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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89410	An answer to George Keith's libel. Against a catechism published by Francis Makemie. : To which is added, by way of postscript. A brief narrative of a late difference among the Quakers, begun at Philadelphia.	Makemie, Francis, 1658-1708.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M307; ESTC W24940	61,656	129

intercession in Heaven for them 6 He promises his Holy Spirit to abide in them to compleat his begun work in them and establish them all which is abundantly confirmed from Scripture 5 The Final and Total fall or Apostacy of Regenerate Saints is inconsistent with the Nature of Grace which is an Incorruptible Seed that cannot be totally extinguished where e're it is planted of God And farther it much weakneth the Faith of the Saints their Hope and Confidence in Gods Preservation of them from Falling which the experience and confidence of the Apostle Paul testifies they firmly Believe Rom. 8.35.38.39 and that in their deepest Tryals and sharpest Afflictions Finally it Robs the Regenerated Children of God of their Spiritual Joy and Holy Consolation in the Holy-Ghost by filling them with Perpetual Fears Anxiety and Doubts about their State And we find Keith insinuating this That the Doctrine of Perseverance Flatters men in great sins for tho' the Godly cannot Fall Finally nor Totally yet as we have said they may Fall into many Evils provoking to God and injurious to their own Peace and comfort which they are ever watchful against lest they should lose the sense and comfort of Gods Special Love and Favour any measure or degree of Grace or Holiness which would be most Wounding and Grievous to them and so far from Flattery but this his Calumny is like unto the rest And I dare refer my self to Qua●…s themselves if Universal Grace saving and divine Light the Spirit of God and Christ Substantially present in all men even the most ignorant wicked and Profane and absolute Perfection in some be not more soul-deluding and self-Flattering Doctrine then the Perseverance of the Saints once Regenerated whose sins and infirmityes humbled and makes them constantly watchful and so it is evident it destroys the promise of Gods Establishing confirming Spirit and leaves the Catholick Church of God which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against upon a most Ticklish Foundation and Lyable to to come to nothing it would annul all Christian Communion and Fellowship for according to Quakers opinion one may be a Saint to day and in Christian Fellowship and may Fall away and be Damned to morrow it renders our Pardon comfortless seeing after Pardon we may perish Eternally and destroyes the Hope and Faith of Life Everlasting seeing no man can firmly believe it until he have the Enjoyment of it The next grand Charge that highly offended many of that Gang is concerning a Question in my Catechism concerning the Sabbath in the Answer I affirm Quakers and Profane Persons are Enemies to a Sabbath and now I am satisfied to have an opportunity of showing my reasons to the World how just and not invidious this my Charge was though I mentioned no other Enemies in Judgment besides Quakers and notwithstanding of all reasons given to Keith and others at my House they seem still to be dissatisfied but it is for the most part the peculiar Temper of such as Rangle and oppose all Reasoning And that I may referr my self to the Censures 〈◊〉 the more unprejudiced and rational and I am so far from Recanting Denying or Giving any submission for the Charge that I am the rather confirmed it was most just and deserving and that withou● all shadow of the guilt of a Calumny and that fo● these following reasons 1. Because I never met wi●… any others that in real●ity opposed this Doctrine be sides that Party and though I might hear comm●… Fame accuse others and meeting with none of the Writings I had no Warrant for including them under the publick Charge though my Answer does 〈◊〉 way exclude them 2. All the Quakers I ever conversed with in Europe or America declared this a● their undoubted Judgment that all Dayes were alike under the Gospel and none of perpetual Observation as a Day of Rest and further That they were as free to Work or Labour in their several Callings and Trades on the First Day of the Week called now the Christian Sabbath or Day of Rest under the Gospel as any other Day of the Week o● which I gave and am able yet to give several Instances And I am lately informed of several Servants o● Quakers otherwise Educated who have made complaint to Magistrates of their Masters caus● them to follow their daily Labour and a Witne● yet alive can declare being on a Sabbath at Thomas Everdens House perceived no manner of Worship with his Family but great diligence in dispatching one of his Servants with Necessaries for Building a Sloop I have met one of them with a Gun in the Wood on the Sabbath or First Day of the Week wh●… we were going to the Publick Worship of God I such are not to be looked on without any just A●cusation of an invidious Calumny Enemies to 〈◊〉 Sabbath let the World judge 3. They need no make so g●…at a noise and clamour at this Charge forhowever others may remain ignorant yet it is not unknown to Keith how oft by several others Quakers have been ranked in with several others Enemies of the Sabbath long before I had any acquaintance with their principles as by Mr John Brown in his Latine Treatise concerning the Sabbath also Mr. Matthew Crawford in his Learned defence of the Morality of the Fourth Commandment called Exercitacio Apologetica therefore this charge is not mine only but of as many as Treat of that Subject 4. If I can produce their own Word charging them with as much as I say will it not appear how unjustly they seem to to be offended at my charge and if any would peruse that small but angry Pamphlet of Quakers soberly answered by Mr. Mitchel of Aberdeen and they shall find it confidently asserted that all Days are alike and are told from Rom. 14.6 Gal. 4.10 11. To Reprehend all such as observe one day of Seven as a Day of Rest and that all Weekly Observation of a Day is Abolished under the Gospel And how Keith comes in now of Late to ●ell us of their keeping the first Day of the Week without being first reconciled to his own Brethren both in Practice and Judgment And it yet remains for him to declare By what Authority or from what Command they keep that Day and not another whether it is commanded of God or only an Ecclesiastick and Humane Constitution which until proved to be the Vnanimous Judgment of Quakers must be looked upon to be the Private Judgment of Keith only But he is Pleased to say That Quakers keep the first Day of the Week and spend it in the Religious Exer●ise of Publick and Private Worship but this is said and not Proved for the contrary is know to most who resort to and frequent their House where they discern no more Worship in many 〈◊〉 their Families than in the Families of Indians A● He Appeals to their Neighbours as Witnesses but 〈◊〉 of their Witnesset have affirmed the contrary and b● they