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A47167	A refutation of three opposers of truth by plain evidence of the holy Scripture, viz. I. Of Pardon Tillinghast, who pleadeth for water-baptism, its being a Gospel-precept, and opposeth Christ within, as a false Christ. To which is added, something concerning the Supper, &c. II. Of B. Keech, in his book called, A tutor for children, where he disputeth against the sufficiency of the light within, in order of salvation; and calleth Christ in the heart, a false Christ in the secret chamber. II. Of Cotton Mather, who in his appendix to his book, called, Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts, &c. doth so weakly defend his father Increase Mather from being justly chargeable with abusing the honest people called Quakers, that he doth the more lay open his fathers nakedness; and beside the abuses and injuries that his father had cast upon that people, C. Mather, the son, addeth new abuses of his own. And a few words of a letter to John Cotton, called a minister, at Plymouth in New England. By George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1690 (1690)	Wing K199; ESTC W21703	49,228	77

pretext or colour to use such a Comparison but what Resemblance Stone and Timber hath to Water Baptism I do not understand And if Water-Baptism be the Foundation of the Church then the Church hath had no Foundation for many Ages past for Infant Baptism by sprinkling ye Baptists do not acknowledge to be any true Baptism at all but a meer fiction or invention and yet for many Ages there hath been no other Water-Baptism used but that of sprinkling Infants for that party or society of People called Baptists or Anabaptists did but appear about Luther's time or since and therefore if Water Baptism be the Foundation of Gods Church the Church hath had no Foundation for many Ages and therefore hath quite ceased to be for she cannot be or subsist without a Foundation And as concerning the Allegorical and Spiritual signifycation of Solomon's Temple it is very well understood without your Water Baptism for Solomon's Temple as it was a figure of Christs Body which was crucified and rose again and ascended into Glory so also it was a figure of the Gospel Church under the pure Gospel Dispensation the Foundation whereof is Christ Jesus as he came in the likeness of sinful flesh and took upon himself the form of a Servant and humbled himself unto Death even the Death of the Cross made of a Woman made under the Law the Seed of Abraham and David I say Christ thus come in the flesh and crucified for our sins as the Mystery of him is inwardly revealed by the holy Spirit in the hearts of all true believers in respect of his thus humbling himself and taking hold of the seed of Abraham may well be compared to the Stone Wood of Solomons Temple which were but mean and not very costly Materials but the fullness of the Godhead that dwelt in Christ Bodily and his being anointed with the holy Spirit without measure being the only begotton Son of God full of Grace and Truth of whose fullness all true believers do plentifully receive and Grace for Grace and the many most rich and excellent divine Virtues wherewith both Christ and his Church are most richly endued and adorned are well signified by that great plenty of Gold and Silver and other precious Furniture wherewith the Temple of Solomon was beautified But it is much thou didst not make the Sea in Solomon's Temple to signifie Water-Baptism possibly some of thy Brethren may judge this a great omission or neglect in thee but hadst thou brought it it could have made nothing for thy Water Baptism for that Sea in Solomon's Temple was not a figure of outward Water which it self was but a figure but of these spiritual Waters of the Sanctuary mentioned by the Prophet Ezekiel chap. 47.1 7 8 9. and by Iohn c. 4. v. 6. and Rev. 22.1 But this most idle and ignorant gloss and comparison of thine is like to that other passage in thy book where thou sayst Repenting Believers baptized with Water being a sign and token from God to them of the remission of sins are the only true Heirs of the Promise of the holy ghost c. Which assertion thou dost falsly ground on Peter's words to the Iews Repent and be baptized every one of you mind it sayst thou every one that expects Salvation in the Name of Iesus Christ for the Remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost But whether Water Baptism is to be here understood or not thy arguing that it must be Water Baptism is most weak and idle as if to render it only Spirit is to charge the Spirit of God in Peter with gross Impertinencies and Tautologies as if he should say Repent and be baptized with the holy Spirit and you shall receive the holy Spirit To this I Answer This is no Impertinency nor Tautology in the least but very proper as it is very proper to say White Cloth being dip't into the Dyers Fat that hath a red dye receiveth the said red dye even so the Soul being dipt into that spiritual Water of Gods holy Spirit receiveth it as the Cloth receiveth the dye But this to thee is a Mystery and Parable and therefore it is not strange thou talkest such gross impertinencies And it is plain by these words of thine thou makest Water Baptism equally necessary to Salvation with Faith and Repentance and therefore all are eternally and finally Lost who have not been baptized or plunged into Water O Monster of uncharitableness This most Uncharitable Doctrine damneth all to the Pit of Hell for many Ages that never received Water Baptism this is like one of thy Brethren who printed a book with this Title Dip or Damn It is no wonder to find you Baptists generally so bitter and peevish for this your Uncharitable Doctrine of Condemning all to Hell who are not baptized into Water begetteth this evil nature in you even as the narrow Doctrine of the Presbyterians as touching the Grace of God maketh them of the like evil nature for evil Principles and Perswasions have a great influence upon mens Hearts and Lives And now I find thee in this thy work against us joyn'd with the Priests of New-England and particularly these of Boston tho' formerly some of thy Brethren suffered great persecution by the Priests of New-England where it seems thou hast got thy book printed and so like Herod and Pontius Pilate joyning together against Christ as he came in the flesh so ye joyn together against him as he is come and coming more abundantly in Spirit but this Stone which ye builders of Babylon have refused will God exalt and is exalting to be the head of the Corner Thou art as idle and impertinent to alledge That by Water and Blood mentioned 1 Iohn 5.6 This is he that came by Water and Blood is to be meant Water Baptism and that call'd the Supper in giving and receiving Bread Wine But this being thy bare alledgance without any shadow of proof it is altogether denyed and the Virtue of both the Water and Blood together with the Spirit are inwardly and spiritually felt which three agree in one and are inseperable but so are not your Water Baptism and Bread and Wine which ye your selves confess are oft seperated from the Spirit as the many vain persons among you and the many dry and barren Souls of your society too palpably demonstrate for who more gawdy and vain in their Attire and Cloathing both men and women than many call'd Baptists as I have seen and observed in part to my great grief Who greater Enemies to the Spirits inward Revelation and to Christ's inward presence and Appearance in Believers than thou and the Baptists generally perhaps some few excepted And therefore the Spirit and your Water Baptism and breaking of Bread agree not in one and are not in unity And whereas thou chargest it on me and my Friends the People called in scorn Quakers as if we did presume or boast of our

A REFUTATION OF Three Opposers of Truth By plain Evidence of the holy Scripture VIZ. I. Of Pardon Tillinghast who pleadeth for Water-Baptism its being a Gospel-Precept and opposeth Christ within as a false Christ. To which is added something concerning the Supper c. II. Of B. Keech in his Book called A Tutor for Children where he disputeth against the Sufficiency of the Light within in order to Salvation and calleth Christ in the heart A false Christ in the secret Chamber III. Of Cotton Mather who in his Appendix to his Book called Memorable Providences relating to Witchcrafts c. doth so weakly defend his Father Increase Mather from being justly chargeable with abusing the honest People called Quakers that he doth the more lay open his Fathers Nakedness and beside the Abuses and Injuries that his Father had cast upon that People C. Mather the Son addeth new Abuses of his own And a few Words of a Letter to Iohn Cotton called a Minister at Plymouth in New-England By GEORGE KEITH Zephaniah 3.4 Her Prophets are Light and Treacherous Persons her Priests have polluted the Sanctuary they have done Violence to the Law Philadelphia Printed and Sold by William Bradford Anno 1690. Water-Baptism No Gospel-Precept c. Pardon Tillinghast AFter I had read thy small Treatise in print wherein thou undertakest to prove Water-Baptism to be a Gospel Precept by plain Scripture I was sorry on thy account to find thee with such confidence to publish thy Ignorance and Folly as well as thy great bitterness of Spirit and Prejudice against the Truth and the Witnesses of it so openly in the face of the World But when I call to mind how that God in his infinite Wisdom permits men to rise up to oppose the Truth that the Truth it self may be the more clearly discovered by the breakings forth of Gods Light still more and more the more that the Truth is opposed I am truly comforted and encouraged And for thy Reviling and Reproachful words against me I regard them not further than to pity thee and heartily to desire that God may open thy Eyes and give thee true Repentance Forgiveness for I have that Charity that what thou dost in this thy work of opposition it is through thy ignorance and therefore upon thy Repentance is pardonable But as for me and my Brethren it is a small thing for us to be reproached and falsly accused by thee seeing thou art so ignorantly bold and fool-hardy to reproach the Lord Iesus Christ in his inward appearance and Light in the hearts of men calling him a false Christ as if these who preach Christ in the hearts of Gods Saints were those of whom Christ foretold that should come in the latter days and preach a false Christ saying he is in the secret Chamber which thou understandest as if Christ had meant the secret Chamber of the heart following herein thy Brother in Iniquity Darkness Benjamin Keech who in his Book called The Childs Instructor hath these express words in that Section concerning the Light within Therefore believe not him that saith behold he is here in the secret Chamber viz. the heart The which expression thou seemest to have borrowed from the said Book But if thou hadst any true knowledg in the Mystery of Christ thou wouldst sooner have chosen that thy right hand that pen'd these words had been cut off than to have used them But by this and other the like expressions in thy Treatise thou plainly discovers thy self to be a man altogether ignorant of the true knowledge of Christ yea thou seemest ignorant of the very Letter of the Scripture which in plain and express words doth mention Christ dwelling in the heart and Christ within the hope of Glory the Mystery hid from Ages and Generations And said Paul to the Corinthians Know ye not that Iesus Christ is in you unless ye be Reprobates And said Christ in his Prayer unto his Father Thou in me and I in them And when he told the Pharisees who looked that the Kingdom of God should come with Observations as to say lo here or lo there he said for behold the Kingdom of God is within you Luke 17.21 and surely where the Kingdom of God is there are God and Christ● So that the plain letter of the Scripture is against thy most absurd and Anti-christian Doctrine That the Christ in the hearts of men yea even of the Saints as thou wouldst have it for thou makest no distinction is a false Christ for the plain tendency of this thy Work of Darkness is to make People believe that Christ is not a Light within the Saints because as thou alledgest the Light within was not crucified for us but Iesus Christ of Nazareth And in this absurd distinction and dividing of Christ thou acts the part of Socinus and his followers who are called Socinians that affirm most absurdly That Christ is only a meer man and that he had no being nor existance before Mary But if thou say thou believest that Christ is both God and Man and that he was from the beginning to wit that Word by whom all things were made then why dost thou deny that Christ as he is that Word is in the Saints for though Christ only suffered in the flesh and as Man upon the Tree of the Cross yet he who suffered was not meer Man but God and Man and yet still one Christ. And thus also Christ within spiritually and inwardly revealed in the Saints is not another Christ from him that came in the flesh and was crucified for us even Jesus of Nazareth And hadst thou taken a little pains to read my book and consider it impartially and fairly thou shouldst have seen what a plain and single account I give of mine and my Friends Faith concerning the Man Christ Iesus as he came in the flesh and dyed for our sins and rose again and ascended c. even Jesus of Nazareth and that true faith in Christ Jesus is not only a believing in him as he is the Word c. but as the same Word did take flesh and was God manifest in the flesh c. to wit Christ crucified and risen again made of a Woman made under the Law c. and that the true faith of a Christian doth not divide Christ c. as false Christians do who say they believe in Christ without them but do not believe and receive Christ within them as God the Father doth inwardly reveal him or as Ranters and other high Notionists who pretend to believe in Christ as the Word and Light in them but slight and blaspheme against Christ that was crucified without them as is plainly to be seen in my late book pag. 131 132 133 and pag. 103 104 108. and p. 229. and hereby it doth plainly appear how safely I guard against both extreams of false Teachers some preaching Christ without but denying him within as thou Pardon Tillinghast and most of thy

of evil Spirits may befall one of your Communion What then the Possession does not move any to be of that Communion we see the contrary But the stories recorded by thy Father thou sayst plainly enough demonstrate that Diabolical Possession was the thing which did dispose and incline men unto Quakerism Also thou sayst their Quakerism was the proper effect of their Possession and not an unconcerned consequence Answ. This is most wretchedly alledged but no wise proved for none of these Instances prove in the least that Diabolical Possession did dispose and incline any man to be really of our fellowship or Society tho' it may well enough be granted that the Devil may dispose and incline men to think or imagine themselves to be true Christians but it doth not therefore follow that he doth dispose or incline them to be really such And let Cotton Mather answer me this Question Whether he thinks it not possible that some Diabolical Possession may incline or dispose a man to pretend to be in outward Profession a Presbyterian or Independent This he cannot deny for there is no outward Profession of Godliness but the Devil may incline men unto while in the mean time he have the Government of them he careth not what they profess yea he may incline them to the highest Profession so as even to confess to Christ to his true Servants as is most clear in the case of those Devils that did Bodily possess some who did confess to Christ Mat. 8.29 and also to his true Servants Acts 16.17 These men are the Servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of Salvation Now what sayst thou Cotton Mather to this doth it not here plainly appear that the Devil in this possessed Damsel did acknowledge Paul and Silas to be the Servants of the living God and consequently that the Religion they professed was the true Religion Doth it therefore follow that Diabolical Possession in this Damsel did incline her to be of Pauls Religion Doth not both thy Fathers weakness and thine also manifestly appear in this Charge for if either thou or thy Father had lived at that time when the Devil gave that Testimony to Christ and to Paul and to Silas by your Argument the Christian Faith and Religion was not true Thou and thy Father also are very ignorant of the Devils devices if ye know not that he can transform himself as an Angel of Light and incline or dispose men to any outward form or profession whatsoever and also to confess to the Truth it self but not to live and walk in the Truth But however seeing by this instance of Rob. Churchman brought by thy Father thou grantest That thy Fathers design was to show that Diabolical Possession was the thing that did incline men unto Quakerism By this thou quite over turnest what thou saidst formerly That thy Father made a distinction betwixt Quakers Mad and Bodily possessed with the Devil and other Quakers for now thou plainly confessest That thy Father brought these Stories to prove that Diabolical Possession did dispose and incline men unto Quakerism And that our Religion called in scorn by thee Quakerism was the effect of Diabolical Possession without making any distinction It seems thou didst not mind that true saying A Lyar should have a good Memory Is this thy Vindication of thy Father as if he had made a distinction betwixt Mad Quakers and Others and presently again to say They are all one It is rather Ham-like to uncover thy Father Nakedness as I leave to every impartial Reader to judge And whereas I said in my Book That I. M. hath shewed his rashness and folly in some other passages of his Life if not Malice that hath occasioned him for some time past to abscond c. In answer to this thou art so far from covering thy Fathers Nakedness that thou layest it open in the face of the world telling a long story How thy Father did declare in a Letter to a certain Person that several shrowd things would make him suspect a Person he nameth the Author of a Letter that was a most villanous Forgery filled with Treason and Madness whereupon that Person sued him in an Action of Defamation Now doth not Increase Mather's Folly and Rashness plainly appear to charge a man with a Crime he could no wise sufficiently prove and fearing the event of the Tryal being sued in an Action of Defamation did abscond and so privately escaped to England all which C. Mather cannot deny only he telleth the World That his Father intended a Voyage to England to endeavour the service of his afflicted Country But whether it was so or not doth not clear him of great Rashness and Folly to charge a man with what he could not prove and for his Success of Affairs in England whatever Cotton his Son boasteth of it it doth not yet appear It had been more becoming Increase Mather if he had been a true Minister of Christ not to meddle so much in worldly Affairs as to have left them he calleth his Flock now for some years without returning to look after them And it had been better for New-England that the men called their Ministers had not meddled so much with their outward Affairs and Concerns which hath proved to their great damage in many respects I can truly say I bear a good will to the People of all sorts in New-England and do heartily desire their well-fare in all respects but am very sorry to see them so mis-led by their blind Guides to their great danger both as to their Eternal and Temporal state O that the Lord may open their Eyes so as no more to follow these blind Leaders of the blind which I hope in due time he will do to many As to these scurrilous and most indecent Expressions and Words he useth against some lately in outward Authority I need say no more but that he showeth thereby the meanness of his Spirit and ill breeding He quarrelleth against my Book because some of the Copies were bound up in Ozenburgs Linnin which he calleth Canvas and thereupon maketh a silly jest as if like one of the Witnesses I would prophesie in Sack-cloth But that some of my Books were bound up in Ozenburgs was only that the Printer could not have Leather to bind them all up in the condition of the Country at present after so new and late settling not affording largeness of Leather nor is this manner of binding up Books in Ozenburgs unusual in some more antient Plantations than this And must this Cotton Mather turn this into a Jest Hath he forgot how the first settlers in New-England not very long ago were reduced to a few grains of Indian Corn many of them and had no other Bread But now Iesurun like many of them through plenty are waxed fat kick He professeth as seemingly to be against the Magistrates inflicting any punishment upon any supposed Heretick But how shall