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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90877	The Portraiture of Mr. George Keith the Quaker, in opposition to Mr. George Keith the parson. / Presented to the hearers of his late sermons. ; By a Protestant dissenter.	Protestant Dissenter.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing P3006; ESTC R181969	10,201	20

the ungodly Now which of the two ways of Preaching are the best P. 6. to Preach only from a Hear-say by others or from a Sight and Hearing of Christ himself Surely this was the best and therefore this Woman is a better Preacher than all your University-Men and Doctors and Batchelors She learned more of Christ from himself in that small time perhaps not one hour's length than your Doctors and University-Men have yet learned for all their many Years Studying Labouring Reading and Hearing As Christ upbraided the Jews that they had neither heard his Father's Voice nor seen his Shape so it may be said of them yea they say it themselves they have neither heard him nor seen him Alas for such Teachers What should Men hear them for They can tell us no more of him but as they have heard it from Men or read it in the Scripture and all their Knowledge is from the Scripture and all have the Scripture as well as they and so without them by the Scripture may know as much of Christ as they and save both their pains and their Money 7. Of their Maintenance A Father hath three Sons P. 8 9. one of them he thinks may be fit to be made a Lawyer another to be a Doctor of Physick a third and that commonly the greatest Dunce or Dolt of the three finding him not so fit for other things he resolves he will have him a Minister or Preacher that it may be a living to him and so away he sends them all to the Grammar-School and from that to the University and thus one becomes a ☞ Preacher only by that which is Natural and Artificial as the other two become the Lawyer and Physitian here is nothing of God or Christ seen more in the one than in the other Is it not so generally among them They are become Preachers by a Design or Contrivance of their Parents or themselves As soon as they become so old as to have so much natural Wit as to see they must make some shift how to live and looking about the many Trades they readily see it is the far easiest of many or most Trades to be a Preacher to get Money for it is little Labour in Respect of many other Labours and much Gain and also brings Honour for if he had been of never so mean a Degree and of the most abject and mean Parents in all the Country yet to become a Preacher maketh him to be esteemed a Gentleman and be called Sir and perhaps to be advanced to be a Bishop and then he will be called My Lord. But how many either of one sort or another of them whether Episcopal or Presbyterian are to be found who have been called from some other Calling or Occupation they were in before to leave it and go to Preach Christ as this Woman was called from her Water Pot immediately to Preach him in a City of Samaria called Sychar And yet thus were the true Servants of the Lord called who were Mechanick-men and Tradesmen c. She preached Christ freely She said not unto them P. 10. What Money or Hire will you give me and I will Preach Christ unto you Nay nay she was not of such a Mercinary Spirit she was more noble far unlike the Preachers of the Man-made-Ministry in these Days whether Episcopal or Presbyterian as well as Popish where all is done for Money No Money no Preaching as the ☜ old Proverb is No Penny no Pater noster G. K. may speak this now feelingly 8. Of their Doctrine But so do not these Men of the Man-made-Ministry Preach him Nay but the contrary For say they P. 13. That is not Christ which convinceth every Man of his Sins and tells him all that ever he did it is but a Humane Principle not Divine it it is but Natural not Spiritual a Natural Light c. and so deny his Divinity and Divine Power and Godhead Is not this an Error in Fundamentals to deny the Divinity of Christ For so he charged them then I will rather hear this Woman of Samaria than hear them P. 14. She bids Come and see Christ himself they say there is no seeing of him nor hearing of himself so long as we live upon Earth Oh blind and deaf Men who because they have neither heard him nor seen him therefore deny this blessed Privilege Oh that People should follow after them and not see these blind Men Whom have these of the Man-made-Ministry brought this length that they are come unto Christ himself and heard him and seen him Nay both Teachers and People cry out generally This is not to be expected in this Life Query Are these Teachers and People now Reformed or G. K. Deformed The Principles unsound or Turn-coat George become so III. Out of his Book entituled The Fundamental Truths of Christianity briefly hinted at by way of Question and Answer To which is added a Treatise of Prayer in the same Method Printed Anno 1688. Before I proceed excuse me good Reader if I make two Remarks by the way The one is that here we have not a Syllable from him of our blessed Saviour Christ his Birth Sufferings Death Resurrection Ascension and Mediation notwithstanding he pretends to give the Fundamental Truths of Christianity What have these no share in his Fundamental Truths Or were they too trivial be noticed An unpardonable Omission believe me in any but himself enough to have given him a fresh occasion to have ascended his Stage at Turner's-Hall once more were he not now better provided for and I think he ought not to come off cheaper than more patrio standing in a White-Sheet for it The next is That Prayer right Prayer Praying so as to be acceptable with God is a Fundamental Principle of Christianity If he call that good Prayer now which he once asserted to be otherwise two things lye upon him telling us he is otherwise minded now and that he gets his living by being so will not serve viz. First to enervate the Force of those Arguments then delivered which lose not their Validity by his being a Weathercock And 2dly To manifest himself not to have erred in Fundamentals a Brag his late Prints have abounded with 9. Of set Forms of Prayer and Singing of Psalms In his Preface to the Treatise of Prayer he saith Wherefore the Apostle prayed to the Lord that God would establish the true Believers in him in every good word and work 2 Thess 2.17 whence I conclude that good words are as real a Fruit of the Spirit as good works or desires and these good words must not be borrowed words from the Mouths or Lines of others made ready to our hands but must spring from the inward fruitfulness of our Understandings as the Spirit of the Lord doth water them and make them fruitful after an heavenly sort To read set Forms of Prayer but of a Book whether in private or publick P. 43. and