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A76517	Remarks, and animadversions, on Mr. Keith's two sermons, being his first after ordiantion, [sic] preached at the parish church of St. George's Butolphs-Lane, London, May the 12th. 1700. on St. Luke i. 6 Now impartially compared with his former writings, setting George against Keith, and endeavouring to reconcile them, by shewing what he should have said upon the subjest. By W.B. a communicant of the Church of England.	W. B.	1700 (1700)	Wing B224; ESTC R230841	17,705	18

any are so much our Enemies that they will never be our Friends God may and can turn their Hearts 3dly 〈◊〉 must never do any Evil which will make it impossible for our Enemies to be happy they are vital parts which must in no wise be cut off unless the case is very desperate True they are Men liable to Errors but yet as I was capable of Information they are God's Image and our Flesh and Bone let us not be angry with them if they have hitherto loitered and comes to be hired at the Ninth Hour Let us imitate our Lord and Master and as he has loved us so love one another and reward them as well for one Hour as if they had laboured all the Day Yet what if our Enemies be Infidels evil and foolish or no Christians having put off common Civility and Humanity verily the greater than is their Misery but since they are not Devils being as I was capable of a recovery the more compassionable are their case therefore to be pittied for its unnatural Cruelty monstrous Inhumanity and hellish Malice to hate and prosecute any in Misery What if they be our Enemies they are Friends to many others as good if not better than our selves and can't we be satisfied with and love that which is our particular Interest if others receive Advantage by it For if the Rain that overflows me makes my Neighbours Field fruitful I ought not to and must not dislike it or if the Sun warms thousands by its heat and scorches me or the Season by which I suffer favours many others I am not to be displeased we are all God's People and Sheep of his Pasture therefore we have the greatest engagement laid upon us to mutual Kindness and Good-will nay that Christian Virtue is more innocent and doth less harm to both our selves and others and as we find by sweet experience ordinarily prevails upon others to lay aside all malicious thoughts for we are naturally prone to imitate as with the Froward to learn Frowardness and with the Loving Love and further there 's no reason imaginable to hate one that loves us because we only hate that which is evil to us but if any Person love us we can't think he doth us evil since he designs and will do us good so that if we hate such we hate our own good To conclude this Command our returning Love for Hatred quencheth the violence of it for the common Observation is if the Sun shine upon the Fire it will put it out so Love takes away the Heat and Fewel from those unnatural and consuming Fires destroying both the Parent and Nurse of Enmity viz. Hatred and Evil which would have propagated and preserved it yea this is the firm Foundation of a lasting Peace even that which passes our Understanding obtaining an answer to all our Petitions by forgiving as we would be forgiven and as St. 1 John 3.22 saith Then whatsoever we ask we shall receive of him because we keep his Commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight And these are his Commandments to believe on Jesus Christ and love one another even our Enemies as he gave us Commandment so as to be Blameless The Second Commandment which our Saviour gave his Apostles is mentioned by St. Mat. 28.18 19 20. All Power is given unto me in Heaven and Earth Go ye therefore and teach that is to make Disciples all Nations Baptizing them c. teaching them to observe all Things whatsoever I have commanded you c. In which Words our Saviour first Asserts and Declares his own Commission shewing his Apostles that what he did was not the result of his own private Judgment but the Exercise of Authority which was given him of his Father who had confirmed unto him a full Power of ordering and disposing whatsoever belonged to the Church But since in his own Person he must Ascend and leave them he gave them their Deputation by sending the Holy Spirit the Comforter to be with and Comfort them to the end of the World And since they were Mortal he gave them Power to Depute others to succeed them in them same Care and to deliver down the same Power successively to the end of the World it 's then without doubt by that Promise that our Saviour intended some Benefits to the Church which should be of no less continuance than it self So the Apostles were to be the first Dispensers of those Benefits Now the Benefits as appears from the Commission were these these First Teaching Secondly Baptising and some other Things which he had Commanded as the Taking and Eating of the Bread and Drinking the Cup which was to be a shewing of his Death to the end of the World And the Exercising Censures against the Obstinate and Sinful such as Elimas the Sorcerer as Act 13. c. Now These were either to end with the Apostles or they were not if they were then to end The Church ever since their Deaths has been without such which amounts only to this that there has been no Church since their Decease Or if they did not end with the Apostles but have always been and are still to be exercised unto the end of the World then there ever must have been and now must be fit Persons Which like to the Apostles must have a just Power to dispense these Benefits or exercise these Offices for no less can be conceived to have been intended by Christ in his Promise of being with his Church to the end Now when the great Bishop of our Souls ordained his Apostles it was according to the Tenor of his own Ordination As my Father sent me so send I you Luke 4.18 And said John 23.21 22. Receive ye the Holy Ghost The case is the fame in Matthias Saul and Barnabas as Acts 1.24 ond 13.2 and in those which the Church made Overseers or Bishops as Act. 20.28 and Eph. 4.11 and we have no reason at all to doubt but that the Spirit doth as truly tho' not so visibly assist at the present Ordaining of Ministers as then since the Church Prays for and bids them receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Priest in the Church of God now committed to such by the Imposition of Hands And since many say that the Gospel-Priesthood is left open to all that will enter it without any further Ceremony than a geting up and Ride or a jumping from the Shop-board to the Pulpit or Desk Now to the sober Consideration of such I Humbly recommend the ensuing Particulars as First Since St. Paul setting down the Nature of a Church Stiles it the Body of Christ where he means not a Similar Body such as Fire Air and Water where all the parts are alike and perform the same Office But a Body consisting of Diversity of Organs for several Faculties and Operations such a Body as is not one Member but many knit together with Unity and Charity as

REMARKS AND Animadversions On Mr. Keith's Two Sermons Being his First after Ordiantion Preached at the Parish Church of St. George's Butolphs-Lane London May the 12th 1700. On St. LVKE i. 6. Now Impartially compared with his former Writings SETTING George Against Keith And Endeavouring to Reconcile them By shewing what he should have said upon the Subject By W. B. a Communicant of the Church of England LONDON Printed for the AUTHOR and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. Remarks and Animadversions on Mr. Keith's Two Sermons SINCE I understand that the late Reverend tho' as yet not Right Reverend George Keith has entered into the Church as Jackdaws into the Steeple to build and hatch there entering almost undesired by any so for ought I know may dye unlamented For I believe that the Church as the Apostles did will not go to Prayers for such an other to succeed and supply in his place I never heard that the present Church had or used any such custom tho' it was common among the Churches of God in the days of old I am not insensible that that upstart Prelate which whether out of fear or trouble or both has done that Outwardly which I have some reason to think he Inwardly detests since this his Sermon was not a Recantation of his former Errors which are manifestly extant in his former Scriblings which as I understand he has neither Cryed down in Church nor Market nor caused to be Burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman but are left us still upon Record as Authentick So that it makes me and some others think that his Judgment differs from his present Undertakings having but clattered Gideons Rams-Horns and broken Pitchers together so as to affright his Conscience and baisting it for being Scittish has made even an Ass of it by causing the poor Jade to carry a Steeple which it formerly hated and all this because Brown Bread is better than no White All wise People do think that such an one should have given some Satisfaction to the Church in general which he had forsaken and formerly so abused he might and should then have told the People that he came there to give satisfaction more than to receive any and showed himself there not for Worth or notorious Wickedness but for Weakness in not discerning and following all the Commands and Ordinances which are Truths If he had gone on and humbly craved a fair Construction and favourable Acception First of his Offences past that his readiness to acknowledge them might pass for one degree of Satisfaction and his suddain Recantation for an other so what was wanting in Ripeness should be supplied in Sincerity But since none of this was heard to come from his Mouth but only the choice of a good Text which he so mangled and tore that the sharpest Eye could not so discern as to know what it was amongst all the Tautologies and Impertinent or Nonsensical stuff which by hard and long driving he forced from it which made it seems some well-meaning Christians to get some in Commission to send an Hue-and-Cry aftert he forelorn Text so as to overtake arrest and make the best of it which I am assured was done for the Honour and Reputation of the New Convert and the languishing Church which he pretends to be a Member of But in my weak judgment any that forsakes his first or second Love can or will Never be true to his Third So having seen the Post-Boy May the 14th which pretended to give the Substance of the Sermons And on May 16. meeting with an Advertisement in which the now Holderforth repayed not only the Post-Boy but Mr. Brodford a Printer also in the currant Coin of Billingsgate which made me the more curious to inquire after his Former Pieces the Post-Boy and his Initiating which I judge should have been his Recantation Sermons not of some but all his former Errors and Mistakes whether wilfully or ignorantly committed So having mustered so many as I could get together I took the boldness upon me to compare them and so Remark on the Sermons Now since the Printer has left us Two Blank Pages the reason of which as I conjecture is because the Post-Boy has supplied us with Matter which they should have contained being as was observed such as did and doth naturally flow from the New Prophet but like the Bears young Ones being now released from the Tautological I says in time Licked into Shape and Form For if you read the Post-Boy with his opening of the Words and compare them they are the same only some Additions are made which the Printer has forgot to tell us of as he did in the Farewel Farce For pag. 6. he tells us by Tautologies as the Post-Man doth That Hypocrites are righteous before Men tho' not righteous before God and that walking signifies journying and travelling forward only by a little Licking he has changed the Words viz. travelling forward into that Phrase going forward by progressive motion which amounts to a Tautology And pag. 8. by Ordinances are understood all the Ceremonial Precepts c. called in Heb. 9.1 Ordinances of Service pertaining to the Temple Which Text and denomination I suppose the Post-Boy having only left out being no Textuary or caring to meddle with Holy Things Now the Observations he makes from the words thus opened are Three from pag. 9. to 14. First the State of the Jewish Church at that time to which the Text relates was very corrupt for some did not believe one Fundamental Doctrine others put false glosses on the Scriptures Matt. 15.3 6 7 8 9. Others had Practices corrupt and contrary to what they taught there were Sons of Belial and Rebels c. Alas this and more has this self-same Demas said of the now established Church without any Recantation as appears from his former Books viz. The Way cast up pag. 36. I cannot saith he in the least acknowledge that ever any National Church can be a true Church of Christ since they are a mixed and confused rabble of Godless Atheists it were wished that this and all others were true But men should not make such preposterous haste to make National Churches by meer humane Laws and Power bare humane Laws Edicts and Decrees will never do it for indeed this hath been the ground and rise of all Persecutions c. For those that will have a National Church will have all others to bow and joyn with them and is always a Persecuting Church it s her very Nature so must always be exceeding Hypocritical seeing she begetteth Thousands to be her Children and Members by meer Will and Power of Man which only makes Hypocrites And for the Teachers he further saith pag. 40 41 42. That they have been generally and for the most part self-seeking worldly-minded and covetous men who loved Pleasure and Riches more than God and this the Magistrates did well know and saw the best way to prevent was