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A47149	Gross error and hypocrisie detected in George Whitehead and some of his brethern as doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical answer he and some others have given to some queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the people call'd Quakers, in the third month, 1695, by comparing the said answer with the printed books of the said George Whitehead, William Pemn, and John Whitehead, leading men in the said Meeting, wherein the great inconistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed books is discovered : with a further account of their vile and pernicious errours / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.; Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing K172; ESTC R3387	26,885	44

Christ's Personal Coming yet to be as because Paul said we that are alive and remain c. as if therefore Paul did not mean any Outward or Personal Coming of Christ in that place George Whitehead asking If they did live and remain to a Personal Coming of Christ in the Clouds yea or nay or can it be reasonably thought to be a Coming that is not yet that they lived and remained unto For if George Whitehead had not been greatly blinded and darken'd with Prejudice against this great Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith viz. The Coming of our Lord in his glorify'd Person and Body he might have easily perceived how the Apostle Paul used the Word Wee for They by a common Enallage Personae that is used both in Scripture elsewhere and in other Writers commonly as when James saith herewith speaking of the Tongue curse we men and yet James himself was no Curser Like to this place in 1 Thes 4.17 is that 1 Cor. 15.51 Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed which place however some pervert and misapply as if the Change of the living Saints at Christ's outward appearance at the end of the World were not there meant but some inward Change that the Saints had witnessed before Death is certainly to be understood of the Change of the Saints Bodies who then should be found alive at Christ's outward Coming as generally all found Christians have understood these places of Scripture and as I desire to praise God I have always so understood them And it is too great Evidence of George Whitehead's not being taught and guided by the Spirit of Truth in his opposing such sound Christian Doctrine and plain Testimonies of the Holy Scripture which every Babe in Christ doth better understand than this high Pretender to high Divine Illuminations George Whitehead by his thus opposing found Christian Principles belonging to the Fundamentals of Christian Religion hath laid great Stumbling-Blocks in the way of many that read his Books who conclude it cannot be that George Whitehead is so taught and led by the Spirit of Truth as he pretends seeing he contradicts such manifest Truths so plainly laid down in Scripture And George Whitehead would do well to consider his own Words pag. 36. of that oft-cited Book The Light and Life c. where he saith The Spirit brings to the fulfilling of the Scriptures and doth not destroy the Truth contain'd in them Therefore I say the Spirit that set him on Work to destroy the Truth of Christ's outward Coming to Judgment at the great Day and other great Truths declar'd in the Scriptures is not the true Spirit that gave it forth And here again I cannot but a little take notice how though very severely George Whitehead blamed I. N. for affirming That those that pierced Christ in his Body of Flesh shall see that Body visibly again alledging that these are not the Words of Scripture but added although to add or diminish be forbidden under a Penalty yet this Man's Presumption leads him to incurr that And yet George Whitehead in his late Answer to these Queries useth the Word Visibly with respect to Christ's Ascension saying Article 2 d. of that Paper That be to wit Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory Now I am sure there is the same ground in Scripture for his visible Appearance and Coming again as there is for his visible Ascending But it is worthy of Observation that though George Whitehead professes in his late Answer to these Queries his belief that Christ visibly Ascended into Heaven yet he no where in all the Paper nor any where else that I find doth openly and plainly declare his Faith that Christ shall visibly or outwardly appear at the Day of Judgment so as to be seen as an Object without Men. And though his Words in this his late Answer would seem to imply that he did so now believe for he saith and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucified shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory c. Were George Whetehead ingenuous and not too much given to Equivocation in his way of Writing this might pass currant they being sound Scripture Words and according to Scripture But when we shall consider how when both John Newman and William Burnet did formerly bring these Words for a Proof of Christ's Outward and Personal Coming yet to be how George Whitehead turn'd off this very place of Scripture from Christ's Personal and Outward Coming ● Glory and wholly apply'd it to his inward Coming Allegorizing the Clouds to Clouds of Ignorance and Sin in Mens Hearts And that I do not find that George Whitehead hath made any publick Retractation of his said Perversion of this and other places of Scripture we have but too great ground not to judge this his Confession in his late Answer to be sincere For if he meant not in this his late Answer Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he but deceives his Reader and especially him or them who sent these Queries And if he means really Christ's Outward and Personal Coming he contradicts his former Prints wherein he hath so manifestly oppos'd it and yet he is so extremely confident of his former Books that he referrs to them and others for an Answer to these Queries as if all were sound wholsome Doctrine contain'd in them and as if he were not changed from his former Sentiments in the least Tittle or Punctilio But let us hear his own Words in Answer to John Newman in his Book call'd Christ ascended above the Clouds page 22. ad finem But saith George Whitehead the same Jesus as he was seen Ascend when a Cloud came and received him out of their sight who stood gazing Acts 1.9 10 11. it is said shall so come in like manner c. which tho' every like manner is not the same nor all the Clouds the same yet the same Jesus certainly cometh in like manner his Coming being in the Clouds And to let us know in what Clouds he meaneth Christ is Ascended above and in what Clouds he will appear above he giveth this Title in his Book in Answer to John Newman Christ ascended above the Clouds i. e. in his Divinity c. vindicated from the Cloudy Erroneous and Blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren And all this wresting of the plain Scripture Words Acts 1.9 10 11. which John Newman brought to prove his Personal Coming and Appearance without Men George Whitehead makes to destroy if he could the Faith of that great Truth of Christian Doctrine viz. Christ's Outward Coming in his Glorify'd Nature and Person of Man to judge the whole World Therefore since George Whitehead hath told in Print in Answer to John Newman's bringing that palce of Scripture Acts. 1.9 10 11. This same Jesus c. shall so come in like manner That every

Gross Error and Hypocrisie DETECTED IN GEORGE WHITEHEAD AND Some of his BRETHREN As doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical Answer he and some others have given to some Queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the People call'd Quakers in the Third Month 1695. by comparing the said Answer with the Printed Books of the said George Whitehead William Penn and John Whitehead Leading Men in the said Meeting wherein the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answers to the Express Words and Sentiments of their Printed Books is discovered With a further Account of their vile and pernicious Errours By GEORGE KEITH LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1695. TO THE FRIENDLY READER THE Method I propose in this following Treatise is First To set down the said Queries mentioned in the Title-Page Next The Answers given by George Whitehead and some of his Brethren and Sign'd by them Thirdly The Answers I have faithfully and sincerely collected out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead William Penn and John Whitehead that shew the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answer to the express Words and Sentiments of their Printed Books The which Answers will also give a farther Account of their vile and pernicious Errors opposite to some Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith And here I would have the Reader to understand That if these Men had by their late Answers contradicted their former Sayings and Sentiments from any sincere Conviction and professed Acknowledgment of the vile and gross Errors boldly asserted by them in their Printed Books I should have been so far from charging of them with Hypocrisie for their so doing that I should have commended their Ingenuity But they are so far from any such Acknowledgment that in their late Answer they referr to the Answer given by them in Publick to the Objections made against them in Publick Now it is plain that by their Answer made in Publick they mean their Answer and Doctrine Sayings and Sentiments contain'd in their Printed Books so far are they from professing or owning any real Conviction they are under of their former vile Errors Though it is not improbable that some of them and particularly George Whitehead hath some contrary Apprehensions and Sentiments in divers of these weighty Matters to what he hath formerly with great Confidence asserted in Print as not only being his own Principles but the Quakers Principles Tho' I thank God those Vile Errors asserted by him in divers of his Printed Books and particularly in that most Antichristian Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within c. in Answer to William Burnet and which he calls the Quaker's Principles were never my Principles and in Charity I am apt to believe nor the Principles of divers others that have with me gone under that Designation But it is easie to apprehend the Reasons why on supposition that George Whitehead and some other leading Men among them have chang'd their Sentiments of latter times to what they formerly Printed yet they are not so sincere as to own it and to retract in Publick their Errors expos'd in Publick even lest such Retraction or Correction should lessen and abate their Honour and Esteem among their too credulous Followers and Admirers who without all doubt have taken things too much on Trust from them and suffer'd themselves to be too much influenc'd and led by them into the same Errors as I have found by sad Experience how too many of them are guilty of the same Errors with their Leaders And George Whitehead and some others so highly pretending to the infallible Teachings and Leadings of the Spirit both in what they have Preached and Printed they loving the Praise of Men and seeking the Honour from below Pharisee-like and not regarding the Honour of God nor the Danger of Souls by those hurtful Errors wherewith they have poisoned Thousands If they should Retract or Correct what they have formerly Printed and is on publick Record wou'd seem so greatly to reflect on them and their high Pretences that they will rather seek to uphold their Honour and Repute among their Followers than Honour God or rescue Souls out of the Snare they have brought them into by a free Acknowledgment and Retraction But until they so do they can never have any true Character among sincere intelligent Persons who are acquainted with their Books but that they are great Hypocrites And however in some things of weight it is possible that George Whitehead and some others have chang'd their Sentiments yet I have no ground or reason to think otherwise but as touching divers weighty Matters of the Christian Doctrine and Faith he and they are still under great Blindness Darkness and Error Which that they may be recover'd from and brought to a true Sense and sincere Acknowledgment of is my real and sincere Desire And though some of them and particularly George Whitehead notwithstanding his pretended Smoothness at times have utter'd not only most bitter and injurious Speeches aginst me but false and lying Prophecies with a thus faith the Lord yet I can truly say I never felt any thing either in my Mouth or Heart to rise against any of them to render them Evil for Evil Cursing for Cursing but Good for Evil Blessing for Cursing knowing that all sincere Christians are call'd not to Curse but to Bless tho' it hath been too familiar with them so to do to many others in this as in other things wresting and perverting and misapplying some places of the Holy Scripture which mentions the sharp Words and Woes that Christ and some of the Prophets and Apostles gave forth against such as deserv'd them As if because Christ and the Prophets and Apostles did so Prophesie from an infallible Knowledge that these Persons against whom they so declared were guilty and the Woes they pronounced were really Prophetical that therefore they may do the like But as the Gifts and Miracles and Tongues are not George Whiteheads attainments so nor has he any just Ground to profess such an extraordinary Spirit of Discerning and Prophesie nor any at present I know on Earth Although the infalliable Teachings and Inspirations of the Holy Spirit I own with all true sincere Christians to teach us all Truth and lead us into all Truth that concerns the Salvation of our Souls as the common and universal Privilege of all the Faithful but not that Men should lay claim to such extraordinary things which they can give no satisfactory Evidence of far less to pour out bitter Curses and Woes and Prophesies against them who have deserv'd no such things But notwithstanding his bitter Words and false Prophesies against me I have great Comfort that I feel the Blessing of God upon me and the Witness of his good Spirit in my Heart sealing to the Favour of God towards me and his favourable accepting my Service and publick Opposition to

like manner is not the very same nor all Clouds the same and seeing George Whitehead has formerly oppos'd Christ's Personal Coming or his Coming in Person without us as a thing yet to be expected he ought to clear it what manner of Coming and what sort of Clouds he doth now understand to be intended in these Words Acts 1.9 10 c. For though it be a real Truth that Christ is Ascended above all Clouds of Sin and Ignorance and Errours as well in George Whitehead as in others yet I am well assured that was not the Sense intended by the Spirit of Truth in these Words nor was it the Sense of them that spoke these Words to the Disciples Query IV. Will our Dead Bodies then arise the same Bodies in Substance though altered in Qualities and Properties which we now have Answer Hear what George Whitehead hath said in Print in his Answer to Mat. Coffin about the Resurrection That may be a proper Reply to this Query in shewing George Whitehead's Unbelief and Errour as touching the Resurrection of the dead Bodies of Men. See his Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within page 69. There is saith George Whitehead a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body and there are Bodies Celestial and Bodies Terrestrial The Sun Moon and Stars are Celestial Bodies but Birds Beasts and Fishes are Terrestrial Now you might reckon him a very Blind and Ignorant Man that should put no difference between the Bodies Celestial and those that are Terrestrial or that should reckon the Bodies of the Sun Moon and Stars and the Bodies of Birds Beasts and Fishes to be all one in Matter and Substance Note At this rate Christ's Body now in Heaven is not the same Body he had on Earth in no respect for if it be not the same in Substance i. e. Being or Essence it is not the same any other way considered For a great difference it is if one thing differ from another in Qualities and Properties or in their Modes and Modifications and one thing may differ from it-self with respect to divers Times States and Conditions But to say a thing is changed Substantially or Essentially is to say that thing is no more that thing in any respect but is annihilated For whatever Heavenly Excellency and Dignity Christ's Body had when it was upon Earth which may be in a true Sense acknowledged being Miraculously and Supernaturally conceiv'd and form'd by the Power of the Holy Ghost yet seeing Christ did both Eat and Drink and did Sleep and Hungred and Thirsted c. it is certain his Body had the Properties and Qualities of our Earthly Bodies otherwise how could he be said to be made like to us in all things but without Sin And seeing Mens Bodies are universally nourished with what they eat and drink and their Food by certain Digestions becomes a part of their Bodies the Excrementitious part being excepted we must needs think that Christ's Body was really Terrestrial i. e. had Terrestrial Qualities when it was upon Earth But now it is Heavenly endu'd altogether with Heavenly Qualities as the Bodies of the Saints will be at the Resurrection And it is false Philosophy to say the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars are in kind quite other Substances from Earthly Bodies The more true Philosophy and Knowledge of Natural Things is that the Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ not Substantially or Essentially from Earthly Bodies otherwise they cou'd not nourish Earthly Bodies as they do Yea George Whitehead in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent rebuked page 17. Treating on the Body of Christ saith And we believing such a Change of the Glorious Body of Christ we do not thereby nor never did believe that the Body of Christ which suffer'd was annihilated and that his Flesh saw Corruption No such matter May there not be then saith he a very wonderful Change in the Body and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed Note here how George Whitehead hath contradicted George Whitehead and how inconsistent is he with himself One while he is a very blind and ignorant Man according to George Whitehead's Philosophy That a Body that is Terrestrial and a Body that is Celestial are one in Substance Another while again by George Whitehead's Philosophy There may be a very wonderful Change in the Body viz. of Christ and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroy'd And then I say why not also may there not be such a wonderful Change in the Bodies of the Saints and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed And though the Scripture distinguisheth betwixt Bodies Terrestrial and Celestial yet it doth not say these visible Bodies of Sun Moon and Stars differ in Substance from Earthly Bodies George Whitehead hath not learned this sort of Doctrine either from the Letter of the Scripture or the Spirit of God that gave it forth or from true Reason but hath it either from his own dark Imagination or from the dark Imagination of other Men as dark and ignorant as himself I had not been so large thus to correct his false Philosophy but that he maketh use of it here and elsewhere to overthrow the Faith of that great Article of Christian Doctrine plainly testify'd in the Holy Scripture to wit The Resurrection of the Body But seeing George Whitehead in his Book called The Malice of the Independent Agent owneth or seemeth to own That Christ's Body he had on Earth is now in the Heavens and is not annihilated nor the Substance of it destroyed how comes it that he so peremptorily disputeth against Christ's Personal Existence and his Personal Coming again or Appearance or Personal Being alledging it implies him to be a Personal God or Christ like the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians conceit of him and he Argues against any Limitation of Christ's Personal Existence or being at the Right-hand of God without all Men. But how George Whitehead will reconcile this to his Assertion in his Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent where he owns that Christ's Body of Flesh saw no Corruption but is in Being and not annihilated And in his Postscript to the said Book call'd The Malice of the Independent Agent he saith of Christ's Body Though it be Spiritual and Glorious yet a Body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to Bodies In my former printed Treatise call'd A short List of some of the Vile and Gross Errors of George Whitehead c. I noticed George Whitehead's Contradiction to John Whitehead about the Body of Christ But here I would have the Reader notice George Whitehead's Contradiction to himself in the two above-mention'd Books as if George Whitehead since he argued against the Personal Being of Christ without every Man had turn'd Anthropomorphite and Muggletonian for asserting that Christ hath a Body in Heaven that is not every-where But to assert that