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A54084	Keith against Keith, or, Some more of George Keith's contradictions and absurdities collected out of his own books (not yet retracted) upon a review : together with a reply to George Keith's late book, entituled, The Antichrists and Sadduces detected among a sort of Quakers, &c. / by John Penington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1228; ESTC R23208	84,028	154

Gods Grace whereby we are sanctified Further Discovery p. 17 18. Printed Anno 1694 If that in ward Principle whereby Men are sanctified were purchased by Christs Death and Blood what became of both Jew and Gentile before Christ's Death Were they without an inward Principle and unsanctified Himself shall resolve the Question anon In his Book stiled Truth Advanced Printed Anno 1694 he thus hath it It is not said that Cornelius had the Holy Ghost in his Gentile State although he had a great measure of Gentile Sincerity and Righteousness Nor is it any where to be sound that ANY received that Holy Ghost which Christ promised PARTICULARLY to Believers in him but such ONLY who believed in him even Christ crucified and raised again p. 70. And in the next Page That Holiness that is a Conformity unto Christ the second Adam and is the proper and peculiar effect of the new or second Covenant is far more excellent than any Righteousness or Obedience that is but the effect of the first Covenant or Ministration and is but a Conformity to the first Adam his Righteousness and maketh not Sons but Servants or if Sons but Sons of Hagar or the first Covenant And under this first Covenant Ministration the Spirit is called in them the Spirit of Fear and Bondage but the filial Fear and Love and other Gospel Vertues are the far more excellent And here the Spirit is called the Spirit of Adoption or Sonship that helpeth us to cry Abba Father And as the Spirit of God is called in Scripture the Spirit of Faith c. So it is called the Holy Spirit or Spirit of Holiness because it worketh a peculiar Degree and kind of Holiness in all true Believers in Christ Crucified c. above what the most upright Gentiles do Witness or Experience in their meer Gentile State The Law made nothing perfect and that Law was not only the Law without but even the Law WITHIN both in Jews and Gentiles until the Faith of Christ the one Offering come to be revealed by which one Offering he hath for ever perfected all that are sanctified p. 71. Let the Reader bear these things in Mind or recur to them upon occasion for on this hinge hang most of the Observations in the ensuing Quotations which belong to this Head Now before I bring his former Books in Evidence against him I think needful to Premise that I have not here delivered Mine or my Friends Sentiments pro or con for or against but barely wielded my Adversaries weapon against himself for his Writings abound with Contradictions as I have already observed in my Apostate Exposed and that other called People called Quakers cleared c. who though he could tell others that They are not so sincere as to own and retract in publick their Errors exposed in publick even lest such Retractation or Correction should lessen and abate their Honour and Esteem among their too credulous Followers and Admirers See Preface to Gross Error p. 2. yet himself is the Man that offends in that wherewith he unjustly taxeth others forgetting or at least little regarding what Paul saith Rom. 2. 21. Thou therefore which teachest another teachest thou not thy self c. For although he represented his very minute viz. Not touching any of the great Doctrines and Principles of the Christian Religion but relating to some Places of Scriptures unduly applied to prove or defend things that were Truths but did not really prove these Truths True Copy p. 18. and hath promised to correct and retract them p. 17. yet it remains undone to this Day which is above a Year ago If he be so unwilling to correct small faults what would he be to greater But before I have done with him I doubt not to evince he had no Reason to cast the first Stone especially against the Innocent when himself was so deeply culpable To that end hear him Light of Truth Triumphing Printed Anno 1670. thus That the new Covenant requireth doing is plain from Deut. 30. 14. But the Word is very near unto thee even in thy Mouth c. which Word the Apostle Paul expounds to be the Word of Faith and Righteousness of Faith Rom. 10. 8. which he preached and that was the NEW COVENANT p. 11. Hence I argue if the Word near be the Word of Faith c. be the New Covenant then who hear it and obey it are not under the first Covenant only held under the Custody and Safe-guard of the Law c. but the Word of Faith being closed in with the Faith is revealed And surely the New Covenant is Saving and Perfecting Page 15. He proposeth a few Queries to R. Gordon to shew as he alledgeth that the Nature and Light by which the Gentiles did the things contained in the Law and knew God was that of Christ 1. How could they do the things of the Law but by the Divine Nature of Christ seeing without him men can do no good thing And I Query Whether the Divine Nature of Christ whereby God is known be without the Holy Ghost or whether the Divine Nature of Christ did not even then make perfect for in Truth Advanced p. 70. he denies Cornelius c. had the Holy Ghost and p. 71. that the Law within made perfect before the one Offering came to be Revealed 2. How could they be excused but by Christ 3. How could they be without excuse who disobeyed if they had no Principle given them sufficient whereby to perform their Obedience 4. How did some of them PERFECT the Law and judged the Circumcision and was Jews inwardly and had Praise of God if not by Christ Could they perfect that Law that it self made nothing perfect Again is the Jew inward who hath praise of God by Christ without the Holy Ghost but a Son of Hagar Surely this Man had need have looked at home and retracted his own Errors before he had been so brisk upon others 5. How could they clearly see the invisible things of God but by Christ the Son seeing it is said None knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him And though these invisible things are clearly seen in or through the things that are made yet not without that which is to be known of God manifest in them which God had shewed unto them which gave them an Eye or Understanding to see his Invisible Power and Godhead in these things And now I query How doth the Son reveal these invisible things but by the Holy Spirit 1 Cor. 2. 10. Do Men see the Invisible Power and Godhead without it Or is that Administration that gives to see the Invisible Power and Godhead Evangelical or Legal Imperfect or Perfecting But fighting against Truth blinds Men. Again he tells his Adversary Thou secretly Labours to prove that the Name of Jesus Christ Redeemer and Saviour belongs only to the Word as it was manifest in that particular Body and Form of Man born of

Keith against Keith OR SOME MORE OF George Keith's Contradictions and Absurdities Collected out of his own Books not yet Retracted upon a Review TOGETHER WITH A REPLY TO George Keith's Late Book Entituled The Antichrists and Sadduces detected among a sort of Quakers c. By JOHN PENINGTON A Double-minded Man is unstable in all his Ways James 1. 8. They that observe lying Vanities forsake their own Mercy Jonah 2. 8. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-House in White-Hart Court in Gracious-Street 1696. ERRATA PAge 4. line 7. f. as r. or p. 14. l. 27. r. Evangeli●●● p. 21. l. 30. f. the r. that p. 22. l. 32. r. those p. 24. l. 28. r. Propose p. 28. l. 27. f. teacheth r. treateth p. 29. l. 18. f. the r. that l. 25. r. never l. 29. r. p 70. p. 31. l. 30. r. and honest p. 32. l. 17. r. outwardly p. 33. l. 1. r. promise p. 34. l. 1. f. they r. that p. 40. l. 4. after that del● which p. 41. l. 15. f. and r. to l. 29. f. outward r. outer p. 59. l. 21. r. hearers in in order p. 61. l. 2. f. as r. or p. 64. l. 7. r. Penington's l. 17. f where r. whence p. 65. l. 21. f. on r. in p. 66. l. 24. f. these r. those p. 77. l. 13. r. Rector's p. 80. l. 14. r. believed l. 20. f. on r. in p. 81. l. 3. r. who and goes on p. 89. l. 3. r. hold p. 101. l. 4. f. 127. r. 117. p. 106. l. 1. r. as well as p. 112. l. 27. f. would r. could p. 120. l. 27. r. asketh if that p 123. l. 10. f. the r. ● at p. 131. l. 31. r chargeth p. 139. l. 24. r. this which he calls p. 145. l. 4. f. an r. and l. 9. r. Popery p. 146. l. 22. for ad hucr adhuc l. 33. r. vorten KEITH against KEITH OR Some more of George Keith's Contradictions and Absurdities ALthough G. Keith blame us in his Advertisement p. 3. for heaping Book upon Book against him to which himself gave the Provocation alledging want of Time and Ability of outward Estate of whose Sincerity therein the Reader may judge by his cutting out new Work of late in his twelve Penny Narrative yet he continuing to abuse us in Print 't is fit we should there also vindicate our Holy Profession from his unjust Defamations And having to do with an unstable Adversary I had collected and digested a List of some more of his Contradictions and Absurdities upon a review which I now make introductory to the Reply wherein if I exceed my wonted Brevity know the variety of Subjects occasioned it These I shall divide into two Heads making his own Assertion in Way to City of God Printed Anno 1678. The Title of the First his Absurdities and Contradictions promiscuously Collected out of his Book called Truth Advanced Printed Anno 1694. the Second And then enter upon defending my Self and Friends from his late false Charges in his late Book stiled The Antichrists and Sadduces detected among a sort of Quakers c. 1. That through the coming of Jesus Christ in the inward even before he was unwardly come as manifest many were saved and attained unto perfect Peace and Reconciliation with God in their Souls Way to City of God p. 125. And the Method I shall take here shall be first to set down what I find in his later Books and then confront him out of his former and that the rather for that in his Serious Appeal Printed Anno 1692. p. 21. he saith Let but the Reader see my own Words in my Printed Books and well consider them and if he have but a little sound Judgment he will easily find I have not contradicted my self in ANY THING Upon this Issue I am willing to leave it with the Considerate and Judicious though perhaps G. Keith will allow none to be such but who say as he saith and begin with the Christian Faith c. Vindicated c. Printed Anno 1692. where he with others thus deliver themselves Though we do affirm that all conscientious and honest Gentiles such as Cornelius was before the Faith of Christ was preached to him have some measure of Light from Christ to enlighten them and are under some Administration of the Spirit yet it is but the first Ministration until the Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died for our Sins and rose again c. be spiritually received And such who have the true and saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he dyed and rose again without them are ONLY Christians and Sons of God of the free Woman having receiving the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father But who have not this Faith of Christ crucified and raised again outwardly spiritually receiv'd and wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ Whether they have or have not heard Christ outwardly Preached unto them are at BEST however Just and Conscientious to the just Principle of God in them not under the second and more peculiar Ministration of God's Spirit that makes Men worthy to be esteemed Christians but are only under the first and such are held under the Custody or Safeguard of the Law shut up unto the Faith that is afterwards to be revealed as Paul declared Gal. 3. 23. And the State they are in under this first Ministration is to them as the City of Refuge was to the Man slayer under the Law Christian Faith p. 6 7. This Notion of the City of Refuge c. I having met with in other Books of his and touched upon in mine Entituled People called Quakers cleared c. as smelling of the Doctrine of the Revolution of humane Souls though G. Keith doth not care to hear of it and contrary to the Scriptures particularly Eccles 11. 3. and Heb. 9. 27. I refer to what hath been said there p. 33. and go on In his Book without date called Truth and Innocency Defended he saith None are justified by Christ but through Faith in him as he dyed for them and rose again c. For he that believeth not is condemned already and therefore the Ministration of the Law whether outwardly writ on Tables of Stone or inwardly writ on Stony Hearts is the Ministration of Condemnation preparing for Christ and leading unto Christ and such who are under the Law let them be ever so obedient just and conscientious because they have sinned and are not perfect are held under it shut up as in a Custody or Safeguard as the Manslayer in the City of Refuge and are not perfectly justified but are under Fear their Thoughts Accusing and Excusing for though they are excused or accused or to say justified in some good things done by them yet that can be no perfect Justification because their State is imperfect p. 19 20. By his Obedience unto Death and precious Blood he hath procured and purchased for us that in ward Principle of

was that Spirit as Paul hath taught p. 187. Now I query Seeing Christ was not then offered up whether that Spirit were the Holy Ghost or no And also whether the Spirit made him perfect yea or nay In Truth 's Defence Printed Anno. 1682. He thus hath it When I say the Spirit is the Rule there is no absurdness therein for if we mean by the Spirit THE HOLY GHOST Christ and the Holy Ghost are never seperated or divided in what they Speak or witness in the Souls of Men Christ himself in Scripture is called the second Adam the quickening Spirit the Lord is that Spirit p. 170 And in p. 107. he tells us Paul Expounds Deut. 30. 14. of Christ and that Clemens Alexandrinus and others of the Fathers so understood those words of Moses if so the Jews by having Christ for their Rule had the Holy Ghost for their Rule even before he was Crucified and Rose again This he inforceth in what follows If Enoch Noah Abraham had the Spirit to be a Rule unto them it is no less a Rule unto all now who have the SAME FAITH which they had seeing the SAME SPIRIT is given to Believers now which they had which Spirit is one as Paul hath declared And it is most Rational that as the Faith is one IN ALL AGES of the World and the Spirit ONE So the Principal Rule of Faith should be one also p. 114. If the Spirit be one the Faith one the Rule one in all Ages of the World How came Cornelius not to have the Holy Ghost when his Prayers and Almes came up for a Memorial before God Or had he that one Spirit Rule and Faith which Enoch Noah and Abraham had and that one Spirit not the Holy Spirit not the Spirit of Holiness not the Spirit of Adoption or Sonship Is not this to make two And to the Levites P. 121. He allows the Spirit of God to the right interpreting the Scripture Now Christ not being yet Crucisied and Raised again I query Whether that Spirit were something besides the Law within which of late he hath said made nothing Perfect His Commanding them to tarry at Jerusalem until they received the promise of the Father which was the Spirit to wit in GREATER MEASURE than formerly it was given unto them did not oblige c. p. 141. Had he kept to this distinction in his latter Writings he would not have told of Cornelius and the Gentiles not having the Holy Ghost before they had Faith in Christ Crucified c. A more plentiful Effusion of the Spirit being no part of the Controversy but granted But still it is the same Spirit same Faith same Rule as himself once acknowledged and was instanced even now In the next place he having of late asserted that the Law within did not make perfect till c. Let us hear how he here defineth perfection He who is Faithful in every respect to the measure of Grace which he hath received is indeed a perfect Man and doth please God although he be not equal in his attainment unto others who have more given them saith G. Keith p. 212. But can any one be perfect by vertue of a Law that doth not make perfect And if there were this deficiency even in the Law within during the first Covenant Administration how could any be perfect then And yet to shew that he abounds with Contradictions he hath allowed it to many as in above-cited Way to the City of God p. 125. which I made the Title of this first Part. And now I come to G. Keith's Book of Divine Immediate Revelation Printed Anno. 1684. which I Read not till of late by means of his citing it in his answer to me of which anon Speaking of Cornelius he saith Do not Peters words plainly imply that there were many such good honest Men who were acceptable to God through Christ although they had not heard of Christ as yet outwardly Preached See p. 26. 27 Again Cornelius received the Spirit Immediately and yet obtained it FURTHER by means of Peter's Preaching p. 63. Qu. Was not then the Spirit he received before and after Peter's Preaching the same Spirit Again We no where Read in all the Scripture that Noah Preached to all Mankind in the Old World but we find expresly that God by his Spirit did strive in those Men which most plainly sheweth that they had some inward teaching given them from the SPIRIT OF GOD for against what did they Sin but that Law Published by the Spirit of God in their Hearts seeing they had no written Law They had that inward Law which as Paul affirmed the other Gentiles had Rom. 1. See p. 54. The word of God was rare in respect of its being outward preached yet it was near and within in the Hearts of both Jews and Gentiles as Paul did affirm Rom. 10. compared with Deut. 30. p. 55. Whence I Query What Spirit this is What Law Published thereby What word this that Paul and Moses Speak of And whether they that received it and obeyed it received the Holy Spirit and were thereby made perfect especially seeing he further saith p. 79. All the Faithful under the Old Covenant were immediatly taught of God yet not by vertue of the Old Covenant but of the New which New Covenant in some degree had place in the time of the Old and was to be further revealed in Gospel Daies c. Surely if the New Covenant had place in some degree in the time of the Old the New Testament promised I will put my Spirit within you Ezek. 36. 27. had also a place during the Old Covenant Administration even where the word of Faith was closed with And what Spirit is this if not the Holy Spirit In p. 55. After having desended R. B's sense with respect to God his never changing his way or manner of Teaching and Enlightning his People by his Spirit inwardly working in them and his Continuing the same in all Ages before the Law after the Law and also after the coming of Christ he adds p. 56. that The inward Preaching Speaking and Illumination of God by his Spirit did ALWAYS remain in some degree more or less in the true Church and in ALL its Members Qu. Were the Gentiles who did by nature the things Contained in the Law none of these For if at any time the outward Preaching was little or none God did supply that outward defect inwardly by his Spirit c. In the same Book viz. That part which is ●n answer to Geo. Hicks he alledgeth p. 154. Clemens Alexandrinus is so for from thinking that only the Prophets and Apostles ●ri● by divine Inspiration that he plainly declareth that not only Plato but also many others Preached and Declared the only true God by his Inspiration And in p 158. ' That Justin Martyr expresly saith That the innate Word or Reason declared of James 1. 21 Was in the Philosophers Poets and Historiographers who