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A54079	An apostate exposed, or, George Keith contradicting himself and his brother Bradford wherein their testimony to the Christian faith of the people called Quakers, is opposed to G.K.'s late pamphlet, stiled, Gross error and hypocrisie detected / by John Pennington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1223; ESTC R4585	12,784	30

the Answers given by G. Whitehead and Some of his Brethren and signed by them thirdly the answers I have faithfully and sincerely Collected out of the printed Books of George Whitehead William Penn and John Whitehead that shew the great inconsistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed Books The which answers will also give a further account of their vile and pernicious Errors opposite to some Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith And here I would have the Reader to understand That if these men had by their late answers contradicted their former sayings and sentiments from any sincere conviction and professed acknowledgement of the vile and gross Errors boldly asserted by them in their printed Books I should have been so far from charging them with Hipocrisy for their so doing that I should have commended their Ingenuity But they are so far from any such acknowledgment that in their late answer they refer to the answer given by them in publick to the objections made against them in publick Now it is plain by their answer made in publick they mean their Answer and Doctrine Sayings and Sentiments contained in their printed Books so far are they from professing or owning any real conviction they are under of their former vile Errors Though it is not improbable that some of them and particularly George Whitehead hath some contrary Apprehensions and Sentiments in divers of these weighty matters to what he hath formerly with great confidence asserted in Print as not only being his own Principles but the Quakers Principles Though I thank God those vile Errors c. which he calls the Quakers Principles were never my Principles and in Charity I am to believe nor the Principles of divers others that have with me gone under that Designation They are not so sincere as to own and retract in publick their Errors exposed in publick even lest such Retraction or Correction should lessen and abate their honour and esteem among their too credulous Followers and Admirers who without have all doubt have suffered themselves to be too much influenced and led by them into the same Errors And in the next page And however in some things of weight it is possible that G. Whitehead and some others have changed their Sentiments yet I have no ground or reason to think otherwise but as touching divers weighty Matters of the Christian Doctrine and Faith he and they are still under great Blindness Darkness and Error This is the basis of the Work and gives us Light into the design of his undertaking The vile Errors he ascribes to Friends former Sayings Sentiments and printed Books their Hypocrisie to their not acknowledging them but referring to their Answers made publick and yet allows some Reformation of Judgment but not total but that they are still under great Blindness Darkness and Error This Charge is extensive enough reaching the publick Labourers who have been Conversant in Print without any exception and how wide he will stretch it to fetch in the rest under the notion of credulous Followers and Admirers himself best knows if any That these were not his Sentiments formerly or at least that he hath declared otherwise is what now lieth before me to evince and that out of the Book even now mentioned called The Christian Faith c. for further notice I design not to take at present of him and his mischievous Work he being Debtor to T. E. for not offering himself from the incongrous and absurd Inferences he hath already drawn from those Friends Books than to turn his own and his Friends Weapons upon himself Suo se jugulet gladio In Pag. 3. G. K. and others in order to vindicate the people called Quakers from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick say Whereas divers of us challenged by him declared sincerely 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 Sense than the scripture-Scripture-Words did bear and that his Sense was true but their Sense was false G.K. hath done the same since appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so thus making himself Judge over our Secret Thoughts as having a secret Sense in our thoughts of scripture-Scripture-words page 4. contrary to the true sense of them though 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 dyed for our Sins and rose again for our Justification 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 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 cloath 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 page 5. and that he is to come to judge all Mankind with the great and last Judgment at the end of the World the which end of the World we do believe is Not come either within us or without us Therefore hath this Accuser joyned with Tho. Hicks a Baptist Teacher at London and John Faldo an Independent Teacher and divers others to accuse us as denying the true Christ because we believe and confess to Christ's inward and outward appearance This Charge was groundless then how comes it to be true now as if to believe and confess to Christ's inward Coming and Appearance were certainly to deny his outward ☞ or to hold forth two Christ's 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 Christian's Faith receiveth and embraceth 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 there shall be a Resurrection of the Body both of the Just Unjust page 6. 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 FVLLY answered to all these FALSE ACCVSATIONS of Tho. Hicks and J. Faldo with whom Chr. Lodowick hath joyned we refer to their Answers for further Satisfaction Thus much on behalf not only of himself and his Rhode Island Friends but of Friends in England and every where else Then Hicks and Faldo were false Accusers their Consequences indeducible Chr. Lodowick who had it seems got the start of Keith both in Apostacy and Reflections to blame for joining with them and the Reader referred to Friends Books here for further Satisfaction It was then rash and uncharitable to make ones self Judge over anothers secret thoughts to say Friends had another sense than Scripture words did bear c. but the Quakers are justified even by G. Keith in their Faith concerning Christ his Conception Birth Resurrection Ascension Intercession and Coming again to raise the Dead and to Judge both Quick and Dead at the last Day whereas since his coming over Hicks and Faldo are vindicated and Friends rendred Heterodox even in those very Books among the rest out of which they are here by him defended as Orthodox Quae te Dementia cepit But not to dwell upon this I now pass to that other part of their Book which contains a Collection of Testimonies out of our Friends Books as a further Corroboration of their evidence for which it was added by his Printer and Brother in Schism William Bradford and as he saith faithfully Collected which let him look to His first citation is out of the Principles of Truth by John Crook whom in his Page 10. he thus cites Through this Gift we believe that Christ Jesus the Son of God was manifest in the Flesh in the fulness of time and that there is not another Name whereby any can be saved then this Name of Jesus Christ nor is remission of Sins to be preached by any other Name We believe that this Jesus Dyed for or because of Sin and rose again for the Justification of those that believe in him and that he thereby spoiled Principalities and Powers and Triumphed over them openly and led Captivity captive in his own Person By this Gift of God in our Hearts we further believe that Christ Jesus rose again from the Dead and sits at Gods right Hand in a Glorious Body And we believe that our low Estates and humble Bodies shall be made like unto his glorious Body and that this mortal shall put on Immortality As the Man is not without the Woman neither is the Woman without the man in the Lord even so is not the death and sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem to be made void and of none effect ☜ by any thing within neither doth the Light shine and make that of none effect without but both in the Lord answers his will And we also believe the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust according to the Judgment of the great Day and then shall every Seed have its own Body But because we dare not be so foolishly inquisitive as to say with what Bodies do they arise therefore do some say We deny both the Resurrection of the Body of Christ and of all that are or shall be dead But this ALSO IS FALSE for every man shall be raised in his own order but Christ the first fruits 1 Cor. 15.23 And we believe they shall be raised with the same Bodies so far as Natural and Spiritual Corruptible and Incorruptible ☞ Terrestrial and Coelestial can be the same The next Citation I shall bring leaving those of William Penn and George Whitehead for a close is out of a Book called Malice of the Independent Agent again rebuked p. 17. p. 13. The terms Natural and Earthly as given to the Glorious Body of Christ were and are offensive to us It must needs be a very Glorious Heavenly Body and we believing such a change in the Glorious Body of Christ we do not thereby nor ever did believe that the Body of Christ which suffered was annihilated and that his Flesh saw Corruption NO SVCH MATTER May there not be then a very Wonderful change in the Body and yet the Substance not Annihilated nor destroyed Now doth it follow from our not believing nor owning his Characters of Natural and Earthly on Christ's Glorious Body that therefore nothing of that Body Remains or is in Being pag. 19. As if we allowed nothing of the Man Christ either of Spirit or Body to have a being after his Resurrection to ascend which is a HORRID FALSHOOD Though Christ be God and Man in a most Glorious Union and Power yet the Manhood is not the Deity nor the Deity the Manhood yet inseparable in the Heavenly Man Christ who is Lord from Heaven I come now to what he quotes out of my Father whom he represents as sounder in the Faith than a late litigious Agent in G. K's cause Thomas Crisp I mean hath sought to Characterize him It is in these Words Flesh and Blood of Christ by J. Penington Preface I have often hard them pag. 15. the Quakers own Christ both inwardly and outwardly yea I heard one of the Antients of them thus Testify in a publick Meeting many Years since That if Christ had not come in the Flesh in the fulness of time to bear our Sins in his own Body on the Tree and to offer himself up a Sacrifice for Mankind all Mankind had utterly Perisht page 16. Glorious was that Appearance and Manifestion of his Son in the Flesh precious his subjection and Holy Obedience to the Father his giving himself up to death for Sinners was of great esteem in his Eye It was a spotlses Sacrifice of great value and effectual for the Remission of Sins and I do humbly acknowledge unto the Lord ☞ the Remission of my Sins thereby Robert Barclay comes next who is brought in saying Apology pag. 94 95 96. p. 16. As we believe he Christ was a true and real Man so we also believe that he continues SO to be Glorified in the Heavens in Soul and Body by whom God shall judge the World in the great and general Day of Judgement We believe all those things to have been certainly transacted which are recorded in the Holy Scriptures concerning the Birth Life Miracles Sufferings Resurrection and Ascension of Christ and we also believe that it is the Duty of every one to believe it to whom it pleaseth God to reveal it yea we

he hath defended them to be even a Traducer a Defamer yea a Judas This shaking the Foundation upon which G. K's whole superstructure is built in his late envious piece stiled Gross Error c. as is Manifest from so much of the Preface as I have cited I shall leave G. K. to reconcile himself to himself and his Friends and refer the Reader for answer to the particular charges there exhibited to that Book of T. E's called Truth Defended wherein I doubt not but the judicious and impartial will receive Satisfaction in finding most of the Citations Inferences and Cavils brought in this last of G. K's already fully cleared and answered there POSTSCRIPT SInce the above was committed to the Press another Book of G. K's is come to my Hands called A Serious Appeal c. in Answer to Cotton Mather of New-England whom in the Title-Page he represents as greatly possessed with a Spirit of Perversion Errors and Envious Zeal against the People called Quakers and together with an Appeal against him to all the more Sober Impartial c. he Subjoins a Vindication of our Christian Faith especially respecting the Fundamental Doctrines and Principles of Christian Religion This also was Printed by W. Bradford Anno 1692. but after the other Paper already cited as appears by the References to it in this Book Some few Passages out of it and that the rather for that G. K. is Sole Author here not in conjunction with others as before I shall add by way of Corollary In page 6. I find G. K. deservedly reflecting on his Opponent for his Citations out of the Quakers Printed Books and Treatises as having borrowed and taken them not from our own Books but from our professed Adversaries whom he terms Men known well enough to be possessed with prejudice against us such as Thomas Hick's and John Faldo and others But how comes G. K. of late to abet these very Adversaries defended their cause and pick matter of quarrel against Friends even out of these very Books among others he here recommends whom our Friends in Old England and particularly G. W. and W. P. have largly answered and goes on I do here solemnly charge C. M. to give us but ONE single instance of any one Fundamental Article of Christian Faith denyed by us as a People or by any one of our Writers or Preachers generally owned and approved by us And in the next page ' According to the best knowledge I have of the People called Quakers and those most generally owned by them Is G. W. W. P. and J. W. none of this number Did not he then repute them such and recommend G. W. and W. P their Books as such as Preachers and Publishers of their Faith of unquestioned esteem among them and worthy of double Honour as many such there are I know NONE that are guilty of any ONE of such Heresies and Blasphemies as he accuseth them In page 11. Speaking on behalf of the Quakers he saith We zealously believe that the Man Christ is in Heaven without us in his Glorified Body of Man the same for being he had on Earth but wonderfully changed in manner and condition as is clearly and fully expressed in that late Treatise given forth by our Friends in Rhode-Island called The Christian Faith c. Vindicated c. Now hear him in page 52 thus he hath it But that he Cotton Mather chargeth it upon us as if we did not believe Christs coming again and appearance without us in his Glorified Body to judge the Quick and the Dead is that he cannot prove ANY OF US Guilty that is generally owned and received to be of our Faith only we have denied the gross and carnal Imaginations that some have vented as concerning Christ's Body calling it Natural and Earthly which we believe is Spiritual and Heavenly And a little lower ' He C. M. doth most grossly prevaricate abusing and perverting our words This abuse and perversion himself of late hath been guilty of in a high degree and that from the same to picks as if because we owned an inward quicking and being raised with Christ in our Souls and inward Man that therefore we deny any future Resurrection of the Body after Death which WE DENY NOT but affirm against Ranters and vain Notionists and we believe that the Resurrection of the Body is not attained Immediately after Death but at Christ's coming and appearing to judge the Quick and the Dead and the same Body that dyeth is raised in a true sence being freed and refined from all Dross of Corruption c. His Citations out of my Father page 25. 26 28. These are but words of course with him for it is not long since that it was Dear G.W. also whom he terms Dear Isaac Penington and saith he well knew to be a true Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and a sincere Lover of the crucified Jesus and those of G. F. page 60. Vindicating them even in those very passages which his Friend Tho. Crisp renders them as heretical in I lightly pass over deeming it no wonder that T. C. and G. K. should clash when G. K. and G. K. cannot agree And perhaps a more suitable occasion may happen for some body else to be more particular therein Now Reader what should induce such a Man of so great abilities as he would be thought to be and no question hath more then he makes a good use of who to Gods praise as he tells C. M. page 29. but I rather think to his own applause hath the Gifts both of sound Knowledge and Expression with his MANIFOLD other Mercies bestowed on him thus to interfere say and unsay were it not that Envy and Prejudice hath exceedingly blinded him For supposing not granting that those three Friends he levels his stroak so hard against had not so safely guarded some Expressions as they might have done must therefore they and their Brethren be reflected on as Blind Dark and Erroneous touching divers weighty Matters of the Christian Doctrine and Faith even after he had given a contrary character of two of them viz. G. W. and W. P. and referred to their writings as sound and true as well as declared that he knew not one single instance of any one Fundamental Article of Christian Faith denied by us as a People or by any one of our Writers and Preachers generally owned and approved by us Let us hear him therefore once more pass Judgement against himself even in this particular and that after 28 Years experience and converse both private and publick and therewith close these All but prejudiced Persons saith he Serious Appeal page 7. will say if it can be found by comparing their Words one with another that their Sense or Meaning is sound though not so altogether safely and cautiously worded in every respect Charity is to be allowed and the best construction ought to be given to their words or they themselves or their Friends for them in respect of their absence or decease who did best know them ought to be allowed to give their sence of them as I have done in the sincerity of my Heart according to my best understanding and knowledge of them and I think I should know and do know these called Quakers The greater is his condemnation then falsly to accuse them now and their Principles far better than Cotton Mather or any or all his Brethren having been conversant with them in publick Meetings as well as in private Discourses with the most noted and esteemed among them for about 28 Years past and that in many places of the World in Europe and for these divers Years in America THE END