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 First Printed beyond Sea and now Re-printed and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1693. The Christian Faith of the People called Quakers in Rhode-Island in New-England vindicated from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick that formerly was of that Profession but is lately fall'n therefrom WHereas Christian Lodowick hath given forth several Papers Challenging all these belonging to Newport Meeting who speak in the Meetings of the People called Quakers and that within these few days past he hath renewed his Challenge accusing the Foundation of their Gospel Faith Doctrine and Religion to be unscriptural false and naught shaken and sandy and challenging them to appoint one of their number to dispute with him These are to give notice to all sober People and Neighbours that these so challenged by him having taken his Challenge into consideration and finding many things in it falsly and perversly stated which they could not own so stated by him to be the Foundation of their Faith c. did meet with him at the House of Walter Clark in Newport in Rhode-Island the 18th of the 4th Month 1691 in order to have things fairly stated that if any did dispute with him they might know before hand what he was to dispute against but they could not procure him to allow of this but after that some of the things charged by him in his Papers began to be discoursed of in order to a fair and right stating of them he would not hear of it but went away And whereas divers of us challenged by him declared sincerely before many People there assembled on the said day their sincere Faith as concerning the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth and what the holy Scriptures testifie of him yet he did continue to accuse them still as denying the true Christ alledging They had another sence than the Scripture words did bear and that his sence was true but their sence was false appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so Thus making himself Judge over our secret thoughts as having a secret sence in our thoughts of Scripture words contrary to the true sence of them tho' we have not given him or any other occasion to judge so rashly and uncharitably of us and our Consciences bear us witness in the sight of God that we do sincerely believe and think as we speak when we say according to the holy Scripture That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Christ of God and the only true Saviour and there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby men must be saved and that this same Jesus was in fulness of time born of the Virgin called Mary being conceived of the Holy Ghost who died for our sins and rose again for our Justification and by his death on the Tree of the Cross was a most acceptable Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole world having tasted death for every man and given himself a Ransom for all And we believe that Christ was God manifest in the Flesh even in the Body of Flesh in which he did suffer death on the Cross and that the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him and doth still dwell bodily in him and that of his fulness we all receive and grace for grace And we also believe according to holy Scripture that Christ's Body that was crucified on the Tree of the Cross was raised again on the third day and after forty days did ascend into Heaven in the sight of the Disciples and who is exalted at the right hand of God and ever liveth to make Intercession for us and that Christ hath his Body in Heaven a most glorious Body not changed in Being or Substance but in condition and manner of Being and that Christ is true and perfect God and true and perfect Man the Son of God begotten of God from everlasting glorified with the Father before the World began and also begotten of God in the Womb of the Virgin called Mary and born of her in the fulness of time the Son of Abraham the Son of David who took not on him the Nature of Angels but the Seed of Abraham and which he still hath and that Christ as Man hath both Soul and Body and his Manhood is most excellently and wonderfully united with his Godhead yet his Manhood is not his Godhead nor is his Body that he had of the Virgin and now hath in Heaven his Godhead but the Temple of it as Christ called his Body the Temple and is the Garment or Cloathing wherewith the Eternal Word did clothe himself who is that new and living Way that he hath consecrated for us through the Vail that is to say his Flesh And we believe That God the Father hath appointed the Man Christ Jesus to be the Judge of the Quick and the Dead and that he is to come to judge all Mankind and that his coming so to Judge all Mankind with the great and last Judgment is at the end of the world the which End of the world we do believe is not come either within us or without us as he doth falsly charge for the End of the world as the Scripture declareth it is the End of the Ages or Times of this World for the Times and Ages of this world shall have an End and God hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man Christ Jesus whom he hath ordained but of that day and hour knoweth no Man as Christ hath declared that all might be watchful And because according to Scripture Testimony we do faithfully believe that Christ hath also inwardly and spiritually appeared in the Hearts of men and that all true Christians do believe and own his inward Appearance and Revelation in them as he is the Word Light and Life in them in various measures and degrees of Divine Revelation and that he is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and that we testifie that all should turn to his Light in them that convinceth of sin and should believe in it and obey and follow it and that all who so do will be led in due time to believe in him in whom the Fulness is and to receive the benefit of Christ's Death and Resurrection in the outward therefore hath this Accuser joyned with Thomas Hicks a Baptist Teacher at London and John Faldo an Independant Teacher and divers others to accuse us as Denying the true Christ because we believe and confess to Christ's Inward Coming and Appearance were to deny his Outward or to hold
have made enquiry of the Parties so charged and I find my Brethren sound in the Faith concerning all these things and therefore these are Lies and Calumnies cast upon us and I have this word of Comfort farther to deliver to you my Brethren from the Lord That the Judgments of the Lord will overtake them that have printed and published these things to the dishonour of God and his Truth c. Where Note first That he said He came up to enquire whether these things were so or not and yet near three Months before he came here to see whether these things were so or not he and his Companions believed Reports against us in Maryland and signed the said Judgment against us Now pray consider whether T.E. and Companions were the impartial men they pretend to be to enquire and judge of this great Controversie when 1 st before they came here they gave their Judgment against us upon bare Report 2 ly When they came here before they had time to make due enquiry viz in less then 48 hours to say That he found his Brethren sound in the Faith and That these were Lies and Calumnies cast upon them was great rashness First they condemned us and then T. E. said he came some hundreds of miles to enquire whether these things for which they had condemned us were true or not Was ever greater folly acted by men pretending to Reason Conscience and the highest Perfection in Christianity Our souls pity them and heartily desire that they might see their rashness and repent But to demonstrate that T. Everndon had but one ear to hear or at least to give credit to one Party in prejudice to the other pray note these following Observations Observ 1. That at the said Meeting 27th of the 10th Month before T.E. bore his Testimony John Wilsford declared a long time concerning the Faith of Christ saying He had the TRUE Faith of Christ as he died and rose again and ascended and was our Mediator in Heaven before he came among Friends and even from his Childhood he had that True Faith but yet that Faith did not purifie him nor gather him to God but be remained in the dark and his Religion was only an outside Profession c. Observ 2. That T. E. did not only hear J. W. speak this but he also heard G. K. reprove divers things in his Doctrine and prove it to be false and unsound especially that he said He had the true Faith of Christ as he died and rose again and yet that Faith did not profit him c. This said G. K. is unsound Doctrine to call that the true Faith of Christ that doth not purifie nor gather to God nor bring a man out of the dark and to have no more of Religion than an outside Profession this is not the true Faith but a false Faith for the true Faith purifieth the heart and gathers unto God and brings him that hath it to know the kirnel and inward life of Religion If he had said he had not the true Faith of Christ crucified c. but a dead literal and notional Faith of it he might have said true but to say he had the true Faith and yet that it did not purifie him doth prove him to be yet ignorant of the true Faith and that he is yet in the dark There is a true and a false Faith both of Christ without and of Christ within the false is only literal historical and notional and many have no other but a bare literal historical and notional Faith of Christ within as others have of Christ without they say they believe that Christ is in them only because they read it and hear it preached but this Faith is dead and is not true more than a dead Picture of a Man is a true Man but the True Faith of Christ both without and within is a living fruitful Faith wrought in them who have it by the Power and Spirit of Christ accompanying the preaching of it and the Testimony of the holy Scriptures concerning the same Observ. 3. That at the same Meeting T.E. heard John Hutchins grosly pervert that place of Scripture 1 Thess 4.15 We which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the Air c. which most evidently relates to his coming in his glorified Body without us at the great Day of Judgment whereas J.H. applied it wholly to mens being caught up in the Spirit grosly confounding Christ the Son the Heir with the Air which he also heard G. K. to contradict and reprove Obs 4. That the printed Judgment concerning W. Stockdale which is a true Copy of the Original saith That it was prov'd by two witnesses that he the said G.K. preached two Christs because he preached Faith in Christ within and without is evidence sufficient of his unsoundness and yet he was all along allow'd to preach and pray in Meetings Observ 5. That by their printed Judgment concerning T. Fitzwater it 's evident that they clear T. F. and condemn G. K. for saying The Light is not sufficient without any thing else to wit the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us on Earth and what he is now doing for us in Heaven and which at the next Monthly meeting Tho. Lloyd as the month of the Meeting acknowledg'd They knew G.K. meant the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us and what he is now a doing for us to be that something else thereby denying the Man Christ Jesus from having any part or share in our Salvation Observ 6. That both on the first day before in the publick Meeting and in the evening before this Meeting G.K. gave T. E. and Companions a faithful account how John Delaval had accused him of being guilty of Heresie and Error in a Fundamental Doctrine for asserting that the Light within is not sufficient without some what else thereby excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us Now after this which T. E. could not but be sensible of for him to say in such a great Auditory That he had made enquiry and found his Brethren sound in the Faith and these things in our printed Books were Lies and Calumnies bewrayeth his great weakness in this as folly and rashness in his signing a Paper of Judgment against us in Maryland upon bare Report And therefore it is manifest that T. Everndon has been very imprudent in the management of this weighty Affair thus to clear the Guilty and condemn the Innocent and that in the Name of the Lord. Oh! the righteous Judge of the whole Earth who knows the secrets of all hearts will judge for these things And in private Conference that Evening aforesaid the principal thing for which T.E. blamed G.K. was for making known to the World the Errors of some called Preachers among the Quakers here saying he had made Friends stink and become the Song of the
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
in Pensilvania that they call'd a Meeting on purpose to pass Judgment against the Publishing of it and William Bradford for printing it c. See The Plea c. p. 21. False Judgments Reprehended AND A Just Reproof to THO. EVERNDON And his Associates and Fellow-Travellers For the false and rash Judgment T. E. gave against G. K. and his Faithful Friends and Brethren at the Publick Meeting at Philadelphia the 27th of the tenth Month 1692. And also for their bringing with them their Paquet of Letters Saul like to Damascus containing the false Judgment of a Faction of of Men calling themselves the Yearly-Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland the fourth of the eighth Month 92. And another false Judgment contained in another Letter from William Richardson All which will return upon their own Heads IT is greatly worth the noticing That these men who call themselves the Yearly Meeting at Tredaven in Maryland met the 4th of the 8th Month 1692. have most rashly and unchristianly contrary to all Gospel-Order condemned G.K. and his Friends as appears by their Paper signed by Thomas Everndon Rich. Johns Richard Harrison John Pitt W. Dixon Ja. Ridley and several others without at all hearing of him or sending any of their Brethren to enquire into the truth of things or true cause and ground of the Separation here and such other things as they lay to his charge And whereas they say in their Letter That he accuseth his Brethren and renders them to the World as a People not fit to hold Communion with and that there are more damnable Heresies and Errors cloaked amongst the Quakers there viz. in Pensilvania than in any Protestant Society in Christendom Answ O the gross partiality and injustice of these men when was it that G.K. published this to the World viz. That they cloaked more damnable Heresies and Errors here than in any Protestant Society in Christendom Was it not in answer to the 28 false Judges that had published in the face of the World their false Judgment against him in which they publish these words and not G. Keith for he spoke them in a private Meeting at a private House in Burlington where about 20 men called Ministers were met and had they been wise they would not have so publickly accused G.K. for them in their said Paper which though they did not print yet caused it to be read at monthly and quarterly Meetings and at other Meetings on First-days and Week-days where many that did not profess to be Quakers were present whereby it was noised all about and G.K. was publickly opposed and interrupted in his Testimony in most places and when he prayed in Meetings many kept on their Hats and all because of this Paper of false Judgment against him by the 28 and it is but a circumstance whether a thing be printed or not seeing they published it all over the Country and sent it to most parts in America where there is of the People called Quakers before G.K. published it in print so they were the Publishers of it and not G.K. And this is sufficient to discover their Partiality and Injustice in this particular which is the principal thing they pretend to have against him Again whereas they blame him for Separating from Friends and Brethren By this it plainly appeareth that they own such to be their Brethren who are guilty of denying and opposing Faith in the Man Christ without us which these here have done And for the Separation which our Opposers first made and were the cause of we are well warranted by the holy Scripture that saith Come out from among them and be ye separate Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers what fellowship hath a Believer with an Infidel and such indeed are all them who have not Faith in the Man Christ without them as in Christ in them as these our Opposers have not who set up the Light within to be sufficient without any thing else as their Judgment against him plainly expresseth so excluding the Man Christ Jesus without us from having any part in our Salvation Again they tell G. K. That if any of them had been guilty of these things he ought to have laboured their Recovery in Love and in the Spirit of Meekness Answ And so he did for above a year with much love and patience and met with great contradiction hatred and reviling Language from them for his pains and he did bear and suffer so long that he could not with peace of Conscience suffer it any longer and brought the matter of Difference orderly from one Meeting to another but there was no Remedy And whereas they say He ought to have stated the Difference and sent it to London He did write to G. Whitehead and Friends at London and had their answer approving his Doctrine before he printed any thing and yet this prevailed nothing But G. K. did not write to them as having any uncertainty or doubt in himself of the truth of the Doctrine asserted by him nor was he free to submit so great a matter of Faith and Conscience by way of absolute submission to any man or number of men as Whether Christ without us was to be believed in as well as Christ within us as necessary to our Salvation for things of that nature are not to be submitted by way of absolute submission to the best of men it contradicteth our ancient Principle viz. That the Spirit in each particular is the Rule of Faith and Doctrine But G. K. did never refuse to appeal or submit to the Spirit of Truth in any of his faithful Friends in old England or any where else but proffered it and was refused not doubting their unity with him in this weighty matter but because it is so unquestionable a Truth among Christians That Christ without is as necessary to be believed in for our Salvation as that God in Heaven is to be believed in therefore he thought it not necessary to concern his faithful Friends to seek their assistance to determine that which all Christendom grants in words and none but the greatest Apostates and Hereticks dare deny Next Let it be observed that after Tho. Everndon and the rest had given forth the said false Judgment in Maryland T. Everndon accompanied with Rich. Johns Rich. Harrison and Humphry Hodges comes to Philadelphia and before they had been here 48 hours out of the Meeting on the 27th day of the tenth Month in a publick Meeting appointed at Philadelphia where was present about 500 People T. Everndon said That having seen certain printed Books that came down to Maryland wherein his Brethren were charged with denying the Man Christ Jesus and Faith in him and the Resurrection of the dead I said said he I would go up and see what the matter is among my Brethren whether these things be so or not that these Books come down among us wherein they are charged with denying these things and now since I am come I
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
Treatise called Truth and Innocency c. pag. 16. the Light within is so struck at as if it were a very insufficient thing Nor is he less injurious in belying me as if I did hold that the Light within was sufficient to begin a Good Work but was not sufficient to perfect it Which is his gross abuse but not my Assertion for I never so said but either in his Ignorance or Hypocrisie he doth not distinguish betwixt the several Measures and Ministrations of the Light within for this I have said and still say first No measure of Light can save any man either to begin or finish his Salvation without the Man Christ Jesus and his Death and Sufferings and Resurrection and Intercession for us in Heaven without us Secondly The Light is sufficient in the first and succeeding Measures of it both to begin and finish the Work of mens Salvation but yet not the first Ministration or Operation of it and though the Ministrations be divers yet the Light it self in its Nature is but one and is abundantly in it self sufficient both to begin and finish the Work of mens Salvation but not without the Man Christ Jesus Eightly That the Faith of Christ as he died for the sins of men is universally necessary to finish and perfect the Work of mens Eternal Salvation doth no wise derogate from the sufficiency of the Light because the Light is as sufficient to work the Faith and Knowledge of Christ without men as within them when it pleaseth God so to order it And as for the Example brought by Robert Barclay in his Apology and also by me in my Answer to R. Gorden it must not be too far stretched for commonly all Similitudes fall short in some part for though a Medicine may cure a mans Body though he hath no Knowledge of it what it is yet the Light and Grace of Christ cannot cure the Soul perfectly without all Knowledge of it and Faith in it otherwise it might be said That men may be saved without all Knowledge of God and Christ within as well as without but the same Reason that maketh the Knowledge and Faith of Christ within needful to perfect the Work of mens Salvation doth also make the Knowledge of him without them necessary in some measure to perfect the Work of their Salvation seeing the one cannot sufficiently be known without the other and the Scripture layeth equal necessity and weight on both See Rom. 10.8 9. John 17.3 Isa. 53.11 Acts 10.43 Acts 11.14 Rom. 3.22 25. Gal. 2.26 And though many have received Damage by Adam's Fall who never heard of it and know not that Adam sinned by eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil yet none are finally lost or condemned for Adam's sin but for their own Sin of Impenitency and Unbelief which they either do or may know and consequently none are finally and perfectly saved but who have some Knowledge and Faith of Christ their Saviour even the Man Christ Jesus by the Faith of whom they receive the Forgiveness of their sins according to Acts 13.38 39. Cap. 4.10 11 12. Luke 1.77 cap. 24.46 47. George Keith Observation by another Hand IS it not Amazing and Astonishing that notwithstanding the great Differences and Divisions that are amongst the QUAKERS beyond Sea yet the last yearly Meeting June 1693. at London the Quakers should assert in their printed yearly Paper That their Friends beyond Sea were for the most part in LOVE and GOOD UNITY And also in their Book The Christian Doctrine c. say the Differences are but among A FEW Persons and that they agree in the MAIN when as they cannot but know that what they say herein is notoriously false there being no less then ten or twelve Books and Papers printed which give an Account that hundreds are concerned in the Controversie and that the said Controversie is not about the Womens Meetings c. which those that oppose are called by G. W. c. Infidels Heathens Wolves Doggs and Devils Incarnate c. but about the very Fundamentals of the Christian Religion as by their said Books c. do manifestly appear And though this is so evident and apparent that scarsly any Man of Sence and Common Honesty will deny or gainsay yet such is the Impudence and Falsnes of the Preachers and Leaders of the FOXONIAN Party that they have asserted the contrary as above 23 Nov. 1693. F.B. THE END Books lately published 1 THe Trials of several Quakers before a Court of Quakers 2. An Account of the great Divisions of the Quakers in Pensilvania bâ—ing the Plea of the Innocent 3. A further Account of the Divisions of the Quakers in Pensilvania being some Reasons and Causes of Separation c. 4. The Principles Doctrines Laws and Orders of the Quakers 5. The Judgment given forth by 28 Quakers against G. Keith and his Friends with a full Account of the yearly Meeting signed by 70 Quakers 6. More Divisions still among the Quakers in Pensilvania All six sold by R Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane * But John Wilsford has not told us whether that Heaven be within or without into which the Man Christ is gone Rob. Young says 't is within