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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

that Outward Blood so outwardly shed as the Payment of our Debt and Satisfaction for our Sins is this the true saving Faith Was not his outward Blood that Blood without sheding of which there cou'd be no Remission Heb. 9.22 But if your Mystical and Allegorical Notion of Inward and Spiritual Blood that is Only Light and Spirit within may be constru'd to be that Blood and that it is shed inwardly at this Day when as you say in the above Queries that he has no outward Blood then it might have been shed before Christ came in the Flesh or if he had never come And so renders his coming unnecessary and our Faith in him as come in the Flesh to be altogether vain These Questions may be propos'd to the Assembly and their Answer demanded W. Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London May 15. 1695. Return your Answer to Dr. Lancaster at Mr. Wiseman ' s House a Chirurgeon in Long-Acre London 3. Day 4. Month call'd June 1695. Friend William Lancaster HAving received a Paper of great Objections against Us the People call'd Quakers with Seven Queries therein subscrib'd William Lancaster directed to our Yearly Meeting in Whitsun-Week 1695. and deliver'd to some of Us very near the Conclusion thereof and therefore only read in the said Meeting which not having any further Time to consider the Contents thereof or to give any particular Answer thereunto it was by the said Meeting left to a few to consider and answer as in the Fear of God and Meekness of Wisdom we should see Cause Wherein we observe is noted Great Objections have been made against Vs by those who have departed from our Communion as by others To which we reply That 's True and they have been answer'd to which we referr And we observe in the said Paper it 's said We would not take an Account of you only from your Adversaries c. and We have chosen this Solemn Time and again And We have chosen this most proper and convenient Opportunity c. And then states the several Queries and says These Questions may be propos'd and their Answer demanded Now the Objections having been publick and our Answers publick we desire to know who the Wee are that are intended in this Paper that we may apply our selves to them or give such Scriptural Answers as we hope may tend to Satisfaction But to repeat Answers in Writing or Print to we know not who so often as demanded to the same things already answer'd we think it not needful Therefore have herewith only sent thee a few brief Lines being grosly wrong'd and mis-represented in the said Objections And divers of the Queries contain several Questions in them in different Terms and some Unscriptural so not plain and direct Queries therefore cannot positively be answer'd by our single Yea or Nay to each Query as desir'd We therefore at present send this general Answer to the Queries for thy Information as followeth viz. We sincerely believe and profess Jesus Christ and the Resurrection according to the Holy Scripture-Testimony and to that measure of Understanding which God hath been pleased to give us by his Holy Spirit We sincerely believe in Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of the Living God both as He is True God and Perfect Man our Emanuel and Mediatour and as in the Fulness of Time he was Conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judaea Suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was Crucify'd and put to Death was Buried Rose again the third day and visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucify'd shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory to judge both the Living and the Dead according to their Works at the last and great Day of Judgment in that great Harvest which is the End of the World And that by Jesus Christ there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead both of the Just and Unjust unto the Righteous Judgment of the great Day consequently That the Resurrection is not past as Hymeneus and Philetus said 2 Tim. 2.18 And that the Dead shall be rais'd Incorruptible every Man in his own Order and that our low Body shall be chang'd and made like unto Christ's glorious Body The Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints we believe shall be Spiritual and Glorious and that the Sons of God and of the Resurrection shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven and shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father and yet there is such a great Mystery in the Resurrection as that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption 1 Cor. 15. The whole Sacrifice of Christ whereof his Blood outwardly that was shed was a Part was of great Price with God for Man's Redemption Christ's Blood that was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem together with the whole Sacrifice of Himself both of Soul and Body was a true Propitiation and Atonement for Man's Reconciliation and Peace with God for Remission of Sins through a living Faith and true Repentance in his Name given and wronght by his Spirit and Word of Power in Mens Hearts whose sincere Obedience to Christ and walking in his Light being required of them in order to experience Christ the Author of their Eternal Salvation and to wash them from their Sins in his own Blood for without this true Faith Repentance and Obedience to Christ Jesus Men lose and forfeit the great Benefit of Christ's Sufferings and deprive themselves of that Eternal Redemption and Salvation which he hath thereby obtained for Us tho' he dy'd for all Men tasted Death for every Man and gave himself a Ransom for all to be testify'd of in due Time being a true Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World From thy Friends and Well-Wishers John Gratton Samuel Wattson Thomas Lower James Parke John Bowater Geo. Whitehead John Vaughton A True Copy THE SEVEN QUERIES Delivered to the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers met at Grace-Church-Street Meeting-House the 15th Day of the third Month 1695. Signed by William Lancaster with these Words prefix'd to his Signing These Queries may be proposed to the Assembly and their Answer demanded by William Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London Answered plainly and directly out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead and William Pen. Query I. DO you believe in Christ without you now in Heaven Answer To this G. Whitehead's Words in his Answer to William Burnet in his Book called The Light and Life of Christ within c. Printed at London in the Year 1668. may be a proper Reply to signifie his Perswasion touching this weighty Question I shall first recite the Words of William Burnet as I find them quoted by Geo. Whitehead in the 38 th page of his Book The Light and Life of Christ within Baptist Now the

Gross Error and Hypocrisie DETECTED IN GEORGE WHITEHEAD AND Some of his BRETHREN 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 Penn and John Whitehead Leading Men in the said Meeting wherein the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answers 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 LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1695. TO THE FRIENDLY READER THE Method I propose in this following Treatise is First To set down the said Queries mentioned in the Title-Page Next The Answers given by George Whitehead and some of his Brethren and Sign'd 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 farther 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 Acknowledgment of the vile and gross Errors boldly asserted by them in their Printed Books I should have been so far from charging of them with Hypocrisie 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 referr to the Answer given by them in Publick to the Objections made against them in Publick Now it is plain that by their Answer made in Publick they mean their Answer and Doctrine Sayings and Sentiments contain'd 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 Tho' I thank God those Vile Errors asserted by him in divers of his Printed Books and particularly in that most Antichristian Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within c. in Answer to William Burnet and which he calls the Quaker's Principles were never my Principles and in Charity I am apt to believe nor the Principles of divers others that have with me gone under that Designation But it is easie to apprehend the Reasons why on supposition that George Whitehead and some other leading Men among them have chang'd their Sentiments of latter times to what they formerly Printed yet they are not so sincere as to own it and to retract in Publick their Errors expos'd 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 all doubt have taken things too much on Trust from them and suffer'd themselves to be too much influenc'd and led by them into the same Errors as I have found by sad Experience how too many of them are guilty of the same Errors with their Leaders And George Whitehead and some others so highly pretending to the infallible Teachings and Leadings of the Spirit both in what they have Preached and Printed they loving the Praise of Men and seeking the Honour from below Pharisee-like and not regarding the Honour of God nor the Danger of Souls by those hurtful Errors wherewith they have poisoned Thousands If they should Retract or Correct what they have formerly Printed and is on publick Record wou'd seem so greatly to reflect on them and their high Pretences that they will rather seek to uphold their Honour and Repute among their Followers than Honour God or rescue Souls out of the Snare they have brought them into by a free Acknowledgment and Retraction But until they so do they can never have any true Character among sincere intelligent Persons who are acquainted with their Books but that they are great Hypocrites And however in some things of weight it is possible that George Whitehead and some others have chang'd 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 Which that they may be recover'd from and brought to a true Sense and sincere Acknowledgment of is my real and sincere Desire And though some of them and particularly George Whitehead notwithstanding his pretended Smoothness at times have utter'd not only most bitter and injurious Speeches aginst me but false and lying Prophecies with a thus faith the Lord yet I can truly say I never felt any thing either in my Mouth or Heart to rise against any of them to render them Evil for Evil Cursing for Cursing but Good for Evil Blessing for Cursing knowing that all sincere Christians are call'd not to Curse but to Bless tho' it hath been too familiar with them so to do to many others in this as in other things wresting and perverting and misapplying some places of the Holy Scripture which mentions the sharp Words and Woes that Christ and some of the Prophets and Apostles gave forth against such as deserv'd them As if because Christ and the Prophets and Apostles did so Prophesie from an infallible Knowledge that these Persons against whom they so declared were guilty and the Woes they pronounced were really Prophetical that therefore they may do the like But as the Gifts and Miracles and Tongues are not George Whiteheads attainments so nor has he any just Ground to profess such an extraordinary Spirit of Discerning and Prophesie nor any at present I know on Earth Although the infalliable Teachings and Inspirations of the Holy Spirit I own with all true sincere Christians to teach us all Truth and lead us into all Truth that concerns the Salvation of our Souls as the common and universal Privilege of all the Faithful but not that Men should lay claim to such extraordinary things which they can give no satisfactory Evidence of far less to pour out bitter Curses and Woes and Prophesies against them who have deserv'd no such things But notwithstanding his bitter Words and false Prophesies against me I have great Comfort that I feel the Blessing of God upon me and the Witness of his good Spirit in my Heart sealing to the Favour of God towards me and his favourable accepting my Service and publick Opposition to

Christ's Personal Coming yet to be as because Paul said we that are alive and remain c. as if therefore Paul did not mean any Outward or Personal Coming of Christ in that place George Whitehead asking If they did live and remain to a Personal Coming of Christ in the Clouds yea or nay or can it be reasonably thought to be a Coming that is not yet that they lived and remained unto For if George Whitehead had not been greatly blinded and darken'd with Prejudice against this great Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith viz. The Coming of our Lord in his glorify'd Person and Body he might have easily perceived how the Apostle Paul used the Word Wee for They by a common Enallage Personae that is used both in Scripture elsewhere and in other Writers commonly as when James saith herewith speaking of the Tongue curse we men and yet James himself was no Curser Like to this place in 1 Thes 4.17 is that 1 Cor. 15.51 Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed which place however some pervert and misapply as if the Change of the living Saints at Christ's outward appearance at the end of the World were not there meant but some inward Change that the Saints had witnessed before Death is certainly to be understood of the Change of the Saints Bodies who then should be found alive at Christ's outward Coming as generally all found Christians have understood these places of Scripture and as I desire to praise God I have always so understood them And it is too great Evidence of George Whitehead's not being taught and guided by the Spirit of Truth in his opposing such sound Christian Doctrine and plain Testimonies of the Holy Scripture which every Babe in Christ doth better understand than this high Pretender to high Divine Illuminations George Whitehead by his thus opposing found Christian Principles belonging to the Fundamentals of Christian Religion hath laid great Stumbling-Blocks in the way of many that read his Books who conclude it cannot be that George Whitehead is so taught and led by the Spirit of Truth as he pretends seeing he contradicts such manifest Truths so plainly laid down in Scripture And George Whitehead would do well to consider his own Words pag. 36. of that oft-cited Book The Light and Life c. where he saith The Spirit brings to the fulfilling of the Scriptures and doth not destroy the Truth contain'd in them Therefore I say the Spirit that set him on Work to destroy the Truth of Christ's outward Coming to Judgment at the great Day and other great Truths declar'd in the Scriptures is not the true Spirit that gave it forth And here again I cannot but a little take notice how though very severely George Whitehead blamed I. N. for affirming That those that pierced Christ in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly again alledging that these are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that And yet George Whitehead in his late Answer to these Queries useth the Word Visibly with respect to Christ's Ascension saying Article 2 d. of that Paper That be to wit Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory Now I am sure there is the same ground in Scripture for his visible Appearance and Coming again as there is for his visible Ascending But it is worthy of Observation that though George Whitehead professes in his late Answer to these Queries his belief that Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven yet he no where in all the Paper nor any where else that I find doth openly and plainly declare his Faith that Christ shall visibly or outwardly appear at the Day of Judgment so as to be seen as an Object without Men. And though his Words in this his late Answer would seem to imply that he did so now believe for he saith and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucified shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory c. Were George Whetehead ingenuous and not too much given to Equivocation in his way of Writing this might pass currant they being sound Scripture Words and according to Scripture But when we shall consider how when both John Newman and William Burnet did formerly bring these Words for a Proof of Christ's Outward and Personal Coming yet to be how George Whitehead turn'd off this very place of Scripture from Christ's Personal and Outward Coming ● Glory and wholly apply'd it to his inward Coming Allegorizing the Clouds to Clouds of Ignorance and Sin in Mens Hearts And that I do not find that George Whitehead hath made any publick Retractation of his said Perversion of this and other places of Scripture we have but too great ground not to judge this his Confession in his late Answer to be sincere For if he meant not in this his late Answer Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he but deceives his Reader and especially him or them who sent these Queries And if he means really Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he contradicts his former Prints wherein he hath so manifestly oppos'd it and yet he is so extremely confident of his former Books that he referrs to them and others for an Answer to these Queries as if all were sound wholsome Doctrine contain'd in them and as if he were not changed from his former Sentiments in the least Tittle or Punctilio But let us hear his own Words in Answer to John Newman in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds page 22. ad finem But saith George Whitehead the same Jesus as he was seen Ascend when a Cloud came and received him out of their sight who stood gazing Acts 1.9 10 11. it is said shall so come in like manner c. which tho' every like manner is not the same nor all the Clouds the same yet the same Jesus certainly cometh in like manner his Coming being in the Clouds And to let us know in what Clouds he meaneth Christ is Ascended above and in what Clouds he will appear above he giveth this Title in his Book in Answer to John Newman Christ ascended above the Clouds i. e. in his Divinity c. vindicated from the Cloudy Erroneous and Blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren And all this wresting of the plain Scripture Words Acts 1.9 10 11. which John Newman brought to prove his Personal Coming and Appearance without Men George Whitehead makes to destroy if he could the Faith of that great Truth of Christian Doctrine viz. Christ's Outward Coming in his Glorify'd Nature and Person of Man to judge the whole World Therefore since George Whitehead hath told in Print in Answer to John Newman's bringing that palce of Scripture Acts. 1.9 10 11. This same Jesus c. shall so come in like manner That every

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

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