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A90877	The Portraiture of Mr. George Keith the Quaker, in opposition to Mr. George Keith the parson. / Presented to the hearers of his late sermons. ; By a Protestant dissenter.	Protestant Dissenter.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing P3006; ESTC R181969	10,201	20

The cause I say is common to you with us viz. our Testimony against that which is now set up in the Land and both Ye and many of Vs also vowed to the most high God while we were among you we would never own such a thing and we have kept to our Vow and ye have shrunk therefrom How doth this hold now The whole Protestant Church in Europe hath much degenerated from the Primitive Christians and Protestants P. 45. both in Principles and Practices and is become quite another thing retaining the Name like an old rotten Ship that hath been so often Clamped and Clouted that all the former Timbers are worn ☞ out and others put in their place yet keeping the Name and somewhat of the Form and Shape and ye have sailed long up and down in this old rotten Ship which is just upon the Splitting and suffering Shipwrack For that ye kept not chaste to his Light in your Consciences P. 50. nor to the leadings of his Spirit this was it which discover'd to you the Popish and Prelatical Abominations Oh ye did run well who did hinder you But ye are become so foolish who began in the Spirit to end in the Flesh and now when ye had got upon the Walls and Bulwarks of your Enemies Building and levelled it to the Ground when ye had rooted out Prelacy and the many Corruptions and Superstitions accompanying the same and digged down a good part of Babylon's up-setting then ye betook your selves to Build Ye were angry at their Revenues being so great P. 53. and yet ye stept in also to many of them and into their Pride Covetousness Lightness Vanity Ambition Carelesness concerning the Work of Jesus Christ and the Salvation of poor People whereof ye took up the Charge and many other Iniquities they were found in for which the Lord was provoked against them ye have taken as it were a Succession of and ye thought the Lord would have winked at you He closeth thus The word of Commandment from the Lord which filled me with heavenly Joy and Comfort came unto me the 30th Day of the 10th Month called December saying P. 54. Shew unto the People of Scotland my true and righteous Judgment concerning the Particulars above-mentioned 2. Of the Ordinances Put not the name of the Ordinances of Jesus Christ upon Babylon's Brats P. 73. which whoso taketh and dasheth them to pieces against the Stones Blessed shall they be 3. His Character of Episcopacy Ye the Presbyterians of Scotland did well in departing from such Men P. 47 48. who gave themselves forth to be the Lord's Ministers and Servants but they ran and he sent them not and their Covetousness and Ambition and seeking how to please Men for their own Ends and not his Honour not any true Zeal for him set them on such a work to Lord it over the People which he had forbidden and it is Abomination to him together with the many things accompanying them which they gave forth for his Ordinances good Order Decency and Comeliness in the Church but were the meer Inventions of Men and Babylon's Golden Cup of Fornications Because of the Iniquity of such Men their Pride Pomp ibid. Covetousness Tyranny and Ambition his Wrath kindled against them and he poured Contempt and Desolation upon them for the cry of their Wickedness 4. His Character of the Quakers And now whether ye will hear or forbear P. 78 79. this I do declare unto you in the Name and Power and Authority of the living God The day of the Lord is of a truth broke up amongst ☜ us and ye shall look till your Eyes fail you and rot within your holes ere ever ye see another Day or Appearance of Jesus Christ to your Comfort than what we the People of the Lord called Quakers do witness come and yet more abundantly coming 5. Of Vniversities and Humane Learning Away with the Education of Youth at Universities and Colledges of Philosophy P 75 76 so called I may say of them which Luther stuck not to call them in his day that they are the Stews of Anti-christ for out of them comes this ignorant profane scandalous Ministry wherein they learn to talk of things they Understand not and to prate in Man's Wisdom which is Carnal Earthly and Devilish I certainly know the Humane Wisdom or Learning is one of the main Bulwarks of Antichrist against the Revelation and setting up the Kingdom of Christ in the Earth ibid. and because this is arising and shall rise down must the other go and all who seek to uphold it shall fall therewith II. Out of G. K 's Book entituled The Woman-Preacher of Samaria a better Preacher and more sufficiently qualified to Preach than any of the Men-Preachers of the Man-made-Ministry in these three Nations Printed Anno 1674. 6. Of the National Ministry I my self have had sundry Debates with both Conformists and Non-conformists P. 3 4. so called touching this same thing both affirming that true Faith and Piety was not needful to a Man's being a Preacher but that Letter-Learning was needful so that he could not be a Preacher without Letters but he could be a Preacher without Faith and Piety O abominable Doctrine And this same rule both follow in their trying Mens Qualifications unto the Ministry they try what knowledge they have in Strange Languages and Arts and Sciences Natural and what they can say upon places of Scripture but never one Word they question them concerning the Work of God in their Hearts or concerning their Faith and Piety But ☜ alas How can they try them concerning the work of Grace in their Hearts seeing they acknowledge they have not a discerning themselves whereby to know them surely and infallibly Yea they affirm There is no such discerning in these days as whereby Men can be known to be truly Gracious And doth not sad Experience shew it that the Generality of those Preachers have not true Faith and Piety their Lives and Conversations are so Gross and Carnal Yea do not many of themselves see it and have they not complained of it And yet doth not this Principle of theirs That wicked Men may be Preachers and ought to be received lay a Foundation for a wicked Ministry And this Foundation being laid with their own Hands will not wicked Men come in Thick and Throng ☜ And will not these wicked Men love to have all like themselves If they can have a wicked Man will not the wicked prefer him to another that but seems to be a Godly and may or may not be And thus in process of time the whole Ministry will consist of ungodly Men the wicked being still preferred by the wicked and carrying it by most Votes as among them called Presbyterians or by the Authority of the Bishop as among the Episcopal Oh! for shame never say that you are for a godly Ministry while you both lay such a Foundation for

call that reading Prayer is not nay part of Gospel-Worship or true and real Prayer but rather one of the many Inventions and Traditions of Men since the Apostacy If it had been the Will of God that such a way of Worship should have been used in the true Church as a common Liturgy or set Form of Prayers it would have been used in the Apostles days But neither the Apostles nor their immediate Successors either made or used any such set Forms of read Prayers Nothing of ☞ this kind was known in the Church either in Justin Martyr or Tertullian his time who lived above 200 Years after Christ So that it is as clear as the noon-day that when these divine Gists of Praying and Singing by the Spirit were lost P. 54 45. and the holy Spirit himself was in great measure departed from the Invention of reading set Forms of Prayer took place The first Instance that I find of Peoples being put to use a composed or set Form of Prayer made by another was that Form of Prayer which Constantine the Great composed and gave his Soldiers not to read but get by Heart He at this time was but a young Christian and the Purity of spiritual Worship began to decline a-pace even in his days But neither in Constantine's time nor a considerable space thereafter do I find that any made or composed Prayers before-hand were used in the Church ☜ This way of Praying to wit in words by the Spirit P. 56. as he is pleased to give assistance doth alone and only answer to the Liberty of the Spirit which is free even the holy Spirit of Truth and neither will nor can be limited and who seek to limit him he departs from them in so far and remaineth still in his own freedom altho' such who seek to limit the Spirit by using set Forms may and do quench the Spirit as unto themselves The words of these set Forms Whence came they P. 59. Had the Spirit no influence upon the understanding of those Men who conceived them to help and assist them in those Conceptions If they say Nay they will render the set forms of Prayer of small value with the People in that respect But if they say The Spirit did help them to form these Conceptions it may as well be in Men now to conceive other words of Prayer Praying by a set Form not only tends to limit and stint the Spirit and quench it in regard of its Operations P. 60. but also it tendeth to make the Understanding c. altogether barren and unfruitful in respect of Prayer which yet ought to exercise the Understanding as much as any other thing as Paul said I will Pray with the Spirit I will Pray with Understanding also For if the Understanding be limited to a set Form of Words then there is no room nor place nor liberty left for it to bring forth Prayer in any other Forms the which seemeth verily as absurd to me Indeed a word spoken in season P. 71 72. whether it be in Preaching or Praying how sweet and comfortable it is Now these set Forms of Prayer being to be used according to the Calendar such Prayers on such a day and others on other days as the Calendar or order of the Service requireth Can these Forms be always or for most part seasonable to Peoples States and Conditions unless it could be supposed that the inward States and Conditions of Mens Souls and Spirits should regularly vary according to the seasons and days of the Year which were most absurd to ☜ think or imagine Or how do these set Forms of Prayer which tell us daily what to pray for agree with Paul's words Rom. 8.26 The Spirit also helpeth our Infirmities for we know not what we should Pray for as we ought From their using set Forms of Prayer and Blessing under the Law P. 77. to argue for the use of them under the Gospel will not hold good for not only Sacrifices and Offerings of Beasts but many other things were both commanded and allowed under the Law which are not under the Gospel But we do not find that even under the Law or at any time before P. 79. the Lord did limit or confine his People or Servants to such a precise number of set Forms of Prayer But on the contrary we find that many prayed ex tempore by the Inspiration of the Spirit what the Lord did give them or put into their Mouths of words both in private and publick as Solomon's Prayer at the Dedication of the Temple also Esdras's Prayer chap. 9. and the Levites Prayer Neh. 9. and Daniel's Prayer Dan. 9. c. To an Objection That Christ taught his Disciples to Pray in a set Form of words P. 81 82. he answers Though they were endued at that time with a measure of the Spirit yet it was but small in respect of what was to follow And we must remember that as yet the Dispensation of the Law remained in force 2. Christ did not limit them only to this Form of Prayer nor did he give them a Book of Forms of Prayer P. 83. or any other Forms that we read of but this only which therefore was rather to be a Pattern and Example unto them according to which they were to Pray than to tye or confine them to the precise number of the words of it All true Prayer is a living thing P. 89. and must have a living Form of its own and cannot borrow the Form of another even as a Rose or Tulip or Lilly or any other Flower or Vegetable or Fruit of the Earth as it springs up out of the Ground must have its own proper living Form and Figure Either these set Forms of Prayer are few or many if few they cannot give a large understanding to the People P. 115 See his Sermon Preached at St. George's Buttolph's before noted if many they cannot well be remembred by them And if they were as many as would fill many Volumes they cannot give so great occasion to edifie and inform the Understanding as these Prayers which proceed ex tempore by the Inspiration of the holy Spirit in holy Men which must needs be many more and containing much more matter than the greatest Book of ever so many set Forms of Prayer can What is here said P. 127. all along in this Treatise of Praying by the Spirit helping to conceive the words of Prayer is also to be understood of Singing and Praising God with a Psalm and the Reasons and Arguments drawn from Scripture for the one serve equally for the other for all Singing and Praising with a Psalm or Psalms in Gospel-times was a spiritual Gift as is clear in the Church of Corinth when some had a Psalm to utter or express in words as some had a Doctrine and some a Revelation some an Interpretation 1 Cor. 14.26 10. His Deism My Charity is so large and free in that respect P. 103. that I believe among all People Jews and Turks as well as Christians and many of those called Heathens if they do believe in one onely God and are Faithful to what they know they are at times visited with gentle Breathings of the Spirit of God which helps them truly to Pray unto him with Desires and Affections and true Breathings ☜ of the Soul after him Having thus gone through Ten Heads of his Belief formerly and scarce wedged in an Animadversion I leave my Reader to compare it with what must be his Sentiments now if he really believe as that Church doth of which he is admitted a Member and with his weekly Sermons I only add his fruere mecum vale FINIS