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A54085	The people called Quakers cleared by Geo. Keith from the false doctrines charged upon them by G. Keith and his self-contradictions laid open in the ensuing citations out of his books / by John Penington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. Postscript.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1229; Wing P1230; ESTC R40279	25,467	55

THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS CLEARED BY Geo Keith FROM THE FALSE DOCTRINES Charged upon them by G. Keith and his Self-Contradictions laid open in the ensuing Citations out of his Books By JOHN PENINGTON Thy own Wickedness shall Correct thee and thy Back-slidings shall Reprove thee Jer. 2. 19. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street 1696. THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS CLEARED BY GEORGE KEITH c. GEorge Keith having of late appeared Clamarous against us both in Print and in a Meeting of his own appointing at Turners-Hall to which our Consent was neither sought nor made necessary as well as that we had many other just Ex●entions against complying with him in which having been made publick are left with the Moderate and Judicious I think no considerate Man will blame us for pursuing our own Vindication in such Ways and Methods as are Peaceable yet open and free how weary soever our Adversary may be of his Task viz. to prove those Charges upon us which have no Foundation in Truth but are only the Products of Spleen and Malice boiled up to a great heighth Had G. K. as our Books wherein our Friends and Principles have been publickly defended from his false Glosses lie upon him unanswered to this day though he hath given us ground to expect an Answer from him to two of them desisted from further Reflecting on us and not even of late continued to Charge some of us As holding most Erroneous and Hurtful Principles contrary to the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith and others as Approvers and Countenancers thereof see his Advertisement p. 2. We mought have rested satisfied in what we have already offered But he persisting to Accuse and yet waving to concern himself with our Defences I have chosen in these to bring G. K. in Evidence against G. K. and shew how himself hath Advocated for our Faith even in those particulars he hath of late rendered us Erroneous in A Work I made some Essay towards in my late Sheets Stiled An Apostate Exposed but then confined my self to that particular Controversy depending in Reference to his called Gross Error c. I shall digest them into two general Heads his Vindicating our Principles from our common Adversaries and a Declaration of his own Sentiments contrary to what he hath of late delivered which last I shall sub-divide into five more and close with a taste of some of his late odd Notions To begin then with his Answer to Robert G●urdon in a Book called The Light of Truth Triumphing Printed Anno 1670. he thus saith to his Antagonist p. 5. The second Snare thou mentionest is that some on the other hand pretend so much Zeal for this Mystery Christ within the Operations and Actings of the Spirit of God in themselves that they deny the Mystery of God in the Flesh of Christ as a Matter of any necessity to them as to Redemption Reconciliation and Justification c. which Charge thou plainly directs against us called in dirision Quakers I say it is a false Charge nor are we guilty of it as also thou falsly alledgest that we reckon to accomplish this in our own Bodies each for himself through Obedience to the Law or Light in his Conscience which Light they call Christ Redeemer and only Saviour without respect to the true Christ and our only Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth I say this is False for though we say Reconciliation and Justification and Redemption is wrought in us by Christ yet not without respect to Christ even as outwardly manifest Born and Crucified c. for our Justification c. hath a true and real and certain respect to Christ both as inwardly manifested in us and also as manifested in that Body of Flesh which was Crucified in Judea c. for we do believe that he took upon him the form of a Servant even in the outward and died even in the outward and offered up even his very Flesh through the Eternal Spirit in the outward as a Sacrifice of a sweet Smell and Attonement unto God in order to our Justification and Reconciliation with God so as thereby he prepared or made ready the way for our Justification though our Justification was not simply and absolutely thereby wrought as if no more were to be done by him and his Spirit in us or as if his outward Body Flesh Blood and Life were the ONLY Sacrifice and Propitiation excluding the inward Hear him yet again p. 12. But that both here and oft elsewhere thou insinuatest as if we had no respect to his Christ's outward Coming and Sufferings in order to Justification is a false and disingenuous alledgance of thine we dearly own and and respect him in both the ways of his Coming and do not set the one in opposition to the other nor divide them for they are in Unity and work together according to the Eternal Purpose of God for the full and perfect Deliverance and Salvation of Man Again p. 13. We believe and acknowledge him who was manifest in that Body of Flesh to be the true and only Christ and Saviour and yet we believe him also to be the only true Christ and Saviour as manifest in us for he is not two Christs but one we believe that his Outward Coming was not a bare and naked Example but hath a real Influence and Service in its place in and upon all who are saved tho' all have not that express knowledge thereof And p. 17. Though we Preach him as the Light that enlightens every Man and cry up the Light within yet we cry not down the Blood without nor in Preaching him as an Example do we deny the Atonement these are but thy false and groundless insinuations And in the next page he Expostulates with his Adversary saying Did thou ever read or hear fromany of us as if we counted the Blood of Christ even in the Outward as the Blood of any ordinary Man or Beast Or thinkest thou to infer such a Conclusion from our Principle as because we say Christ the Light within us is precious and saving that therefore we account his Blood as the Blood of any ordinary Man or Beast but I must tell thee thy Inference is bad and deceitful and doth no wise follow from our Principle What thinkest thou Reader of this Proteus Would R. Gourdon his old Antagonist know him now if he should meet him Would he take him to be the same G. Keith Who from the very same Hypotheses he here oppugns draws the self-same inferences which he tells his Adversary are bad and deceitful But Truth is the same God is the same his People the same their Principles the same although G. K. is not the same And now let me follow him to the Year 1677. and hear what he saith of the Quakers then Both Christ and the Apostles says he in his Book called Way Cast up p. 72. Preached God and Christ in Men as well as

he answers by denying the second Proposition For if they did cleave unto said he then and Believe in the Light they Believed in Christ for he is the Light nor is the outward name that which saveth but the inward Nature Virtue and Power signified thereby which was made manifest in them and thus is Christ even that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which may or must be known of God p. 30. But this he will not allow to us now The Gentiles were not so cast off but that as to what was the main and principal thing to wit the word of Faith the Gentiles did share with the Jews and that whoever among the Gentiles did Believe and Call upon the Name of the Lord were saved no less than the Jews p. 34. This was the priviledge of the Gentiles no less than of the Jews to have this word so near unto them as to be in the Mouth and in the Heart That these Gentiles who did call upon ☞ the Name of the Lord and were saved were not under any outward Administration of the Gospel is most evident from the objection framed by the Apostle v. 14 15. and his answer thereunto p. 35. Compare with Truth Advanced p. 70. cited above The hearing that Faith comes by he tells us p. 36. is the hearing by the word even that Word that was in their Mouth and Heart And a little lower as a Comment upon those Words They have not all obeyed he bids us mark the Apostle doth not say They have not all obeyed the law of Nature or the Light of Nature but they have not all Obeyed the Gospel so that the very Gospel adds he hath been Preached unto all otherwise they should never have been charged with not having Obeyed it But I put him to prove that the History of Christ his Conception Birth Crucifixion Resurrection and Ascension hath ever been Preached to all either Explicitely or Implicitely seeing he saith the very Gospel hath been And Secondly That whether where the very Gospel hath been received or that which he here calls the very Gospel the Holy Ghost hath not been given The Gentiles were not so cast off of God but that they had the same Mercy as had the Jews in relation unto the Chief and Substantial thing They the Scriptures point unto some Manifestation of him in and among the Gentiles in all Ages sufficient unto Salvation p 56. Kiss the Son lest he be angry Now that they are bid to Kiss the Son doth plainly import that the Son was held forth and given unto them of the Father in ' true Love that they might Kiss him i. e. that they might enjoy him which doth again infer that there was such a Manifestation of the Son let forth unto them which was sufficient into Salvation else How could they be required to Kiss him if he were not offered and made manifest unto them And how could he be offered unto the Gentiles to Kiss him if it were impossible for them so to do p. 57. if G. K. will not believe himself who doth he think will believe him But to proceed Christ in Scripture is called the Salvation of God which was in some measure made known or manifest in them though not as to the OUTWARD NAME yet the Power Light and Life p. 58. What though they knew not the outward Name if they knew the Nature the Spirit the Life which slays Sin and cures the Soul It is not the meer outward Name that saves but the Life the Power of Christ that Quickens Cleanses Purifies and by this they might be saved For it is the Life that saveth Rom. 5. 10. p. 115. How often hath G. K. of late been uneasie under this Doctrine as if it Depreti●ted what our Lord did and suffered in the outward And in his Further Discovery p. 10. he calls a Friend Bold Ignorant Soul for Preaching That the Blood which cleanseth from all Sin ●as the Life and the Life is the Light calling a perverse Exposition And the Reason seems to be because the Friend said it Had G. K. said it it mought have past for Authentick or he hath said the same That the knowledge of him Christ at in the outward is of necessity unto Salvation we grant not save ONLY where it is Revealed and there it is very useful and comfortable p. 117. Compare with the Quotation out of Further Discovery page 16. above From our common Adversaries allowing that Children may be saved G. K. infers Why may not also some Men who are as it were but Children and Infants even Babes in Christ as to Spiritual Knowledge he saved without that clear distinct Knowledge of his outward coming being born of his Spirit c. p. 117. This he speaks of the Gentiles as will be obvious to any that consult the Book for it immediately follows the Quotation above That which I observe is this That here he allows them to be Babes in Christ Born of the Spirit but in his Truth Advanced p. 70. Cornelius is denied to have had the Holy Ghost in his Gentile State Are Babes in Christ who are Born of the Spirit without the Spirit Or is not their Food Spiritual to wit the sincere Milk of the Word But this Man must be made manifest To that end hear him again He Christ left not the other Nations destitute of the MAIN and PRINCIPAL thing even the manifestation of the Light c. which would have given them the Knowledge of God and of all his Laws and Statutes NEEDFULL to be known by them had they improved the same aright And seeing it hath been so in times past why may it not be so now p. 120. Let G. K. answer his own Question if he can Though the outward Teachings which proceed from the Light are truly profitable yet are they not of such absolute necessity as if God and Christ could not be known where the outward occasions of hearing are wanting p. 121. Thus G. Keith one while asserting that Faith in Christ as he Died Rose again Ascended c. is indispensably necessary to all another while that Men have been saved without it which upon what hath been premised I leave with the Reader whether it hath not been sufficiently proved upon him puts me in mind of an Observation a Friend made viz. That he knew not what could palliate it but the strange Notion of the Revolution of Humane Souls which makes it more than probable that they shall have opportunity one time or other before the end of the world of Hearing this Faith and Doctrine Preached and may receive it though now they Die without it But this point adds he must be tenderly touched now because few are ripe for it yet how far he G. K. hath countenanced it is known to many See State of the Case p. 12. Yet I remember also how stoutly G. K. confuted him by telling him he was extreamly Ignorant had neither the true Faith nor a true Notion

of the sufficiency of the Light within Further Discovery p. 16. I shall therefore to avoid his attacking me in like manner barely give an instance or two out of his Book called Truth Advanced and leave it to the Reader to judge His Answer to an Objection That Adam Died not that day he Sinned but lived many years after he divides into three Heads His last is this As it is observed by some saith he neither Adam nor any of his posterity living a compleat thousand years which in Scripture signifies sometimes a day Psal 90. it may be said he lived not a whole day p. 23. Now that this is a Principle of the Revolutionists is plain to all that know their Principles and that it is his is also manifest in that he gives it as one of the answers to the Objection What Can he hold to nothing But be self-inconsistent in every thing Again p. 42. he saith Who are under the Law and obey it according to what their Ability doth reach they are held there as in a Custody or place of Safety as the Man-slayer in the City of Refuge in the time of the Law till the Faith come to be Revealed This word till the Faith come to be Revealed is a plain indication of his Notion though he dare not desend it for they dying in this City of Refuge when should the Faith be Revealed to them except in some other Revolution Some had a measure of Sincerity and Uprightness under the Law or Legal Dispensation both of Jews and Gentiles who had not the Faith and Knowledge of Christs Death and Resurrection and all such were in a state of Safety for that present time so that had they died in that State they could not have perished even as the Manslayer was safe in the City of Refuge p. 43. This is again a Token that he leans to the Revolutionists whose this is not to the Scriptures that say In the place where the tree falleth there it shall be Eccles 11. 3. See also Heb. 9. 27. where it is said It is appointed unto Men once to die but never twice to die for he adds But after this the judgment This with my Animadversions above are what I propos'd to close this Head with and come to the next Fourthly Of Christs and the Saints Glorified Bodies I shall give one instance that his Notion herein is of late as gross as other Professors whom he hath formerly oppos'd and confront him by a passage or two out of a former Book of his and so leave it In Truth Advanced p. 111. he saith Paul distinguisheth between the Belly and the Body saying God will destroy the Belly but he doth not say he will destroy the Body For seeing after the Resurrection of the Dead Men shall need none of the Meats of this corruptible World nor shall they need a Belly to put them in as Guts and Draught or any gross parts as Men have now This shews he hath very Carnal Conceptions of the Resurrection at present like those Sadducees who Erred not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God Matt. 22. 29. Now let 's see his Sentiments formerly in his Book called Rector Corrected We do believe saith he p. 23. That we also shall be raised up to have an Immortal Spiritual and Glorified Body like unto him This Virtue is not any visible thing nor is the Glorified Body of Christ visible Flesh Seeing the Body of Christ is Glorified and wholly Spiritual as the Body of every true Believer shall be at the Resurrection how can it be visible Flesh And Christ the second Adam is called in Scripture the Quickning Spirit but not visible Flesh Therefore in this thou dost grossly Err and needest Correction said G. K. to the Rector and so say I to him Again p. 54. Is not Christs Body a Spiritual Body which he hath now in the Heavens Seeing the Body of the Saints at the Resurrection is raised Spiritual according unto the Glorious Body of Christ shew a Syllable that Christ hath any other Body but that which is Spiritual Had G. K. retained these Sentiments when he wrote his bulky Book styled Truth Advanced he needed not have told us of Belly Guts and Draught They do not Symbolize with a Spiritual Body nor indeed with Spiritual Senses But as is the Man so is his Communication Fifthly Concerning Water-Baptism and the Supper It is so hard for G. K. to be consistent with himself in any thing that even here he falters That the Non-observing of the outward Baptism and Supper hath been one Characteristick of our Profession wherein others have differed from us they must be very little Conversant with us who do not know That he once concurred with us in our Testimony relating thereto is what will appear anon At present I shall shew how I find him now For he would now persuade us he hath been very easie in the point all along It is known by my former Printed Books saith he in his Further Discovery p. 30. I have been moderate in my judgment concerning both Water Baptism and the Supper in the outward use of Bread and Wine chiefly blaming the great formality in Mens practising these things and resting in the outward practise of them but not universally judging or concluding that God neither did nor would move any by his Spirit to practise them since the Apostles days but rather allowing it might be possible that some were or might be moved Thus far G. K. And in his Truth Advanced p. 173. he makes some Positions and Queries concerning Water-Baptism and the outward Supper tending as he saith to Love Peace and Unity among all the sincere Professors of the Lord Jesus Christ who hold the Head and build on the true Foundation and yet differ in some lesser matters Which whoever pleases to bestow the reading on will see whose Communion he labours to insinuate himself into next as holding the Head and only differing in some lesser matters at the same time when no Epithets are black enough upon his quondam Friends whom he sometimes boasts he hath been upwards of 30 years amongst For my part I grudge them not such a Proselyte nor do I think they will be fond of him but what is before me is to give the Reader a taste that here as well as in the Instances above the Man is wavering and fluctuating In p. 183. of Truth Advanced qu. 5. he thus interrogates Whether it may not be said there is One Baptism as that there is one Land called America though the Map or Figure of it is also called America even as there is but one Spiritual Baptism with the Holy Ghost though the Outward Baptism with Water is also called Baptism To this he shall make answer out of his Book stiled Help in the time of need Printed Anno 1665. p. 65. Though the Scripture declare of this Word saith he yet they are not that Word more than a Map or Description