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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54015	A modest detection of George Keith's (miscalled) Just vindication of his earnest expostulation published by him as a pretended answer to a late book of mine, entituled, Some brief observations, &c. By E.P.	Penington, Edward, 1667-1701.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1144; ESTC R220367	34,038	60

the Paper by him called The nameless Bull being my warrant for so doing which are That the said George Keith is gone from the blessed Unity of the peaceable Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ and hath thereby separated himself from the Holy Fellowship of the Church of Christ Whereby it appears that 't was his Turbulency in the Opposition he made whereby he manifested himself gone from Unity with and separated from the Fellowship of the Church and gone from the peaceable Spirit of Christ so not a bare faithful opposing of what he deemed Errours that drew that Judgment down upon him For if he had in Calmness and Coolness objected what he esteemed Erroneous and managed his Cause in a peaceable Temper of Mind until he were either Convinced of his Errour in so thinking of them or by strength of Argument offered in the Spirit of Meekness he had Convinced them that they really were in Errour I presume that Meeting would not have given forth that Paper against him He proceeds to a 2. But where is the far different Case Why they shouid suppress my Books and the Civil Authority should not suppress theirs Answ I then told him where but since he takes no Notice of it shall tell him again part of what I then offered 1. We had Right and Title to such an Authority over him and his Books at that Time as a Community or Society amongst whom he then pretended Membership and yet contrary to the Method now long since practised amongst us and which himself while himself had practised as well as others Published the said Books without the Approbation of those with whom we had Fellowship with an apparent Design to leaven a Faction for himself 2. His were bought and paid for and so became the real Property of the Purchasers ours he proposes should be suppressed by the Civil Authority without mentioning so much as one word in the least of being paid for by the Seizers which is an Invasion of Property and if therein he sees no difference the reason must be because he won't for the case is plain enough Again Why My Books would have been a Bone of Contention to infect some with the same Spirit of discord Answ That they have so been notwithstanding the Precaution used by purchasing all that could be got by their being Reprinted here by our old Adversaries and by their gratifying those two Apostates F. Bugg and T. Crisp setting them to Scribling anew and giving new Life to their old Contentious Work is so evident that a Man may as well deny the Sun 's Shining at Noon-day as deny that He queries But must not the Truth be contended for Are we not commanded to contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints And such was the contentions of my Books and of my Spirit Answ This is but a begging the Question a taking for granted the thing in Debate we say as well as he that our Books contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints therefore his contention against us groundless Who must determine this The impartial Christian Reader I think therefore to him I leave it He thinks it seems he hath the advantage we the disadvantage for my part I can see no ground for such a Supposition but am contented he should hug himself with the Fancy if he will not be undeceived but let him have a care lest while he compasses himself about with the Sparks of his own kindling in the end he do not lie down in Sorrow The rest of his Reflections on this Head he spends in flinging contumelious Reproaches on our Books which being nothing but Recrimination without Demonstation and in substance answered already as a weak blast of empty Air I pass over He concludes with a Passage he takes a long stride back to pick out of my Sixth Head I therein only gave him a gentle touch about the Revolutions but rubbing on a Sore place he cannot bear it I had perhaps slipt it over now had he not committed a blunder unbecoming a Man of his Reading I told him Brief Observations p. 16. It would almost tempt a Man to conclude if the Doctrine of Revolutions were as probable an Hypothesis as G. Keith hath represented it to be that the Soul of Erostratus were come again in this Incendiary Having relation in that comparison to the Man who set on Fire the Temple of Diana at Ephesus which was so rare a piece of Workmanship as to be reputed one of the wonders of the World with intent to perpetuate his name to Posterity by a Wicked Deed since he could not by Virtuous Actions whose Name was Erostratus To this he says Were I inclined to retort his idle story of Erasistratus against me c. Now upon Examination I find that this Erasistratus was a famous Physician of Aristotle's Family which how he came to overlook I know not but believe if I had been guilty of such a Trip he would have paid me off with the Epithets of Bold Novice Ideot Junior Sophister c. But now let us see what it is he could retort upon us says he I might say these my late Adversaries who place all upon the inward Principle excluding the Man Christ Jesus from being our Saviour are the old Stoicks Epicureans Pelagian Brittains redivive and other Ethnick Philosophers who bitterly opposed the Christian Faith Answ I know no Quakers guilty of this Charge therefore the Foundation of his Retortion is a Bare-fac'd Calumny for we place not all upon the inward Principle but what God hath joyned together we dare not put asunder neither do we exclude the Man Christ Jesus from being our Saviour but say that the Man Christ Jesus and the Light within which proceeds from Him in whom the Fulnessd wells are one and not divided and He as outwardly offered up and Ascended into Heaven where He sits at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High and as inwardly revealed in the Hearts of his true Believers is one compleat Saviour And wherein G. Keith represents us to believe otherwise he very well knows he greatly Slanders us having himself often declared the contrary Whereof I have given many instances but shall now add another out of the often already quoted Book viz. Help in time of Need p. 78 79. And now whether ye will hear or forbear 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 broken forth among us and ye shall look till your Eyes fail you and Rot within your Eye holes e're ever ye see another day or appearance of Jesus Christ to your comfort then what we the People of the Lord called Quakers do witness Come and yet more abundantly Coming and if ye will not hear my Soul shall Mourn for you in secret places and Weep before the Lord on your behalf Well here 's a large Testimony on the Quakers behalf therefore either he falsely