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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

Holy-Ghost who are One GOD is Great and Glorious and ought to be Reverently conceived expressed in Scripture words which the Holy-Ghost hath Taught but not in words of Mans Wisdom Page Ninth Tenth In mentioning the Offices of Christ being Three Viz. Prophet Priest and King he should have mentioned how that not only without us he did perform these Offices and now is both Priest and King in Heaven whither he is ascended but that also within us Viz. All true Believers in him he is both Prophet and King and Priest also who offereth up their Prayers unto God and by whom they have access unto God beside that Christ is not only King Priest and Prophet over his Church but Bishop Shepherd Physitian Captain and Husband c. as the Scripture declareth And that he saith Christ revealeth the Will of God to us by His Word and Spirit in Page 10. He delivereth this matter very barely and obscurely for he does not tell people where they may find the Spirit of God he doth not instruct them That the Spirit of God is in them to teach them and open the Scriptures unto them And tho' he delivereth diverse things in his Catechism concerning the New Covenant yet he neglecteth a Principal matter belonging to the same Viz. That God hath Promised in his New Covenant to teach His People Himself and to dwell in them and walk in them and that they shall be his Temple c. Page 10 11. Although he mention the death and Sacrifice of Christ for sinners yet he doth not well that he doth not hold forth that Christ died for all and tasted Death for every man as the Scripture expresly declareth which is a most great and weighty testimony of Gods universal Love for sinners Page Eleventh Tho' he say The Holy Spirit worketh faith in us and Uniteth us to Christ yet he doth this very barely and obscurely yea in contradiction to his and his Brethrens Doctrine who say all inward Divine Revelation and Inspiration is ceased since the Apostles Days if so then the Holy Spirit hath ceased to work or operate on mens hearts for his operation is not in the dark or in a blind and insensible manner but in Light and Demonstration sensibly and clearly revealing his power in them opening the eyes of their understanding and thence it is that the Spirit of God is called in Scripture the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation and that Spirit worketh in true Beleivers Page Eleventh That he calleth Regeneration a New and Spiritual Birth by the Spirit of God is true but this Contradicteth His and His Brethrens Doctrine who say they have no infallible Spirit and all Divine Revelation is ceased and that there is no immediate communion with God or his Spirit which is False Doctrine and contrary to Scripture and the Saints Experience who know that as they are Born of Gods Spirit so they are sensibly Fed and Nourished by the Spirit of God and Suck the Breasts of their Heavenly Mother Jerusalem from above and feel themselves embraced by the same as sensibly as the Child feeleth the Mothers Embraces and see and behold Her Beauty hear her voice and Language and all this is Spiritually and Inwardly known and witnessed in all True Believers Again that he saith True Believers are United to Christ is true and very comfortable but is in contradiction to His and his Brethrens Doctrine who say it is Blasphemy to affirm that Christ is really in the Saints for if he be not really in them by himself they cannot be United to him for true Union requireth the near presence of the things United one to another as the Body cannot be United to the Soul if the Soul be not really in the Body and all true Believers are United to Christ in Heaven by their being United to the measure of him in themselves as the Members of the Body are United to the Head by being United to a measure of the same Life and Spirit in them that is in the Head Page Eleven Twelve He defineth Effectual Calling to be A powerful call of God whereby he calls and draws sinners out of Sin into Grace which as it is true so is in contradiction to him and his Brethren who say All inward calling and speaking of God is ceased and there is no other Voice or Word of God but the Scriptures and yet he confesseth all have not that Effectual Calling who have the Scriptures Again he concradicteth by saying that God calleth and draweth sinners out of sin unto Grace and yet in Page Twelve saith All are still sinners And in Page Thirty saith The Godly cannot keep Gods commands perfectly And His Brethrens Doctrine is that the Saints sin in every Though Word and Deed. Page Fifteen He saith Justification and Adoption are acts of God without us and make only a Relative change but no real change and are compleated at once And in Page Sixteen He saith Justification Adoption and Sanctification once had can never be wanted all which are False and hurtful Assertions and contrary to Scripture for Gods Justifying Believers is his speaking peace to them in their Consciences and Absolving them from Condemnation as a Judge absolveth or cleareth an Accused Person and surely that is within and if not within he should have told where without if he mean in Heaven thi● can be no assurance nor comfort to any unless it be revealed and done also within in mens hearts Again that God maketh any men to be his Children without a Re●change is most absurd is not Faith and Regeneration a real change and none are made the children of God but by Faith and Regeneration and again to say that Sanctification and Justification cannot be lost is mo●… absurd and serveth to flatter people i● great sins yea the greatest as if they were still Saints for according to this False Doctrine David remained a Saint and perfectly Justified when he committed Murder and Adultery and at this rate the worst of men may be Saints while such but the Scripture saith No Murderer nor Unrighteous Person can Inherit the Kingdom of God but they must be washed c. But if they still remain Saints after Murder they may inherit Gods Kingdom for all the Saints are in measure in Gods Kingdom Page Twenty-four Concerning the Sabbath he expresly Contradicteth the Scripture which expresly enjoyned the seventh Day to be kept and not indifferently one of seven Page Twenty-six He most grosly wrongeth and most falsely accuseth the People of God called in scorn Quakers saying that the Quakers and all Profane Persons are enemies to a Sabbath but it is no new nor strange thing that Gods People is numbred with Transgressors of the greatest sort seeing Christ our Lord and Head was so used by men high in an outward Profession and the people called Quakers own Christ to be the True Spiritual Sabbath or Rest of all True Believers the substance and thing signified by the

in hand with Arminians and Pelagians do hold which only leaves man in a possibility of Salvation if the sinner will but may be the most of Christs Redeemed ones go to Hell notwithstanding while Christ John 17. Speaks of his Redeemed and Ransomed ones as those Select Ones whom the Father had given him out of the World for whom that is the World He would not so much as Pray far less dye and Keith himself owns in his Malicious Uncharitable Book Against New-England Ministers that there are those for whom it may be said Christ Dyed not And so this must be the Gentlemans Position Christ dyed for all and dyed not for all which is a plain conradiction and farewel Keith's universal Redemption which if it had not evanished in a contradiction was uncomfortable and ineffectual to the greatest number of Redeemed ones I Remember in the beginning Keith says I speak very little of the Spirit of God at all which I have already shown in the most convincing and particular manner to be False by directing the Reader to the particular Pages and now I am to show he contradicteth himself by owning in several Questions and Answers my asserting The Spirits Operations in calling Effectually in Regeneration in Working Faith in us and Vniting us to Christ But while he is necessitated to own this He affirms it To be inconsistent with and contradictory to my 〈◊〉 and My Brethrens Doctrine which he endeavours to confirm by a far fetched and inconsequential reason because we deny all extraordinary immediate and Objective Revelation such as the Apostles had and tho' we disown this Doctrine of theirs how it shall Follow we renounce all the special Gracious and saving operations of the Spirit of God in and by the use of means and Ordinances of Gods own appointment and sometimes immediately where External means of our Salvation are Wanting in the Regeneration Sanctification of Souls in making them meet for himself in Glory I leave both to Natural and Gracious Souls to Determine But every Christian Reader may discover in this person a most Arrogant Spirit to pretend to know my Principles and Opinions better than I know them my self and with impudent falshood to affirm and declare I have Published an Account of Principles I do not believe and that they are repugnant to my Brethrens Doctrine seeing our publick Confessions of Faith and Catechisms known to the whole Christian World sayes the same things and particularly in the Description of Effectual Calling which is further confirmed in all our common places and Bodies of Divinity and in all the practical Pieces treating of these Subjects as Mr. Allen of Conversion Mr. Burgess and Mr. Cole of Regeneration and many others and I am satisfied how oft I have delivered in publick my Opinion in these matters I must needs declare it is an evil Principle and unfair Undertaking for any to take upon them to Publish Principles and contradict Principles of those he is an ●solute stranger unto and it is the true Character of a Deceiver to possess others with prejudices against ●ur Principles only by misrepresenting of them and ●astening Principles on us which we abhor And ●s to all inward Revelation or speaking of God to ●e Souls and Hearts of Believers I never read nor heard of any of our Divines absolutely deny or disown i● And I have upon all occasions publickly Taught and Do and shall in the Strength of Jesus Christ firmly believe and that unto the end the Aluminating Sanctifying Mortifying Quickning Operations of the Holy Spirit of God in the hearts of every sound Believer in restoring the Corrupted Soul to the Forfeited Image of God so it is evident how inclinable Keith is to Calumniate and misrepresent us upon all occasions How great must the Ignorance of Quakers needs be who cannot or their perversness be that will not distinguish between Enthusiastick Immediate Extraordinary and Objective Revelations from the Spirits Gracious and Spritual Illumination of his mind impressing those Truths made known and Revealed in an ordinary way by Means of Heavens Appointment giving them Efficacious Grace to see Embrace Close with and make Saving Application of them to their heart● and Grace to observe the same in their Lives which ordinary and extaordinary Operations they confound together as they do the Universal or General Presence of Christ with his special saving and gracious Presence holding him to be in all after the same manner And whereas he has assumed boldness to affirm we call it Blasphemy to say Christ is really in the Saints All the Answer this deserves is that it is Notoriously False and a groundless Calumny For all of us firmly believe That unless the Spirit of Christ be in us we are none of his and Christ is in us except we be Reprobate and he dwells in all Believers 〈◊〉 from Pauls words it is by Faith Eph. 3.17 as 〈◊〉 declared and that fully from that Text Colos 1.27 Christ in you the Hope of Glory And it is no contradiction to affirm and believe that God hath called Sinners out of Sin unto Grace yet at the same time to feel and assert that all have sin remaining in them for it is no hard matter to distinguish betwixt Sinners being under the Power Dominion and Slavery or Drudgery of Sin and a Sinners having some Relicks and Remainders of Sin and Corruption in them whereby even in Believers there is a constant and spiritual Warfare raised in the believing Soul whereas formerly the Strong Man kept the House the Apostle gives us this distinction Sin shall not have Dominion over you you are not under the Law but under Grace and the same Apostle even after his Conversion complains of his own sinful wretched Corruption and at the same time Triumphs in the Victory obtained for in the next breath Thanks be to God who has given us the victory and if Sin in some measure be not cotemporary with saving Grace or Conversion what must become of Quakers universal sufficient and saving Grace and all the multitudes of them I have ever seen must according to their own Opinion be void of Conversion Grace and Justification for Sin have been easily discernable in all neither did ever any of them produce one instance for their absolute perfection and yet none of us assert that the Saints Sincerity Thought Word and Deed as Keith falsely words it yet it strictly and spiritually taken all are attended with Infirmities I am quarrelled for asserting in my Catechism page 25. This Justification and Adoption are Acts of God without us and and work only a relative Change and that Justification Adoption and Sanctification once had cannot be Lost As to the first Justification is according to the Judgment of all Pro●estant Divines a gracious Act of Gods Love in a Judicial Way upon the account of Christ's Imputed Righteousness acquitting and absolving the sinner from Guilt and consequently from Condemnation I hope Quakers will not jump in