and the World seeth me no more John 14. and 19. But his second Coming and Appearance without Sin unto Salvation I own and witness page 21 22 of that Book and page 23. So where they add the Word Personal or his coming again or Personal Being do they not herein shew their carnal Expectations c And George Whitehead in his Answer to William Burnet The Light within c. page 40. replyeth to two places of Scripture brought by William Burnet to prove Christ's Coming again without us to judge the Quick and the Dead where he answereth in these express Words And as to that 1 Thes 4.17 which William Burnet brings to prove that Christ shall come in the latter end of the World from Heaven above the Clouds Now in p. 15. it 's said that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of our Lord now I ask saith George Whitehead if they did live and remain to a Personal Coming of Christ in the Clouds yea or nay or can it be reasonably thought to be a Coming that is not yet that they lived and remained unto c. And in Answer to that other place of Scripture which William Burnet had brought to prove the Resurrection of the deceas'd Saints after the Bodily Death George Whitehead saith again that the Dead in Christ shall arise first we own to be an Effect of Christ's Coming and know that there is a Dying in Christ and being Baptized unto his Death before a Coming forth or Rising in the likeness of his Resurrection c. And a little after saith But to know the said States what it is to Die with Christ to be conformable unto his Death and to partake of the Power of his Resurrection these things are hid from that Eye that is Carnal c. Note He grosly perverteth and misapplyeth these Scriptures only to an inward Dying and Rising with Christ and to his inward Coming into the Saints But though the inward Work of Mortification and an inward Death and Rising is to be own'd and which I find not that William Burnet in his Words deny'd and is according to the Scriptures Testimony and the Saints Experience yet surely to understand these above-mentioned places of Scripture of that inward Dying and Rising and inward Coming of Christ in the Saints is a gross Perversion and Misapplication of Scripture yea and a gross Abuse of it especially when it is brought by George Whitehead on purpose to contradict William Burnet's Assertion held in common by all sincere Christians viz. That Christ is as visibly to Come again as he did visibly Ascend and that the Bodies of the Dead Saints shall be Raised And George Whitehead's Reason that he brings to refute William Burnet's sound Assertions in this matter is most weak and impertinent As because Christ said John 14.19 Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more which he brings to contradict Christ's coming againg in Person without us to judge the World It proveth no such thing as that he should never at any time appear to the World for he limits it for a little time that they shou'd not see him And the Greek Word or Particle may be well translated not as yet as it is elsewhere translated And what a trifling and empty Reason brings he to prove that 1 Thes 4.17 is not to be understood of

Christ hath a Body in Heaven that is not every-where is neither Anthropomorphism nor Muggletonism but found Christian Doctrine according to Scripture For the Errour of the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians was and is That the Godhead is a Body and circumscript and limited to one Place and not Omnipresent But the true Christian Doctrine is That Christ as God is no Body and yet that the Godhead of Christ dwelleth in that Body and is most gloriously united to the Soul and Body of Christ's Manhood now in Heaven and yet that the Godhead is not circumscribed within that Body but is every-where present and by special Manifestations and Operations of his Spirit dwelleth in the Saints But again That it was and for ought I know now is the Mind of George Whitehead That the Bodies of the Saints are not to rise again to be re-united to the Souls with which they were formerly joined Let us hear what he saith in his part of the Christian Quaker page 153 where he hath these Words Both Calvin T. D. the Schools and divers Anabaptists are mistaken in this very Matter and see not with the Eye of true Faith either that the Happiness of the Soul is not perfect without the Body or that the Soul hath a strong Desire to a Re-union to the Body while they intend the Terrestrial and Elementary Bodies For this implies the Soul to be in a kind of Purgatory or disquietness till the suppos'd resumption of the Body And their Assertion and Determination herein is contrary to what the Apostle saith 2. Cor. 5. Note From George Whitehead's own Words here cited the Argument is as much against the Souls of the deceased Saints now in Heaven having a desire to be united to any Body whatsoever for suppose they now desire and expect to be united to a Heavenly Body they were not formerly united to this would as much imply that they are in a kind of Purgatory as to suppose them to desire to be united to that Body they formerly had But it is disingenuous and unfair in George Whitehead to represent it as the general sense of Calvin and the Schools That the Body to which the Soul of a deceas'd Saint hath a desire of Re-union shall be Terrestrial and Elementary such as it was on Earth For the more Judicious of all sorts hold That the Bodies of the Saints at the Resurrection shall be changed in Qualities and Properties from Terrestrial to Celestial and from Animal to Spiritual yet retaining the same Substance and Essence Next Let us hear William Penn in his Answer against Thomas Hicks call'd Reason against Railing treating on the Estate of the deceased Saints page 138. Is the Joy of the Ancients now in Glory saith he imperfect or are they in Heaven but by halfs If it be so unequitable that the Body which hath suffer'd shou'd not partake of the Joys Celestial is it not in measure unequal that the Soul should be so long rewarded before the Body This brings to the Mortality of the Soul held by many Baptists or I am mistaken But why must the Felicity of the Soul depend on that of the Body Is it not to make the Soul a kind of a Widow and so in a State of Mourning and Disconsolateness to be without its beloved Body which State is but a better State of Purgatory Note Here he plainly maketh his Ignorance and Unbelief to appear concerning the Resurrection of the Dead and the deceased Saints By his Arguing all the Saints between deceased Abel and Christ got all the Resurrection they expected either in the Mortal Body or immediately after Death and so Thousands were raised from the Dead before Christ quite contrary to Scripture that saith Christ should be the first that should rise from the Dead and he is the First-fruits of them that sleep And it is not Christian in William Penn thus to ridicule that great Article of the Christian Faith and to Argue against the inequality of Divine Providence if the Soul shall be so long rewarded before the Body whereas the full Reward is reserved for both at the Resurrection of the Just And yet this neither proveth the Mortality of the Soul or that it is in a State of Purgatory before the Resurrection And as I have noticed in George Whitehead the like I wou'd have the Reader to notice in William Penn who as they both deny the Resurrection of the Body as a thing which the deceased Saints wait for so they both Argue against it from false Principles of false and spurious Philosophy As that a Body that is Earthly and Gross cannot put off its Earthliness and Grossness without any change of its Substance or Essence a thing so commonly known not only among Chymists but to all ordinary Stillers who know by daily Experience how gross Bodies are changed from their grossness in great part and made Subtile or Volatile and yet remain Body still and the same Bodies in Substance And if the Operation of Fire and Mens Art have this Effect upon gross Bodies of Herbs Stones and Flesh to change them in great part how much more ought we to acknowledge the Wisdom and Power of God not only can but will change the Bodies of the Saints from all Gross and Terrestrial Qualities to be Heavenly and Spiritual the Husk or drossy part that is no more the true Body than Dross in a Lump of rich Oar of Gold is Gold being excepted Query V. Do ye believe that Christ or the Eternal Word was so made Flesh that he truly and really became Man as truly Man as he was God c For Answer to this let us hear what George Whitehead saith in his Book above-cited The Life and Light c. page 39. As for those Expressions saith he God-man being born of Mary we do not find them in the Scriptures nor do we read that Mary was the Mother of God but in the Pope's Canons Articles c. And page 47. he saith What Nonsence and Unscripture Language is this to tell of God being Co-creator with the Father or that God had Glory with God doth not this imply two Gods and that God had a Father let the Reader Judge Note Is not this the very Argument of Arians c I wonder what George Whitehead will make or hold concerning Christ at last One while that visible Man born of the Virgin was not the Christ for Christ was never seen with a Carnal Eye Which Expression George Whitehead defends The Light and Life page 62 and brings that place in John 14. to defend it He that seeth me seeth my father also Where it is plain by sight in that place Christ meant a Spiritual Saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ which whoever have they know the Father also But Christ told the Jews they did see him and did not believe in him Another while with George Whitehead to say Christ or the Word was with God and had Glory with God before the World was

them Thirdly If any slay the Life of Christ in them by their Sins doth not that hinder the Life to be a Sacrifice by Geo. Whitehead's Argument That the killing of Christ outwardly being the Act of wicked Men could be no meritorious Act Fourthly Where doth the Scripture say Christ offers up himself in his Children a Sacrifice for Sin Fifthly Is not this to make many Sacrifices or at least to say that Christ offers himself often yea Millions of times contrary to Scripture that saith Christ offer'd up himself once Sixthly Why could no beast under the Law that had a Blemish be offer'd but to signifie that Christ was to offer up himself in no other Body but that which was without all Sin Seventhly Why was it prophesied of Christ A Body hast thou prepared me why not Bodies many if he offer up himself in the Bodies of all the Saints Eighthly Is not this to make the Sacrifice of Christ in his own Body of less Value and Efficacy than his Sacrifice in William Penn's Body Because the Sacrifice of Christ in that Body that was offer'd at Jerusalem was a Type but this in William Penn's Body the Antitype That the History This the Mystery Ninthly Doth not this strengthen the Papists in their false Faith That Christ is daily offer'd in the Mass and unbloody Sacrifice But whereas William Penn argueth That as Christ or the Spirit Prayeth or maketh Intercession in the Saints why doth he not also offer up himself in them The Answer is easie The one is expresly affirmed in Scripture The other not nor is so much as to be proved by any just Consequence in a strict sence of the Word Sacrifice for it is not the Work of the Mediatory Spirit of Christ in the Saints to offer up himself a Sacrifice in Men but to apply the Vertue Merit and Efficacy of that Sacrifice of Christ outwardly offer'd to the Souls of Men for the Remission of Sin Justification before God and Peace with God And tho' it is said in Scripture that Christ remaineth a Priest for ever and he is the Propitiation for our Sins yet it is not said he is so in us but with the Father in Heaven And we have a High-Prist that is gone into Heaven Nor do I judge it safe to allow any such Unscriptural Phrase or Doctrine That Christ offereth up himself in us a Sacrifice in us to appease the Wrath of God though Christ's Mediation in the Saints may be allow'd in a qualified Sence but not in the nature of a Sacrifice but in other respects unless the Word Sacrifice or Offering be taken not to be an Offering for Sin but more generally and by way of Allegory as the Prayers and Alms of the Saints are call'd Sacrifices Note That in the Book of Homilies William Penn's Argument against Christ's Satisfaction for our Sins is effectually answered at large viz. in the Sermon of Salvation First Part. Where the Objection or Argument of William Penn is in Matter and Effect duly and fully answered according to Scripture viz. That God by his great Wisdom in this Mystery of our Redemption hath so tempered his Justice and Mercy together that he would neither by his Justice condemn us unto the Everlasting Captivity of the Devil and his Prison of Hell Remediless for ever without Mercy nor by his Mercy deliver us clearly without Justice or Payment of a just Ransom But with his endless Mercy he joined his most upright and equal Justice c. And whereas George Whitehead in his Reply to W. Burnet as above-cited blameth him for attributing to the Blood of Christ that was shed upon the Cross First Merit to Salvation Secondly Work to Sanctification It is evident he owneth it to be neither But as he is most highly jurious to that precious Blood and to him that gave it for us so he most unfairly chargeth W. Burnet with saying God could not save and so setting up that Blood above God For W. Burnet's plain Sense was as is obvious more especially to him that shall read his Book That Christ as God without being Man as well as God could not save us he having appointed to save us not without but by the Man Christ Jesus as the Scripture testifieth which chargeth no Imperfection or Impotency any more upon God than to say God cannot lye nor do any thing contrary to his Holy Council and Purpose And it is gross Ignorance and Errour in George Whitehead to make it a Contradiction in William Burnet to say as he chargeth him p. 8. Men ought to look to Jesus Christ as he was there crucified viz. at Jerusalem or to that Blood that was there shed for Justification And again to say That Christ that restoreth Man's Loss is both to be sought and found in Heaven viz. above the Clouds and Firmament For this is no Contradiction but a most necessary and comfortable Truth as well as that God and Christ are to be found in our Hearts But it is wonderful Blindness and Inconsiderateness in George Whitehead as well as in many of his ignorant Brethren whom he hath been a great Means by his unfound Books to darken rather than to enlighten not to consider That as God hath appointed divers subordinate Causes to work together in the producing of Natural Effects all concurring in Harmony together with himself the greatest and supreme Cause above all who is in all and through all So in the Work of our Salvation God hath appointed together with himself divers subordinate concurring Causes to effect and perfect it so as that God himself is our Saviour so he hath appointed Christ even the Man Christ Jesus to be our Saviour together with himself and the Blood Death and Sufferings of Christ and his most Holy and Perfect Obedience testified thereby also his Resurrection Ascension and Mediation without us as well as the Work of his Spirit in us together with the other much more inferiour but yet greatly valuable and profitable outward instrumental Helps and Means as the Holy Scripture Preaching c. in harmony to concurr together in the Work of our Salvation A POSTSCRIPT I Take notice of a late Book published against me by Th. Elwood call'd Truth defended c. but whose true Name should be Falshood and Hypocrisie weakly defended being a pretended Answer to my two late Books the one detecting the Injustice of of their Excommunication against me who were a leading Party of the Yearly Meeting of them call'd Quakers the other detecting the unjust Proceedings of that Party at the said Yearly Meeting and giving a List of the vile and gross Errors of some of their principal Teachers as George Whitehead William Penn c. To the which pretended Answer of Th. Elwood abovemention'd as also to some of the chiefest of his Forgeries and Pretensions and gross Abuses in his former Book call'd A farther Discovery it is probable a due Answer may be given in due time But I thought it not