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A47149	Gross error and hypocrisie detected in George Whitehead and some of his brethern as doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical answer he and some others have given to some queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the people call'd Quakers, in the third month, 1695, by comparing the said answer with the printed books of the said George Whitehead, William Pemn, and John Whitehead, leading men in the said Meeting, wherein the great inconistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed books is discovered : with a further account of their vile and pernicious errours / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.; Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing K172; ESTC R3387	26,885	44

them Thirdly If any slay the Life of Christ in them by their Sins doth not that hinder the Life to be a Sacrifice by Geo. Whitehead's Argument That the killing of Christ outwardly being the Act of wicked Men could be no meritorious Act Fourthly Where doth the Scripture say Christ offers up himself in his Children a Sacrifice for Sin Fifthly Is not this to make many Sacrifices or at least to say that Christ offers himself often yea Millions of times contrary to Scripture that saith Christ offer'd up himself once Sixthly Why could no beast under the Law that had a Blemish be offer'd but to signifie that Christ was to offer up himself in no other Body but that which was without all Sin Seventhly Why was it prophesied of Christ A Body hast thou prepared me why not Bodies many if he offer up himself in the Bodies of all the Saints Eighthly Is not this to make the Sacrifice of Christ in his own Body of less Value and Efficacy than his Sacrifice in William Penn's Body Because the Sacrifice of Christ in that Body that was offer'd at Jerusalem was a Type but this in William Penn's Body the Antitype That the History This the Mystery Ninthly Doth not this strengthen the Papists in their false Faith That Christ is daily offer'd in the Mass and unbloody Sacrifice But whereas William Penn argueth That as Christ or the Spirit Prayeth or maketh Intercession in the Saints why doth he not also offer up himself in them The Answer is easie The one is expresly affirmed in Scripture The other not nor is so much as to be proved by any just Consequence in a strict sence of the Word Sacrifice for it is not the Work of the Mediatory Spirit of Christ in the Saints to offer up himself a Sacrifice in Men but to apply the Vertue Merit and Efficacy of that Sacrifice of Christ outwardly offer'd to the Souls of Men for the Remission of Sin Justification before God and Peace with God And tho' it is said in Scripture that Christ remaineth a Priest for ever and he is the Propitiation for our Sins yet it is not said he is so in us but with the Father in Heaven And we have a High-Prist that is gone into Heaven Nor do I judge it safe to allow any such Unscriptural Phrase or Doctrine That Christ offereth up himself in us a Sacrifice in us to appease the Wrath of God though Christ's Mediation in the Saints may be allow'd in a qualified Sence but not in the nature of a Sacrifice but in other respects unless the Word Sacrifice or Offering be taken not to be an Offering for Sin but more generally and by way of Allegory as the Prayers and Alms of the Saints are call'd Sacrifices Note That in the Book of Homilies William Penn's Argument against Christ's Satisfaction for our Sins is effectually answered at large viz. in the Sermon of Salvation First Part. Where the Objection or Argument of William Penn is in Matter and Effect duly and fully answered according to Scripture viz. That God by his great Wisdom in this Mystery of our Redemption hath so tempered his Justice and Mercy together that he would neither by his Justice condemn us unto the Everlasting Captivity of the Devil and his Prison of Hell Remediless for ever without Mercy nor by his Mercy deliver us clearly without Justice or Payment of a just Ransom But with his endless Mercy he joined his most upright and equal Justice c. And whereas George Whitehead in his Reply to W. Burnet as above-cited blameth him for attributing to the Blood of Christ that was shed upon the Cross First Merit to Salvation Secondly Work to Sanctification It is evident he owneth it to be neither But as he is most highly jurious to that precious Blood and to him that gave it for us so he most unfairly chargeth W. Burnet with saying God could not save and so setting up that Blood above God For W. Burnet's plain Sense was as is obvious more especially to him that shall read his Book That Christ as God without being Man as well as God could not save us he having appointed to save us not without but by the Man Christ Jesus as the Scripture testifieth which chargeth no Imperfection or Impotency any more upon God than to say God cannot lye nor do any thing contrary to his Holy Council and Purpose And it is gross Ignorance and Errour in George Whitehead to make it a Contradiction in William Burnet to say as he chargeth him p. 8. Men ought to look to Jesus Christ as he was there crucified viz. at Jerusalem or to that Blood that was there shed for Justification And again to say That Christ that restoreth Man's Loss is both to be sought and found in Heaven viz. above the Clouds and Firmament For this is no Contradiction but a most necessary and comfortable Truth as well as that God and Christ are to be found in our Hearts But it is wonderful Blindness and Inconsiderateness in George Whitehead as well as in many of his ignorant Brethren whom he hath been a great Means by his unfound Books to darken rather than to enlighten not to consider That as God hath appointed divers subordinate Causes to work together in the producing of Natural Effects all concurring in Harmony together with himself the greatest and supreme Cause above all who is in all and through all So in the Work of our Salvation God hath appointed together with himself divers subordinate concurring Causes to effect and perfect it so as that God himself is our Saviour so he hath appointed Christ even the Man Christ Jesus to be our Saviour together with himself and the Blood Death and Sufferings of Christ and his most Holy and Perfect Obedience testified thereby also his Resurrection Ascension and Mediation without us as well as the Work of his Spirit in us together with the other much more inferiour but yet greatly valuable and profitable outward instrumental Helps and Means as the Holy Scripture Preaching c. in harmony to concurr together in the Work of our Salvation A POSTSCRIPT I Take notice of a late Book published against me by Th. Elwood call'd Truth defended c. but whose true Name should be Falshood and Hypocrisie weakly defended being a pretended Answer to my two late Books the one detecting the Injustice of of their Excommunication against me who were a leading Party of the Yearly Meeting of them call'd Quakers the other detecting the unjust Proceedings of that Party at the said Yearly Meeting and giving a List of the vile and gross Errors of some of their principal Teachers as George Whitehead William Penn c. To the which pretended Answer of Th. Elwood abovemention'd as also to some of the chiefest of his Forgeries and Pretensions and gross Abuses in his former Book call'd A farther Discovery it is probable a due Answer may be given in due time But I thought it not

like manner is not the very same nor all Clouds the same and seeing George Whitehead has formerly oppos'd Christ's Personal Coming or his Coming in Person without us as a thing yet to be expected he ought to clear it what manner of Coming and what sort of Clouds he doth now understand to be intended in these Words Acts 1.9 10 c. For though it be a real Truth that Christ is Ascended above all Clouds of Sin and Ignorance and Errours as well in George Whitehead as in others yet I am well assured that was not the Sense intended by the Spirit of Truth in these Words nor was it the Sense of them that spoke these Words to the Disciples Query IV. Will our Dead Bodies then arise the same Bodies in Substance though altered in Qualities and Properties which we now have Answer Hear what George Whitehead hath said in Print in his Answer to Mat. Coffin about the Resurrection That may be a proper Reply to this Query in shewing George Whitehead's Unbelief and Errour as touching the Resurrection of the dead Bodies of Men. See his Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within page 69. There is saith George Whitehead a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body and there are Bodies Celestial and Bodies Terrestrial The Sun Moon and Stars are Celestial Bodies but Birds Beasts and Fishes are Terrestrial Now you might reckon him a very Blind and Ignorant Man that should put no difference between the Bodies Celestial and those that are Terrestrial or that should reckon the Bodies of the Sun Moon and Stars and the Bodies of Birds Beasts and Fishes to be all one in Matter and Substance Note At this rate Christ's Body now in Heaven is not the same Body he had on Earth in no respect for if it be not the same in Substance i. e. Being or Essence it is not the same any other way considered For a great difference it is if one thing differ from another in Qualities and Properties or in their Modes and Modifications and one thing may differ from it-self with respect to divers Times States and Conditions But to say a thing is changed Substantially or Essentially is to say that thing is no more that thing in any respect but is annihilated For whatever Heavenly Excellency and Dignity Christ's Body had when it was upon Earth which may be in a true Sense acknowledged being Miraculously and Supernaturally conceiv'd and form'd by the Power of the Holy Ghost yet seeing Christ did both Eat and Drink and did Sleep and Hungred and Thirsted c. it is certain his Body had the Properties and Qualities of our Earthly Bodies otherwise how could he be said to be made like to us in all things but without Sin And seeing Mens Bodies are universally nourished with what they eat and drink and their Food by certain Digestions becomes a part of their Bodies the Excrementitious part being excepted we must needs think that Christ's Body was really Terrestrial i. e. had Terrestrial Qualities when it was upon Earth But now it is Heavenly endu'd altogether with Heavenly Qualities as the Bodies of the Saints will be at the Resurrection And it is false Philosophy to say the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars are in kind quite other Substances from Earthly Bodies The more true Philosophy and Knowledge of Natural Things is that the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ not Substantially or Essentially from Earthly Bodies otherwise they cou'd not nourish Earthly Bodies as they do Yea George Whitehead in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent rebuked page 17. Treating on the Body of Christ saith And we believing such a Change of the Glorious Body of Christ we do not thereby nor never did believe that the Body of Christ which suffer'd was annihilated and that his Flesh saw Corruption No such matter May there not be then saith he a very wonderful Change in the Body and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed Note here how George Whitehead hath contradicted George Whitehead and how inconsistent is he with himself One while he is a very blind and ignorant Man according to George Whitehead's Philosophy That a Body that is Terrestrial and a Body that is Celestial are one in Substance Another while again by George Whitehead's Philosophy There may be a very wonderful Change in the Body viz. of Christ and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroy'd And then I say why not also may there not be such a wonderful Change in the Bodies of the Saints and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed And though the Scripture distinguisheth betwixt Bodies Terrestrial and Celestial yet it doth not say these visible Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ in Substance from Earthly Bodies George Whitehead hath not learned this sort of Doctrine either from the Letter of the Scripture or the Spirit of God that gave it forth or from true Reason but hath it either from his own dark Imagination or from the dark Imagination of other Men as dark and ignorant as himself I had not been so large thus to correct his false Philosophy but that he maketh use of it here and elsewhere to overthrow the Faith of that great Article of Christian Doctrine plainly testify'd in the Holy Scripture to wit The Resurrection of the Body But seeing George Whitehead in his Book called The Malice of the Independent Agent owneth or seemeth to own That Christ's Body he had on Earth is now in the Heavens and is not annihilated nor the Substance of it destroyed how comes it that he so peremptorily disputeth against Christ's Personal Existence and his Personal Coming again or Appearance or Personal Being alledging it implies him to be a Personal God or Christ like the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians conceit of him and he Argues against any Limitation of Christ's Personal Existence or being at the Right-hand of God without all Men. But how George Whitehead will reconcile this to his Assertion in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent where he owns that Christ's Body of Flesh saw no Corruption but is in Being and not annihilated And in his Postscript to the said Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent he saith of Christ's Body Though it be Spiritual and Glorious yet a Body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to Bodies In my former printed Treatise call'd A short List of some of the Vile and Gross Errors of George Whitehead c. I noticed George Whitehead's Contradiction to John Whitehead about the Body of Christ But here I would have the Reader notice George Whitehead's Contradiction to himself in the two above-mention'd Books as if George Whitehead since he argued against the Personal Being of Christ without every Man had turn'd Anthropomorphite and Muggletonian for asserting that Christ hath a Body in Heaven that is not every-where But to assert that

proper to meddle with his said Book in this Treatise farther than to show briefly in a few Lines two or three silly Juggles which Thomas Elwood useth to cloak and excuse some of his guilty Brethren The first is in page 108. of his late Book call'd Truth defended where to excuse and cloak George Whitehead's most unsound and impious Doctrine saying The Quakers see no need of directing Men to the Type for the Antitype viz. neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood He alledgeth it should have been printed either for Jesus Christ or his Blood the Word to there next before Jesus Christ being through mistake set instead of for which it should have been and in the Book he saith which he hath he finds it hath been so amended with a Pen and the former part of the Answer shews it should have been so But that this is a dull and silly Juggle is easie to perceive for first whereas he saith the Word to was through Mistake set instead of for Who hath told him this If George Whitehead why did he not Name him for he was the only proper Person to tell him this being the Author of these Words and every Man is the best Corrector of his own Words Secondly Who mended it in the Book he hath and when was it amended Thirdly Why was not this Amendment made in all the other Books or Copies as well as that one And how is it that after Sixteen Years the Book hath been in print we never heard of such Amendment till now And why was it not put in the Book as an Errour of the Press seeing many less Errours are usually corrected But Fourthly Seeing not only we find the same Expression elsewhere in that Book but that it is a principal part of the Design of that whole Book to take off People from looking to Jesus Christ without as be suffer'd at Jerusalem or to his Blood as it was shed there for Justification as any will perceive that either seriously considers the Book it-self or the Passages cited out of it it is manifest it was no Mistake or Errour of the Press Now that the same Expression is elsewhere in that Book see page 61. where he blames William Burnet's Doctrine in these Words Another while People must seek their Saviour above the Clouds and Firmament page 33. contrary to the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 10.6 Another while they must look to Jerusalem for Justification to the Blood that was there shed page 24. contrary saith he to Deut. 30.13 14. and Rom. 10. Note how he useth the Word to here and in the same sence as in page 38. And why did not Thomas Elwood tell us that place was also mended in his Book And Fifthly The Amendment made by him helps not the Matter the Word to and for in this respect and case having one signification For to all true Christian Ears it is as offensive to say We are not to be directed to Jerusalem the place where Christ suffer'd for Jesus Christ or his Blood as to say to Jesus Christ and his Blood for all true Christians by Faith and pious Meditations though not by the Bodily Eye which was not intended by William Burnet are directed to look as well for Jesus Christ as to him as he suffer'd at Jerusalem for their Sins that God might pardon them upon sincere Repentance and Faith in Christ And though the Temple at Jerusalem was a Type of Christ's Body yet I no where find either in Scripture or in any approved Author that Jerusalem was a Type of Christ but it was the place whereabout he suffer'd and where he was sentenc'd to Die which is a weighty Circumstance necessary to be believ'd by them to whom it is preached viz. That Christ suffer'd for our sins without the Gates of Jerusalem And though the Types are not to be practised as some of the People call'd Quakers have in their Declarations showed how some of the Types pointed at the Spirit 's Teachings and inward Operations and in that respect directed to the Type for the Antitype why also may not and ought not the like Directions or Instructions be used to show how the Types pointed to Christ without us well as some of 'em pointed to the Spirit of Christ within and to his inward Operations A Second dull and silly Juggle of Thomas Elwood and of George Whitehead also is in their excusing Solomon Eccle's Blasphemy in saying The Blood that was forc'd out of Christ's Side by the Spear c. was no more than the Blood of another Saint which they both seek to excuse and whose Excuses I have shewn to be deceitful and may further show And to blind and hoodwink the Reader they bring some of Solomon Eccle's Words wherein they say he did speak highly of the Blood of Christ and new Covenant as more excellent and Living and Holy and Precious than is able to be utterred c. and this saith George Whitehead might have satisfied any Spiritual or unbyassed Mind But that this is thick and palpable Deceit in George Whitehead first and next in Thomas Elwood is plain because in that very letter of Solomon Eccle's cited by George Whitehead Solomon Eccles maketh a distinction of Blood and so doth George Whitehead calling the Blood of the new Covenant inward and Solomon Eccles expresly denieth that Blood that came out of Christ's Body after he was dead to be the Blood of the New Covenant So when he affirmeth the Blood of Christ to be more excellent c. he tells plainly his meaning that it was not that Blood that came out of his Side after he was dead so this thick and palpable Deceit of both is discovered And what a poor and silly Off-come makes he to excuse that most unchristian Saying of William Penn viz. This Seed must be inward and Spiritual since one outward Thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the Way of Holy Scripture so to teach us The Outward Lamb shews forth the Inward Lamb And whereas in Answer to this I said If this be not a plain Denyal of Christ to be any outward Being having any Bodily Existence without us I know no English All his Answer I can find to this is a silly Joke saying For a Scotchman not to know English is not so great a Wonder as it would have been if he had said he knew no Scottish But until he give a better Answer it remains as a great Reflection he casts on the English That the outward Types of the Law 〈◊〉 the Sacrifices and Pascal Lamb were not Types of Christ without but of the Lamb within which I am sure is not true Doctrine neither English nor Scottish FINIS * Which he saith is in love to my poor Soul But whether such Cursing proceeds from true Love let the Intelligent judge * See his Book call'd Christ Ascended above the Clouds pag. 21.24 * As he calls it in Answer to John Faldo