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A70194	The Quakers creed concerning the man Christ Jesus transcribed verbatim out of a treatise entituled, The way cast up, lately written by George Keith, a Quaker, with animadversions upon it.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. Way cast up.; Haworth, William.	1678 (1678)	Wing H1197; ESTC R18551	16,845	20

Books Writ by John Bellers and Sold at the Bible in George-Yard Lombard Street 1. PROPOSALS for raising a College of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry with Profit for the Rich a plentiful Living for the Poor and a good Education for Youth Dedicated and presented to the Parliament 1696. 2. A Supplement to the College of Industry Dedicated to the Parliament 3. An Epist to Friends concerning the Education of Youth 1697. 4. Essays about the Poor Manufactures Trade Money Plantations and Fellons with the Excellency and Divinity of Inward Light Dedicated to the Parliament 1699. 5. A Caution against all Perturbations of the Mind but more particularly against the Passion of Anger as an Enemy to the Soul by making of it unfit for the Presence of God and unable to enter the Kingdom of Heaven 1702. 6. Watch unto Prayer Or Considerations for all who profess they believe in the Light to see whether they walk in the Light without which they cannot become the Children of it nor be cleansed from their Sins 1703. 7. To the Lords and others Commissioners appointed to take Care of the poor Palatines 1709 8. Some Reasons for an European State proposed to the Powers of Europe by an Universal Gaurantee and an Annual Congress Senate Dyet or Parliament to settle any Disputes about the Bounds and Rights of Princes here after And also for a General Council of all the different Religions Perswasions in Christendom not to dispute what they differ about but to settle the general Principles they agree in by which it will appear that they may be good Subjects and Neighbours tho' of different Apprehensions of the Way to Heaven In order to prevent Broils and War at Home when Forreign Wars are ended Dedicated to the Queen and Parliament 1710. 9. To the Archbishop Bishops and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury met in Convocation 10. An Essay towards the Ease of Elections of Members of Parliament 1712. 11. An Essay towards Reconciling the Old and New Ministry 12. Considerations on the Schism Bill 13. An Essay towards the Improvement of Physick in twelve Proposals by which the Lives of many Thousands of the Rich as well as of the Poor may be saved Yearly With an Essay for Imploying the able Poor and Improvement of Mechanick Arts Dedicated and presented to the Parliament And Part to the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen the South-Sea-Company and the Physitians of Great-Britain with a Post-script to the Men of Wit and Pleasure 1714. The QUAKERS Creed concerning the Man Christ Jesus transcribed verbatim out of a Treatise entituled The Way cast up lately written by George Keith a Quaker with Animadversions upon it G. Keith PAGE 90. So that as far as the most high Heavens do excel the base and low Earth so far doth Christ even as Man excel all other Men and that not only in accidents as the Popish Schoolmen and Presbyterian Teachers following them do teach but in Nature and Substance Animad The Quakers from hence believe that Christ had a Manhood differing in Nature from the Manhood of all other Men contrary to Heb. 2. 11. For both be that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one i. e. one common Nature with Adam ver 17. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren G. K. God created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3. 9. Jesus Christ signifieth properly the Word made Flesh or made Man It is clear that according to the Apostle the Word was made Flesh or Man even from the beginning Pag. 93. Animad They believe from hence that the Word was made Flesh or Man before the creation of this World contrary to Gal. 4. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman c. 1 Pet. 1. 20. Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the World but was manifest in these last times for you Pag. 95. And therefore bad Flesh and Blood to wit Heavenly and Spiritual even from the beginning on which the Saints in all ages did feed And seeing Christ had flesh and blood from the beginning he was Man from the beginning As God simply he cannot have flesh and blood for God is a Spirit and therefore it is the flesh and blood as he is Man or the Son of Man G. K. Anim. They believe that Christ had real flesh and blood before the creation of the World The Apostle saith in 1 Cor. 15. 39. There is one kind of flesh of Men another flesh of Beasts another of Fishes another of Birds but the Quakers have found out another kind of flesh besides these four sorts yet the flesh of a Man but of a man before Adam as man excelling all other Men in Nature which they call Spiritual and Heavenly Grotius saith Caro non dicitur Hebreis nisi de corpore Mortali They might as well say the Stars have flesh and blood or the Angels have flesh and blood G. K. Pag. 97. Christ signifieth anointed and it is the Man Christ that is anointed with the Holy Spirit and not the Word or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is God himself for the Godhead anoints not the Godhead but it is the Godhead that anoints the Manhood of Christ which Manhood hath been anointed from the beginning and therefore the man Christ hath been from the beginning Animad From hence they believe that Christ as man was anointed by God from the beginning of the World forgetting that the Prophets frequently speak of things to come as present As well might the Author say that Cyrus had a Soul and Body and did exist in flesh and blood 100 years before he was born for he is called by Isaiah Gods anointed so many years before his birth Isa 45. 1. The Christian believeth that Christs first anointing as man was when the Manhood was united to the Godhead which began in the first conception in the Womb of the Virgin and what was that but an anointing that is spoke of Mat. 3. 16. And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lighting upon him compared with Luk. 4. 1. And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan G. K. ☞ This is the promised Seed which God promised to our Parents after the fall and actually gave unto them even the Seed of the Woman that should bruise the head of the Serpent and therefore though the outward coming of the man Chriist was deferred according to the outward birth in the Flesh for many ages yet from the begininng this heavenly man the promised Seed did inwardly come into the hearts of those that believed in him and bruised the head of the Serpent Pag. 99. Animad Hence they believe there was a twofold coming of the man Christ in the Flesh the inward and outward the last was deferred for many ages but the first was actually performed to our first Parents so that you might properly say that the man

Virgin had with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which any of the Quakers bodies have not I cannot yet learn yet Keith saith the center of the soul of Christ dwells there only since it was taken of the Virgin but then I query what difference betwixt the N●schma that is the excellency and dignity as he saith of this soul and the center of it and is not this Nischma breathed into every man that is made alive in the womb as it was breathed into Adam in his creation Look into Buxtorfs Lexicon you that are Scholars and there you will see that this curious distinction of Nepheseh and Nischma is groundless Nischma signifies the very breath as well as the mind and soul so Nepheseh the mind and soul as well as breath It 's true the Hebrew useth Nischma mostwhat for the rational immortal soul of man and this is surely the root of the animal senses and discursive parts but that it should signify something not of this Creation far excelling the holy Angels spirits a divine nature and yet subjected in man as Keith affirms I no where find Before I leave this to let you see the vanity of this mans reasoning from Gods breathing into Adam the breath of Life that Adam was made partaker of the soul of the Manhood of Christ as well might he say that the excellency of the soul of the Manhood of Christ was in every animal before the Flood and is now in every Beast Bird for the same word is used of the Beasts and Fowls and the creeping things that were destroyed by the Flood Gen. 7. 22. In whose Nostrils was Nishmah Ruach Chaiim i. e. The breath of the spirit of Life of all that was in the dry Land died I desire the Scholars to call to mind how this notion of the soul of Christ in all suits with Plato's of the Anima Mundi G. K. Pag. 145. But the flesh of Christ that the Saints fed upon is rather that divine Body the substance of which is of another kind than the outward Body how much soever made glorious or spiritual but this Body cannot sanctifie us without the soul of Christ extended into it Animad They believe from hence that Christ had and hath two Bodies one they call divine the other outward and those two differ in kind and nature though the outward Body be now glorious and spiritual They believe this divine Body of Christ is in us and not alone but with the soul of Christs Manhood and these both together do sanctify us I query whether this soul of Christ be the Holy Ghost but how can that be when the Author hath said it is a Creature why then the Christian hath a great advantage of a Quaker in that his sanctification is of another and better nature than that of the Quakers in that it is the Holy Ghost who is God who mystically dwells in them But they understand the Holy Ghost that is God is not separated from this Body and Soul of Christ but why then did they not expess themselves so but this is language that the Scripture is not acquainted with that the Soul of the Manhood of Christ is extended into the body of the same Manhood which soul and body are both created Beings and both together are extended into the soul of every Saint and there sanctifies together with the Holy Ghost G. K. Pag. 159. Whose nature as man is heavenly and divine although it be inferior to the Godhead for he said My Father is greater than I nor will his omnipresence nor omnipercipiency prove that as Man he is as great as the Father for the whole Universe of created Beings of Heaven and Earth visible and invisible are as the dust of the Ballance and drop of the Bucket in comparison of God Animad They believe this humane nature is divine Farewel that distinction then yet its inferiour to the Godhead yet omnipresent and omniscient but this Author thinks that omnipresency and omnisciency may be attributed to the Manhood yet the Manhood not be confounded with or equalized to the Godhead contrary to the Doctrine taught by our Christian Divines viz. That there are Attributes of God not communicable to the Creature and among them are these two Omnisciency and Omnipresency these cannot be communicated to any Creature but it immediately becomes God Let it be considered likewise there is thought by judicious Divines that there is an infinite space beyond this Globe of the Heaven and Earth I query whether this Manhood if omnipresent must not be there By the Authors own Argument it must be there otherwise it cannot perceive any such space nor Gods presence there for he hath said it perceives nothing but where it 's present Pag. 129. Parag. 16. and if present there throughout this is Immensity and then the Universe is but as a drop of the Bucket to the Manhood of Christ is it not then equal to God and confounded with God G. K. And therefore that the Heavenly man Christ Jesus his Spirit Light and Life doth every where extend it self into all things will not prove that Christ as man is equal unto God nor yet confound his Godhead and Manhood it only proveth that the man Christ Jesus is a great and mighty and most excellent Being for above all and excelling all Men and Angels and all angelical and heavenly Powers which is a most certain truth and therefore do all the Angels worship him as they are commanded Pag. ibid. Animad He here speaks of the Manhood of Christ as distinct from the Godhead not confounded with it nor equal to it yet hath omnipresency and omnipercipiency Attributes of its own and of it self in its own nature is a most excellent Being far above all Angels and thus lays the ground and foundation of the Angels Worship upon the excellency of the nature of the Manhood barely considered in it self I query selemnly if it be not grand Idolatry for Men or Angels to worship any Creature and that Creature though never so excellent be not in personal union with God and the worship terminated upon the Godhead Christ is God and Man Christians worshipping him terminates the worship upon the Godhead See if Keith hath not made the Angels Idolaters Take but these two or three things along with thee Reader in perusing Keiths Book and all his vain scribling is answered 1. That the Prophets spoke of many things that were to come as if they were present 2. That Christ acted in his Mediatorship in all things before his Incarnation in reference still to his Incarnation which was to be in the fulness of time 3. That many things in Scripture are spoken of Christ by that figurative speech of the communication of Properties when that which is proper to one nature only is attributed to the other or to the whole Person the reason of this is because Christ hath two distinct natures but yet is but one Person the Manhood is taken up