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A47193	The universall free grace of the Gospell asserted, or, The light of the glorious Gospell of Jesus Christ, shining forth universally, and enlightning every man that coms [sic] into the world, and therby giving unto every man, a day of visitation wherin it is possible for him to be saved, which is glad tydings unto all people, being witnessed and testifyed unto, by us the people called in derision Quakers : and in opposition to all denyers of it, of one sort and another proved by many infallible arguments, in the evidence and demonstration of the spirit of truth, according to Scripture testimonies and sound reason : with the objections of any seeming weight against it, answered it, answered / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1671 (1671)	Wing K228; ESTC R13258	128,214	140

Dignity is falne and falling and shall fall before the Iudgment of the spirit of God in every heart and conscience in every Nation Kindred and Tongue that submiteth to the Judgment of God This is it of which David in the spirit prophesyed Psalms 9. 97. and 98. saying The Lord hath prepared his Throne for Iudgment shall judge the world in Righteousnes and minister Iudgment to the people in righteousnes He cometh behold he cometh to judge the earth the world he shall judge with righteousnes and the people with truth and equity This is the everlasting Gospell which the Angell whom Iohn saw fly through the midst of heaven had to preach to them that dwell on the earth even to every Nation Kindred and Tongue saying with aloud voice Feare God and give glory to him for the houre of his Iudgment is come Which is now fullfilled and fullfilling and therfore is Babylon falne and falling in Nations Kindreds and Tongues even so oh Lord let her and hir Merchants fall never more to rise Amen Deuteronomy 30. 14. But the Word is nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayst do it These words are to be understood of the Word of Faith which is Christ as Paul doth expound and apply it both to the Jew and Gentile Rom. 10. as is above shewed Now these words that thou mayst do it are very observable as holding forth an ability or Power given them in the Word as it is received by faith wherby they may do whatever it commands and consequently that it is sufficient unto salvation see Argum. 6. where this place is at large opened Deuteronomy 32. vers 43. compared with Rom. 15. vers 10. c. Rejoice O yee Nations or Gentiles with his People c. and why should the Nations rejoice with his people even becaus they had the same mercy of God as to what was the maine and substantiall thing bestowed upon them Paul in his Epistle to the Romans cap. 15. vers 10. takes notice of these words of Moses and makes use of them to shew that the Gentiles were not so cast off of God but that they had the same mercy as had the Iewes in relation unto the chiefe and substantiall thing as he expresly saith vers 9. Let the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy and this hee confirmeth out of the Psalmes Moses and Isaiah out of the Psalmes hee bringeth these Testimonies first Psal. 18. 49. For this cause I will confesse to thee among the Gentiles but in the Gentiles it is in the Hebrew and Greek and sing unto thy name so that the Lord was among and in the Gentiles and had a Name in and among them which was a Name of mercy The second Testimony is from Psal. 117. O praise the Lord all yee Nations praise him al yee people for his mercifull kindnes is great towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth forever praise yee the Lord. Now what us is this to whom his mercifull kindnes is great even the Nations and Gentiles that all of them no lesse then to the Jewes who are also in this Psalme called to praise the Lord becaus of the mercy bestowed upon them and becaus of the truth which endureth forever And that the Mercy in these places aformentioned is Christ himselfe without which nothing is a mercy is plaine both from the intent and scope of the Apostles words who is speaking of Christ and also from the other citation out of Isaiah 11. 10. There shall be a root of Iesse which shall stand for an ensigne of the people and hee that shall rise to reigne over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust which Scriptures as they hold forth the more abundant manifestation of Christ unto the Gentiles after his coming in the flesh so doe they point unto some manifestation of him in and among the Gentiles in all ages sufficient unto salvation for that Moses in his day and David in his required the Nations even all of them to glorifie God with the Iewes for his mercy the Riches of the glory of this mistery in the Gentiles which is Christ as is above declared Iob. 24. 13. They are of those that rebell against the light they know not the wayes thereof nor abide in the pathes thereof This Job spake of the wicked and oppressors Now what light is this that they rebelled against but the light of Gods holy Spirit Which witnessed against their evill deeds For that it was not the light of mans owne corrupt nature is manifest becaus it s said they know not the wayes thereof wheras the wayes of the naturall light or understanding they did know for wicked men can digg deep in that naturall light and find out the pathes thereof but the pathes of this Divine and Supernaturall light they cannot find out Job 28. vers 12. compared with vers 28. But wher shall wisdome be found and wher is the place of understanding This is answered First Negatively The depth saith it is not in me and the sea saith it is not with me c. Secondly Positively And unto Man he said behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding That is to say that which enclineth the heart to fear the Lord and to depart from evil is Wisdom and Understanding Now what Man is this to whom God hath so said was it only unto Iob surely none will say it Or was it only unto the Iews nor can this with Truth be said For Iob neither lived among the Jews nor was he of the Jewish Nation Was it then only unto some particulars of the Gentiles Neither can this be said for there is no place of Scripture that calls only a few Gentiles by that large indefinite Name Man By Man then we must understand Mankind as comprehending every Individual and particular man in the World as it is most usually taken in the Scripture Parralel to this place is Micah 6. 8. He hath shewed unto thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and love mercy and walk humbly with thy God This is more then the Light of Nature can shew Psalm 2. 12. Kiss the Son least he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wroth is kindled but a little c. This is a most sweet and joyful call unto the Gentiles no less then to the Iews even to these who were combining against the Lord and his anointed or Christ. Now that they are bid to kiss the Son doth plainly import that the Son was held forth and given unto them of the Father in true love that they might kiss him i. e. that they might enjoy him which doth again inferre that there was such a manifestation of the Son let forth into them which was sufficient unto salvation elce how could they be required to kiss him if he were not offered and made manifest

it selfe simply in power vertue Light and life rather then in words for that the soule being in confusion darkness and unacquaintedness with the way of God cannot so easily apprehend it so as to discern it from an imagination as it can apprehend the vertue and life it self and distinguish it from any other thing but afterwards when the ear is well opened and formed words are given and that very distinctly heard and apprehended which are very precious and excellent full of heavenly vertue and glory Argument 5. From the exceeding great usefulness of this truth in order to the gathering of people into the true faith of Christ even to the universall conversion of all Nations As also from the great prejudice of the contrary Opinion in order thereunto THE Scriptures Testimony is Very large and ample that in the latter days there shal be a very great and so to speak universall gathering of the children of men in all nations unto the faith of Iesus Christ and that is it which all true Christians find themselvs much concerned in to pray travell and labour for even the gathering and turning people unto the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and that holyness and vertue and righteousness may spread and abound in and among them Now what is more usefull and conducible to this universall gathering then this universal principle and what more pernicious and prejudiciall therunto then the contrary hence I thus argue That Doctrine which is most conducive of that universall gathering and conversion of all Nations to faith and holyness is to be imbraced And that which is most prejudiciall and impeditive of it is to be rejected But this Doctrine which holds forth an universal sufficient Evanlic principle is most conducive c. and the contrary most impeditive c. Therefore The first proposition is so clear that nothing needs be added for proof of it And the second is thus proved That Doctrine is most usefull and conducive of holyness c. which informeth unholy and unbeleeving people universally of a principle given them of God through which they may come to beleeve and be made holy And that Doctrine which not onely informeth people of no such thing but plainly denyes any such principle as to the greatest part of men is most prejudiciall and impeditive of holyness c. But so are respectively the aforesaid Doctrines Therefore c. And the thing is indeed most plaine with little reasoning about it For let a man or company of men go forth to preach to a multitude and bid them beleeve in God and Christ become holy righteous and pure and not point at direct them to nor imform them of any principle capacity or power given them whereby it is possible for them to come to beleev to become holy and righteous yea perpetually to be inculcating upon the minds of their hearers in their preachments that they being the messengers of God Ministers and Amdassadors of Christ do certainly know and assure them in the name of God that there is not onely no such principle power or capacity given by God to the greatest part of mankind but that there never shal be any such given them from all eternity God haveing of his owne free-will and pleasure irrevocably determined never to give them any such thing without which it is impossible for them ever to become beleevers holy just and good men And this because they might remaine unholy unjust unrighteous and that remayning so he might magnify his justice in damning them for ever and ever to endless torments without intermission or ceasing Is it not apparent to the weakest understanding that this is no great ready or probable way to become instrumentall to bring people to faith holyness c. but really and indeed to hinder discourage and turn them back would not this be as unreasonable and ridiculous as for a Physitian to come into an hospitall of sick men and tell them he was come to cure them and mean while never produce nor direct them to any medicament that is able to cure them but on the contrary tell them the greatest part of them are incurable and to say the right of it though he beleevs severall of them may be cured yet he knows not which of them nor indeed certainly whether any of them to whom he speaks or no. And yet still cry upon them to be whole to be whole What think yee would not these poore people think this man rather a foole then a Physitian out of his wits rather then a rationall man except they should take him to be some scoffing varlet that made himself merry at their misery and could they possibly take any delight to heare him talk or in the least beleeve that he were like to do them any good This is plainly the case of the nationall Ministers who are still crying to their people be holy be holy be righteous be pure who generally are in their naturall unconverted condition though they have lived all their days under their ministry For these very men that thus cry to them to be holy c. often tell them at the same time that there is no sufficient principle of grace given to any one unconverted or naturall man so far are they from saying it is universall wherby it is possible for him to be converted Pray then what is their ministery good for are they sufficient ministers of any thing but unbelief that turn people who are in darkness to no sufficient thing to lead them out of it Physitians of no value they may wel be called Surely there is no Doctrine more prejudiciall to the setting up of Christs Kingdome among men and none more advantagious for the upholding and propagating the divels then this Doctrine of theirs But they who bring the contrary Doctrine to the nations who ly in darkness wickedness as having received it from the Lord Viz. That Christ the Light of the world hath enlightned them and given them a principle sufficient whereby they may be led out of that state of darkness and wickedness and be quickned and sanctifyed unto God These are indeed messengers of glad tydings to the nations whose feet are beautifull upon the Mountains as not onely bidding them be holy but pointing them to a principle in their own hearts whereby they may so become these bind no heavy burdens upon them as do those that deny this universall principle for what more grievous burden then to put people upon impossibilities They that bear testimony unto this universall principle from the vertue of it felt in their own hearts are like unto those skilfull Phisitians who coming to a company of diseased people should tell them of a substance hid underground even in their own house that is able to cure them if found and duly applyed helping them to dig for it and informing them how they shall find and know it telling them what it is and how they are to use it which whosoever