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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

of Regeneration I do affirm the Work of Regeneration is a light thing tho' not light in its self Immediate Revelation p. 120 121. And all these glorious things both he in the Days of his Flesh and the Prophets before that his Appearance in that Body of Flesh declared neither only nor principally concerning his Coming in the Flesh namely in that Vessel or Temple which appeared at Jerusalem but mainly and principally concerning his Spiritual Appearance in his Saints after his being Crucified Risen and Ascended for till then the Son of Man was not glorified Phil. 7.39 And though he was Bodily present with his Disciples yet he told them they were to see greater things Phil. 1.50 And he said The Kingdom of God was at hand I am not accountable for your False Quotations and he taught them to pray for it and he said There be standing some among you which shall not taste of Death till they see the Kingdom of God come with great Power and Glry Whereby it is manifest that these things relat MAINLY to his coming again in Spirit when it should be poured out accordi●g to those many Promises concerning the same Recorded in the Prophets an● as is said before he told them It was expedient he should go away that he might c●me again in a MORE GLORIOUS and Comfortable Appearance by the Reve●ation of his Glorious Power in their Hearts for his Kingdom was not of this World but an Inward Kingdom and he said that it was within and pointed to this Spiritual Appearance by his Light in their Hearts under many Parables and Figures which he calls the Kingdom of God Mat. 13.18 19 c. Exact Narrative Ibid. But the matter is there is a Saving Faith of Christ without us and Christ without us as he is both God and Man the Emmanuel as well as his inward Appearance in us is the Object of Saving Faith but those Men would not own it Immediate Revelation p 231. So that this Internal Revelation Searching and Testimony is the Foundation and Ground of my Faith commonly called the formal Object of Faith for which I believe and assent unto the Truth of any part of the Scripture and consequently of the History its self if my Faith be a Divine and Supernatural Faith and not meerly Humane Exact Narrative p. 46. He says I have already cleared George Whitehead and William Penn from that Charge that they have not destroyed the Object of Faith And I say I have proved that they have destroyed the Object of Faith if they have at other times owned it let them disown and retract their Errours I am not to account for their Contradictions They have Contradicted themselves they have Disowned the Object of Faith and if I have Charged them with it this is no Contradiction in me but in them Immediate Revelation p. 4. And if we are to partake of the same precious Faith so also are we to partake of the same precious Revelation and Inspiration of the Word of God by which their Faith was wrought and which was its OBJECT and Foundation as also it is ours and continues to be the same in all Generations Exact Narrative p. 26. Now he says It is contrary to Rom. 10. to direct People to Jesus Christ as he was Crucified at Jerusalem But let the Bible be judge He has not Cited the Verse but the Verses he aims 〈◊〉 shall read Ver. 5 6 7 8. For Moses describeth the Righteousness which is of the Law That the Man which doth those things shall live by them c. See Ver. 6 7 8. Now in their Preachments they have used to stop there and go no further But read the 9th Verse If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine Heart that God hath raised him from the Dead thou shalt be saved c. Immediate Revelation p. 77. The Light reveals the WHOLE Wi●● of God unto him and as he abides in the Light and waits in it it will manifest clearly in him what he should do and what he should shun and he needs not go forth to seek a Law without him or a Teacher without him The Word is near in his Heart and in his Mouth and this is the Word of Faith to which Moses pointed the Jews and Paul the Romans Again p. 106 107. And he calls them the Words of the Righteousn●●● of Faith and that Word Moses pointed the Jews to in the Heart He calls it the Word of Faith and it is clear he understands it of Christ for he addeth by way of Interpretation to Moses's words speaking from the same Spirit Say not in thine Heart who shall ascend into Heaven That is saith he to bring Christ down from above Again a little lower in the same page And the Jews and People of Israel wh● lived in Moses's time and WERE SAVED it was through Faith in this Word 〈◊〉 this Prophet raised up in them in their Hearts not at a distance but nigh the Word is nigh in thy Heart And this is CHRIST IN THEM the Hope o● Glory the Mystery hid from Ages and Generations but was ever made manife●● in his Saints but in the latter Days more clearly Christ in all that believe the Hope of Glory Well Sir I hope you will thank me for making no Comments upon the foregoing two-fac'd and double-tongu'd Quotations I referring that part to your self upon a Review Only Querying of you Whether they Treat of Fundamentals or no But pray excuse me if I trouble you a little farther and be pleased to exercise what little patience you may by this time have left in perusing what I have further to offer I observe you say of Mr. G. Whitehead Exact Narrative p. 39 40. Now all these proofs Mat. 16.27 28. Luke 9.26 27. 1 Thes 4.17 he has Allego●ized to Christ within he has Allegorized away his Birth his Death Resurrection and Ascention and coming to Judgment and so we have nothing from Scripture to prove Christ's Death to be of any Benefit to us and we have no Arguments to prove he came in the Flesh And so all the Proofs against Jews and Philosophers h● has Allegorized away But Sir What if Mr. Keith have done the like what will you say then Perhaps the World may be ready to say There is never a Barrel the better Herring of you in that respect For if I were to ask Mr. Whitehead Whether by the places you quote his Intention was the Explication thereof being always to be allowed to surviving Authors according to your own Proposal in a Book I have by me thereby to overthrow the Faith of Christ Crucified c perhaps he might reply No and produce some of his Books in confirmation of such a denial Then on the other hand if it should be queried of Mr. Keith Whether he never Allegorized for the word away we must in Justice drop on both sides the Birth Crucifixion Resurrection and Miracles of