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A89410	An answer to George Keith's libel. Against a catechism published by Francis Makemie. : To which is added, by way of postscript. A brief narrative of a late difference among the Quakers, begun at Philadelphia.	Makemie, Francis, 1658-1708.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M307; ESTC W24940	61,656	129

prevented of having any of my Friends present though some few dropped in occasionally at which time we had several Charges and Questions concerning several things which were too tedious to Rehearse here but I wish they had been Recorded then to prevent many mis●epresentations that were spread abroad by that Party And though there was no real Debate he oft told me he came not to Dispute with me yet soon after they boasted of a Victory which if they find after a diligent perusal impartial consideration of these Sheets let them improve and post it if they will Yet after some Discourse be impudently charged me as a False Teacher and challenged me to a Publick Dispute before the Multitude which I scorned with a sharp retorsion and that for these reasons 1. Their Principles were unknown because never unanimously agreed upon nor fairly Published to the World therefore not to be Disputed within words 2. We should Dispute before an ignorant and illeterate Multitude who should be most incompetent Judges 3. Because he would run into Learning and I must follow and so what should be Delivered should not tend to their Edification but fall to the ground and be Lost But afterwards I gave him a Challenge to oppose my Catechism or Principles in Writing and he should have an Answer to every Particular though Keith gave not the least intimation of this Paper left behind him though he dropt an Expression which I understood not then that he would Write no more then he had done this I took for Declining my Challenge Now I Leave it to all to Determine whose Challenges or Overture was fairest for 1. What either of us should Deliver should be on Record and we could not fly from it 2 If the Hearing a verbal Debate in angry words should Edifie much more a written Debate frequently read over 3. Ma●y might be Judges of a written Debate who ●ad no opportunity of hearing it Disputed ●ublickly And as I have prefixed his Paper verbatim so I expect the same priviledge for mine if any Answer is Published I have greater and better work then Controversie to Follow but in the Strength of the Lord shall not only Defend my Principles still by Writing but if called thereunto shall rea●ily Seal them with my Blood And so I Leave thee Reader to the Counsel and Direction of God whose Unworthy Servant I am in the Lord Jesus Amen At Rehoboth in Pocamok Maryland This 26 July 1692. Francis Makemie Reader I also offer thee these Following Questions which I expect and desire Resolution and Satisfaction from such as are concerned and that Plainly Positively Sincerely and Faithfully according to the Judgment of all of that Party without Obscurity Equivocation or Subtile and Unfair Reservation and so I bid the● Farewel and Remains as above F. M. Several mixed Quaeries to be resolved by Quakers in this juncture for the Justification of themselves and satisfaction of all July 26th 1692. Question I. WHat is the Reason Quakers are so far Metamorphosed or Changed both in Judgment and Practice at this Day from what they once were at their first rise in Europe II. What is the Reason Quakers that look upon themselves as the only pure Church in the World has never yet adventured to Publish a form of sound words according to the Apostles language containing a confession of their faith and principles unanimously agreed upon among themselves as all other churches in the world have done III Seeing they own themselves divinely inspired from an immediate call and Apostolick mission why they have not adventured to publish interpretations of Scripture seeing they condemn so far disapprove all other Commentaries as far from the mind of God and full of gross Errors and mistakes IV Wherefore did they write and Bark so much against all witnessing to truth conviction of falshood in Judicatures by an oath as sinful and unlawful under the Gospel and now in Pensilvania and Mary-Land seem only to quarrel the manner and way of Swearing on the Book according to the English Form and are willing to Swear now in Judicatures with lifted up hands which many look upon to be more solemn than the former V. Whether it be the same individual numerical Body for substance which falleth that shall rise again at the Resurrection notwithstanding of Changes in Respect of Quality VI. If there be a sufficient and saving light in all men to instruct direct and to teach them what necessity is there for multiplying so many Teachers both of Men and Women among Quakers VII Why Quakers are so hot and Zealous for K. James a Popish and Abdicated Prince and was never so for any other Protestant King tho' King WILLIAM and Queen MARY has been kinder than any other by giving a Liberty established by Law VIII Whether the same individual Josus that was cloathed with Hesh suffered and died at Jerusalem is the same that rose again and is ascended to Glory and the same they hold substantially in all men and women IX How Christ the Spirit of God saving Grace and Light can be in those who have not the least knowledg of him as Mediator and Intercessour between God and sinners X Whether the omission of duty as prayer or any other duty for a certain time a week a month or a year is excusable in Quakers before an all-seeing and Just God from this pretence that they had no impulse or motion of the Spirit thereunto XI Why they use not means for edifying reforming those of their families by calling them together reading Scripture daily to them praying with for them as other Christians in all Churches and Ages have done and is approved in the Word of God XII Wherefore Quakers have not adventured to publish their doctirnes publick● taught which they say is immediate from the spirit of God as most other Churches have done frequently XIII Seeing they decry the civil salutations of the Kingdom people among whom they live what warrant can they produce for their singular ugly bad natured way of salutation their Males Females taking one another by the hands or wrists continuing a ●onsiderable space wringing them hard looking stedfastly in each others faces without one word speaking XIV Whether it is Christ compleatly as modiator you believe in and is in all men XV Whether two men differing in a Fundamental truth absolutely necessary to salvation can be guided by the same infallible Spirit XVI Whether Quakers do direct their Prayers to God in themselves or to God in Heaven XVII Where God is really personally substantially is he not in all fulness of Grace and Goodness XVIII What Worship or Divine Service do the heathen nations perform unto the Living and True God XIX Whether the inflicting of corporal punishments on children servants other offenders and hiring of men to take a Vessel by force from Privateers be not an using of the carnal Weapon XX Whether the receiving of

in hand with Arminians and Pelagians do hold which only leaves man in a possibility of Salvation if the sinner will but may be the most of Christs Redeemed ones go to Hell notwithstanding while Christ John 17. Speaks of his Redeemed and Ransomed ones as those Select Ones whom the Father had given him out of the World for whom that is the World He would not so much as Pray far less dye and Keith himself owns in his Malicious Uncharitable Book Against New-England Ministers that there are those for whom it may be said Christ Dyed not And so this must be the Gentlemans Position Christ dyed for all and dyed not for all which is a plain conradiction and farewel Keith's universal Redemption which if it had not evanished in a contradiction was uncomfortable and ineffectual to the greatest number of Redeemed ones I Remember in the beginning Keith says I speak very little of the Spirit of God at all which I have already shown in the most convincing and particular manner to be False by directing the Reader to the particular Pages and now I am to show he contradicteth himself by owning in several Questions and Answers my asserting The Spirits Operations in calling Effectually in Regeneration in Working Faith in us and Vniting us to Christ But while he is necessitated to own this He affirms it To be inconsistent with and contradictory to my 〈◊〉 and My Brethrens Doctrine which he endeavours to confirm by a far fetched and inconsequential reason because we deny all extraordinary immediate and Objective Revelation such as the Apostles had and tho' we disown this Doctrine of theirs how it shall Follow we renounce all the special Gracious and saving operations of the Spirit of God in and by the use of means and Ordinances of Gods own appointment and sometimes immediately where External means of our Salvation are Wanting in the Regeneration Sanctification of Souls in making them meet for himself in Glory I leave both to Natural and Gracious Souls to Determine But every Christian Reader may discover in this person a most Arrogant Spirit to pretend to know my Principles and Opinions better than I know them my self and with impudent falshood to affirm and declare I have Published an Account of Principles I do not believe and that they are repugnant to my Brethrens Doctrine seeing our publick Confessions of Faith and Catechisms known to the whole Christian World sayes the same things and particularly in the Description of Effectual Calling which is further confirmed in all our common places and Bodies of Divinity and in all the practical Pieces treating of these Subjects as Mr. Allen of Conversion Mr. Burgess and Mr. Cole of Regeneration and many others and I am satisfied how oft I have delivered in publick my Opinion in these matters I must needs declare it is an evil Principle and unfair Undertaking for any to take upon them to Publish Principles and contradict Principles of those he is an ●solute stranger unto and it is the true Character of a Deceiver to possess others with prejudices against ●ur Principles only by misrepresenting of them and ●astening Principles on us which we abhor And ●s to all inward Revelation or speaking of God to ●e Souls and Hearts of Believers I never read nor heard of any of our Divines absolutely deny or disown i● And I have upon all occasions publickly Taught and Do and shall in the Strength of Jesus Christ firmly believe and that unto the end the Aluminating Sanctifying Mortifying Quickning Operations of the Holy Spirit of God in the hearts of every sound Believer in restoring the Corrupted Soul to the Forfeited Image of God so it is evident how inclinable Keith is to Calumniate and misrepresent us upon all occasions How great must the Ignorance of Quakers needs be who cannot or their perversness be that will not distinguish between Enthusiastick Immediate Extraordinary and Objective Revelations from the Spirits Gracious and Spritual Illumination of his mind impressing those Truths made known and Revealed in an ordinary way by Means of Heavens Appointment giving them Efficacious Grace to see Embrace Close with and make Saving Application of them to their heart● and Grace to observe the same in their Lives which ordinary and extaordinary Operations they confound together as they do the Universal or General Presence of Christ with his special saving and gracious Presence holding him to be in all after the same manner And whereas he has assumed boldness to affirm we call it Blasphemy to say Christ is really in the Saints All the Answer this deserves is that it is Notoriously False and a groundless Calumny For all of us firmly believe That unless the Spirit of Christ be in us we are none of his and Christ is in us except we be Reprobate and he dwells in all Believers 〈◊〉 from Pauls words it is by Faith Eph. 3.17 as 〈◊〉 declared and that fully from that Text Colos 1.27 Christ in you the Hope of Glory And it is no contradiction to affirm and believe that God hath called Sinners out of Sin unto Grace yet at the same time to feel and assert that all have sin remaining in them for it is no hard matter to distinguish betwixt Sinners being under the Power Dominion and Slavery or Drudgery of Sin and a Sinners having some Relicks and Remainders of Sin and Corruption in them whereby even in Believers there is a constant and spiritual Warfare raised in the believing Soul whereas formerly the Strong Man kept the House the Apostle gives us this distinction Sin shall not have Dominion over you you are not under the Law but under Grace and the same Apostle even after his Conversion complains of his own sinful wretched Corruption and at the same time Triumphs in the Victory obtained for in the next breath Thanks be to God who has given us the victory and if Sin in some measure be not cotemporary with saving Grace or Conversion what must become of Quakers universal sufficient and saving Grace and all the multitudes of them I have ever seen must according to their own Opinion be void of Conversion Grace and Justification for Sin have been easily discernable in all neither did ever any of them produce one instance for their absolute perfection and yet none of us assert that the Saints Sincerity Thought Word and Deed as Keith falsely words it yet it strictly and spiritually taken all are attended with Infirmities I am quarrelled for asserting in my Catechism page 25. This Justification and Adoption are Acts of God without us and and work only a relative Change and that Justification Adoption and Sanctification once had cannot be Lost As to the first Justification is according to the Judgment of all Pro●estant Divines a gracious Act of Gods Love in a Judicial Way upon the account of Christ's Imputed Righteousness acquitting and absolving the sinner from Guilt and consequently from Condemnation I hope Quakers will not jump in