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A letter from the most ingenious Mr. Lodowick Rhode-Island, Febr. 1, 1691-2.
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Ludovici, C. (Christian), 1660-1728.
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their Lords Supper and he that fully understands what they mean by their Light and by their Life may understand their whole Divinity The Semi-foxians finding this Doctrine to be too Gross and that God is Indivisible and Immortal and cannot be Crucisied Slain and Raised from Death will not say that the Inward Condemner is a measure of the uncreate Eternal Spirit but they say 't is a create or rather Emanated Being Emanated from God in the beginning before all things VIZ. A measure of the Esâ—ence of the Heavenly Man which they generally call the Light and Spirit of Jesus Christ and the purchase of his Death R. Barclay saith in his Apology p. 87. that it is a Measure of the Heavenly Body of Christ and that every unrighteouss Action is Reproved by it But G. Kieth on his Way cast up will have it to be the Neshamah of the Heavenly Man extended into us And consequently their pretended inward Motions immediate Inspirations Illuminations and Revelations are not Immediately from God but mediately either thro' the Body or Soul of a feigned Man and by this is also their inward Justification Sanctification and Regeneration This is their Divine Essâ—ntial Principle which they so often speak of and sometimes call the Seed Grace and Word of God and R. B. saith that it is the Manifestation of the Spirit spoken of 1. Cor. 12.7 the seed of the Kingdom Math. 13.18 19. the Light that maketh all things manifest Eph. 5.13 the word of God Ro. 10.18 the Talent Math. 25 15. the little Leaven the Gospel preached in every Creature Col. 1 23. and he is offended with them that call it a Natural Conscience He saith that if this Seed be reciâ—ved into the Heart to bring forth iâ—â—â— Effects Christ cometh to be formed of it which the Scripture calls the New Man Christ within the hope of Glory In this Birth or Formation of Christ within us and working his works in us and powring his Blood into our Souls he places our formal Justification which he explains to be all one with Sanctification viz. A making righteous inwardly and tho' he grants that Remission of sins was only purchased â—y vertue of Christs Sacri fice without us yet he saith that they may come to partake or it that are ignorant of the History of Christ for he asserts that by the operation of this Light and Seed some have been and may yet be saved to whom the Gospel is not outwardly Preached nor the History of Christ outwardly known because they have with all other men a day of Visitation in which God offers to work this Salvation by the Measure of a saving sufficient supernatural Right given to every man which all are to believe in as he would infer from Joh. 12 36. G. Keith writes in hi Way to the City of God to the same purpose And you may see by G. Keiths Books how they have framed their Doctrine Concerning Christ according to this their Hypothesis â—orrowing several of their Notions out of the Writings of some Rabbies among the Eastern Jews Translated into Latin by a Learned Noble Man in Germany whose Children I Tutored some years agoe But if the Rabbies Aensoph â—e according to the Semi-foxians the Father Word and Holy Ghost as they say and the Aensoph's having clothed himself with the Mâ—nhood called Adam Cadmon be the Word 's being made Flesh then according to them not only the Word but also the Father and Holy Ghost were made Flesh This and many other Absurdities follow from G. Keiths assertion that the Word was made Flesh in the beginning and that this Flâ—â—h is the Rabbies Adam Cadmon And these Cabbalistiâ—al Semi-foxians seem to expect that their heavenly Adam Cadmon in the Body assumed of Mary shall come from Heaven to Judgement and that then there shall be a Resurrection â—ut of the Graves and G. K. doth also believe that at his coming there will be the 1000 Years-Reign which is more then I ever heard any one called a Quaker affirm And because G. Keith as he told me last Summer favours the Twelve Revolutions or Transmigrations of our Souls whereof R. Jischack a whimsical Jew in the Eastern Countries who pretended to Revelations hath written most largely which notion he perhaps learned of some of the Turks in some of those parts who greatly favour the Pyâ—â—agorean Metempsychosis therefore he is of late very fickle concerning the Resurrection-body for he told me last Summer that this our Flesh which goes into the grave shall not rise again but there is an Invisible Bone dispersed thro' the Body called by the Cabbalists Luz which is the Seed Sown unto which God shall give a Spiritual Body and he said that he asked some of the Jews in these parts what Luz signified and they because they understood nothing of that Cabbala and perhaps knowing that the word Luz in the Portugal and Spanish Tongue signifieth Light told him it mean Light and so G. Keith is hugely pleased with the fancy of it and thinks it suteth bravely with their Light and Seed And when I told him that the Cabbalists said that this Invisible Bone is only a Small Bone in the back he answered that Wise men would not tell all at once I suppose also that he believes that honest Pagans at some of their Revolutions receive the knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth according to his late absurd Notion are then perfectly Justified and Saved as if Justification admitted of Magis and Minus I asked him last Summer how any such Gentile could be actually justified and saved from wrath before he be pardoned and how he could be pardoned of the least imperfection of the very best of his moral vertues without Faith in Jesus of Nazareth and he gave me no direct Answer Certainly G. Keith hath no reason to quote not only Protestants but also the Fathers because he holds not the same Christ Grace and Justifying Faith with them You will likewise find SIR that G. Keith believeth not only the Preexistence of Two degrees of the Soul of Christ but also the preexistence of our Souls of which he makes of late more degrees then one thus contradicting what he formerly writt concerning our Nephesh in his Way cast up And indeed the GALGAL or Revolution of Soul presupposeth their Preexistence These Cabalistical Semi-Quakers labour as much as is possible to use the Expressions of G. Fox and his followers whence many of the common Foxians do not so much as suspect that they differ from them and in their Writing they use deceitfully and impudently the Words We and Us without any specifical Distinction as tho' they did write the Sense and Judgment of the whole People called Quakers when they do not and when they answer the Books writ by Anti-Quakers they will either put another Meaning or some favourable Construction on the gross Tenents of Fox and his Followers without ingenuously bearing witness against those Errors or if they be too gross they will either seek some Evasion or render their Opposites gross Lyars and Aâ—users of the honest People called Quakers because themselves do not maintain these things tho' they know in their Consciences that their Pagan Brethren as George Keith lately called them hold those gross Tenents upon whom they were also most truly and justly charg'd by their Opponents And therefore as I suppose George Keith is writing an Answer to your Book so I believe he will use many Evasions and take advantage where he can and he will either put some other Meaning upon George Foxes words which you have quoted and which he dares not well deny for his Brethrens sake who esteem George Fox the greatest Oracle and Prophet that ever was among them or perhaps he will say that you have quoted no page and therefore he will wave them I was glad to see the Antidote which you and your Honoured Colleagues in Boston have set forth against George Keith and I can sincerely say that God made it very profitable and serviceable to me in many respects and it is to be admired what Baseness and Malice George Keith did not scruple to use against you and how unreasonably he perverted the Assembly's Words and Meaning Having exceeded my intended Brevity I shall conclude desiring God to bless your Labour and Service in the Gospel of his Dear Son And Rest with my Respects to you Sir Your Servant in the Faith of Christ Christianus Lodowick