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A47158	A looking-glass for all those called Protestants in these three nations Wherein they may see, who are true Protestants, and who are degenerated and gone from the testimony and doctrine of the antient Protestants. And hereby it is made to appear, that the people, called in derision Quakers, are true (yea the truest) Protestants, because their testimony agreeth with the testimony of the antient Protestants in the most weighty things wherein the Lord called them forth in that day. Particularly, with the testimony and doctrine of William Tindal, who is called a worthy martyr, and principal teacher of the Church of England;faithfully collected out of his works. By George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.	1674 (1674)	Wing K180; ESTC R218561	10,288	42

A LOOKING-GLASS For all those called PROTESTANTS IN THESE Three Nations Wherein they may see who are True Protestants and who are degenerated and gone from the Testimony and Doctrine of the Antient Protestants AND Hereby it is made to appear that the People called in derision Quakers are true yea the truest Protestants bccause their Testimony agreeth with the Testimony of the Antient Protestants in the most weighty things wherein the Lord called them forth in that day Particularly with the Testimony and Doctrine of William Tindal who is called a Worthy Martyr and Principal Teacher of the Church of England Faithfully Collected out of his Works By GEORGE KEITH London Printed in the Year 1674. THE EPISTLE To the Impartial Readers unto whosoever hands this may come COme all you called Protestants in these three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland whether you be of the Faith and Principles of those called Episcopalians or whether you be Presbyterians so called or Anabaptists or Baptists or Independents or of any other Name or Denomination Behold a Looking-Glass for you all whereinto if you will look you may see whether ye be true Protestants or not You do all indeed lay claim to the Title of Protestants But as they were of old who called themselves Jews but were not so in this day there are many who call themselves Protestants but are not for they agree not with the Antient Testimonie and Spirit of the Protestants but are exceedingly degenerated from them both in Life and Doctrine who if they had been true to the Protetant Cause for which God raised up the first Protestants above one hundred years ago had not only retained the Life and Doctrine of the Antient Protestants but had advanced further and gone beyond them both in largness of Discoveries and Purity of Life for at that time it was but as the Twy-light or Dawning of the Day so that they had not attained unto so clear and perfect discoveries of Truth as were afterwards to come but oh how have the most of them all who in this day are called Protestants not only been deficient in advancing and carrying on that Testimony and Cause for which the Lord raised up the Primitive Protestants but are fallen exceeding short of them yea degenerated and back sliden from them in those weightiest and most material things which they bore Testimony unto in their day as they were called forth of th Lord and furnished by him not only to appear for his Truth in Words but with a most noble and invincible Courage to Seal it with their Blood among whom William Tindal was one of the most Eminent whose Works and Labours by the Blessing and Grace of God were of great use to propagate knowledge unto the people of these Nations in that day wherein Ignorance and Darkness so much abounded This William Tindal was a man not only of a pious and good Life but well Learned as appeareth in that he Translated the Bible both the Old and New Testament so called out of the Tongues in which they were originally writ into the English whose Translation is the first English Translation that is extant and a good work it was in that day and of great service among the peolpe which made the Romish Clergy so angry who would have still hoodwinck'd the People in Ignorance that they ceased not until they got him burnt who suffered Martyrdom for the Truth in West Flanders in the days of Queen Mary But above all he was a Man endowed with a good measure of the Spirit of God and taught of God as both his own Works and the History of his Life Recorded by Fox in his Martyrology doth sufficiently make manifest unto any who have a Spiritual discerning and if there be any things found in his Works which Answer not perfectly to the Truth it is to be imputed to the Darkness and Ignorance of that time which God wincked at nor should these things which were given him as Testimonies from the Lord to bear in his day be the less esteemed and received because of any Weakness or Imperfections as touching some things wherein he might be swayed by the darkness of that time in which he lived But rather we should be thankful unto God for his Mercy in that he lighted such a Candle and set it on a Candlestick to shine as a Light in a dark place while Darkness was so thick throughout all the Land I could cite the Testimonies of many other Witnesses who sealed their Testimony with their Blood unto the Truth both in England and Scotland and also in other places But this being done partly by others formerly and as it may please the Lord so to order it it may yet be done more largly only at this time I found my self moved in the Zeal of the Lord to give forth this small Treatise being a faithful Collection of the words of the aforesaid William Tindal extracted by me out of his Printed Works with my own hand without adding unto or diminishing from them so much as one word only the Titles I have added before each Purpose by way of Index My design is to make it known that we the People in derision called Quakers are truest Protestants for all who have any knowledg of our Principle whether by reading our Books or hearing our Declarations cannot but see that those Testimonies of William Tindal are more agreeable unto our Principles than unto those of any other People in these three Nations Some clear Testimonies unto the Truth as it is owned by the People called in derision Quakers collected out of the Works and Books of William Tindall Martyr CHAP. I. Concerning Christs dying for all Men. In his Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas WE be all equally Created and Formed os one God our Father and indifferently bought and redeemed with one blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ. CHAP. II. Concerning both the Law and Gospel being in Mans heart In the same Prologue upon Jonas AS the Law which fretteth thy Conscience is in thy heart and is no outward thing even so seek within thy heart the Plaister of Mercy the promises of forgiveness in our Saviour Jesus Christ according unto all the ensamples of Mercy that are gone before And with Jonas let them that wait on Vanities and seek God here and there and in every Temple save in their hearts go and seek thou the Testament of God in thy heatt sor in thy heart is the word of the Law and in thine heart is the word of Faith in the promises of Mercy in Jesus Christ so that if thou confess with a repenting heart and knowledge and surely believe that Jesus is Lord over all sin thou art safe CHAP. III. Concerning the outward and inward part of the Scripture In the same Prologue THE Scripture hath a Body without and within a Soul Spirit and Life it hath without a Bark a Shell and as it were an hard Bone for the fleshly minded to gnaw

upon and within it hath Pith Kernel Marrow and all sweetness for Gods Elect which he hath chosen to give them his Spirit and to Write his Law and the Faith of his Son in their hearts CHAP. IV. Concerning the Heathen that they had the Spirit of God and that Pharoh had the Spirit of Grace before his heart was hardned In his Prologue upon Matthew ANd Paul Writeth Rom. 1. that the Heathen because when they knew God they had no list to honour him with Godly living therefore God powered his Wrath upon them and took his Spirit from them and gave them up to their hearts lusts to serve sin from Iniquity to Iniquity till they were throughly hardned and past Repentance And Pharoh because when the Word of God was in his Country and Gods People scattered throughout all his Land and yet he never loved them nor it therefore God gave him up and in taking his Spirit of Grace from him so hardned his heart with covetousness that afterward no Myracle could convert him hereunto pertaineth the Parable of the Talents CHAP. V. Concerning Good works through working of the Spirit of God how that they help to continue us in the favour and Grace of God In the same Prologue LEt us Arm our selves with this remembrance that as Christs works justifie from sin and set us in the favour of God so our own deeds through working of the Spirit of God help us to continue in the favour and the Grace into which Christ hath brought us and that we can no longer continue in favour and Grace than our hearts are to keep the Law CHAP. VI. Concerning a believer and spiritual Man that is renewed how he needeth no outward Law In his Treatise on the Parable of the wicked Mammon AS thouneedest not to bid a Tree to bring forth Fruit so is there no Law put into him that believeth and is justified through Faith as saith Paul in the first Epistle to Timothy chap. I. neither is it needful for the Law of God is Written and Graved in his heart and his pleasure is therein And in another Treatise of his called the Obedience of a Christian Man He now that is renewed in Christ keepeth the Law without any Law written or compulsion of any Ruler or Officer save by the leading of the Spirit only Chap. Obed. of Subjects CHAP. VII Concerning Faith how that the true Faith is a feeling Faith In his Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogue 1530. THere are two manner of Faiths an Historical Faith and a Feeling Faith The Historical Faith hangeth on the Truth and Honesty of the Teller or on the Common Fame and Consent of many as if one told me that the Turk had wone a City and I believed it moved with the Honesty of the man now if there comes another that seemeth more Honest or that hath better perswasions that it is not so I think Immediately that he lyed and lose my Faith again And a Feeling Faith is as if a man were there present when it was won and there were wounded and had there lost all that he had and were taken Prisoner there also That Man should so believe that all the World could not turn him from his Faith even likewise if my Mother had blown on her Finger and told me that the Fire would burn me I should have believed her with an Hystorical Faith as we believe the Stories of the World because I thought she would not have mocked me and so I should have done if she had told me that the Fire had been cold and would not have burned but assoon as I had put my Finger in the Fire I should have believed not by reason of her but with a feeling Faith so that she could not have perswaded me afterward the contrary So now with an Historical Faith I may believe that the Scripture is Gods by the teaching of them and so I should have done though they had told me that Robinhood had been the Scripture of God which Faith is but an Opinion and therefore abideth ever fruitless and falleth away if a more glorious reason be made unto me or if the Preacher live contrary But of a Feeling Faith it is written John 6. they shall be all taught of God that is God shall writ it in their hearts with his Holy Spirit and also teftifieth Rom. 8. The Spirit beareth record unto our Spirit that we be the Sons of God and this Faith is none Opinion but a sure feeling and therefore ever fruitful never hangeth it of the honesty of the Preacher but of the Power of God and of the Spirit and therefore if all the Preachers of the World would go about to perswade the contrary it would not prevail no more than though they would make me believe the fire were cold after that I had put my finger therein Of this ye have an ensample Job 4. of the Samaritanish Wife which left her Pitcher and went into the City and said come and see a man c. but when they had heard Christ the Spirit wrought and made them feel whereupon they came unto the Woman and said We believe not now because of thy saying but because we have heard our selves and know that he is Christ the Saviour of the World for Christ's Preaching was with Power and Spirit that maketh a man feell and know and work too and not as the Scribes and Pharisees preached and as ours make a man ready to cast his gorge to hear them rave and rage as mad men CHAP. VIII Concerning the Inward Preaching Teaching and Speaking of the Spirit of God unto the Soul and inward reading and hearing and that true Believers believe the Principles of their Faith not because they are written in books but because they are inwardly taught by the Spirit of God In the same Treatise of his Answer to Sir T. Moors Dialogue WHen thou art askt why thou believest that thou shalt be saved by Christ and of such like principles of our Faith answer thou wottest and feelest that it is true and when he asketh how thou knowest that it is true answer because it is written in thine heart and if he ask who wrote it answer the Spirit of God and if he ask how thou came first by it tell him whether by reading in Books or hearing it Preached as by any outward Instrument but that inwardly thou wast taught by the Spirit of God and if he ask whether thou believest it not because it is written in books or because the Priests so Preach answer no not now but only because it is written in thine heart and because the Spirit of God so Preacheth and so testifieth unto thy Soul and say though at the beginning thou wast moved by Reading or Preaching as the Samaritans were by the words of the Woman yet now thou believest it not therefore any longer but only because thou hast heard it of the Spirit of God and read it written in thine heart CHAP. IX

descend from Heaven and consume the Samaritans which would receive not Christ but with Violence will God have no man compelled unto his Law Paul also testifieth 2 Cor. 1. that he had not rule over the Corinthians as touching their Faith And again As no man can search the heart but God only so can no man judge or order our Faith but God only through his Holy Spirit Collected faithfully by me G. K. out of the Works of W. Tindall and John Frith who are called Worthy Martyrs and Principal Teachers of the Church of England in the Title Page of the Book Printed at London by John Day Anno 1573. COme hither all you called Episcopalians Presbyterians Independents Baptists and any others and let us try your Faith whether it be the same with that of the Antient Protestants as also we are willing that our Faith be put to the tryal that it may appear whose faith is most agreeable to the faith of Antient Protestants and Martyrs one of the most eminent whereof was this William Tindal who above one hundred years ago was a principal Teacher of the Church of England and died a Martyr 1. First his Faith was that as we are all Created of one God so we are all indifferently bought with one blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ so tbat Christ his shedding of his blood is as universal for men as the work of their Creation and this is our Faith who are called Quakers to wit that Christ hath tasted death for every man and that he hath dyed for all according to the Scriptures But whether is this your Faith yea or nay 2. Secondly his Faith was that both the Law and the Gospel are in the Hearts of Men and is none outward thing and that we should seek within our hearts the Plaister of Mercy yea that we should seek the Testament of God in our hearts and the Word of the Law and of Faith and that we should let them go who seek God here and there and in every Temple save in their hearts and this is our Faith who witness unto the Words in the Heart and bid people seek God within them and Christ within and not without them in Temples made with hands or outward Observations But whether is this your Faith yea or nay 3. Thirdly his Faith was that the Scripture had a body without a bark and shell and as it were a hard bone but within it had a Soul Spirit and Life c. and this is our Faith who say the Letter killeth and the Letter of the Scripture is not the Word but the Life is the Word that is within and is no outward thing But whether is this your Faith yea or nay who say the Letter is the Word and deny the Word originally to be in the Heart Fourthly his Faith was that the Heathen once bad the Spirit of God and that Pharoah before his heart was bardened had the Spirit of Grace and this is our Faith who say the true Light which is Spirit doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world sufficiently unto Salvation and that a manifestation of the Spirit is given unto every man to profit withal But whether is this your faith yea or nay who deny the saving Light of Christ to be Universal Fifthly His Faith was that Good-works through working of the Spirit of God are absolutely needful to continue us in the favour of God and in a justified state and this is our Faith but whether this is your Faith yea or nay seeing many of you say David continued in the favour of God and justified while he committed Murder and Adultery Sixthly His Faith was that a Believer needed no outward Law nor Rule for he keepeth the Law by the leading of the Spirit only and this is our Faith but whether is this your Faith yea or nay who say the Scripture which is outwardly is the only Rule and will not acknowledg the Spirit within to be the Rule Seventhly his Faith was that the Scriptures are to be believed that they are of God because of the Inward Testimony and teaching of the Spirit of God and that the true Faith is a feeling Faith a sure feeling who have this Faith are taught of God himself as immediately as when a man is taught that the fire is hct by putting his finger in it here the fire teacheth him immediately that it is hot and he needeth no man to tell him and this is our Faith in all these parculars who witness unto the immediate Teachings of God by his Spirit in our hearts But whether is this your Faith yea or nay who deny spiritual feeling and sense to be essential to true Faith telling people they must not seek to live by spiritual sense and feeling but by Faith as also telling them that Faith may be without assurance This is contrary to Will. Tindall his Faith and contrary to the Scriptures Testimony which calleth Faith and Guidence a Seeing a Handling all which imply both spiritual Sence and Assureance Eighthly His Faith was that men were to believe the Principles of their Religion not because they are written in books but because they are inwardly taught by the Spirit of God and this is our Faith but whether is this your Faith yea or nay who say the Scriptures are the formal object of Faith and the first Rule or moving Cause by way of object to make us believe and who say immediate Revelation is ceased and is not the general priviledge of all true Believers Ninthly His Faith was that the Working of the Spirit was to be felt and was to be known by feeling and that none should think his Faith right who hath not the feeling of the Spirit and this is our Faith but whether is this your Faith yea or nay who deny tbe feeling of the Spirit properly so called and mock and deride us when we speak of feeling and when ye ask us how know ye that you are moved led by theSpirit to such things we answer by our feeling which bath certainty and evidence in it that is sufficient This Answer ye reject as Fanatical Heretical and what not Tenthly His Faith was that men are justified by an inward Righteousness wrought by the Spirit of God in the bea rt and this is our Faith but whether is this your Faith yea or nay who deny that any are justified by an inward rigbteousness in their hearts although wrought in them by the Spirit of God Eleventhly His Faith was that the first day of the Week was not commanded by God to be kept boly but the Church keepeth that day because of convenience for instructing the people and worshiping God and this is our Faith but whether is this your Faith yea or nay who say that day is of Gods commanding to be kept as a Sabbath Twelfthly His Faith was that Magistrates may Preach and every man may Preach or Teach who is taught of God in case of necessity and that Women may teach and this is our Faith but whether is this your Faith yea or nay vvho would monopolise it unto the Clergy or a certain order of Literate Men. Thirteenthly His Faith vvas that Philosophy and School learning was not needful to understand the Scripture nor to be a Preacher or Divine and this is our Faith but vvhether is this your Faith yea or nay who lay so great stress upon Philosophy and School-Learning that ye permit none to be Preachers or Doctors of Divinity who have not them Fourteenthly His Faith vvas as also the Faith of John Frith another Principal Teacher in England and Martyr that Hereticks were not to be punished with Prisonment Fetters Scourging Sword and Fire and this vvas the Faith of many others in that day and this is our Faith but vvhether is this your Faith yea or nay whose chiefest Arguments against us the people in derision called Quakers have been Prisons Banishings Scourgings spoiling of Goods and such like carnal and violent ways Writ by me George Keith one of these People in derision called Quakers who am a true and cordial Protestant The End