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Animadversions on George Keith's account of a National Church, &c. humbly presented to the Bishop of London, and on George Keith's advertisement concerning the same.
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QUAKER RARE BOOKS Class Fc K25 no. 2221 FRIENDS ' LIBRARY No. 142 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET PHILADELPHIA Received 11 Mo. 28 189 4 BY PURCHASE QUAKER RARE BOOKS CLASS BX7715 BOOK K2A5 THE LIBRARY OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE THE GIFT OF Freinds Library Phila. 4 MO. 23 19 29 ACCESSION NO 106815 Wing A11A Smith II 46 ANIMADVERSIONS ON George Keith's ACCOUNT OF A National Church c. Humbly Presented to the Bishop of LONDON AND ON George Keith's Advertisement Concerning the same LONDON Printed in the Year 1700. ANIMADVERSIONS ON George Keith's Account Of a National Church c. IN his Advertisement at the end of his Third Sermon after Ordination Preached at St. Helen's May 19. 1700. he complains That in a Printed Sheet called Mr. George Keith's Account c. as aforesaid is some Quotations long since Retracted and Disowned by him in a Book published called George Keith 's Retractations and calls it The Quakers Cheat and Abuse that are he saith still Charging him with Errors he hath Retracted and then cries out against the Blindness Hardness of Heart and Obstinacy that hath befallen them and complains they seek to Defame and Abuse him for his Retracting his Errors Animad I have therefore Examined the Quotations and find them right and have also reviewed his Retractations and do not find he hath been plain and particular therein But seeing he now grants they are Errors may I not conclude then the contrary is Truth And then let them if he please be read contrary and see how he likes them Example Concerning a National Church He doth now he 's turn'd Churchman acknowledge That a National Church can be a true Church of Christ and that Men should make Preposterous haste to make Nations Churches by meer humane Law and Power and that bare humane Laws Edicts and Decrees will do it and indeed this hath not been the Ground and Rise of all Persecution that hath been in Chistendom and those that will have a National Church would not have others bow to and joyn with them and never was a Persecuting Church it is not in her very Nature So it cannot be always exceeding Hypocritical seeing it begetteth Thousands to be its Children and Members by meer Will and Power of Man which doth not at all make Hypocrites Concerning the Teachers Now he is become one and pretends to Disown what he formerly writ Read that the contrary way thus The Teachers have not been generally and for the most part Self-seeking Worldly-minded Covetous Men who loved Pleasures and Riches more than God And this the Magistrate did not well know and saw not that the best way to prevent them was to Bribe them with Augmentations and Benefices The Preachers of the Waldenses were not most of them Lay-men and wrought not with their Hands as the Teachers of the Primitive Church did not but had Stipends or Sallaries and Preached not Freely again If People once were Perswaded and Convinced That God did not Teach nor would not Teach them and then up should all the Proud Lording Lofty Clergy with their many Degrees of Doctorships Lordships and Masterships go Animad And now he is willing to go with them altho' he declared It lay upon him from the Lord to depart from them being generally Men void of all Sense and Feeling of God that had Framed and Invented perverse Doctrine for their own Gains and Ends as he now doth But not to proceed to farther Examples of this kind let us consider whether G. K. did ever or doth judge Baptism with Water as used in the Church of which he is now ordained a Preacher and the Sacrament Articles of Faith or are any of the Fundamental and Essential Doctrines of Christianity because he hath declared in his Preface to his Retractations thus viz. I have not here or elsewhere Retracted nor Renounced any one Assertion contained in any of my former Books that ever was by me Judged an Article of Faith And in p. 4 5. of his Retractations he saith I have an Infallible Faith and Perswasion touching the Fundamental and Essential Doctrines of Christianity Therefore he having said Truth 's Defence c. p. 135. That Baptism with Water is not meant because not expressed nor by any true and just Consequence is proved to be meant in Mat. 28.19 Neither this Assertion nor any other in any of his former Books is that ever was by him Judged an Article of Faith Retracted Again Retract p. 34. I still adhere to my former Advice That nothing be required by one sort from another as an Article of Faith or Doctrine in common to be believed but what is expresly declared in the Scriptures in plain and express Scripture-Terms Animad To try his Sincerity or shew his Deceit let him that would Say and Unsay prove from what is expresly delivered in the Scripture and in plain and express Scripture-Terms 1. That Baptism with Water is meant in Mat. 28.19 2. That Infants are the Subjects intended And let him bring plain and express Scripture for the use of the Sign of the Cross in Baptism and requiring Godfathers and Godmothers if he can and obliging them to promise and vow Three things in the Childrens Name That they shall forsake the Devil and all his Works c. And let him by Scripture and from what is expresly delivered therein in plain and express Scripture-Terms answer the Queries he put and printed concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper so called or for shame forbear his Prating and Printing against those that by the Rule he lays down he is no more able to prove them guilty of any Fundamental Error in the Christian Religion or of any of the Errors he hath falsly and loudly Charged them with than to move the Monument although he may use his Meanings Interpretations and Glosses in which he hath been too Guilty to be creditted by them that well know him And for all his Preferment and Ordination his Black Coat and White Surplice and Empty Noise about Outward Things in his late Sermon and pleading for Set Forms of Prayers he doth but shew his Contradictions and Confusion For he saith Retract p. 12. I would not have any to think I Relinquish my Testimony to Christ's inward Appearance in the Souls of Men and God's Inward Revelation and Teaching by his Spirit in Men for I remain in the same Testimony as to the Main and I hope so to do So that all may consider that before he was Received into the Church and Ordained a Preacher he had an Infallible Faith and Perswasion touching the Fundamental and Essential Doctrines of Christianity and he would not be thought to Relinquish it He saith Retract p. 13. I remain Constant to my former Principles with respect to the great Doctrines of the Christian Faith With my present Faith they agree So that he was not Erroneous when a Quaker as to the great Doctrines of the Christian Faith nor in his Vindicating the Quakers Doctrines and yet he would have the Quakers guilty of gross and vile Errors Heresies Denying the Lord that Bought them c. which makes me fear he hath sold himself to do Wickedly For it is evident to those that knows them and are rightly acquainted with their Doctrines and that have observed their Conversations and are not Prejudiced and filled with Ill-will against them which never speaks well that they do truly and sincerely Own and firmly Believe the Holy Scriptures and all Doctrines therein contained both with respect to God Christ the Holy Spirit or Word of God And by Believing in the Light Spirit and Word within as G. K. saith p. 22. of his Retractations we are brought naturally to own the Scriptures and the things therein declared to own Moses and the Prophets to own the Dispensation of God to the Jews in that day and to own Christ in the Flesh his Miraculous Birth his Doctrine and Miracles Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension together with the Wonderful End and Design of God therein c. And this Method I very well approve of still And so do the Quakers and therefore are many among them so Laborious and Earnest to turn People to this Light Spirit and Word within and are willing not only to spend and be spent but do spend and are spent to bring People to Believe therein and only for the Good and Benefit of their Souls and not for filthy Lucre sake And altho' he saith He very well approves this Method yet through Conceitedness his strong Will great Passion abominable Pride impatiency under Contradiction and being filled with Rage and Prejudice he is attained to that degree that he can now not only confidently Contradict what he once call'd Truth and what he also affirm'd in the Name of the Lord but himself also And although he pretended with a free and willing Mind to make a general Retraction of all the hard Names and uncharitable Censures Retract p. 44. he hath at any time either by word or writ past on any humbly desiring their forgiveness He hath in his Advertisement on a Hearsay Story cryed out of a Quaker-Cheat this is their Cheat and Abuse and charges them by whole-sale with seeking to Defame and Abuse him and cries out Abuse and Shame and all by Hearsay and on Presumption But it 's to be feared he 's now so used to Confessing that he don't mind to Forsake But it 's He that Confesseth and forsaketh that shall find Mercy But his Building the things which he once Destroyed hath made himself a Transgressor So Requiring him by plain and express Scripture and in express Scripture-Terms to answer what he hath writ against Water-Baptism and the Supper and particularly the Ten Queries that he delivered to him and his Brethren that call that Eating of Bread and Drinking of Wine once or twice in a Year in the Publick Assembly the Sacrament as G. K. and his Brethren now do For according to the Proverb what 's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander And there are many other things which he now practiseth he ought to bring plain and express Scripture for So I shall now conclude beware that thou be not deceived and brought down in thy Jollity Eccles 1â— 8 For an envious Man hath a wicked Eye he turneth away his Face and despiseth Men. Let him and those concerned with him therefore Read and Apply Isai 3.9 Jer. 2.19 and Hos 5.5 6 7. FINIS