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A47149	Gross error and hypocrisie detected in George Whitehead and some of his brethern as doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical answer he and some others have given to some queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the people call'd Quakers, in the third month, 1695, by comparing the said answer with the printed books of the said George Whitehead, William Pemn, and John Whitehead, leading men in the said Meeting, wherein the great inconistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed books is discovered : with a further account of their vile and pernicious errours / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.; Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing K172; ESTC R3387	26,885	44

that Outward Blood so outwardly shed as the Payment of our Debt and Satisfaction for our Sins is this the true saving Faith Was not his outward Blood that Blood without sheding of which there cou'd be no Remission Heb. 9.22 But if your Mystical and Allegorical Notion of Inward and Spiritual Blood that is Only Light and Spirit within may be constru'd to be that Blood and that it is shed inwardly at this Day when as you say in the above Queries that he has no outward Blood then it might have been shed before Christ came in the Flesh or if he had never come And so renders his coming unnecessary and our Faith in him as come in the Flesh to be altogether vain These Questions may be propos'd to the Assembly and their Answer demanded W. Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London May 15. 1695. Return your Answer to Dr. Lancaster at Mr. Wiseman ' s House a Chirurgeon in Long-Acre London 3. Day 4. Month call'd June 1695. Friend William Lancaster HAving received a Paper of great Objections against Us the People call'd Quakers with Seven Queries therein subscrib'd William Lancaster directed to our Yearly Meeting in Whitsun-Week 1695. and deliver'd to some of Us very near the Conclusion thereof and therefore only read in the said Meeting which not having any further Time to consider the Contents thereof or to give any particular Answer thereunto it was by the said Meeting left to a few to consider and answer as in the Fear of God and Meekness of Wisdom we should see Cause Wherein we observe is noted Great Objections have been made against Vs by those who have departed from our Communion as by others To which we reply That 's True and they have been answer'd to which we referr And we observe in the said Paper it 's said We would not take an Account of you only from your Adversaries c. and We have chosen this Solemn Time and again And We have chosen this most proper and convenient Opportunity c. And then states the several Queries and says These Questions may be propos'd and their Answer demanded Now the Objections having been publick and our Answers publick we desire to know who the Wee are that are intended in this Paper that we may apply our selves to them or give such Scriptural Answers as we hope may tend to Satisfaction But to repeat Answers in Writing or Print to we know not who so often as demanded to the same things already answer'd we think it not needful Therefore have herewith only sent thee a few brief Lines being grosly wrong'd and mis-represented in the said Objections And divers of the Queries contain several Questions in them in different Terms and some Unscriptural so not plain and direct Queries therefore cannot positively be answer'd by our single Yea or Nay to each Query as desir'd We therefore at present send this general Answer to the Queries for thy Information as followeth viz. We sincerely believe and profess Jesus Christ and the Resurrection according to the Holy Scripture-Testimony and to that measure of Understanding which God hath been pleased to give us by his Holy Spirit We sincerely believe in Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of the Living God both as He is True God and Perfect Man our Emanuel and Mediatour and as in the Fulness of Time he was Conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judaea Suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was Crucify'd and put to Death was Buried Rose again the third day and visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucify'd shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory to judge both the Living and the Dead according to their Works at the last and great Day of Judgment in that great Harvest which is the End of the World And that by Jesus Christ there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead both of the Just and Unjust unto the Righteous Judgment of the great Day consequently That the Resurrection is not past as Hymeneus and Philetus said 2 Tim. 2.18 And that the Dead shall be rais'd Incorruptible every Man in his own Order and that our low Body shall be chang'd and made like unto Christ's glorious Body The Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints we believe shall be Spiritual and Glorious and that the Sons of God and of the Resurrection shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven and shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father and yet there is such a great Mystery in the Resurrection as that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption 1 Cor. 15. The whole Sacrifice of Christ whereof his Blood outwardly that was shed was a Part was of great Price with God for Man's Redemption Christ's Blood that was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem together with the whole Sacrifice of Himself both of Soul and Body was a true Propitiation and Atonement for Man's Reconciliation and Peace with God for Remission of Sins through a living Faith and true Repentance in his Name given and wronght by his Spirit and Word of Power in Mens Hearts whose sincere Obedience to Christ and walking in his Light being required of them in order to experience Christ the Author of their Eternal Salvation and to wash them from their Sins in his own Blood for without this true Faith Repentance and Obedience to Christ Jesus Men lose and forfeit the great Benefit of Christ's Sufferings and deprive themselves of that Eternal Redemption and Salvation which he hath thereby obtained for Us tho' he dy'd for all Men tasted Death for every Man and gave himself a Ransom for all to be testify'd of in due Time being a true Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World From thy Friends and Well-Wishers John Gratton Samuel Wattson Thomas Lower James Parke John Bowater Geo. Whitehead John Vaughton A True Copy THE SEVEN QUERIES Delivered to the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers met at Grace-Church-Street Meeting-House the 15th Day of the third Month 1695. Signed by William Lancaster with these Words prefix'd to his Signing These Queries may be proposed to the Assembly and their Answer demanded by William Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London Answered plainly and directly out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead and William Pen. Query I. DO you believe in Christ without you now in Heaven Answer To this G. Whitehead's Words in his Answer to William Burnet in his Book called The Light and Life of Christ within c. Printed at London in the Year 1668. may be a proper Reply to signifie his Perswasion touching this weighty Question I shall first recite the Words of William Burnet as I find them quoted by Geo. Whitehead in the 38 th page of his Book The Light and Life of Christ within Baptist Now the

them Thirdly If any slay the Life of Christ in them by their Sins doth not that hinder the Life to be a Sacrifice by Geo. Whitehead's Argument That the killing of Christ outwardly being the Act of wicked Men could be no meritorious Act Fourthly Where doth the Scripture say Christ offers up himself in his Children a Sacrifice for Sin Fifthly Is not this to make many Sacrifices or at least to say that Christ offers himself often yea Millions of times contrary to Scripture that saith Christ offer'd up himself once Sixthly Why could no beast under the Law that had a Blemish be offer'd but to signifie that Christ was to offer up himself in no other Body but that which was without all Sin Seventhly Why was it prophesied of Christ A Body hast thou prepared me why not Bodies many if he offer up himself in the Bodies of all the Saints Eighthly Is not this to make the Sacrifice of Christ in his own Body of less Value and Efficacy than his Sacrifice in William Penn's Body Because the Sacrifice of Christ in that Body that was offer'd at Jerusalem was a Type but this in William Penn's Body the Antitype That the History This the Mystery Ninthly Doth not this strengthen the Papists in their false Faith That Christ is daily offer'd in the Mass and unbloody Sacrifice But whereas William Penn argueth That as Christ or the Spirit Prayeth or maketh Intercession in the Saints why doth he not also offer up himself in them The Answer is easie The one is expresly affirmed in Scripture The other not nor is so much as to be proved by any just Consequence in a strict sence of the Word Sacrifice for it is not the Work of the Mediatory Spirit of Christ in the Saints to offer up himself a Sacrifice in Men but to apply the Vertue Merit and Efficacy of that Sacrifice of Christ outwardly offer'd to the Souls of Men for the Remission of Sin Justification before God and Peace with God And tho' it is said in Scripture that Christ remaineth a Priest for ever and he is the Propitiation for our Sins yet it is not said he is so in us but with the Father in Heaven And we have a High-Prist that is gone into Heaven Nor do I judge it safe to allow any such Unscriptural Phrase or Doctrine That Christ offereth up himself in us a Sacrifice in us to appease the Wrath of God though Christ's Mediation in the Saints may be allow'd in a qualified Sence but not in the nature of a Sacrifice but in other respects unless the Word Sacrifice or Offering be taken not to be an Offering for Sin but more generally and by way of Allegory as the Prayers and Alms of the Saints are call'd Sacrifices Note That in the Book of Homilies William Penn's Argument against Christ's Satisfaction for our Sins is effectually answered at large viz. in the Sermon of Salvation First Part. Where the Objection or Argument of William Penn is in Matter and Effect duly and fully answered according to Scripture viz. That God by his great Wisdom in this Mystery of our Redemption hath so tempered his Justice and Mercy together that he would neither by his Justice condemn us unto the Everlasting Captivity of the Devil and his Prison of Hell Remediless for ever without Mercy nor by his Mercy deliver us clearly without Justice or Payment of a just Ransom But with his endless Mercy he joined his most upright and equal Justice c. And whereas George Whitehead in his Reply to W. Burnet as above-cited blameth him for attributing to the Blood of Christ that was shed upon the Cross First Merit to Salvation Secondly Work to Sanctification It is evident he owneth it to be neither But as he is most highly jurious to that precious Blood and to him that gave it for us so he most unfairly chargeth W. Burnet with saying God could not save and so setting up that Blood above God For W. Burnet's plain Sense was as is obvious more especially to him that shall read his Book That Christ as God without being Man as well as God could not save us he having appointed to save us not without but by the Man Christ Jesus as the Scripture testifieth which chargeth no Imperfection or Impotency any more upon God than to say God cannot lye nor do any thing contrary to his Holy Council and Purpose And it is gross Ignorance and Errour in George Whitehead to make it a Contradiction in William Burnet to say as he chargeth him p. 8. Men ought to look to Jesus Christ as he was there crucified viz. at Jerusalem or to that Blood that was there shed for Justification And again to say That Christ that restoreth Man's Loss is both to be sought and found in Heaven viz. above the Clouds and Firmament For this is no Contradiction but a most necessary and comfortable Truth as well as that God and Christ are to be found in our Hearts But it is wonderful Blindness and Inconsiderateness in George Whitehead as well as in many of his ignorant Brethren whom he hath been a great Means by his unfound Books to darken rather than to enlighten not to consider That as God hath appointed divers subordinate Causes to work together in the producing of Natural Effects all concurring in Harmony together with himself the greatest and supreme Cause above all who is in all and through all So in the Work of our Salvation God hath appointed together with himself divers subordinate concurring Causes to effect and perfect it so as that God himself is our Saviour so he hath appointed Christ even the Man Christ Jesus to be our Saviour together with himself and the Blood Death and Sufferings of Christ and his most Holy and Perfect Obedience testified thereby also his Resurrection Ascension and Mediation without us as well as the Work of his Spirit in us together with the other much more inferiour but yet greatly valuable and profitable outward instrumental Helps and Means as the Holy Scripture Preaching c. in harmony to concurr together in the Work of our Salvation A POSTSCRIPT I Take notice of a late Book published against me by Th. Elwood call'd Truth defended c. but whose true Name should be Falshood and Hypocrisie weakly defended being a pretended Answer to my two late Books the one detecting the Injustice of of their Excommunication against me who were a leading Party of the Yearly Meeting of them call'd Quakers the other detecting the unjust Proceedings of that Party at the said Yearly Meeting and giving a List of the vile and gross Errors of some of their principal Teachers as George Whitehead William Penn c. To the which pretended Answer of Th. Elwood abovemention'd as also to some of the chiefest of his Forgeries and Pretensions and gross Abuses in his former Book call'd A farther Discovery it is probable a due Answer may be given in due time But I thought it not

Quakers would be so far from directing Men to go to the Material Temple That they make it a vain thing to look to Jerusalem to the Antitype of that Temple viz. To Jesus Christ as he was there Crucified or unto that Blood that was there Shed for Justification p. 24. G. Whitehead answereth The Quakers see no need of directing Men to the Type for the Antitype viz. Neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood knowing that neither the Righteousness of Faith nor the Word of it doth so direct Rom. 10. And a few Lines after he saith And where do the Scriptures say The Blood was there shed for Justification and that Men must be directed unto Jerusalem for it Query II. Hath he now in Heaven the same Body though now changed in Qualities and Glorify'd which he assum'd in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin in which he Suffer'd Died was Buried Rose again and Ascended outwardly In Answer to this take John Whitehead's Words in his Postscript to a Book call'd The Quakers Refuge pag. 90.41 I have several times saith he deny'd 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 Again he saith ibidem Christ hath a Body or is in a Body suitable to his Spirit consisting of Heavenly Flesh and Bone Also he saith Wheresoever the Spirit and Life of Christ is that is in the Body of Christ Note As he owneth that Christ has a Body that is not the Church yet he owneth no other Body of his besides his Church that is circumscript or limited out of every Man on Earth Now by John Whitehead's Words it plainly appeareth either that Christ hath not that real Body he had on Earth which was Crucify'd c. or if he hath it is such as not only every one of the Saints but every Man yea and every Creature hath he denying it to be circumscript or limited And is not this a fair Inlet to the Popish Doctrine of the real Presence of Christ's Body that suffered to be in the consecrated bread as they imagine Query III. Will he return in that same Body Outwardly or without Men to judge the World c Answer To this George Whitehead's Words in his Book before-mentioned call'd The Life and Light of Christ within page 4 1. are a fit Reply whereby to give us an Account of his Belief or rather Unbelief in this weighty Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith But three Comings of Christ saith George Whitehead not only that in the Flesh at Jirusalem and that in the Spirit but also another Coming in the Flesh yet to be expected we do not read of but a second Coming without Sin unto Salvation which in the Apostles Days was looked for And one John Newman whom George Whitehead answereth in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds having said from Rev. 1.7 Those that pierced him in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly come again To this George Whitehead answereth These are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty Rev. 22.18 19. yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that See also for Answer to him Rev. 1.7 8. and 13 14 16. in none of which is Jesus Christ either call'd or represented as a Body of Flesh visibly to come again but that he is Alpha and Omega the first and the last And Christ in the Days of his Flesh wherein he visibly appear'd to the World said Yet a little while and the World seeth me no more John 14. and 19. But his second Coming and Appearance without Sin unto Salvation I own and witness page 21 22 of that Book and page 23. So where they add the Word Personal or his coming again or Personal Being do they not herein shew their carnal Expectations c And George Whitehead in his Answer to William Burnet The Light within c. page 40. replyeth to two places of Scripture brought by William Burnet to prove Christ's Coming again without us to judge the Quick and the Dead where he answereth in these express Words And as to that 1 Thes 4.17 which William Burnet brings to prove that Christ shall come in the latter end of the World from Heaven above the Clouds Now in p. 15. it 's said that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of our Lord now I ask saith George Whitehead if they did live and remain to a Personal Coming of Christ in the Clouds yea or nay or can it be reasonably thought to be a Coming that is not yet that they lived and remained unto c. And in Answer to that other place of Scripture which William Burnet had brought to prove the Resurrection of the deceas'd Saints after the Bodily Death George Whitehead saith again that the Dead in Christ shall arise first we own to be an Effect of Christ's Coming and know that there is a Dying in Christ and being Baptized unto his Death before a Coming forth or Rising in the likeness of his Resurrection c. And a little after saith But to know the said States what it is to Die with Christ to be conformable unto his Death and to partake of the Power of his Resurrection these things are hid from that Eye that is Carnal c. Note He grosly perverteth and misapplyeth these Scriptures only to an inward Dying and Rising with Christ and to his inward Coming into the Saints But though the inward Work of Mortification and an inward Death and Rising is to be own'd and which I find not that William Burnet in his Words deny'd and is according to the Scriptures Testimony and the Saints Experience yet surely to understand these above-mentioned places of Scripture of that inward Dying and Rising and inward Coming of Christ in the Saints is a gross Perversion and Misapplication of Scripture yea and a gross Abuse of it especially when it is brought by George Whitehead on purpose to contradict William Burnet's Assertion held in common by all sincere Christians viz. That Christ is as visibly to Come again as he did visibly Ascend and that the Bodies of the Dead Saints shall be Raised And George Whitehead's Reason that he brings to refute William Burnet's sound Assertions in this matter is most weak and impertinent As because Christ said John 14.19 Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more which he brings to contradict Christ's coming againg in Person without us to judge the World It proveth no such thing as that he should never at any time appear to the World for he limits it for a little time that they shou'd not see him And the Greek Word or Particle may be well translated not as yet as it is elsewhere translated And what a trifling and empty Reason brings he to prove that 1 Thes 4.17 is not to be understood of

Christ's Personal Coming yet to be as because Paul said we that are alive and remain c. as if therefore Paul did not mean any Outward or Personal Coming of Christ in that place George Whitehead asking If they did live and remain to a Personal Coming of Christ in the Clouds yea or nay or can it be reasonably thought to be a Coming that is not yet that they lived and remained unto For if George Whitehead had not been greatly blinded and darken'd with Prejudice against this great Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith viz. The Coming of our Lord in his glorify'd Person and Body he might have easily perceived how the Apostle Paul used the Word Wee for They by a common Enallage Personae that is used both in Scripture elsewhere and in other Writers commonly as when James saith herewith speaking of the Tongue curse we men and yet James himself was no Curser Like to this place in 1 Thes 4.17 is that 1 Cor. 15.51 Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed which place however some pervert and misapply as if the Change of the living Saints at Christ's outward appearance at the end of the World were not there meant but some inward Change that the Saints had witnessed before Death is certainly to be understood of the Change of the Saints Bodies who then should be found alive at Christ's outward Coming as generally all found Christians have understood these places of Scripture and as I desire to praise God I have always so understood them And it is too great Evidence of George Whitehead's not being taught and guided by the Spirit of Truth in his opposing such sound Christian Doctrine and plain Testimonies of the Holy Scripture which every Babe in Christ doth better understand than this high Pretender to high Divine Illuminations George Whitehead by his thus opposing found Christian Principles belonging to the Fundamentals of Christian Religion hath laid great Stumbling-Blocks in the way of many that read his Books who conclude it cannot be that George Whitehead is so taught and led by the Spirit of Truth as he pretends seeing he contradicts such manifest Truths so plainly laid down in Scripture And George Whitehead would do well to consider his own Words pag. 36. of that oft-cited Book The Light and Life c. where he saith The Spirit brings to the fulfilling of the Scriptures and doth not destroy the Truth contain'd in them Therefore I say the Spirit that set him on Work to destroy the Truth of Christ's outward Coming to Judgment at the great Day and other great Truths declar'd in the Scriptures is not the true Spirit that gave it forth And here again I cannot but a little take notice how though very severely George Whitehead blamed I. N. for affirming That those that pierced Christ in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly again alledging that these are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that And yet George Whitehead in his late Answer to these Queries useth the Word Visibly with respect to Christ's Ascension saying Article 2 d. of that Paper That be to wit Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory Now I am sure there is the same ground in Scripture for his visible Appearance and Coming again as there is for his visible Ascending But it is worthy of Observation that though George Whitehead professes in his late Answer to these Queries his belief that Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven yet he no where in all the Paper nor any where else that I find doth openly and plainly declare his Faith that Christ shall visibly or outwardly appear at the Day of Judgment so as to be seen as an Object without Men. And though his Words in this his late Answer would seem to imply that he did so now believe for he saith and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucified shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory c. Were George Whetehead ingenuous and not too much given to Equivocation in his way of Writing this might pass currant they being sound Scripture Words and according to Scripture But when we shall consider how when both John Newman and William Burnet did formerly bring these Words for a Proof of Christ's Outward and Personal Coming yet to be how George Whitehead turn'd off this very place of Scripture from Christ's Personal and Outward Coming ● Glory and wholly apply'd it to his inward Coming Allegorizing the Clouds to Clouds of Ignorance and Sin in Mens Hearts And that I do not find that George Whitehead hath made any publick Retractation of his said Perversion of this and other places of Scripture we have but too great ground not to judge this his Confession in his late Answer to be sincere For if he meant not in this his late Answer Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he but deceives his Reader and especially him or them who sent these Queries And if he means really Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he contradicts his former Prints wherein he hath so manifestly oppos'd it and yet he is so extremely confident of his former Books that he referrs to them and others for an Answer to these Queries as if all were sound wholsome Doctrine contain'd in them and as if he were not changed from his former Sentiments in the least Tittle or Punctilio But let us hear his own Words in Answer to John Newman in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds page 22. ad finem But saith George Whitehead the same Jesus as he was seen Ascend when a Cloud came and received him out of their sight who stood gazing Acts 1.9 10 11. it is said shall so come in like manner c. which tho' every like manner is not the same nor all the Clouds the same yet the same Jesus certainly cometh in like manner his Coming being in the Clouds And to let us know in what Clouds he meaneth Christ is Ascended above and in what Clouds he will appear above he giveth this Title in his Book in Answer to John Newman Christ ascended above the Clouds i. e. in his Divinity c. vindicated from the Cloudy Erroneous and Blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren And all this wresting of the plain Scripture Words Acts 1.9 10 11. which John Newman brought to prove his Personal Coming and Appearance without Men George Whitehead makes to destroy if he could the Faith of that great Truth of Christian Doctrine viz. Christ's Outward Coming in his Glorify'd Nature and Person of Man to judge the whole World Therefore since George Whitehead hath told in Print in Answer to John Newman's bringing that palce of Scripture Acts. 1.9 10 11. This same Jesus c. shall so come in like manner That every

like manner is not the very same nor all Clouds the same and seeing George Whitehead has formerly oppos'd Christ's Personal Coming or his Coming in Person without us as a thing yet to be expected he ought to clear it what manner of Coming and what sort of Clouds he doth now understand to be intended in these Words Acts 1.9 10 c. For though it be a real Truth that Christ is Ascended above all Clouds of Sin and Ignorance and Errours as well in George Whitehead as in others yet I am well assured that was not the Sense intended by the Spirit of Truth in these Words nor was it the Sense of them that spoke these Words to the Disciples Query IV. Will our Dead Bodies then arise the same Bodies in Substance though altered in Qualities and Properties which we now have Answer Hear what George Whitehead hath said in Print in his Answer to Mat. Coffin about the Resurrection That may be a proper Reply to this Query in shewing George Whitehead's Unbelief and Errour as touching the Resurrection of the dead Bodies of Men. See his Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within page 69. There is saith George Whitehead a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body and there are Bodies Celestial and Bodies Terrestrial The Sun Moon and Stars are Celestial Bodies but Birds Beasts and Fishes are Terrestrial Now you might reckon him a very Blind and Ignorant Man that should put no difference between the Bodies Celestial and those that are Terrestrial or that should reckon the Bodies of the Sun Moon and Stars and the Bodies of Birds Beasts and Fishes to be all one in Matter and Substance Note At this rate Christ's Body now in Heaven is not the same Body he had on Earth in no respect for if it be not the same in Substance i. e. Being or Essence it is not the same any other way considered For a great difference it is if one thing differ from another in Qualities and Properties or in their Modes and Modifications and one thing may differ from it-self with respect to divers Times States and Conditions But to say a thing is changed Substantially or Essentially is to say that thing is no more that thing in any respect but is annihilated For whatever Heavenly Excellency and Dignity Christ's Body had when it was upon Earth which may be in a true Sense acknowledged being Miraculously and Supernaturally conceiv'd and form'd by the Power of the Holy Ghost yet seeing Christ did both Eat and Drink and did Sleep and Hungred and Thirsted c. it is certain his Body had the Properties and Qualities of our Earthly Bodies otherwise how could he be said to be made like to us in all things but without Sin And seeing Mens Bodies are universally nourished with what they eat and drink and their Food by certain Digestions becomes a part of their Bodies the Excrementitious part being excepted we must needs think that Christ's Body was really Terrestrial i. e. had Terrestrial Qualities when it was upon Earth But now it is Heavenly endu'd altogether with Heavenly Qualities as the Bodies of the Saints will be at the Resurrection And it is false Philosophy to say the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars are in kind quite other Substances from Earthly Bodies The more true Philosophy and Knowledge of Natural Things is that the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ not Substantially or Essentially from Earthly Bodies otherwise they cou'd not nourish Earthly Bodies as they do Yea George Whitehead in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent rebuked page 17. Treating on the Body of Christ saith And we believing such a Change of the Glorious Body of Christ we do not thereby nor never did believe that the Body of Christ which suffer'd was annihilated and that his Flesh saw Corruption No such matter May there not be then saith he a very wonderful Change in the Body and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed Note here how George Whitehead hath contradicted George Whitehead and how inconsistent is he with himself One while he is a very blind and ignorant Man according to George Whitehead's Philosophy That a Body that is Terrestrial and a Body that is Celestial are one in Substance Another while again by George Whitehead's Philosophy There may be a very wonderful Change in the Body viz. of Christ and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroy'd And then I say why not also may there not be such a wonderful Change in the Bodies of the Saints and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed And though the Scripture distinguisheth betwixt Bodies Terrestrial and Celestial yet it doth not say these visible Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ in Substance from Earthly Bodies George Whitehead hath not learned this sort of Doctrine either from the Letter of the Scripture or the Spirit of God that gave it forth or from true Reason but hath it either from his own dark Imagination or from the dark Imagination of other Men as dark and ignorant as himself I had not been so large thus to correct his false Philosophy but that he maketh use of it here and elsewhere to overthrow the Faith of that great Article of Christian Doctrine plainly testify'd in the Holy Scripture to wit The Resurrection of the Body But seeing George Whitehead in his Book called The Malice of the Independent Agent owneth or seemeth to own That Christ's Body he had on Earth is now in the Heavens and is not annihilated nor the Substance of it destroyed how comes it that he so peremptorily disputeth against Christ's Personal Existence and his Personal Coming again or Appearance or Personal Being alledging it implies him to be a Personal God or Christ like the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians conceit of him and he Argues against any Limitation of Christ's Personal Existence or being at the Right-hand of God without all Men. But how George Whitehead will reconcile this to his Assertion in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent where he owns that Christ's Body of Flesh saw no Corruption but is in Being and not annihilated And in his Postscript to the said Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent he saith of Christ's Body 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 In my former printed Treatise call'd A short List of some of the Vile and Gross Errors of George Whitehead c. I noticed George Whitehead's Contradiction to John Whitehead about the Body of Christ But here I would have the Reader notice George Whitehead's Contradiction to himself in the two above-mention'd Books as if George Whitehead since he argued against the Personal Being of Christ without every Man had turn'd Anthropomorphite and Muggletonian for asserting that Christ hath a Body in Heaven that is not every-where But to assert that

or was a Co-creator with God is to imply two Gods Thus by George Whitehead's way of Reasoning Christ was neither visible Man nor the invisible God but what else he cannot tell It is strange that he should thus Argue against Christ's being God with God when the Scripture saith expresly John 1. The Word was with God and that Word was God And Christ said he was glorify'd with God before the World was And was he not the Son of God by an Eternal Generation and yet One God with the Father If Christ had only a Father as he was Man then he was not God by Eternal Generation Query VI. Is Christ now at this day and for ever to come truly and really a Man in true and proper Humane Nature without all Men For a Suitable Reply to this hear George Whitehead who if he hath not denied him to be Man yet whether he hath not denied him as Man without us to be the Object of our Faith let the Judicious Reader judge in his Book call'd The Light and Life c. page 61. Another while saith he People must seek their Saviour above the Clouds and Firmament contrary to the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 10. Another while they must seek to Jerusalem for Justification to the Blood that was there shed contrary to Deut. 30.13 14. and Rom. 10. And in page 45 46. he saith But if he say he hath sought Christ at such a Distance by Faith He goes on I ask if the Object or Foundation of Faith be divided from the Faith or if the living Faith doth not stand in the living Power of God And whether the Righteousness of it doth tell of seeking and finding Christ above the Clouds Stars and Firmament But why tells he so much of above the Clouds are not the Clouds and Circumference of the Heavens as well under us as above us Note It is evident here from George Whitehead's Words That to him Christ without us is not the Object of Faith and to direct Men to Christ above the Clouds is contrary to Deut. 30. and Rom. 10.6 and oft he perverteth this place of Scripture in that and other his Books and hath led many into the same gross and vile Errours with him as if it were contrary to Deut. 30. Rom. 10. to direct Men to Christ without But no such thing doth so appear either from Deut. 30. or Rom. 10.6 or from any other place of Scripture But on the contrary there is a plain Direction Rom. 9.10 to Christ without as well as in Rom. 10.7 8. to Christ within For the one doth not exclude the other and yet Christ is but One. For though we have not his Person and Body as Man within us yet as he is that Word that was with God in the beginning and is God he is in all Men. But there is a plain Direction in Rom. 10.9 10. to Christ as he rose again from the Dead and to be sure that was without us And a great stress the Scripture layeth on the true Faith and Confession of that great Truth as being a necessary Terms of Salvation If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth and believe with thine Heart that God hath raised Christ from the Dead thou shalt be saved This is more than a bare Historical Faith It must not be a Faith or a bare Notion of Faith only in the Head and Brain but it must be in the Heart and have its Root and Rise from the Word of Faith in the Heart And in Heb. 12.2 as in many other places there is a Direction to Christ without us as the Object of Faith together with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit not only as without us in Heaven but every where present as well as within us And to deny that both God and Christ consider'd as without us as well as within us is the Object of our Faith is not only great Unchristianity but worse For to deny God to be the Object of our Faith without us is as much as to say God is not without us or if he be we are not concern'd to believe it But did not Christ direct his Disciples to pray to God saying Our Father which art in Heaven and was that only within Men It is strange how he would limit and confine the Object of Faith only to God and Christ within This has given great Occasion to some to charge George Whitehead and others with Idolatry For if the God and Christ that is the Object of George Whitehead's Faith be only within and not without he has not the true God and Christ for the Object of his Faith But if this be an Inadvertency in George Whitehead he ought to correct it and remove the great Offence he hath cast in the way of many who have occasion given them by his unsound Words to think he and many of his Brethren neither worship the true God nor the true Christ who would confine the Object of Faith only to be within And for George Whitehead so to taunt William Burnet for his saying Christ is to be sought and found above the Clouds Stars and Firmament bespeaketh him that he was then at least when he so wrote too much leavened and corrupted with Ranter's Notions that held God and Christ Heaven and Hell and Devils to be no-where but within Men or at least as some of 'em held That God is no-where to be minded but as within For though no Man can have a true and saving Knowledge of God and true and saving Faith in him but as it is wrought in him by the Spirit of God within yet that true Faith and Knowledge respects him as Omnipresent as well as Omniscient and Omnipotent and in his other infinite Perfections And it is a miserable wresting and perverting of that place Rom. 10 as if Christ were not as really to be minded as an Object of our Faith in Heaven without us as within us whereas it is plain that place is to be understood of Christ's Body So that we are not to say Who shall bring it down to us from Heaven and the Jews were not to expect that Christ in Moses's time nor long after should come down from Heaven to assume and take a Body until the fulness of Time And now that Christ's Body is ascended that we are not to say Who shall bring him down to us in that Body But this doth not hinder that by Faith and Meditation we should respect him now in Heaven as the real Object of our Faith Love and Obedience or that we should not in Faith hope for his real Coming again in his Glorify'd Body in the time appointed And his Philosophy wherein he would seem to be some Body is false and vain in taking William Burnet to Task for telling of Christ so much above the Clouds and querying Are not the Clouds and Circumference of the Heavens as well under us as above us I say to speak properly according to the best Rule of