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B01962	Mr. George Keith, at Turners-Hall in Philpot-Lane, London, in 1696. Contradicting Mr. George Keith, at the Tolbooth of Aberdeen, in 1688. In fundamental points of the Christian faith. Demonstrated by quotations out of The exact narrative of the proceedings at Turners-Hall, &c. on the one hand: and quotations out of Immediate revelation not ceased, on the other hand. In a letter to himself. / By a moderate church man.	Moderate church man.; W. C.	1696 (1696)	Wing C160; ESTC R170341	10,271	15

Christ Up steps Immediate Revelation and Answers in the Affirmative and refers As to his Birth to p. 256. And thus according to his Spiritual Birth in the Saints is the Seed of Woman for that the Saints are the Woman that bring him forth after the Spirit and are his Mother as Mary brought him forth after the Flesh and after the Spirit also so that she was the Mother of Jesus in a double respect for as she brought him forth in her Body so she brought him forth in her Soul otherwise he could not have been her Saviour as Augustine and long after him Erasmus hath well observed Now as to his Death and Resurrection see 244 245. And he is called the Hidden Man of the Heart whom Paul witn●ssed that he lived in him this he understood of Christ as Man for as God he liveth in all neither as God can he be Crucified or Die and yet he is Crucified in those that are ungodly in whom as they turn from their ungodliness he cometh to live whose Life as a Seed is sown in every Man and as every Seed hath its Body so hath this Seed its Body which as it is raised up in us the Life is raised up or revealed in it through which Life of the Man Jesus we have access unto the Father and have our Fellowship both with the Father and the Son Then for Algorizing his Miracles read p. 200. And we witness the Power of God which wrought all these outward Miracles working Miraculously in our Hearts opening the Blind Eye of the Mind and Deaf Ear raising to Life the Dead Soul causing the Lame to leap as an Hart and the Tongue of the Dumb to speak c. And these are the GREATEST Miracles and the outward were but a Figure of them and were for the sake of Vnbelievers who believed not except they saw Thus far Immediate Revelation Now Mr. Keith I can see no other Remedy but ●ou must either cry Peccavi if you would have Mr. Whitehead to do so too or else ●ame him not whilst you are tardy your self for Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum But as a farther Confirmation hereof and to evince that you have once had as high 〈◊〉 Opinion for ought I can perceive and have given as high Titles perhaps as 〈◊〉 Whitehead or any other Quaker to what they call the Light within and you ●●●ewise in the aforementioned Treatise sometimes call so too as well as Christ within the Seed Birth Spirit Wisdom c. I here present you with some of them Page 4. The Object and Foundation of Faith 12. The Body and Flesh and Blood of Christ 40. The Greatest and most Principal and absolutely necessary Means and Instrument of conveying Life unto Man 52 53. The Key of Knowledge 71. Man's Blessedness his Habitation of Rest and Peace and Joy Christ the express Image of God in Man Man's Life 72. The Tree of Life 74. The Lamb slain in Man from the Foundation of the World 77. That New and Living Way The Word of Faith 86 The Kingdom of God The stronger than the strong Man The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Wonderful Counsellor the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace the Emmanuel 87. King Priest and Prophet The Messenger of the Lord of Hosts to Man Man's Advocate unto God The alone Mediator 92. The Word of God The Spring of Man's Life The Word of Life and Heavenly Power and Virtue 96. In whom all the Promises are Yea and Amen 100. The Vndermost Stone The FOVNDATION Stone The Corner Stone A Living Stone which is Life and Spirit 101. A Foundation The Revelation of the Arm of the Lord in Man's Heart 112. The Anointing The Lamb. The Witness Known to be a Saviour The Wisdom and Power of God 115. The very FVLNESS of God himself 125. The Treasure hid in the Field in them The Piece of Money lost in the House in them 127. The Seeds-man the Seed and also the precious Fruit. That Life which was in the Beginning 151. The OBJECT of his Knowledge that overcometh 193. The Word of their viz. the Lamb's Followers Testimony The Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God 238. The Heavenly Man or Second Adam 242. The Gospel preached in every Creature 244. The Hidden Man of the Heart 256. The Seed of the Woman That Man-child which John the Beloved Disciple saw brought forth by the Woman that was cloathed with the Sun and Moon under her Feet But reviewing your Exact Narrative I find a passage which s●ems Calculated for the Meridian of a Recantation enough one would think to perswade the Incredulous World that you are just mounting the Stool of Repentance I read it thus p. 35. I thank God that hath given me that humble Heart that if they bring any passage out of my Books that is not to be justified I will own my Errour and Shortness Now if they would do the like it would be well And therefore to lay it the more home upon you both I would Counsel both Parties so far as either or both of you are concerned to take the advice given in your Preface viz. But if they really disown these gross and vile Errours which I have proved them guilty of in this following Narrative and be Cordial 〈◊〉 the belief and acknowledgment of the great Fundamental Truths opposite to these Errours then it will be that which the sincere Professors of Christianity in these three Nations will expect from them and may justly require of them as publickly to retract and renounce these Errours as they have publickly asserted them in their Printed Books in the Face of the Christian World otherwise no sincere Christians will believe them to be in good Earnest but that they resemble many Old Hereticks and particularly the Crafty Arrians that pretended and made great Protestations that they owned the true Faith according to all contained in the Scriptures when they did nothing less Now Sir Example● being more prevalent than Precepts do you lead the way and if they do not follow you will have acquitted your self and so far left them without Excuse if in Obstinacy they should refuse to write after your Copy For I hope you will by this time be Convinced that the above Quotations are so diametrically opposite to each other that they cannot all be true and sound Doctrine But if should still remain of another Mind and think them all defensible you would do well to reconcile them so as to evidence it to others which if you should forbear to endeavour I must then tell you That the sincere Professors of Christianity may justly require of you publickly in Print to retract and renounce those that by Scripture and Sound Reason you cannot defend For Mr. Keith we have an Old Proverb amongst us That which is Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander Furthermore it is expected of you that you should once come to stability and no longer be like Caesar at the River Rubicon one while a mind to go back another while a mind to go forward one while profess your self a Quaker another while almost ashamed of the Name But either come wholly over to the Church of England to whom you seem much inclined and who seems ready with open Arms to receive you as a true Penitent and thereby make amends for your so long joining with the Quakers who have so fiercely opposed Her whereby in probability you may obtain a Settlement which may prevent the Ruin of your self and Family you seem so apprehensive of by leaving the Quakers who perhaps in Retaliation of your good Service may be pleased to Reward you with some Ecclesiastical Preferment which your great Learning and Abilities may Entitle you to Or else e'ne turn back to your late Abdicated Opinions and once more embrace your forsaken Friends with a Brotherly Love if after all the Affronts you have put upon them they will yet receive you For in short neither God nor good Men love a Laodicean Lukewarmness but if you continue so neither hot nor cold will be ready to Spew you out of their Mouths Thus have I adventured to gi●e you my Opinion and so intend to conclude designing brevity because I would take the Poets Advice Contra verbosum noli contendere verbis SIR Yours W. C. FINIS

and yet all this while notwithstanding they have been both in the wrong and you at times joined to each of them still to hold your own Orthodox Principles during these several REVOLUTIONS But if you should say You differed not in Fundamentals from one or both of these Sects Then say I The more unquiet Man you to raise such Disturbances about Circumstantials However looking further I find you expressing your self thus Exact Narrative page 38. But if I had known they had had such Errours I would as soon have put my Head in the Fire a very hot Expression but I think you may save that pains for your Head is hot enough already as have owned such among them But I am of the same Faith as I have been above this Thirty Years Very well here is first gross Ignorance you knew not they had such Errours among them notwithstanding your professing your self one of them Secondly Impli●ite Faith with a Vengeance notwithstanding you knew not those Errours yet you owned such among them which is believing as the Church believes without Search or Examination nay let me add and Printing Bo●ks in Vindication of these Principles which you pretend you knew not And yet to make you a wonderful Man in all the Branches of this wonderful Mystery you have kept your Faith untainted notwithstanding the Evil Communication of these Corrupt Men. Credat Apella Now for the Quotations I told you of before Exact Narrative p. 20 21. And now take notice I would not misconstrue what I have Read by William Penn's Argument a Man may be owned to be a Christian and yet disbelieve that Christ is either God or Man if he own or practice a habit or quality of Moral Vertue as that of Justice and Meekness c. * If you mistate the Case I am not accountable for that and practice accordingly tho' he believe not in Christ if he have but some Moral Habits So that here the Jew is the Christian the Mahometan is the Christian the Pagan is the Christian and the professed Pelagian is the Christian though they deny any inward Supernatural Principle and call the Light within only Natural as many Sober and Moral Men do c. Again p. 42. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he Died for us Rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God Born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father Immediate Revelation p. 108. And the Believing Jews in Moses time made not a Church different from that in the time of the Apostles and downwards all are one Church and under one Covenant and were saved by one Faith in one Lord and Redeemer though the Dispensations did differ in many Circumstances and these who succeeded had more full and large Discoveries of the Mystery yet in substance they all agreed and were all one upon the Matter Again p. 200. That which makes one a true Christian and Saint is the Spirit of Christ the Anointing in him Again p. 243 244. But I do most willingly grant That the Preaching of Christ without us in his Birth Life Suffering Death Resurrection Ascention Intercession c. is a very considerable part of the Doctrine of the Gospel yea more than the Skin is a part of the Body of the Man yet it is but an integral part of a Man such as the Hands and Feet of a Man without which a Man may subsist but not as an intire and compleat Man and so may True Religion and CHRISTIANITY subsist without the History of Christ in the Letter to wit in the Mystery of the Life of Christ in the Spirit and yet even here where the History is wanting the Mystery or Inside of Christianity is not without its Skin or Outside namely an Outward Confession unto God both in good Words and good Works according unto the Discovery of the Mystery or Inside its self Exact Narrative p. 21 22. Now you see how he makes Regeneration in a Believer a greater Mystery than the Manifestation of the Son of God in his Body of Flesh How much more saith he is the Work of Regeneration a Mystery For the other here 1 Tim. 3.16 he does not say it is a Mystery but he puts three ifs to it If a Mystery c. Pray was our Blessed Lord a meer Shell Was he like the Shell of an Egg without the Meat of an Egg Or was he like the Shell of any other Fruit and no Kernel in it Was there any Holiness ever in any Prophet or Apostle but it is like a drop to the Ocean to what was in our Blessed Lord Therefore to compare the Work of Regeneration to the Incarnation of our Lord so as to equal it he prefers it and doth not equal it only I Appeal to you whether it is not an Afominable Errour And whether it doth not make every Regenerate Man not only equal to the Man Christ but greater For we truly Value any Man as more Holy according as the Manifestation of God is more in one than in another Immediate Revelation p. 59 60. If Christ's Bodily presence in the Flesh was not sufficient of its self to Minister though he spoke as never Man spoke yet I say if this Ministration was not sufficient but a more Glorious they were to expect and as they waited they witnessed it fulfilled and come unto them Then far less is the outward Administration of any other Man or Men whomsoever sufficient for that effect for if Christ be not any more to be known after the Flesh much less any other Man nor is Knowledge they can receive from any other Man to rested in seeing the Knowledge Christ after the Flesh was not suffi●●ent nor to be rested in but th● were to look for a better a more clea● and full Manifestation in themselve● He appearing in a Spiritual Gloriou● Heavenly Mysterious way in the Hearts even seen a way as the Wor●● cannot know him or receive him which made Judas not Iscariot t● wonder and question him saying Ho● is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unt● us and not unto the World Exact Narrative p. 22. We had wont to say all other Professions denied Christ within but here J. Faldo owns Christ to be in the Gentiles rightly understood But to me Christ Crucified in whom the fulness dwelleth is a greater Mystery and a greater Matter to be believed Immediate Revelation p. 22. Jesus Christ revealed in Man is th● Foundation of the true Church and o● every Member thereof in particular and therefore if the true Church remain this must remain also Exact Narrative p. 23. But though Regeneration is no slight thing yet I say comparing Christ's Incarnation that is a Complex of Mysteries a certain Writer shews a Complex of Twenty and more Mysteries in that one Mystery of Christ's Incarnation I say comparing that with the Work