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The Quakers complaint against George Keith, humbly presented to the clergy of the Church of England, who have lately receiv'd him into their communion, and suffer'd him to preach in their pulpits With some reasons why the people called Quakers have excommunicated George Keith, &c. clearing them from the aspersions cast upon them by him.
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in younger Friends was to read the Servant of the Lord's George Fox's Epistles he did not bid us read Paul's nor Peter nor John's c. mark that Indeed great fear is upon us for some begin to think themselves wiser than their Teachers and run to the Steeple-Houses not only after George Keith but other Priests and begin to run down our ancient Testimony and slight George Fox and other ancient Friends Books And now Friends know that for G. K.'s preaching up Faith in Christ God-Man without us and denying the sufficiency of the Light within to Salvation without any thing else by which as W. Penn said at Ratcliffe Meeting 1695. when he was so transported with the Glorious Power of God that he could not tell whether he was sitting standing or kneeling when he pronounced the Sentence of Apostacy on George Keith that this Doctrine was plucking up the. Testimony of Truth by the Roots Thus having cleared Friends from G. K.'s Aspersions we shall conclude desiring you to peruse the following Quotations out of our Books wherein you will more fully see our Doctrine Concerning the Scriptures W. P. in his Quaker a new Nick-Name for old Christianity p. 71 NO Command in Scripture is any farther obliging upon any Man then as he finds a Convinction upon his Conscience otherwise Men should be engaged without if not against Conviction a thing unreasonable in a Man Note According to this there can be no Sins of Ignorance Shield of Truth J. P. p. 11. He that saith the Letter is the Rule and Guide of the People of God is without feeding upon the husk and is Ignorant of the true Light The Question being put whether the Quakers did esteem their Speaking to be of as great Authority as any Chapter in the Bible Serious Apology p. 49. G. W. Answers That which is Spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater Mene Tekel p. 22. How can or dare any say without the highest Blasphemy that the Scriptures is the Word of God G. F. ans west pet p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christs or the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power E. B 's work p. 105. You are in the Witchcraft who observe Commands from without from the Letter News out of the North written from the mouth of the Lord from one who is naked and stands naked before the Lord cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World risen up out of the North which was Prophesied of but now is fulfilled called G. Fox page 14. Your Original is carnal Hebrew Greek and Latin and your Word is carnal the Letter and the Light is carnal the Letter Their Original is but Dust which is but the Leter which is Death And their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Concerning the Trinity G. Whitehead c. in Ishmael c. in Answer to Mr. Townsend p. 10. The Three Persons which thou dreams of which thou would divide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual darkness for the Lake and Pit for thou hast no Scripture that mentions any such things That frequent W. P. his Sandy Foundation p. 12.15 but impertinent distinction that God is One Substance but Three in Persons or Subsistences A most absurd Blasphemy They the Trinitarians must necessarily conclude their Kind of Trinity a Fiction It s requisite I should inform the Reader concerning its Original Thou maist assure thy self it s not from the Scripture nor Reason since so expresly repugnant it was conceived in Ignorance brought forth and maintained by Cruelty The Scriptures do not tell People of a Trinity G. Fox 's Great Mist p. 246. nor Three Persons but the Common-Prayer Mass-book speaks of Three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope Concerning Christ That the outward Person that suffer'd was properly the Son of God W. P. Ser. Apol. p. 146. we utterly deny Your Imagined God beyond the Stars Sword of Lord drawn p. 5. and your carnal Christ is utterly denied To say Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye The Devil was in thee G. F. Great Mist p. 250 thou sayest thou art saved by Christ without thee and so hast recorded thy self a Reprobate Faith in Christ's outward manifestation W. P. Qua. new Nick p. 6. a deadly Poison these latter Ages has been infected with The Suffering of the People of God Quakers in this Age is more unjust than in the days of Christ E. B 's work p. 273. or the Apostles What was done to Christ or the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by the due Execution of a Law The Blood of Christ was no more than the Blood of another Saint S. Eccle's Letter to R. Porter G. W. Truth defending the Qua. p. 22. p. 65. Christ's coming in the Flesh was but a Figure Faith in Christ without Men is contrary to the Apostles Doctrine * Serioas Apol. p. 148 This we deny viz. Justification by the Righteousness which Christ hath fulfilled in his own Person for us wholly without us and boldly affirm in the name of the Lord to be the Doctrine of Devils and an arm of the Sea of Corruption which does now deluge the whole World Death came by actual Sin Ib. 148. not imputative therefore Justification unto Life came by actual Righteousness not imputative Christ in us offereth up himself a living Sacrifice to God for us Light and Life p. 44. by which the Wrath of God is appeased to us Vindicated by G. W. Concerning Baptism and Supper I affirm W. P. Rea. agst. Rail p. 108. 109. That Circumcision is as much in force as Water Baptism and the Paschal Lamb as Bread and Wine And we can testifie from the same Spirit by which Paul Renounced Circumcision that they are to be rejected as not now required Your Baptism and Sacraments as you call it G. F. News out of the North p. 14 and all your Ordinances and Churches and Teaching it s Cain's Sacrifice Their Sacrament as they call it is Carnal Their Communion Bread Wine is the Table of Devils and Cup of Devils To say that sprinkling Infants with Water is Baptism into the Faith of Christ E. B. works p. 109. 191 this is the Doctrine of Devils Concerning the Resurrection I do utterly deny that this Text W. P. in his Invalidity of J. Faldo vind p. 369. 370. 1 Cor. 15.44 It is sown a natural Body it s raised a spiritual Body c. is concerned in the Resurrection of Man's carnal Body at all But the two States of Men under the first and second Adam Men are sown into the World natural so are they the Sons of the first Adam But they
are raised spiritual through him who is the Resurrection and the Life and so are they the Sons of the second Adam Who came to raise up the Sons of the first Adam from their dead to his living their natural to his spiritual Estate But perhaps it will be objected that the 47th Verse The first Man is of the earth earthy and part of the 49th Verse We shall all bear the Image of the heavenly seem to imply a bodily Resurrection but let the whole Verse be considered and we shall find no such thing c. The Apostle 1 Cor. 15.44 does not say The natural is made a spiritual Body T. Ellwood in his Ans to G. K's 1st Narrative p. 149. or the natural Body and the spiritual Body is one and the same Body but he sets them in opposition as two distinct Bodies The Body that is put in the Grave is a natural Body but the Body that 's raised is a spiritual Body And that none might think this spiritual Body was the same he adds There is a natural Body and there is a spiritual Body If a thing can be the same Rea. agst. Rail p. 134 and not withstanding changed for shame let us never make so much stir against the Doctrine of Transubstantion for the Absurdity of it is rather outdone than equalled by this carnal Resurrection Concerning Christ's coming to Judgment What is that Glory of the Father in which Christ's coming is G. W. Light Life p. 41. Is it visible to the carnal Eye And where is that coming to be Is it now to be looked for outwardly We acknowledge the several comings of Christ according to the Scriptures both that in the Flesh and that in the Spirit But three comings of Christ not only that in the Flesh at Jerusalem and that in the Spirit but also another coming in the Flesh yet to be expected we do not read of Dost thou look for Christ as he was the Son of Mary to appear outwardly Id. Nat. Christianity 29.30 in a bodily Existence to save thee If thou dost thou maist look till thy Eyes drop out before thou wilt see such an Appearance of him And as for that Id. Brief Discov of Joh. Horn p. 9. 1 Thes 4.15 concerning the coming of our Lord from Heaven which Men blindly put afar off the Saints who then were alive remained unto it So their Conversation viz. a Heaven within them they did not say their Conversation was at a distance above the Clouds from whence you look for a Christ Concerning Heaven and Hell There is none have a Glory and a Heaven but within them G. F. Mist p. 214. To deny the Locality of Heaven and Hell not very offensive W. P. Rejoiced viz. p. 179. and it looks too Carnal and indeed Mahometan viz. to assert it Concerning the National Ministery The Idle Gormandizing Priest of England run away with One hundred thousand and fifty Pounds a Year under pretence of God's Ministers W. P. Guide mistaken p. 18. No sort of People have been so universally through Ages the very Bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe of Priests for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to Act their Eternal Tragedy upon Concerning the Dissenting Ministery An Ill-bred Pedantick Crew W. Pen 's Quaker a new Nick-name c. p. 165. the Bane of Religion and Pest of the World the old Incendiaries to Mischief and the best to be spared of Mankind Against whom the boiling Vengeance of an Irritated God is ready to be pour'd out And we have nothing for them the Clergy but Woes and Plagues W. P. Serious Apology p. 156. who have made Drunk the Nations and laid them to sleep on Downy Beds of soft Sin-pleasing Principles while they have cut their Purses and pick'd their Pockets Tophets prepared for them to Act their Eternal Tragedy upon whose Scenes will be renewed direful anguishing Woes an Eternal Irreconcileable Justice The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they Quakers Chall p. 3. His meaning the Lord's Sons and Daughters that 's the Quakers are going abroad joyfully in the Power and Strength of the Almighty Howl Woe and Misery all ye Priests ye blind Priests All Nations and Languages Tongues and Kindreds and People tremble before the Lord's Host and the Lord's Army News out of the North by G. F. p. 28. None of these Quotations above are yet Retracted by the Quakers FINIS