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A47121	The anti-Christs and Sadduces detected among a sort of Quakers, or, Caleb Pusie of Pensilvania and John Pennington, with his brethren of the second days meeting at London called Quakers, proved antichrists and Sadduces out of a said book lately published by them called A modest account of the principal differences in point of doctrine betwixt George Keith and those of the people called Quakers in Pensilvania &c. : being an answer to the said book ... : with some few remarks on John Pennington's late book entitled The people called Quakers cleared &c. and Geo. Whitehead his postscript ...: and a postscript ... / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing K138; ESTC R179313	54,978	49

reckoned among the Simpliciter credenda I have changed any one Principle Only as to the Sense of some Places of Scripture relating to Water-Baptism and the Supper I own I have changed my Mind but to the better and also as to some other places of Scripture improperly alledged to prove some real Truths P. 4. to p. 10. As concerning these several Testimonies they bring out of my Books in all these pages I own every one of them still as things sincerely believed by me and I believe by many others also so far as they relate to Doctrine But that I held them forth as the Principles of the Teachers among the Quakers universally or as the Principles of G. W. and W. Penn seeing I have since found them so palbably to contradict them in their Printed Books I freely acknowledge my shortness and mistake therein But they most uncharitably alledge That it is hardness in me to have changed my Opinion or Perswasion of these men seeing they have given me so great and just occasion so to do by boldly defending and excusing these vile Errors The next thing they charge me with is my Inconsistency and Self-contradiction but this is a False Charge their manifest failure in their undertaking will sufficiently I hope prove The first Self-contradiction they think they have catched me in is what they bring in pag. 111 2. viz. That I said Nameless Bull pag. 11. Seeing this true Faith is wrought in God's ordinary way by Preaching therefore the true Faith of Christ's Death and Sufferings ought to be one of the first and chiefest things that every true Minister ought to Preach c. But they think I contradict this Way to the City of God pag. 3. The knowledge of his inward coming is that which is the more needful and in the first place as being that by which the true and comfortable use of his outward coming is alone sufficiently understood Answ As I have somewhere else said It is my Lot to have to do with Men that have neither so much true Logick nor Common Sense as to understand what a true Contradiction is Let any Man of common sense judge if it be a contradiction or least inconsistency to say The true Faith of Christs Death is one of the first things that ought to be Preached to bring Men to witness the true Faith of Christs Death and being made Conformable to his Death And also to say The knowledge of his inward coming is the more needful in the first place As it is no contradiction to say George Whitehead was one of the first Quakers in the North of England George Fox was the first Quaker But for the better understanding of the Case the distinction betwixt general Religion and Christian Religion is to be considered which distinction I have used in my Book called Divine immediate Revelation and Inspiration continued in the true Church Printed at London 1684. and which was read and approved by the Second Days Meeting when I was present and therefore G. W. is bound to own what is in that Book unless he will say their Ministers are changed in their Principles see pag. 44. where I also distinguish betwixt general Revelation in Men and special the general I said was common to all Mankind the special given to true Christians By general Revelation which is that common illumination given to all Mankind men are taught to know that God is and that he is the maker of all things and that he hath given a Law to Men in their Hearts which they are to obey and when they disobey this Law they make themselves guilty before God and by this general Revelation or illumination Men generally know that they are Sinners all having sinned and by this inward Law and illumination common to all men is the knowledge of Sin and of the Wrath of God that is due for Sin and by this General or Common illumination many of the Gentiles came so far as the Servants state and had acceptance with God as Servants but were short of the state of Sons because they had not the Faith in Christ Crucified according to Gal. 3. 26. This same distinction of general and special Revelation in other terms I held forth in my Book of Universal Grace approved also by the Second Days Meeting and Printed in the Year 1671. which is about 25 Years ago see pag. 8 9 10. of that Book where I largely treat of a twofold inward Appearance of Christ in Men the first and second and how the first prepareth for the second and how the first is not to be rested in but that we ought to press forward into the second pag. 9. ad finitum And I said the first was that of the Law the second that of the Gospel pag. 8 The former that of the first Covenant the latter that of the second Covenant And I say expresly pag. 8. ' The Gospel lay hid within the Law as within a Vail which the outward Tabernacle did plainly figure and hold forth And notwithstanding that I have held forth this distinction in Print 25 Years ago yet many of my present Adversaries cry out against it as New Doctrine and contrary to Friends Principles And it most evidently appeareth from the express Words of my Book of Universal Grace pag. 120. That I did not then hold that the Light within was sufficient to Salvation without any thing else or without Christ's outward coming and his Obedience Sufferings and Death as my Adversaries Caleb Pusie and the Second Days Meeting that hath approved his Book do affirm and as these Men also do who have given out their Scandalous Book called The People called Quakers cleared for I say expresly in that pag. 120. The Light within and Christ's outward coming with his Obedience Sufferings and Death are both sufficient useful and necessary in their own kind and way Consummating and being Consummate in another And here Note that though I did not say Christ within and Christ without are two Christs yet I said his Light within and his Coming in the Outward with his Obedience Sufferings and Death were two things Consummating and being Consummated in one another Now to wipe off the Injurious Charge of my Adversaries G. W. and J. P. in this particular which I thank God I can as easily do and all other their Injurious Charges against me as Paul did throw off the Viper from his Hand I say conform to the Doctrine of my former Books and in good Consistency with all the passages in them the Light within which in a true sense is God and Christ the Eternal and Essential Word is to be Preached in the first place to Heathens and Gentiles or any other called Christians who have not any true knowledge of God or fear and reverence of him and to all bold and presumptuous Sinners and briefly to all Men whatsoever not really and truly converted to the Christian Religion to bring them in the first place to some

knowledge of God and some true fear and reverence of him and also to some true knowledge and sense of their sinful state and condition and that they are liable to the Wrath and Displeasure of God for their Sins all which are in good order previous or prior to the true Christian Faith which is a Faith in Christ crucified and therefore may be Preached before that Faith But that the Christian Faith it self may be received by Preaching that Faith is one of the first things that is to be preached as being one of the first Principles of the Christian Religion as is clear from these Scriptures Acts 20 21. where Repentance towards God and Faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ are joined together as first Principles of the Doctrine of Christ compared with Heb. 6. 1 2. And these Ignorant Men so deeply Prejudicod against the Preaching of Christ Crucified to wit G. W. and J. P. as being one of the first things needful to be Preached and Faith in him in Order to make Men true Christians might by the same Silly Sophistry and Quibling accuse Paul and John contradicting each other and inconsistent yea the Holy Ghost himself who did inspire them both in what they wrot For whenas Paul told the Corinthians when he Preached the Gospel unto them 1 Cor. 15. 3. that he delivered unto them First of All Note these Words first of all that which he also received how that Christ dyed for our Sins according to the Scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day c. And yet John Preached not that the first thing but began with Preaching the Word that was in the beginning and how in that Word was Life and the Life was the Light of Men and that Light was the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world John 1. 1. to 9. But in this there is no Contradiction nor Inconsistency betwixt Paul and John for John begins with that Principle of Doctrine that is necessary to General Religion and to the Knowledge of God as Creator Paul begins with the Preaching CHRIST Crucified as one of the first things necessary to Christian Religion and the knowledge thereof And such Order is necessary in teaching Practical Arts and Sciences as in order to teach Astronomy some first Principles of Arithmetick and Geometry are necessary to be taught in the first place as to add and substract in Arithmetic c. And to make a Perpendicular Line or draw a Paralel to bisect an Angle c. Yet none of these are properly Principles of Astronomy as it is a peculiar Science But the first Principles of Astronomy are not to be taught before Arithmetick and Geometry but after them And so the first Principles of Medicine are to be taught after the first Principles of the Physicks and thus the first Principles of Christian Theology are to be taught after the first Principles of Ethicks or Ethology which was the Gentile Religion and which did teach many true and excellent things of God as is to be seen in Aristotle's Ethicks who wrote of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. something Divine in Man by which he could live virtuously and yet who but he that is no true Christian himself will say that Aristotle's Ethicks or Socrate's and Platoe's Morals are enough to teach the Christian Theology Thus I hope I have made it appear that as my Adversaries have not proved me inconsistent with my self so they have proved themselves inconsistent with true Christianity and no true Christians in their Principles but Heathens and falling short of Heathen Morals in Falsly accusing the Innocent a Vice contrary to true Morality The second part of their Charge in pag. 10. is That I did formerly hold that Christ's Inward coming saves where the Outwardis unknown But here they are guilty of gross Forgery and Perversion first of Forgery seeing they cite no passage in any of my Books where I express these Words where the Outward is unknown and seeing by their Words where the Outward is unknown they mean Christ's coming without us I say they are guilty of grosly perverting my Words and Sense as if I did hold that Christ's inward coming saves with Eternal Salvation without all knowledge of Christ's outward coming and in contradiction to themselves they grant I have distinguished betwixt the express or explicit Knowledge and Faith of Christ's Death and Sufferings in order to Eternal Salvation and the implicit Knowledge and Faith of it asserting this last but not the first as universa'ly and indispensibly necessary They object against this distinction idlely and falsly that it is said by me pag. 14. ' That the distinction betwixt explicit and implicit is a late distinction But the place of my Book cited by them saith no such thing But I mention how in divers of my late Books I have distinguished betwixt the express and implicit Knowledge and Faith but this proves it not to be a late distinction for it is an antient distinction and sufficiently implied and understood in my oldest Books when I treat on that subject for whereas they confess that I have used the Word express in my oldest Books that proveth that I did then make that distinction though I did not express the other term of implicit which though not expressed yet was really understood by me as in many cases it is enough to express the one Term or Member of a distinction as when we call a Man a rational Creature though we express not the Word Irrational yet we sufficiently distinguish betwixt a Man and a Bruit that Man is rational and a Bruit is irrational and when I say some or many things commanded us are jure divine this sufficiently implyeth and intimateth to any of common sense that some things may be commanded us that are not jure divino but jure humano yea all things done and practised by the People called Quakers are not jure divine as themselves confess therefore as jure divino implieth the other term of the distinction when not expressed viz. jure humano so the term express implieth the other term implicit though not expressed And though my ignorant Adversaries would make their ignorant Followers think this is only a new and odd distinction of mine yet all true and Orthodox Christians do hold it as well as I and have used it as they do at present and hath its Foundation in Scripture for when Paul said Ephes 3. 6. That the Mystery how that the Gentiles should be fellow Heirs and of the same Body and partakers of his Promise in Christ by the Gospel in other Ages was not made known unto the Sons of Men as it is now revealed unto his Holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit he plainly implieth this distinction for in other Ages yea in all Ages it was at least obscurely and implicitly made known but not expresly as in Paul's Age and the Ages succeeding and that Great Mystery of