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A47188	The true copy of a paper given in to the yearly meeting of the people called Quakers at their meeting-place in Grace-Church-street, Lonon, 15 day of the 3d. month 1695. By George Keith, which was read by him in the said meeting, by their allowance. With a brief narrative of the most material passages of discourse betwixt George White-head, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, and the day following, betwixt George White-head, William Penn, and Francis Canfield on the one side, and George Keith on the other; ... Together with a short list of some of the vile and gross errors of George Whitehead, John Whitehead, William Penn, their chief ministers, and now having the greatest sway among them (being of the same sort and nature with the gross errors charged on some in Pensilvania) most apparently opposite to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion ... And a proposition to VVilliam Penn, to prove his charge, that G.K. is an apostate.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing K220; ESTC R220379	30,855	34

Ratcliffe and Haranging against me as I was told in my Absence at the last Yearly Meeting which some present greatly blamed And some putting VVilliam Penn in mind to give an Account to the Meeting of his manner of Opposition to me at Ratcliffe Meeting and what just cause he had so to Treat me He began and told the Meeting what he spoke by way of Opposition to me at Ratcliffe was not till after I have abused not only him and Friends there present but had abused Friends in general and had distinguished my self from them by saying of them they did put such a gloss on that place of Scripture 1 John 1. 7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin and by charging Friends in general and saying he would prove it out of their Books that they denied That the Blood of Christ's Humanity did with God Expiate for Sin and said VVilliam Penn though I was much spent in the Meeting by my former Testimony yet after he had so abused Friends in general I was raised up in such a Transport so that I was carried beyond my self not knowing whether I was sitting standing or kneeling but I was in no Passion the glorious Power of God which I felt did so Transport me that I confess I gave Judgment against him and saw no need of staying till a Quarterly or Yearly Meeting should Judg him seeing he had Judged us all and plainly distinguished himself from us at which I confess I was much moved and had scarce patience to hear him assert such gross Falshoods and to father his Transport of sinful Passion upon the Spirit of God which God forbid I should ever do And after William Penn had done I replied That was most abominable in him and blaspheming though not against the Holy Ghost I hope to father his most sinful Passion calling it a Transport upon the Glorious Power and Spirit of God a thing but too familiar with him and many others of his Associates It could be no Divine Transport falsly to accuse me of that whereof I was not guilty But he gives you a most false Relation in matter of Fact He saith he did not oppose me and judg me until after I had not only abused him and Friends there present but had abused Friends in general and had distinguished my self from them by saying of them They did put such a Gloss on that place 1 John 1. 7. The Blood is the Life and that Life is the Light within But I neither charged him nor any called a Quaker at that time for putting such a Gloss upon that place though I can sufficiently prove That both he and others have put that Gloss on it at other times And though I said I could prove out of some of their printed books That they did not own That the Blood of Christ's Humanity was that which did with God expiate for sin yet I charged only some particular persons called Quakers but not the people in general therefore his Information was false in the main In the Conclusion of my Discourse with them among others Francis Camfield pressed much That silence should be made and let any who were dissatisfied with the Last Years Judgment declare their dissatisfaction and if they did not they were not honest men To which I replied Although it passeth for a Proverb Silence is Consent yet ye know it is not always true How oft in Meetings when things are carried by a prevailing Faction or Party against Truth Right and Justice Persons will be silent through fear of displeasing yet are not satisfied but go away grieved and wounded and this ye are not ignorant of what sayest thou to it Francis Camfield knowest thou not that it is so FINIS A Short List of the Vile and Gross Errors of Geo. Whitehead John Whitehead and William Penn c. Friendly Reader I Design only to give thee at present this short List of these mens gross and vile Errors opposite to some of the Fundamental Doctrines of Christianity reserving a more full Account of both their Errors and some others in high esteem with them to another Opportunity with a due and impartial Correction of them wherein I purpose also God willing if he shall be pleased to prolong my Life and Health and afford me his Gracious Assistance impartially to publish together with the said Correction some short Explications and also Emendations where I see need of some Words and Passages in my former Books for upon a Review of my former books as the Book of Immed Revel the Book of Universal grace the Rector corrected and Truth defended I freely acknowledge I have found some Passages and Words that not only need some further Explanation but even in some part an Emendation and Correction And I thank Almighty God that has not only given me to see them but has given me that humility of heart and Love to Truth and Regard to the Salvation of Souls that I can freely both acknowledge and correct my former mistakes after the Example of some Worthy Ancients And had these men that are turn'd my so implacable Enemies for my zealous and free opposing such gross Errors that I found them here as well as others in America guilty of and which those in America had suckt in out of their Books had but had the l●●e Huminity and Love to Truth and Regard to the Honour of God and Salvation of Souls instead of hating and excommunicating me for my Opposition to those Errors they would have loved and embraced and encouraged me and gone before me in their good Example to have openly corrected them But Old Self prevailing in them would not permit them to do any such thing a plain Evidence they Love the Praise of men more than the Honour of God and Salvation of Souls and the Conceit that they had begot the People generally into that all what they preached and printed was from the infallible Spirit and that they were altogether of a sound Mind and Judgment in all parts of Christian Doctrine tending so much to support their Praise and high Esteem and Admiration among their too credulous Followers being to be contradicted if they should acknowledge their former Errors and unsoundness of Faith in these great matters This is the Pinch and Difficulty at present and rather than acknowledge their Fallibility and gross Mistakes and pernicious Errors touching Fundamental Doctrines they resolved to cloak and cover all these gross Errors both of them in America as well as their own and the more safely to hide themselves they now begin to Preach contradictory to their former books in divers things but will not own any self-contradiction pretending there is none But withal they mightily charge me with my Contradictions to my former Books To which I can and do thus answer 1. If in any things or words I do contradict what I have formerly Printed I am willing most freely and cordially to correct my former mistakes for

THE True Copy of a Paper Given in to the YEARLY MEETING OF THE People called Quakers At their Meeting-Place in Grace-Church-street London 15 day of the 3d. Month 1695. By George Keith which was read by him in the said Meeting by their allowance With a brief Narrative of the most material passages of Discourse betwixt George White-head Charles Marshal and George Keith the said day and the day following betwixt George White-head William Penn and Francis Canfield on the one side and George Keith on the other wherein is laid open their most Unfair Unjust and Unchristian Method of Procedure against him contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and all true Gospel Order TOGETHER With a short List of some of the vile and gross Errors of George Whitehead John Whitehead William Penn their chief Ministers and now having the greatest sway among them being of the same sort and nature with the gross Errors charged on some in Pensilvania most apparently oppsiote to the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion asserted and maintained by them in their Printed Books and some scandalous passages out of Stephen Crisp's Collection approved by them concerning Christ's Generation in Time and Blood of his Humanity faithfully transcribed by George Keith And a Proposition to VVilliam Penn to prove his charge That G. K. is an Apostate Isaiah 29 13 11. ●5 Forasmuch as this People dram c. 2 Per. 2. 1 But there were fals● prophets also among the People even as there shall be fals Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Here●ie even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves shift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the may of Truth shall be evil spoken of London Printed for R. Levis 1695. To the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers met at London the 15th 3d Month 1695. I Come here before you in a Spirit of Love to acquaint you with divers things relating to my present Case chusing rather to commit what I had to say into writing then by word of mouth well knowing that words spoken either may not be so well remembred by them that hear them or may be liable to be misconstrued by some that may be prejudiced In the first place I lay my Complaint before you against divers persons owned by you as Members of your Society for their publick defamation of me and grosly and unchristianly representing me in some late printed books as particularly Thomas Ellwood in his two Printed Books against me and John Pennington in his printed Book And I desire that Justice of you that ye may hear what I have to offer to you as sufficient proof and evidence that they have grosly defamed me and falsely accused me and misrepresented me and also I laying Complaint against the second days Meeting or that party of them who have either approved or permitted such scandalous Books to come forth against me and also for their approving or permitting Sam. Jennings his scandalous Book fill'd with many Falshoods and Defamations to come out against me as I have made sufficiently to appear in my late Answer to the same and offer more to make appear if ye give me a hearing Secondly I lay my Complaint before you against divers persons who have publickly Interrupted me in my publick Testimony and exercise of my Ministry in Meetings particularly Daniel Whirlley at two several times in the Meeting at Whitehart-Court the last time being the last first Day and W. Penn some Weeks ago at Ratcliff Meeting not only interrupted me in my publick Testimony but called me Apostate and an open Enemy to Truth and Friends doing what in me lay to pluck up the Testimony of Truth and Friends by the Roots with divers others false Speeches and Defamations but instead of proving his charge against me he went away in hast Now his Charge against me That I was an Apostate and did what in me lay to pluck up the Testimony of Truth and Friends by the Roots doth plainly enough imply his offence at the Doctrine asserted by me as being opposite to the principal Testimony of Truth asserted by faithful Friends and striking at the very Root and Foundation of Friends Testimony Now I desire this Justice of you That W. Penn be required to make good his Charge against me and prove me guilty of the same or that he be brought to acknowledg his Error and also I desire to know what any of you have against me in matter of Doctrine or Life and Conversation that maketh some so unfriendly and unbrotherly towards me and whatever my Offences may be whether supposed or real that it may appear that ye are for doing Justice impartially without favour or respect of persons I judg ye ought to be concerned equally to hear my Complaints and do me Justice against such owned by you as have wronged me as to hear their Complaints against me and do them Justice against me if it appeareth that I have wronged them yea suppose I were as bad as some represent me or worse suppose I were Turk or Jew ye ought to do me Justice against them that have defamed me and falsly accused me and in order to do me Justice to hear the Evidences and Proofs that I have to bring forth against them Thirdly Whereas they that gave forth that Paper called A true account of the Proceedings at the last yearly Meeting in this place gave it as their Advice That Friends should be tender and kind to me as I should approve my self to be a Man of Peace and Charity towards all and Answer your Christian Advice therein and to avoid all publick and apparent reflections on both sides Now that it may appear ye are for doing Justice impartially let it be impartially examined by you as well whether they of the one side have not kept to that Advice given in that Paper as whether I have kept to it on the other side and let it be duely weighed in the Ballance of Truth which of us are more or less guilty or whether they or I be most or altogether Innocent but if it be said there is no time for such an Examination or enquiry I say if sufficient time be not allowed for such an Examination no due Judgment can be given in the Case against me for whatever pretences some make to Judg me to be wrong and of a wrong Spirit from their inward Sence and discerning without outward Proofs and Evidence in matter of Fact against me will bear weight with none of a sound Judgment and who have a due regard to Christ's Doctrine which is to Judg the Tree by its Fruits and these Fruits must be made appear in some matter of Doctin or Faith and the Scriptures forbid to receive an Accusation against an Elder but before two or three Witnesses Fourthly I lay my Complaint before you against Will. Bingely John Vaughton and others who have manifestly to the observation of the

them which Friends well received and encouraged me therein and yet after all this to pretend to be Ignorant what was meant by the Body of the People called Quakers was to him very strange But however he would tell me what they meant by the Body First they meant none who had broke themselves off from Friends by their evil Contentions and Strivings and walked not in Charity and Peace with Friends But by the Body they meant all who walked in Unity with Friends in the same Profession with them and were Charitable and Peaceable and here he spake much in Praise of their Unity that had been preserved among them notwithstanding of the endeavours of many to break it To this I replyed thou mistakes the Case George Whitehead I refused not to hearken to the Advice of Friends so far as it was a Command of God but so far as it advised me to do what is contrary to God's Command I own I ought to Live in Unity Charity and Peace with sound and Faithful Friends but it is no breach of that Unity to reprove Errors publickly Preached in our Meetings and to rescue many places of Scripture from the Perverse and Corrupt Glosses of Ignorant Men and if contending for Truth and hard words be an Argument of want of Charity none have been greater contenders than many of the People called Quakers not only amongst other Professions but even among themselves before they disowned one another The Advice given me to clear the Body of that People of all gross Errors when I know so many guilty even such among you as are owned most to be in Unity is a most unjust thing to require of me and if for this I must be disowned I shall rest well satisfied Next as to the sense of the Word Body of the People called Quakers I have been a Preacher and Writer among that People and a Labourer among them these thirty years past and I never understood that all deserved to be called the Body that did but outwardly profess Unity with Friends I am not such a Novice as not to know that it was the Sense of many Friends as well as my sense that many Professed Truth with us and made a Profession of Unity that were not in it and were not in the Possession of the Life and Power of Truth whereof they made an outward Profession And as for the Unity of them here away that some so much boast of there is no such great cause so to glory and boast of Unity One thing G. VVhitehead much insisted upon of my being changed or at least so appearing since the last Yearly Meeting for then I seemed to be very much concerned and desirous not to be broken off and disjoynted from Friends but now it appeareth to him and others that it is a very indifferent thing with me to be disowned by Friends To this I replied That he did in that as in other things mis-represent the Case it is no matter of indifferency to me now but of great weight and moment both with respect to you and me first with respect to you if God should permit you to be so blinded as to disown me without any just cause on my part but simply my bearing my Faithful Testimony to the Doctrine of Christ and against the gross Errors of some among you this to me is no indifferent thing on your Account next as to me That is no matter of indifferency for if I be disowned by you for well doing as I shall be very sorry for you so I shall greatly rejoyce on my Account because of the Spiritual Advantage I hope to receive thereby relying on the Faithful Promise of Christ Matth. 5. 11 12. About this time there being a great Commotion in the Meeting by reason of my free and bold Speech which some are pleased to call Passion and Railing VVilliam Penn stood up desiring Friends to keep down to the Sense for by that they were to judg of this Disorderly Spirit or Person who had accused George Fox and other Antient Friends Writings and may be said he he may pick up some things here and there in them to Criticise upon After he had done I said to him William Penn Thou may be ashamed so falsely to Accuse me in the face of the Meeting I said nothing of George Fox nor had I him at present in my Remotest Thoughts I only mentioned some here present but George Fox is not here at least visibly present and for your pretending to Judg me by your sense without giving me any fair Tryal or bringing any New matter against me either in Doctrine or Practise to prove against me Face to Face by plain external Evidence in you so doing ye will make your selves Ridiculous in the face of the World we are here set as upon a Stage before God Angels and Men and if ye pass any Judgment against me by your pretended inward Sence ye will be sufficiently discovered what unjust men ye are And I say to thee William Penn it became thee not so to abuse me in an open Meeting at Ratcliffe calling me an Apostate and an open Adversary to Truth and Friends I am thy Elder Brother and was a Preacher among the Quakers before thou was a Quaker though thou and some others of latter years have lifted up the Heel against me William Penn replied Thou boastest of thy Antiquity which I should not do were I in thy case I Answered I boast not of my Antiquity but by thy own words and the words of G. W. Antient Brethren should be Regarded and not run down by others of latter years as thou and others seek to do though ye have nothing justly against me I intend not to let it pass thy publickly accusing me to be an Apostate but to put thee to make it good in the Face of the Nation that is his own Character not mine for I can prove him in the Apostacy from some of the chief Fundamentals of the Christian Doctrine VVilliam Penn Replied He would Answer me in the Face of the Nation So let this his promise be remembred the event I hope will prove it how badly he will acquit himself I told him he had sufficiently shown his prejudice against me and how unsit he was to be my Judg. Then he began to tell in great heat what he had born of me even more than what he might have born of Fifty Persons of my greatness But I contend not with him in Greatness but in the cause of Truth which is greater than all his Greatness not only Fifty Fold but Infinitely and how much he had Laboured to qualify Friends towards me in order to a Reconciliation and how he had Writ in my Favour to them in Pensilvania This last I acknowledged to be True but how real he was in his favour either then or since time has sufficiently discovered having Opposed me and Accused me in several Private Meetings as well as of late Publickly at

is as unchristian as the other two viz. because the Seed bruised in good measure the Serpents Head in the Holy Men and Women of all Generations before that outward appearance this is a Truth but the Consequence he draws from it is a notorious Falshood and a most Antichristian Doctrine viz. That therefore the Seed of the Woman and the promised Seed of Abraham figured by the Types and Figures of the Law as the Pascal Lamb c. was not any outward thing or person but an Holy and Spiritual Principle of light Life and Power and at this rate Christ was not a Lamb without nor a Man without but a Lamb within and Man within And though he pretendeth to overthrow his Adversaries Opinion viz. Some called Baptists and others yet he Fighteth against his shadow by limiting the question by the phrase strictly considered for I know no Baptist that ever said the Body strictly considered i. e. without the Soul of the Man Christ and without the Godhead is Christ or that promised Seed of Abraham and Seed of the Woman And though Christ did not become the Seed of the Woman according to the sense of that place of Scripture Gen. 3. until the fulness of time that he was made of a Woman yet seeing that Divine Power that inwardly did destroy the Power of Sin and Sathan in true Believers in him that was promised to come was the real Power of him that was to come and the gift of it was the real purchase of his most Holy and Perfect Obedience unto Death when he came it is truly said That he bruised the Serpents Head in all true believers in all Ages And thus having shewed the Antichristian Doctrine of these 2 great Champions that have appeared against me to give out this Nameless Bull of Excommunication in some Particulars that are Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith I shall in short present to the Reader 's View the Antichristian Doctrine of the Third Champion John Whitehead not only contradicting the plain Doctrine of the Holy Scripture in a Fundamental Article of Faith but also contradicting his Brother William Penn for William Penn saith the Body of Christ is not so much as in any One but John Whitehead saith indeed That Christ hath a Body or is in a Body suitable to his Spirit consisting of heavenly flesh and bone and doth not deny that Christ has any Body now beside his Church but he confesseth he hath several times denied that Christ hath now a body of flesh and bones circumscript or limited in that Heaven which is above and out of every man on Earth See pag. 40 41. of that book called The Quakers Refuge the Postscript of which is here cited And he saith plainly Wheresoever the Spirit and Life of Christ is that is in the body of Christ and thus as he owneth that Christ has a body that is not the Church yet he owneth no other body beside his Church that is circumscript and out of every man on Earth And yet not only W. P. saith The body of Christ is not so much as in any One a plain contradiction to John Whitehead But George Whitehead in his Printed Postscript in answer to W. H. queries in the book called The Malice of the Independent Agent Rebuked saith concerning the flesh of Christ that was raised from the Dead it is so far circumscribed or incompassed in the Heavens as it 's capable of and as is proper to it and though it be spiritual and glorious yet a body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to bodies See how like Sampson's Foxes though tied by the Tail their Faces look contrary Again In the Collection of Stephen Crisp's Treatises commended and signed by George VVhitehead John Whitehead Francis Camfield John Vaughton VV. Bingley John Field my chief opposers and adversaries and others ye have these following gross and absurd passages most offensive to Christian Ears concerning Christ's Generation in time and expiation of sin by his Blood In his Treatise called The Backslider Reproved being a Reply to one Robert Cobbet he blameth the said R. C. for affirming pag. 194. that to be the Seed of Promise which came by Generation of and from the Properties of Mary He further adds Is not that the Seed of Promise mentioned in Isaiah 9. 6. who is called the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace And what is Mary the Mother of God this will please the Papists well and where is thy Scripture to prove that Jesus the Saviour was Created And pag. 197. he saith But indeed we never believed him to be produced by Coagulation as R. C. doth nor by the Generation of and from the Properties of Man in Mary for then some might have declared his Generation which the Scripture saith who can do Obs 1. It is denied here by S. C. That that was the Seed of Promise which came by Generation c. This is plain contrary to Matt. 1. 1. The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ the Son of David the Son of Abraham 2. As it is Evident from Scripture so it is the consent of all sound Christians That Christ was the Son of God by an eternal Generation before the World began and the Son of Abraham and David by Generation in the fulness of time and though this Generation was Miraculous yet it was of and from Mary therefore he is said to be made of a Woman 3. His denying that Jesus the Saviour was Created or calling for Scripture to prove it doth sufficiently prove that he understands Christ only to be God and wholly excludes the Manhood of Christ from being Christ or any part of him 4. That Prophecy in Isaiah 9. 6. Unto us a Child is Born c. which is a plain Prophecy concerning Christ's Birth in the fulness of time he plainly denieth it to be understood of Christ as he was born of Mary 5. I believe with all sound Christians against Jews and all Infidels that he who was born of Mary is that Child or Son given who is both God and Man and yet one Lord Jesus Christ and though none can fully and in all respects declare either the Generation of Christ before the time of this World was or his Generation in the fulness of time yet in some degree and respect it hath been declared both by the Prophets and Evangelists and Apostles but none ought to declare it but Holy Men to whom it hath been in some measure Revealed 6. I find that not only S. C. but G. W. quarrels with that Expression calling Mary the Mother of God as if it were Popery But are they wiser than the Holy Ghost who giveth these Names to the Child that was to be born according to Isaiah's Prophecy wonderful Counseller the mighty God c. Again in the same Treatise pap 192. concerning the Blood of Christ's Humanity he saith And then again