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A47128	Bristol Quakerism exposed shewing the fallacy, perversion, ignorance, and error of Benjamin Cool, the Quakers chief preacher at Bristol, and of his followers and abettors there, discovered in his and their late book falsely called Sophistry detected, or, An answer to George Keith's Synopsis : wherein also both his deisme and inconsistency with himself and his brethren, with respect to the peculiar principles of Christianity, are plainly demonstrated / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing K148; ESTC R41035	27,308	34

Magnifie For saith G. Fox in his Great Mystery Page 350. Ye tell People of an outward ordinary Means by which Christ communicates the benefits of Redemption Note By the outward and ordinary Means they mean the written Word and Sacraments The means of Salvation saith he is not ordinary nor outward but Christ is the Salvation who is Eternal Again Great Myst p. 133. His Opponent T. Moor having said The Scriptures is the absolute Rule and Medium of Faith In p. 134. G. Fox Answereth The Scriptures is not the Author nor the Means of it nor the Rule but Christ who gave it and he increaseth it And in p. 243. Great Myst he saith And the things of the Gospel and of the Spirit are not attained by an External Means Note Here he doth Exclude the Scripture not only from being the External Means but from being an External Means of their Knowledge and Faith Again p. 320. His Opponents having said God works Faith in us Inwardly by the Spirit and Outwardly by his Word meaning the written Word He Answers Here thou goest about to make the Word and the Spirit not one Is not the Word Spiritual and Christ called the Word Again p. 168. Them that never heard the Scripture Outwardly the Light that every Man hath that cometh into the World being turned to it with that they will see Christ with that they will know Scripture with that they will be led out of all Delusion come into Covenant with God with which they will come to Worship God in the Spirit and Serve him See all these and many more such Quotations in my 4th Narative Here we see the Scripture is Excluded from being so much as either the Means or a Means of the Spirits working Faith or Knowledge in them and consequently what Knowledge or Faith the Quakers have of God or Christ it must be by inward immediate extraordinary Revelation and Discoveries the same in kind that the Prophets and Apostles had as such which was without all outward means Thus we see the Harmony of W. Pen and B. Cool and his Brethren with their great Apostle G. Fox But let us again view their Disharmony and Contradiction both with themselves and one with another Benjamin Cool in his 9th pag saith That the Prophets and Apostles had an extraordinary Sight and Sense of Adam ' s Fall and Christ ' s Birth c. I readily own but that such an extraordinary Discovery as they had is absolutely necessary to every Mans Salvation I deny But if he will adhere to his former Assertion That the Light Within is the Primary Rule of every Mans Faith and Knowledge and to G. Fox's Doctrine above mentioned every Man that has the true Knowledge and Faith of Christ must have such an extraordinary Discovery as the Prophets and Apostles had in kind if not in degree For seeing the Quakers plead That the true Knowledge and Faith of God and Christ must be by the Spirit only without the outward and ordinary Means as G. Fox their great Apostle has Taught them then it must be the same in kind at least if not in degree And if all the Faithful are not come to the same degree of the Spirit that the Prophets and Apostles had Yet if B. Cool will believe their great Apostle some of the Quakers at least are come not only to the same degree that the Prophets and Apostles had who gave forth the Scriptures but above any degree For thus he saith expresly Great Myst p. 318. For who comes to the Spirit and to Christ comes to that which is Perfect who comes to the Kingdom of Heaven in them comes to be Perfect yea to a Perfect Man and that is above any Degree But B. Cool in his following Quotation as I can understand him and let the Reader see if he can understand him otherwise disowns all Extraordinary Discovery such as the Prophets and Apostles had in Kind as well as in Degree and wholly takes to the common and ordinary Discoveries of the Light Within Universally given to all Mankind for thus he saith expresly But that the common and ordinary Discoveries of the Light Within Vniversally given to Mankind as all Mankind Adheres thereto and Obeys the same is that Vniversal or General Rule of Faith and Life we shall I hope never deny Now this Universal and General Rule given to all Mankind B. Cool if he will accord with his Brethren and particularly with G. Whitehead and others in their Book call'd The Glory of Christ's Light Within must hold it to be a full and compleat Rule that needs no addition yea not only needs no Addition but admits of none for if it admit of any Addition then all Mankind have not one and the same Rule of Faith and Practise contrary to the very scope and design of W. Pen's Book called A Discourse of the General Rule of Faith and Practise But again If that Addition be but only a Secondary Rule it presupposeth the Primary Rule to wit the Light Within them as Pre-existant and from which all the Certainty of the Secondary Rule dependeth and their Primary Rule first giving them the said Discovery makes the Secondary wholly superfluous If it be said that by the Secondary Men may be led to the Primary as by the Copy to the Original or as by the Stream to the Fountain But what service can the Secondary have to lead them to the Primary as from the more known to the more unknown Seeing the Secondary Rule which they call the Scripture has no Certainty but what it receives from the Light Within as it is an Universal Principle common to all Mankind But common Experience teacheth That the Light Within i.e. the common Discovery or Illumination given to all Mankind that teacheth them some things concerning God as a Creator and some general Moral Duties to him as such yet doth not teach them the Knowledge or Faith of God as he gave his Son to be Incarnate for the Redemption of the World for that never was known but by special Revelation immediately given to the Prophets and by their means convey'd to others B. Cool proceeds to tell us page 9. what special Veneration he and his Brethren express for the Holy Scriptures after he hath set up the common and ordinary Discoveries of the Light Within Universally given to all Mankind to be the Primary Rule of all Faith and Knowledge Yet at the same time we saith he express our Veneration for the Verity and Authority of the Holy Scriptures since we know them to be as they are an Additional and Vnspeakable Benefit for a Rule both of Faith and Life and such a Rule too that whatever is Repugnant thereunto ought not to be of any Authority with us But judge Reader whether this be not another Judas Kiss or as they that Mock'd our Lord with a Hail Master They have a great veneration for the Scriptures as a Secondary and Additional Rule but they have

W. Penn did not allow that Visible Body to be any part of him for a part though it constitutes not the whole altogether yet in part it Constitutes the whole as well as W. Penn's Body Constitutes him in part That the World did not See Christ with their Spiritual Eyes is granted as neither do they see his faithful followers but that they did see him really and as properly as ever B. Cool saw W. Penn with Bodily Eyes is clear from John 6. 36 where Jesus said to the Unbelieving Jews Yee also have seen me and believed not But W. Penn and B. Cool will be Wiser by that Spirit that is in them then the holy Spirit that did dictate the holy Scriptures who calleth him that was Born of the Virgin the Son of God the Christ both God and Man by Personal Vnion and the Holy Scriptures teacheth us no such distinction as that the outward Person was not properly the Son of God but he who dwells in that outward Person for tho' Christ hath two Natures yet he has but one Person it is great Arrogance and Impudence in this B. Cool who is known to be an Ignorant Man in the knowledge of the strict and proper Signification of Words to pretend he knoweth better what the Word Person signifieth than all the Learned Men throughout Christendom and then all the Holy Ancients who ever held that our Blessed Lord even considered as a Person without us because of the Personal Union of the two Natures was properly the Son of God both God and Man as the Scriptures call him which B. Cool with his Arrogant Ignorance would teach to Speak more properly and as if he were both Wiser than the Holy Men that Pen'd the Scriptures that never used any such distinction of Christ within that outward Person being properly the Son of God but that that outward Person in whom the Son Dwelt was improperly the Son of God and also as if Wiser than all the Holy Ancients and all the Learned Men now in Christendom very Magisterially tells us in his p. 12. Nevertheless saith he Since many People understand not the terms of Proper and Improper and are apt to Judge of things according to their Carnal Conceptions for that reason I should have been glad the Expression had never been used Thus we see how hard they still struggle for their Infallibility had W. Penn uttered that saying from the Holy Ghost as G. Fox saith in his Truth Defended p. 104. Our giving forth Papers or Printed Books it is from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God and in his Great Myst p. 98. And those and you all that Speak and Write and not from God Immediately and Infallibly you are all under the Curse why should B. Cool have been glad that Expression had never been used Should he not be glad of all the Words that come from the Holy Spirit For doubtless all such are very profitable and if B. Cool did not think these Words came from the Holy Spirit by G. Fox's Verdict both W. Penn and B. Cool for all his Lyes and Fallacies uttered in this his Book are under the Curse But W. Penn is not alone in this Vile Heresie that Christs Body is no part of the true Christ for G. Whitehead is as deep in the Mire as W. Pen who in his Christian Quaker p. 139. 140. telleth us very deliberately and as he seem'd to himself very Scholastically I distinguish said he between Consisting and Having Christ Had Flesh and Bones but he did not Consist of them This shews the very heart of their Heresie as a Man hath a Garment but he doth not Consist of it it is no part of him Now to give my Readers an Instance that B. Cool thinks himself and his Brethren Wiser than the Holy Ancients in his and their denying Christ as he was Man or that outward Person to be Properly the Son of God I will briefly give some Account who were the Patrons of W. Penn G. Whitehead and B. Cool or at least their Forerunners in maintaining their Vile Heresie In the time of Justinian the Elder certain Hereticks called Bonosiani from their Master Bonosus denyed that Christ as Man was the Proper Son of God and affirm'd that he was his Adopted Son but were refuted by Justinian a Bishop of the Valensian Church who lived about that time After them about the year 783 Elipandus and Foelix two Spanish Bishops did openly affirm and Preach That although Christ was the true proper and Natural Son of God according to his Divine Nature yet according to his Humane Nature i. e. his Manhood Nature consisting of Soul and Body he was only the Son of God by Adoption and by Grace but not truly and properly Behold your Ancestors W. Pen B. Cool and G. Whitehead against whom Charles the Great called a Synod at Franckford consisting of three Hundred Bishops about the year 794 where that Heresie was condemned as J. Forbesius in his Instructions Hist Theol. Lib. 6. Chap. 1. N. 1. c. Gives a full and plain Account and these Hereticks as the said Author gives an Account did make their great Argument against the Flesh of Christ to wit his Body of visible Flesh which the Quakers will not have to be any part of him but a certain invisible Body for thus they did Argue The Flesh or Humanity of Christ was not Begotten of the Substance of God therefore the Man Christ is not in his Nature the true and proper Son of God the which Argument Paulus the Aquilensian Bishop answereth and retorteth his Argument against Foelix himself That the Soul of Foelix was not begotten of his Fathers Seed and yet the whole Foelix was the true and proper Son of his Father And the like Retortion may be made against those Quakers unless they will say that the Men whom the World called their Fathers were not their Fathers because they did not beget their Souls but only their Flesh yet this B. Cool thinks himself Wiser than these three Hundred famous Bishops who condemned this infamous Heresie above eight Hundred years ago The Third thing whereof B. Cool Accuseth me both in his Preface and Book as wronging W. Pen and the Quakers is That I have charged him and them that the History of Christs incarnation was not necessary to our Salvation or as he explains it himself p. 5. of his Preface That Faith in Christ as he Dyed for us was unnecessary viz. To our Salvation which he saith is so very Fallacious and Wicked that it deserveth no reply But wherein doth he discover it to be so I find not that he bringeth one single Instance in all his Books effectually proving that W. Pen doth hold that Faith in Christ as he Died for us is necessary to our Salvation and indeed it is contrary to the general Drift of all his Books and especially his whole Disconrse of the General Rule of Faith and Life which he will have to be both