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A47175 A serious call to the Quakers inviting them to return to Christianity Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1700 (1700) Wing K206; ESTC R221353 9,686 4

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A Serious CALL to the QUAKERS Inviting them to Return to CHRISTIANITY THIS Sheet of Paper doth set before you some of the many vile and monstrous Doctrines Principles and Uncharitable Sayings of the Chiefest and most Noted of your Teachers Faithfully Collected out of their own Books the Titles and Pages whereof are set down in the Margin and most of them are attested by Eight Ministers of the Church of England of known Integrity and Judgment whose Names hereafter follow You are earnestly Requested as you Regard your Eternal Salvation to Consider them and with Prayer to Almighty God to enable you by his good Spirit to compare them with the Holy Scriptures by which you may clearly see that your Teachers have led you quite off from the Principles of Christianity without the Faith of which ye have no ground to expect Salvation It is hoped that if you will duly and well Consider these things you will not only Renounce your Teachers Errors but gladly embrace the Doctrine and Religion of Christianity to which you are hereby sincerely Exhorted Concerning their pretended Infallibility and discerning of Spirit and Equallity with God OUR giving forth Papers or Printed Books is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of G. Fox and Rich. Hubberthorn truths Defence p. 2. God to the shewing forth the filthy Practices of the Worlds Teachers c. And thou and you all that Speak and Write G. F. Great Mystery p. 98. and not from God Immediatly and Infallibly as the Apostles did and Prophets and Christ but only have gotten the Words you are all under the Curse in another Spirit ravened from the Spirit that was in the Apostles Do not you George Whitehead Blasphemously take to your self an Attribute of God G. W. Truth Defend p. 24. while you pretend ordinarily to know the Hearts of Men. And tell Mr. Townsend Minister of Norwich in the second Page of your Ishmael that the Light of God is departed from his Conscience George Whitehead Answers I take no Attribute of God to my self but what God hath given me by whose Gift I witness that promise fulfilled in me ye shall discern between the Righteous and the Wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Mal. 3. 28. Observe This in Mal. ●3 28. or any other place of Scripture proves not that any Man shall have one of God's Attributes given them to know Mens Hearts The Quakers can discern who are Saints and who are Devils and who are Apostates G. F. Great Mistery p. 89. without Speaking ever a Word They that have the Spirit of God which all the Quakers say they have are equal with G. F. Saul's Errand p. 8. Francis Howgill 's Works p. 232. God He that is joyn'd to the Lord is one Spirit there is Unity and the Unity stands in Equality it self Concerning the Scriptures GEorge Fox says The Scriptures are not Infallible nor Divine but Humane Great Mist p. 302. No Command in Scripture is any farther W. Penn in his Quak. a new Nick-name for old Christianity p. 71. Obliging upon any Man than as he finds a Conviction 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 He that saith the Letter is the Rule and Guide of the People of God is without feeding J. Parnel Shield of Truth p. 11. 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 G. W. and W. P. Serious Apology p. 49. Authority as any Chapter in the Bible George Whitehead Answers That which is Spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scripture and Chapters are and greater How can or dare any say without the highest Blasphemy that the Scripture is the G. Bishop Mene Tekel p. 22. Word of God If ever you own the Prophets Christ or the Apostles you will own our Writings which G. Fox Answer to the Westmorland Petition p. 30. E. B' s. Works p. 105. are given fotrh by the same Spirit and Power You are in the Witchcraft who observe Commands from without from the Letter So Dust is the Serpents Meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which G. F. News out of the North p. 14. and in Several Papers given forth by the Quakers p. 45. and 46. is Death so these Serpents feed upon Dust which feed upon all these carnal things and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Cursed Serpent is in the Letter R. Huberthorn's Words Truth 's Defence p. 102. Concerning the Trinity THE Three Persons which thou dreams of which thou would divide out of one like G. Whitehead c. in Ishmael and his Mother cast out In Answer to Mr. Townsend p. 10. 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 Since the Father is God the Son is God W. Penn his Sandy Foundation p. 12 13 and 15. and the Spirit is God which their Opinon necessitates them to confess then unless the Father Son and Spirit are Three distinct nothings they must be Three distinct Substances and consequently Three distinct Gods That frequent but impertinent distinction that God is One Substance but Three in Persons or Subsistances 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 may'st 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. F. Great Mist p. 246. nor Three Persons but the Common-prayermass-book speaks of Three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope Concerning Christ and his Blood c. THat the outward Person that suffered was W. Penn Serious Apol. p. 146. C. A. Sword of the Lord Drawn p. 5. properly the Son of God we utterly deny Your imagined God beyond the Stars 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 thou sayest thou art saved by Christ without thee and so hast G. F. Great Mist p. 250. recorded they self a Reprobate The Light which every Man hath that cometh G. F. Great Mist p. 47. into the world is sufficient to Salvation without the help of any other Means or Discovery The Light within all Men is sufficient G. W. Antidote p. 28. for Salvation without any thing else And this Light in thee wherewith thou art Stephen Crisp 's Collection p. 160. Enlightened is the Life of Jesus John