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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51023	Mr. George Keiths reasons for renouncing Quakerism, and entering into communion with the Church of England with other remarkable occurrences that will be acceptable to all orthodox Christians, of every persuasion.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing M2265A; ESTC R32938	22,833	38

What Scripture Proof is there that Christ subsisteth outwardly Bodily without us at God's Right-hand and where is God's Right-hand is it visible or invisible within us or without us only and is Christ a Saviour as an outward bodily Existence or Person without us distinct from God and on that consideration to be worshipped as God Yea or Nay This way of Talking and Writing is the peculiar knack of the Quakers who have more Shifts and Subterfuges to cloak their Heresies than any of the Ignation Tribe In writing about Justification by the Blood of Christ the same Authors contrary to the express words of Scripture say That 't is a Confusion a Labyrinth and Vncertainty to be directed to Christ for Justification and Salvation both as he suffer'd at Jerusalem and as he Rose again and is Ascended into Heaven above the Clouds and Firmaments and to fill up the Measure of their just Condemnation Solomon Eccles has published it in Print * Nar. 1. p. 27. That the Blood of Christ in respect of Justification is of no more efficacy than the Blood of another Saint and certainly if ever Comparisons were Odious this Quakeristical Absurdity is intolerable All their Writings are stuffed with such inexplicable and unintelligible Phrases and wild Notions that they seem rather intended to puzzle and distract than inlighten a Reader and notwithstanding all their fallacious Pretences of being an innocent plain simple People that are most affected with Scripture Language yet they are as far from it as Light from Darkness for in truth no Society of Men that are called Christians no not the Church of Rome it self have so much deviated from Scripture Language and Scripture Doctrine and Sence as the Quakers have done And as the Spirit of Pride and vain Glory does always abound in worthless Minds as empty Vessels and shallow Brooks are known to yield the loudest sound so the Quakers are always filling the World with their own Commendations as if there were no good wise nor vertuous Men upon Earth but what were enclosed within the narrow confines of a Quaking Conventicle whereas in truth the readiest way to know them rightly is read them in the reverse of the Characters they give themselves The Quakers also say that we are not Justified by the Blood of Christ outwardly shed which is a piece of Divinity more fit for Bedlam than any sober Society of People * Nar. 1. p. 33. but as if this was not sufficient to Stigmatize them with the approbius Name of Obstinate or Blind Hereticks they are pleas'd to add also That we are not Sanctified by that Blood of Christ that was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem but by an inward Blood whose Power and Vertue is unknown to any but the Quakers and if these are not bold Strokes against the whole Doctrine of the Bible and the Declarations and Confessions of the whole Christian World you may add to these another of their Tennets and that is * Nar. 1. p. 34. That the Body that dieth never riseth again which is expresly opposite and contradictory to many places of Scripture that especially in Acts the 26th That Christ should suffer and should be the first that should be raised from the Dead In all parts of the World where the Quakers have spread themselves there is a Universal Neglect among them of Preaching Christ Crucified and concerning Faith in him Preaching only the Light within and Christ within And when I began to preach up the Fundamental Principles of the Christian Religion among them they stood up against me and charg'd me with preaching up new Doctrines and one appeal'd to the Monthly Meeting whether they ever heard of such Doctrines preach'd in the Quakers Meetings directing them to Faith in a Christ without them I Reverence Divine Providence that I became a Quakers but if I had known they had had such Errors among them I would as soon have put my Head into the Fire as have associated with them They were so assiduous in maintaining their own Erroneous Principles that they did all they could to prevent me from opposing them by reporting that I was a False Teacher and accused me for setting up thre Heterodox Principles * Nar. 1. p. 38. 39. The first was That Christ's Body rose out of the Grave and they affirm'd it never did and dared me to give an Instance that one English Quaker was of my Opinion The Second Accusation was that I had said That it was lawful to pray to Jesus Christ Crucified And in this also challeng'd me to name one Quaker that I ever heard pray to Christ and when the 1 Cor. 1.2 was read To all that call upon the Lord Jesus Christ both their Lord and ours The Quakers answer'd That Paul was as Dark and as Ignorant as George Keith is adding for our part we know better The third piece of False Doctrine they accused me of was for saying That the best Saints had need to come always to God by the Mediator the Man Christ Jesus This they inveighed against as a gross Error and said they would come to God without him this sort of Doctrine is to be found in William Shewen's Book a Quaker in great esteem among them For these things they Excommunicated me first and afterwards presented me by a Grand Jury at Philadelphia in Pensilvania and they would have found me guilty of Death though I was wholy Innocent of indeavouring to change the Government which they accused me of if the Government had not been taken out of their Hands and I discharg'd from that false and malicious Accusation by Governour Fletcher George Whitehead and William Penn * Nar. 1. p. 38. 40. by Allegorizing Plain and Positive Texts of Scripture have endeavoured to overthrow the Belief of Christ's Birth his Death Resurrection Ascension and coming to Judgment and by this Artifice has left us no Scripture to prove that the Death of Christ was any benefit to us and as to Christ's coming to Judgment Whitehead says in an Answer to R. Gordon that he might look till his Eyes dropt out before he should see Christ appear again outwardly in a Bodily Existence After this having read over my Books they drew up ten Articles against me charging me with false Doctrine in ten Particulars and John Humphrey says in his first Letter that he perceives by those Articles That my Faith relished too much of Carnality a carnal Body of Christ in Heaven a carnal Election and Reprobation a carnal Justification and Adoption a carnal Day of Judgment and Resurrection beyond the Grave I am grieved says he to hear some say they did expect to be justified by that Blood of Christ that was shed at Jerusalem Is not this to be carnally Minded William Baily who was a great Preacher among the Quakers and whose Books * Nar. 3. p. 3.4 they have Re-printed says That the Apostle Preached Christ the word nigh in the Heart and in