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A56313	A modest account from Pensylvania of the principal differences in point of doctrine, between George Keith, and those of the people called Quakers, from whom he separated : shewing his great declension, and inconsistency with himself therein : recommended to the serious consideration of those who are turned aside, aud [sic] joyned in his schism.	Pusey, Caleb, 1650?-1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing P4248; ESTC R40087	25,043	138

confesseth these eight Years been so intimate with those of Chief Note among us not only in Europe but for these divers Years in America I say therefore How is it but he must needs know that according to express VVords of Scripture VVe really own and unfeignedly believe in one God that made the VVorld and all things therein and in one Lord Jesus Christ who is called the Word of God in whom is Life and which Life is the Light of Men and that he is the true Light that enlightens every Man that comes into the VVorld who commanded us to believe in the Light that we might be Children of the Light This is express Scripture And that we believe that as the Children were partakers of Flesh and Blood he himself also took part of the same being Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem and by wicked Hands was Crucified and Slain and that he died for the Sins of the World whose Body Joseph of Arimathea begged and that he was buried and the third Day he rose gain from the Dead and shewed himself to his Disciples being seen o● them forty Days and whilst they beheld he was taken up into Heaven and a Cloud received him out of their sight and that this Man Jesus Christ is the Mediator between God and Man and that he ever lives to make Intercession for us And that by him it is who is the Life and Light of Men who said to his Disciples I will come again and receive you I go away and come again unto you I in them and thou in me he that is with you shall be in you John 14. and Chap. 18. and promised to be with his own to the end of the World Mat. 28. he even he it is who died and was buried rose again and ascended and sits on the right Hand of God Him Jesus our only Saviour and no other it is that we believe God will judge the World by at the Day appointed or great Day of Judgment But how or after what Manner his Body was changed after it was taken up out of their sight we think no need to undertake as well as that it is impossible for us to determine But G. K. saith It is no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones And again according to express Scripture Words We believe that there is no Salvation in any other nor no Name given under Heaven whereby we must be saved but this Name Jesus But G. K. saith It is not the outward Name that saves but the inward Name Virtue and Power signified thereby And according to the express Words of Scripture We believe there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead both of the Just and Unjust as is afore expressed and that in such a Body as God pleaseth to give this is Scripture Now I say how can G. K. be ignorant but that this he must needs know we believe Though this I cannot find will do with him unless we say The Light is not sufficient without something else or unless we say God will not give Eternal Life and Salvation to honest and consciencious Heathens no more to Infants neither that dye in that State unless they have first the Knowledge of Christ's outward Sufferings c. I shall now conclude with a few Words more particularly to those that are most Sincere amongst you for whose sakes I was chiefly drawn forth thus to write and lay before you these things Let me entreat you to begin a little to consider what you have been doing and how you have caused many to stumble at the way of Truth and how you that could so easily and rashly run into this Separation and Division dividing your selves from your Brethren and then exposing the weakness of some and perverting the Words of others with such cruel and uncharitable Aggravations that I do not remember I ever heard the like Now I say You that could so easily thus divide from and on this manner deal with your Brethren without that true Regard had as you ought for the Fame of Truth the way of it or to the afflicted People in remote Parts that live therein Pray consider this and lay it to Heart and what hath been the Effect of it And you that were so much contending about Doctrinal Points not being content with the Expressions of Scripture concerning them how are you now rent and shattered among your selves about them What shall I say more But come return again and let us be content to receive for Doctrine what the Holy Ghost moved the Holy Men of Old to lay down for us in the Holy Scripture and that by a measure of the same Spirit in which they were right we may be enabled to follow the Lord in the narrow Path of Regeneration why should you thus turn aside from the Flocks of the Companions I hope you may see by what is here written G. K. had not any matter of weight in Truth nor Matter consistent in it self to draw you thus aside Therefore do but return in the way of Truth and then it may please the Lord we may yet meet together and sit down in deep Humility before him every one being upon his Watch Tower guarding strongly in the Strength of the Lord against our common Enemies the World the Flesh and the Devil and so may yet be a People of one Judgment one Heart and one Mind Worshipping and Serving the Lord our God with one Consent Now my Friends if what is here written may prevail upon any of you for your good I shall be glad if not we must leave our Cause with God who judgeth righteously Thus truly desiring Truth Peace and Concord may be restored kept and remain in the Churches of Christ I remain one that heartily Wishes for all your welfares and Rest your true Friend Caleb Pusey The 23d 12th Month 1695. Rom. 16. 17. NOW I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause Divisions among you contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Acts 20. 30. Also from your own selves shall Men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them Coll. 2. 18. Intruding into those things which he hath not seen 1 John 3. 2. Beloved now are we the Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be John 8. 13. If ye continue in my Word then are ye my Disciples indeed and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free John 3. 21. But he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Acts 20. 32. And now Brethren I commend you to God and to the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an Inheritance among all them which are Sanctified The End

is Christ the only Mediator and Saviour and that so to assert is not to assert another Christ than Jesus of Nazareth c. Then surely Jesus of Nazareth cannot be something else than the Light Power and Spirit within because Jesus of Nazareth is the only Christ Mediator and Saviour and so is the Light Power and Spirit within acknowledged to be And if the same then not any thing else Eighthly Seeing according to G. K. the Light within is God and Christ and yet not sufficient without something else is not this as much as to say God and Christ is not sufficient without something else or something besides For so he saith the word else signifies And how it is then said in Hosea c. 13. 4. Thou shalt know no God but me for there is no Saviour besides me Where is now the something else And whereas he owns the Light within to be Christ in express words but by that something else he saith he means the Man-Christ doth not this imply two Christs to wit Christ one thing and the Man Christ some other thing or something besides Christ But now though we cannot yield to G. K. in these his Terms that the Light is not able of it self and consequently that God by G. K's own words who saith the Light is God is not able to save because we believe besides him there is no Saviour yet we do not in the least question but dearly own and acknowledge and believe the way and means that the Lord was pleased out of his infinite Love and Good Will to Mankind to take in order to redeem him from Sin and Death as sending his only begotten Son into the World not only as a Light to shew us the way we should go and a Spirit to convince and reprove us of our Sins and enable us against the Act thereof But also as Man in the prepared Body to offer up himself a most acceptable Sacrifice for the Sins of the whole World Which Offering the Lord was pleased to accept of and by his Spirit and Power it is made effectual for the Reconciliation and Salvation of all those that repent of their Sins and truly believe in his Name And that God doth not save any without respect to that great Offering we all grant and truely believe For as G. K. saith The Lord having Light of Truth p. 6. ordained it so to be how can or dare we say therefore That he was or is not sufficient by his Light Power and Spirit to save without something else Surely this seems to me too presumptuous Acts 2. 22. ptuous an Expression For was not that Body prepared of God And what was done in it is it not said God did it by him So that the scruple with us is not in the least what God hath done or doth do for lost Man as G. K. often dis-ingeniously words it by altering the state of the Controversie which never was What God or Christ hath done for us nor of the Way and Means he hath taken to Redeem us according as it 's recorded in the Holy Scripture but What He by his Light and Spirit is sufficient to do For we say He being God can do as he pleaseth else how is he God Almighty and Omnipotent Therefore let us not undertake to argue as if there were any thing that God by his Light Spirit and Power is not sufficient to do and we need not debate any longer about it Ninthly If according to that Faithful Friend and Brother Edward Burroughs That We meaning the Quakers would have such to Reign who Rule for the Lord Exercising and Executing Righteous Judgments by the Spirit of God Then must it not be such who are lead by the Spirit of God And if so then Sons of God And surely as Edward Burroughs saith such are of us Now how does your Faith agree with his in this matter that say No Christians can Rule And if it be our Faith as G. K. saith it is That Magistrates may preach then surely it is our Faith that Preachers may be Magistrates Against which Practice it self G. K. hath all of a sudden very Unmanly as well as Unchristianly appeared exposing Friends to the World in Print about it without ever admonishing them before-hand of it For was not that his place to have done when he reckoned himself an Elder in the Church among us as well as that he was a Neighbour inhabiting in the Town among Friends that then were in place of Government But which is most to be observed that instead of reproving them for Retaking a Sloop for which Act he has since exposed them or admonishing about it he comes to them and Commended them for what they did and said It was very well done c. Methinks you should consider these things But to the matter How it should be our Faith that Magistrates may preach according to G. K's former Doctrine and yet against our Faith that Preachers should be Magistrates according to his latter Doctrine and yet that there is no Contrariety between his present and former Doctrine as he saith there is not is sure too hard to reconcile Tenthly Since according to G. K's express words Christ's glorified Body now in Heaven is no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones but a pure ethereal or Heavenly Body like unto which the Bodies of the Saints are to be at the Resurrection as before and that we firmly believe that one Mediator between God and Man to be the Man Christ Jesus according to the express Testimony of Scripture and that he ever lives to make Intercession for us according to the will of God so we desire to rest satisfied therein without aspiring to attain to high things beyond our reach or as David said Not to exercise our selves in things too high for us Eleventhly Concerning the Resurrection since it is enough according to that Faithful Friend and Brother William Penn That we believe in the Resurrection and that of a Glorious and Incorruptible Body without farther Nicities And if in Spirit and Doctrine you are one with him herein why then do you obtrude such Questions upon us Shall the same Body rise Or Shall any thing of this Body rise But seeing it is safest in this and all At the Bank Meeting House in the 4th Month 1693. other matters of Faith to keep to Scripture-words according to J. C. why then would not our Faith be taken when so often offered to be delivered in the very words of Scripture But more of this hereafter I shall now sum up in short the substance of some of the aforesaid Passages c. wherein he is to me so clearly inconsistent with the Doctrine of Faithful Friends as also greatly in contradiction to himself as well as that he is guilty of strange Absurdities therein which take as followeth viz. Men may be saved who are ignorant R. Barclay of Christs Death and Sufferings None are saved but who