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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47159	More divisions amongst the Quakers as appears by the following books of their own writing, viz. I. The Christian faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers. II. The false judgment of a yearly meeting of Quakers in Maryland, condemn'd by George Keith, Thomas Budd, &c. all Quakers : to which is added, A discovery of this mystery of iniquity / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing K182; ESTC R14234	21,479	25

forth two Christs which is but their great Ignorance and Unbelief and no just Consequence of our Principle for the true Christ of God is One and the true Christians Faith receiveth and imbraceth him whole and undivided and owneth his inward and outward Coming who as he did come without us in a state of Humiliation to suffer and is risen and ascended into Heaven so he will come again without us to Judge the Quick and the Dead and all Mankind shall stand before him the Sheep on his right Hand and the Goats on his left And there shall be a Resurrection of the Body both of the Just and unjust that is not attained already or immediately after Death but it is to be attained unto in the Time appointed of God called The Day of Judgment And seeing our Friends in England have fully answered to all these false Accusations of Thomas Hicks and John Faldo with whom Christian Lodowick hath joyned we refer to their Answers for the further Satisfaction of them who desire to have it And it is falsly charged upon us by Christian Lodowick in his Papers That according to our Principle all honest and conscientious Heathens or Gentiles who have not the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified outwardly and risen again c. and Jews and Mahometans are in Christ as well as we and true Christians Believers c. Nor doth this follow by any just Consequence from our Principles for though we do affirm That all conscientious and honest Gentiles such as Cornelius was before the Faith of Christ was preached to him have some measure of Light from Christ to enlighten them and are under some Administration of the Spirit yet it is but the first Ministration until the knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died for our sins and rose again c. be spiritually received and such who have the true and saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died and rose again without them spiritually receiving it by the Light and Spirit of Christ in them and wrought in them by that mighty Power that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead and which conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues of Love Patience Humility Resignation c. so as to love Enemies are only Christians and Sons of God of the Free-woman having received the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father but who have not this Faith of Christ crucified and raised again outwardly spiritually received and wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ whether they have or have not heard Christ outwardly preached unto them are at best however just and conscientious to the just Principle of God in them not under the second and more peculiar Ministration of God's Spirit that maketh Men worthy to be esteemed Christians but are only under the first and such are held under the Custody or Safeguard of the Law shut up unto the Faith that is afterwards to be revealed as Paul hath declared Gal. 3.23 and the state they are in under this first Ministration is to them as the City of Refuge was to the Man-slayer under the Law and whereof it was a Tipe And this first Ministration of the Law and Light in them that answereth to Moses and the Prophets and to John who are faithful and conscientious under it prepareth them to receive the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified and raised again and fitteth them for the second Ministration of the Spirit that bringeth them to witness the Spirit of Adoption and the Anointing that maketh them true Christians and conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues so as to love Enemies and lay down the Life for Enemies which is more than meer honest conscientious Gentiles who have not the Faith of Christ crucified and raised again can do And whereas the said Christian Lodowick doth further accuse us That what we say we know of the Scriptures we should have known if it had never been writ according to our Principle This is falsly charged upon us as many other things in his Papers for though we believe and say that some things declared in Scripture we should have known if they had not been writ as that there is a God the Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth that requireth us and all men by his Law and Light in us to live soberly and righteously and to fear love and worship him and divers other general things of great use and service to men according to Paul's Doctrine For the invisible things of God even his eternal Power and Godhead are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made so that they are without excuse for what is to be known of God is manifest in them yet the peculiar Doctrines and Mysteries of the Christian Faith as that Christ should be born of a Virgin die for our sins and rise again and that he is both God and Man and many other the like peculiar Mysteries of the Christian Faith we do acknowledge and have always acknowledged That the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures as outwardly preached to us by holy Men or as read by us in the holy Scriptures or having outwardly heard these things have been instrumental by and together with the immediate working of the Spirit of God to beget in us the Knowledge and Faith of them and we desire to bless God for the benefit of the holy Scriptures given us being able to make us wise unto Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus but that we prefer the Spirit to the Letter we are not ashamed to own before all men and that God and Christ and the Spirit whom they testifie of are above the Scriptures and greater than they we do freely acknowledge for all outward Testimonies Means Instruments and Helps such as the holy Scriptures and all outward Preaching and Men and Books are but Servants to God and Christ but God and Christ are Lord and Master and King over all to whom be Glory and Honour forever and ever And as to the final state of all honest and conscientious Gentiles who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them either by the Ministry of Men or the holy Scriptures it sufficeth us to believe that God is not wanting to them and it is one God who is the God both of Christians and Gentiles and who shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith and the Uncircumcision through Faith Rom. 3.30 and it is no greater nor other difficulty to understand how honest and conscientious Gentiles can be saved by Christ Jesus of Nazareth than how Infants and deaf and dumb Persons so born can be saved which our Adversaries generally acknowledge and therefore they can have no advantage against us in that respect Edward Thurstan Henry Bull. Anne Bull. Thomas Cornwall Thomas Roadman George Keith Ebenezer Slocum Joseph Nicholson Daniel Gould Jacob Mott. Walter Clark Rob Hutchins John Easton Note The foregoing Christian Faith of the Quakers in Rhode-Island was so disliked by G. Keith's Adversaries

they call their Discerning as first whereas the Meeting in the Country used to be kept at an honest mans House and this man favoured me therefore they had a sence that he was a man of a wrong Spirit but whereas there was another that rise up in great Opposition to me charging me of Blasphemy because I said God was present in all his Creatures and of false Doctrine because I said Christ was in Heaven our Elder Brother and that he would appear again to judge the Quick and the Dead at the great Day therefore a Company of them removed their Meeting to this man's house whom they thought worthy crying him up as if he were no ordinary Saint whenas at the same time a Negro Woman had his Bastard carrying about in her Womb though he has a Wife of his own and though some have endeavoured to cloak it yet it appearing with more than ordinary clearness hath caused them now again to remove the Meeting from his House Secondly Another that hath lately given forth a Paper of Condemnation as if he were some great Convert about the very time of his pretended Conversion was discovered to be guilty of attempting to commit Sodomy which he hath partly confessed So that they have little cause to boast of their Converts or yet of their Spirit of Discerning And if some have left us more have left them and come to us and who are Persons of more Sobriety Fourthly Whereas H.D. saith It is sealed upon his heart that the Anger of the Lord is kindled as Fire against that Spirit of Division that appeared in G.K. and others Answ It is but ordinary to him and such other Hypocrites to take the Name of the Lord in vain it were well if he was sensible of the Fire of Gods Anger that is ready to kindle against him for his Lying Hypocrisie Enmity and falsly accusing the Innocent and seeking to justifie the Guilty We are not divided from faithful Friends and Brethren that are found in the Doctrine and Faith of Christ and whose Godly Life and Practice seal to the sincerity of their Faith but we are divided from Hypocrites Lyars and false accusers and gross Unbelievers who deny the Lord that bought them and Faith in him and for so doing God is not angry with us but well pleased having done it in obedience to Christ's Command who hath commanded us to be separate from Unbelievers 2 Cor. 6.14 27. Fifthly Whereas he accuseth me for saying The Light within is not sufficient without somewhat else he knowing in his Conscience as well as his Associates that by that something else I understand not Humane Learning nor the Letter of the Scripture nor outward Preaching but the Man Christ Jesus without us in whom all fulness of Grace Truth Light and Life dwelleth and his Death and Sufferings Resurrection Ascension and Mediation all which are something else than the measure of Grace and Light in us In this Accusation H.D. falleth in with J. Delavall and my Answer to the one will serve sufficiently to the other And though H.D. seemeth to assent and declare That the Grace of God which is sufficient is the Effect of the Death and Sufferings of Christ Jesus yet either like a gross Hypocrite or most ignorant and inconsiderate Person not to use Sam. Jening's Phrase of Ignorant Nonsensical Puppey he doth most palpably contradict his present Assertion for if the Grace of God within us be the Effect of Christ's Death and Sufferings then we are not saved only by the Grace within but by the Death and Sufferings Resurrection and Mediation of Christ without us seeing the Cause of a Cause is the Cause of the thing caused or effect Beside the Death and Sufferings of Christ and his most perfect Obedience unto Death and shedding of his most precious Blood without us was not only necessary to procure the inward Grace of God to us but also to make a Propitiation for our sins and reconcile us unto God and so was needful to our Salvation as the great Atonement and Sacrifice of Expiation as well as the procuring Cause of his Grace in us But since he chargeth me with an Errour for holding That the Grace or Light within is not sufficient without something else then seeing nothing can be an Errour but because it is opposite to some Truth that which it is opposite to is That the Light within is sufficient without any or every thing else and if so then he excludes wholly the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation Sixthly As to the Testimonies he citeth out of Rob. Barclay's Apology they are of the same nature with what J. Delavall hath formerly cited in his Papers to which I have answered and refer to the same in print where I show that R. B. no where saith in all his Apology That the Light or Grace within is sufficient to Salvation without the Man Christ Jesus without us and what he did and suffered for us on Earth and his present Mediation and Intercession for us in Heaven All that can be gathered from R. B's words in any of his Books is first That the express distinct outward and historical Knowledge and Faith of Christ is not necessary to Salvation where it is not preached nor revealed and I say the same Secondly That men may be saved and many have been saved who have not heard Christ outwardly preached to them nor never heard or read the outward Testimony of the Scriptures concerning him Thirdly That a good Work of God may be begun in men that is of a tendency to Salvation and is Salvation begun in a general sence and respect without all Knowledge and Faith of Christs Death and Sufferings which I also grant and have all along granted and therefore neither H. Derborough J. Delavall nor any other have proved me and I believe never can prove me to contradict either Rob. Barclay's Books or any of my own Books and it is great deceit in this H. D. only in general to cite my Book of Universal Grace without mentioning the words of my Book And it is worth noticing that he exactly followeth J. Delavall not bringing one place of Scripture wherewithal to prove me in an Errour but only some Citations out of R. B. perverted and falsly applied by him And it is another piece either of gross Hypocrisie and Deceit or bold and impudent Rashness in him to say That R. Barclay doth not say the Express Knowledge of Christ who as Man died for the sins of the World for though he doth not say it in one place yet he hath it in another as pag. 86. of his Latine Apology truly thus Englished The History is profitable and comfortable joyned with the Mystery but not without it but the Mystery is and can profit without the explicit or express knowledge of the History and I still affirm the same Seventhly He grosly and most impudently belyeth me in his Paper That in my printed

most falsly and maliciously accusing me in some things and also discovering manifestly his and his Brethrens Ignorance Unbelief and Hypocrisie with whom he hath joyned himself First he saith He was deceived in me and ensnared by me hearing such Charges c. as if there were such as did divide Christ and not preach Faith in the Man Christ Jesus nor own the Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven but the Grace of God within only and such like Charges as that they did not own the Resurrection of the Body and the Coming again and glorious Appearance of that heavenly Man Christ Jesus to judge the Quick and the Dead at the great Day of Judgment Answ That such Charges were true I have many Witnesses that may be produced in due time to discover this Hugh Derborough to be a Liar and a false Accuser who hath writ Lies against his own Conscience and Knowledge for does not H. D. know that we have sufficient proof that Tho. Fitzwater said He owned no Man Christ Jesus as Mediator in Heaven without him but the Grace of God within him and of which T. B. complained to the Meeting of Ministring Friends at Burlington where Tho. Fitzwater himself was present and did not deny it nor they call him to an Account for it And was not Hugh Derborough at the Monthly Meeting where W. Stockdale openly renewed and confirmed his former Charge viz. That G. K. preached two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within and Christ without beside the pretended Judgment given forth concerning W.S. says the same And the Judgment given forth by their Monthly Meeting which is also in print clearing T. Fitzwater for accusing me That the Light within was not sufficient without somewhat else that something else being the Man Christ Jesus in whom all Fulness of Light Grace and Truth is lodged and out of whom all true Believers receive a daily supply and increase of Grace and he may remember what work he had at a Monthly Meeting a little before where it was affirmed That they knew but one Principle owned by Friends and that was the Light within which I refuted both from Scripture and Friends Books then T. Lloyd said There was but one Fundamental Principle which was the Light within which also I denied From this it is evident that they exclude the Man Christ Jesus from having any part in our Salvation placing it wholly and only upon the Light within and this H. D. has heard John Delavall publickly accuse me of Heresie for saying The Light within is not sufficient without something else yea and H. D. himself hath renewed this in his Paper against me which he calleth The Mystery of Iniquity discovered by the Spirit of Truth but his Paper is the fruit of the Mystery of Iniquity that ruleth in his heart who is acted by a lying Spirit Now that some approved among them deny the Resurrection of the Body after Death and Christ's coming to Judgment without us at the great Day c. we can sufficiently prove and it 's in vain for H. D. to tell us these are false Charges while their Preachers are found preaching against these things and the hearers generally arguing and contending with us against them A. Jennings a Preacher among them has been heard not only by me but divers others to deny That any thing of this Body riseth after Death And Henry Willis one of the 28 now 27 false Judges told me That the only cause why he set his hand to that Paper was because I had affirmed Christ would come again without us at the great Day of Judgment to judge the quick and the dead And W. Southyby's Letter and J. Humphery's Letter and Paul Saunders Letter to me giving an Account of William Southyby and M. Hodgskins their Unbelief in these principal things of the Christian Faith are sufficient proof and which Letters with other Instances and Proofs may in due time be made publick mean time take one Sentence of J. Humphery's Letter which is this I am grieved to hear some say They expect to be Justified by that Blood which was shed at Jerusalem To which blasphemous Sentence I shall not make any Reply at present but let all impartial Readers judge of it I have complained of it in private to John Humphrey himself to several of his Brethren to their quarterly Meeting to which he belongs and to their Publick Meeting several Months since and yet no calling him to account but of late he hath writ his second Letter confirming and justifying his former And therefore Hugh Derborough falsly accuseth me in saying I have deceived him for it 's the lying Spirit in himself and them he now owns to be his Brethren which have deceived him Secondly To his accusing me of Extream Heat and Passion when little occasion was given me if any but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them calling of them Hypocrites abominable Hypocrites bidding them Cut him in pieces Chop him Fry him with many more unsavoury words which he saith appeared to him indeed to be but Bryars and Thornes Answ. This is another Evidence of his great Hypocrisie and lying Spirit as well as of his gross Prejudice and Partiality Enmity and Malice I called none Hypocrites or abominable Hypocrites but such whom I can well prove to be such And did not Christ call them Hypocrites Serpents Generation of Vipers c. who had discovered themselves to be such and the Apostles called such Hypocrites and deceitful Workers c. How then is this Bryars and Thorns in me when those I so called were such Have not also our Friends called their Opposer's Hypocrites who were such yea and much harder Names than ever I did to any of them as Dead Beast Dark Sot Incarnate Devils Wolves Dogs c. But what says Hugh Derborough to his Brother Sam. Jenings who at their last Quarterly Meeting being the 6th of the first Month called one of his Fellow Members Ignorant Idiot and Nonsensical Puppey Which Fruits are most like Bryars and Thorns to call a deceitful man a Hypocrite or for Sam. Jenings to call a man of as good or better sence and understanding than himself Nonsensical Puppey Let H. D. answer to this and wipe off this and many other foul Expressions justly charged on his Brother Jenings if he can and yet this is he who would read H. D's Paper and pronounce my Fruits to be Bryars and Thorns but accounts his own Fruits no doubt to be Figs and Grapes though at the same Meeting he called one of his Church Members Nonsensical Puppey i. e. Whelp And yet I do not understand that any one in the Meeting dared to reprove him except the Person he so called I know the Scripture says That Dogs are without but I never knew that Dogs were suffered to remain within the Church if this Person be a Puppey Whelp or Dog why don't they cast him out or condemn Sam. Jenings for