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B03937	Mr. Keith's sermon, preach'd on May the 12th, 1700. At Dr. Bedford's church, being Saint George Butolphs-Lane, by Billings-Gate. On Luke the 1st and verse 6th.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing K210; ESTC R179321	14,369	16

Gospel Faith by which you may judge what the True Church is and where it is to be 〈◊〉 Now a Gospel Faith is an Ancient Primitive Faith for Truth you know was from the beginning yea divers of the Doctrines with which our Saviour enlightened those that came to 〈◊〉 were from the Moral Law before his Personal Appearance for as he well said Abraham saw his Day that it his great Truths and Ways For our Blessed Lord was the Author and Finisher of our Faith in him it begun and was consumated in his Personal Teachings and Instructions of his immediate Disciples and Apostles who by the unerring guide viz. The Spirit left to us what they had received from him True natural Truths are more and more discovered by Time for many go too and fro so that Science is increased But the Divine Truths are most perfect in their Fountain and Original they indeed may and do contract Impurities in their Streams and remote Derivations So that the way to discover the Corruptions is to stand upon the old Ways and see how it was in the Original or Beginning whether that Righteousness which is taught is to Man as well as to God For a good Conscience must and should be always void of Offence towards both and whether their walking is and has been in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord or no if it has but been only in some and not in all verily it cannot nay must not be accounted blameless So by this first and true Character of a true Church and Faith two very dangerous Extreams are condemned as first that of the now Roman Church whose Doctrines and Usages which are truly denyed by that Church to which I am now joyned these following are in comparison Novelties and Innovations viz. their Image Worship Innovations of Saints Half Communion Prayer in an unknown Tongue● 〈…〉 Infalliability and Vniversality with 〈…〉 c. which whatsoever they pretend to I can assure you many of the Learned Divines of the Church to which I adhere have proved that all the before mentioned were generally unknown in the First and purest Times and so must be contrary to a Gospel Faith and True Church The Second on the other Extream is that Faith of the most of the New Sects is to be Condemned because of its Novelty and Innovation For where was Presbytery Independency Anabaptism and Quakerism of Old True I must confess that th●●e were some such like Heresies swiming in the Brains of some Ignorant but Conceited Men and Women then yet never as we Read were they in any general Practise any where For the Eldest we Read of were not above Three Hundred Years ago and some have sprung up even in this last Century or Age which to my Sorrow and Shame I must confess my self to have been of and to have grown and sprung up even from Mine and others sickle Fancys and vain Imaginations And God knows how soon now even amongst such and so many Confusions other new yet unheard of Sects and Heresies may arise and all to the further dividing of the true Church by Law Established and the scandal of Christian Faith and Religion c. True all These like the Pharisees may profess a great many Truths of the Gospel Faith yet for all that as their's had may have too much Leaven to spoil the whole Lump But as the true Faith was of Old ever from the begining So Secondly it was and is to be both Pure and Peaceable for St. James 3. 17. Assures us that Wisdom or Truth which is from above is first Pure than Peaceable Gentle and easie to be intreated full of Mercy and good Fruits without Partiality and without Hypocrisie teaching and producing Purity Holiness and Righteousness in Life and Heart For the business of it both was and is to conform us unto Christ and to make us Holy as he was and that in all manner of our Conversations as 1 Pet. 2. 15 16. And not only Holy but Peaceable also for Christ was the Prince of Peace and his Gospel the Gospel of Peace and not of Confusion as is manifested 1 Cor. 24. from the 33. to the end For God is not the Author of Confusion but of 〈◊〉 As in all Churches of the Saints let your Women keep Silen●● in the Churches for it is not permitted them to Speak but these are Commanded to be under Obedience as also saith the Law c. By which second Character of a true Church there are likewire these two aforesaid dangerous Extreams Condemned and Confuted The first of which viz. Popery which apparently teaches not only direct Impieties and Immoralities by the consequences of its Doctrines but also endeavours to Destroy both Ecclesiastical and Civil Peace For First by their Idollatries and Invocation of Saints and Angels which by the Prophets and Apostles is termed Spiritual Fornication and Whoredom by Dishonouring God's Majesty and Affronting his Glory These then must undoubtedly be accounted great Impieties and likewise their Doctrines and Practices of Deposing and Murthering Princes by absolving People from their Allegiance and dispencing with their Perjuries and Rebellions all which are verily high Immortalities and clear contrary to the Spirit and design of the Holy Jesus which came to redeem unto himself a Peculiar People zealous of good Works Nay besides these they even strike at the Root and main Design of Christianity by these following Doctrines which renders Repentance and Change of Life unnecessary For as they think so are apt to believe that the Favour of God and Eternal Salvation may be had upon easier Terms namely Crosses Pilgrimages Ave Marias Whipings c. Fastings often with a bare Confession and Absolution They I say do not only think but also really believe that these will do their Business or if these will not but to Pugatory they must go Yet these suppose and verily believe that if they can but procure Money enough to leave for such a number of Masses and Dirgies then they shall be secured of being Prayed out thence So that the greatest design of the Gospel which is real inward Holiness is Destroyed by them for they never so much as think of a Necessity of Cutting off right Hands and plucking out Eyes that is of Subduing and rescinding an inordinate Appetites and Affections which are the great di●●●culties of Religion These they account hard Sayings and cannot endure either to hear of or practise them Nay more●●er as for their Unpeaceable Tempers and Behaviours both in Spiritual and Temporal concerns that's Manifested not only from our own but Forreign Histories And the other dangerous Extream is there are many Sects which Forsooth pretend as I once did to my Shame be it spoken to Purity and Spirituality Saying That God sees no Sin in his Saints or Elect they be●ng without Sin a Precious and Choice People yea affirming That God loves not for the sake of Holiness and Vertue but freely i. e. for no reason but

Mr. Keith's SERMON Preach'd on May the 12th 1700. At Dr. Bedford's Church BEING Saint George's Butolphs-Lane by Billings-Gate On LVKE the 1st and Verse 6th And they were both Righteous before GOD walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the LORD Blameless ☞ You are to take Notice this is the Genuine Copy LONDON Printed for the AUTHOR and Sold by most Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. Mr. George Keith's SERMON c. LUKE 1st Chap Vers 6. And they were both Righteous before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Beloved YOU have an Account of a Priest or Teacher with his Wife both which being ancient and as Saint Luke here saith Righteous too before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances blameless yet for all those gay pretences the Man was turned Infidel and did or at least could not believe the Commands and Ordinances of the Lord and so in Justice was stricken Dumb because he did not believe God's Words which shall be fulfilled in their season vers 20. Now in taking my leave of my Old and well-Beloved Friends namely the People called Quakers to which I was once joyned and made as Zacharias was a Teacher among them and according to their and my weak Opinion righteous before God walking in as they and I thought all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless c. But since growing in Years so in Knowledge too being I hope as Zacharias was better instructed by the blessed Spirit Gabriel which stands in the Presence of God and so comes from him to bring as glad-tydings to me as it did to Zacharias to strike me for my Infidelity Dumb and not able to speak until the time be accomplished or fulfilled in their Seasons vers 19 20. And some People ●●●ted for the man Zacharias and marvelled but when he came out he could not speak to them Now you my dearly Beloved with whom I now travail in this New Birth to apply this to my self and you for your 〈…〉 you are 〈…〉 Spou●e both 〈◊〉 and in 〈…〉 nay and also as we then thought 〈…〉 fore God walking in all the 〈…〉 Ordinances of the Lord blameless but finde it has pleased the Almighty to send to me his blessed Spirit to 〈◊〉 not duty my but your Infidelity also that we have not been so Righteous as we should have been as to have had Consciences always void of Offence both towards God and Man neither have we walked in the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless And since God Almighty ha● as he did to Zacharias been pleased to send his blessed Spirit to discover our Errors which I must confess were like to the Jews altogether through Ignorance and so I hope pardonable and to shew those glad Tydings viz. what the real Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord are that we may walk in them and be blameless And since for my Infidelity the All-wise God suffered me to be struck Dumb till the accomplished Time and Season which I hope and find is now for you are not ignorant that those People before mentioned which both you and I had being then joyned to had and I hope still have a tenderness for they I say for my Infidelity by God's permission struck me Dumb So that both in Penstlvania and here I being Anathamatized or Excommunicated by them became as it were to them Dumb and Speechless at which you and some others which waited upon me there marvelled as those did at Zacharias vers 21 22 23. thinking and truly supposing that I as he had seen a Vision or Spirit which made me as it did him depart from them to his and mine own House So that it is no Mystery neither to them nor you that I was obliged to Teach and Instruct privately in Holes and in Corners as in this little Hall c. But thanks be to God being by the blessed Spirit better instructed in Righteousness in general and in all the Commands and Ordinances of the Lord to be without spot or blame the Time being accomplished and my Tongue loosed to speak of the Righteousness towards Man as well as God and to walk not as you and I have formerly not only Ignorantly but Obstinately and Maliciously in 〈…〉 in all of the Commandments and Ordinances 〈…〉 Lord Blameless And now having by the aforesaid Spirit had a Call to the true Church which I find has a Righteousness to Men as well as God and walks in and keeps not only some but all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless I must humbly and heartily take leave of this private Place herein Errors have been both as I must sincerely confess ignorantly and wilfully broached and taught but I neither shall nor will take leave of you my dearly Beloved for whom I have been as it were in Bonds and travailed and do now travail that both you and I resorting and fleeing to the true Church as a Sanctuary may with old Zacharias vers 68. to the 80th Bless the Lord God which hath visited and redeemed us his People by raising up an Horn of Salvation for us that we should be saved from our Enemies and from the Hand of all that hate us to serve him for the future without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the Days of our Lives for having given a better knowledge of Salvation unto us his People by the Remission of our Sins through the tender Mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on High hath visited us to give Light to them that is others of our Friends that are left behind that now as we once did sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death and to guide both their and our Feet into the Way of Peace Thus having explained the Text by declaring and comparing Old Zacharias's Condition with mine own I come now from the Words so read First To declare what the True Church is which may easily be discovered by the Infallible Marks following Secondly What that Righteousness is which makes and will make any blameless And Thirdly What the Commandments of God were and are And Lastly What Ordinances the Lord has appointed in his Church that all true Christians may walk in and so observe and keep them so as to be blameless and then shall make some Inferences and Applications from and of what I have said c. True since amidst the great diversity and contrariety of Opinions which at present are in the Christian Church each entitu●ing it self to the true Faith which as St. 〈…〉 seem a matter of extream 〈…〉 is 〈…〉 true Faith of the Gospel Yet I 〈◊〉 and can 〈…〉 that the difficulty doth not ar●e so much 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 of the thing as it doth from Men and Womens 〈◊〉 Interests and Affections in disputing about the Faith Therefore abstracting from these I shall now first by God's assistance endeavour to set before you the chief 〈◊〉 racters of a True