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A47188	The true copy of a paper given in to the yearly meeting of the people called Quakers at their meeting-place in Grace-Church-street, Lonon, 15 day of the 3d. month 1695. By George Keith, which was read by him in the said meeting, by their allowance. With a brief narrative of the most material passages of discourse betwixt George White-head, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, and the day following, betwixt George White-head, William Penn, and Francis Canfield on the one side, and George Keith on the other; ... Together with a short list of some of the vile and gross errors of George Whitehead, John Whitehead, William Penn, their chief ministers, and now having the greatest sway among them (being of the same sort and nature with the gross errors charged on some in Pensilvania) most apparently opposite to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion ... And a proposition to VVilliam Penn, to prove his charge, that G.K. is an apostate.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing K220; ESTC R220379	30,855	34

I never judged my self absolutely infallible but as my own former books have plainly declared I did judge both my self and all others now Living liable to mistakes and I far rather upon Divine Illumination and sound Conviction contradict my former books than persist in any known Error But 2dly Upon the most impartial search that I have made I find not any cause to correct either my Judgment or Books as touching any of the great Doctrines and Principles of the Christian Religion nor do I know that I am of another Faith in any One Principle of Christian Doctrine contrary to what I believed ever since I went under the Profession of a Quaker so called The Words and Passages generally if not universally that I find cause to correct not being so much relating to the Truth of Principles of Christian Doctrine as to some places of Scripture unduly applied to prove or defend things that were Truths but did not really prove these Truths either by express words or yet by any real and true and proper consequence or Relative to some other Lesser and more Circumstantial Matters But as to the Fundamental and otherwise great Articles of the Christian Faith I think my gracious God that I have been well preserved and have not found any thing in any of my former or latter books contradictory to any One Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith and I wish I had not found too much just Cause to blame others for their great Errors in Fundamental Doctrines and had they been so humble as to have Corrected their own Errors I had not thus exposed them and if any shall judg it to be an Act of Prejudice or Malice in me thus to Expose them after due warning given in private to most of them and after they have thus publickly disowned me I have this comfort that they judg a miss of me and that nothing of Prejudice or Malice hath moved me to this undertaking but love to Truth and Men and next to the Honour of God the regard to my Christian Name and Reputation which these men have sought to slay and by so doing to expose me and my Family to outward want and necessity but I trust in God's Mercy their design will be disappointed and God will in due time clear me of that cloud of unjust Infamy they all seek to cover me with and that he will plead my righteous Cause for to him I do commit it But now to proceed to give the short List I promised All sincere Christians believe that by that bloody Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross through Faith in him they are cleansed from their sins and that by the Blood of Christ by which true Believers are said both to be Justified and Sanctified is to be understood the real and true Blood of Christ's Body that suffered on the Cross which George Whitehead calleth Visible and Material Blood and positively denieth that the Saints are cleansed by that Blood and giveth divers Reasons of his positive denial all which are most false and absurd First because that Blood is not in being giving for his Authority W. Burnet pag. 40. of his Book 2dly Because the Blood that came out of Christ's Side when peirced by the Spear was not shed by Christ the shedding of it was no Act of Christ but of a wicked Soldier and therefore not Efficacious or Meritorious for remission of Sin or cleansing from Sin 3. Because as the New Covenant is inward and Spiritual so is the Blood of the New Covenant but so was not that Material Blood and the material Blood of the Beasts that were Offered in Sacrifice under the Law was not a Type of that material Blood that was shed upon the Cross for that were to say one Type was a Type of another See G. VV. his Book called The Light and Life of Christ within in Answer to W. Burnet a Baptist Teacher And this Antichristian and wretched Doctrine he giveth out as the Quakers Principles withal telling the Quakers see no need of Directing men to the Type for the antitype viz. Neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood knowing that neither the Righteousness of Faith nor the word of it doth so direct Rom. 10. And a little after he saith And where do the Scriptures say the Blood was there viz. at Jerusalem shed for Justification and that men must be directed to Jerusalem to it See his pag. 38. 39 59 60. Agreeable to this is that Doctrine published by W. Penn in his Part of the Christian Quaker p. 97. This Seed said he viz. the one Seed Christ as he calleth him there must be Inward and Spiritual since one outward thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the way of Holy Scripture so to teach w● the outward Lamb shows forth the inward Lamb the Jew outward the Jew inward If this be not as plain a denial of Christ to be any outward Being having any bodily Existance without us I know no English He goes on at a most Antichristian rate to prove that this Seed of the Woman that bruiseth the Serpent's Head was not Christ's Body or what he had from the Virgin strictly considered as such 2dly Saith he It is clear from hence the Serpent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something that is also Internal and Spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an Holy and Spiritual Principle of Light Life and Power that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpents Head and because the Seed which cannot be that body is Christ as testify the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed Christ and Christ God over all Blessed for ever we do conclude and that most truly that Christ was and is the Divine word of Light and Life that was in the beginning with God and was and is God over all blessed for ever But as it is readily granted by all true Christians that Christ is God so by Christ as he is called the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of Abraham in whom all Nations of the Earth are blessed is understood Christ not as he is God only or the word only for it is wonderful blindess or inconsiderateness to say God is the Seed of the Woman or the Seed of Abraham without any respect to the word becoming Flesh or taking Flesh But it is neither the Body of Christ strictly considered nor the Soul of Christ strictly considered without the Godhead nor the Godhead strictly considered without the Soul and Body of the Manhood of Christ that is the Seed of the Woman or Seed of Abraham but the Godhead and Manhood joyntly considered and most gloriously united And his third Argument

the Perverse Glosses that some put upon them in Publick Meetings If for this my conscientious performance of my Duty both to God and also to the Souls of People I shall be disowned by any Party among you or among that People called in scorn Quakers for I believe I shall never be disowned by the most Faithful and Conscientious of that People for my Faithful and Zealous Testimony to the Truth against vile Errors and that I shall never by the Grace of God give any Just Occasion to any against me though I cannot but be very sorry on their Account who shall so unjustly judge me and cast me out yet I shall rejoyce and have great Cause so to do that it hath pleased God to give me a Lot amongst others his dear Servants who have suffered the like Evil Treatment by men of high Pretences and I rely upon God's Faithful Promises who hath promised a great Reward to such in Heaven who suffer for his Name 's sake on Earth an Earnest of which I now enjoy by his blessed Spirit in my heart John 16. 1 2 3. Isa 66. 5. Job 31. 34 36. George Keith A Brief Narrative of the most Material Passages c ON the 14th of this Iustant the 3d month 1695. I came to the Meeting-house Door at Grace-Chureh-street where the Yearly Meeting was sitting which was carefully kept shut by Three or Four Persons they refusing to let in but Friends of the Ministry and others Commission'd from the several Counties and Meetings or any other persons whom they thought fit and I offering to enter in was stopt by the Keepers I enquiring their reason they told me I was not in Unity with Friends I replied I know no Meeting as yet in England that hath disowned me But one of the Keepers proffered to go in and acquaint the Meeting that I desired to have entrance which he did and a little after some came out and told me I was not to have entrance but if I had any Paper they would carry it in to the Meeting I told them I had a Paper but not having a Copy of it I would not give it out of my Hand and though I had another Copy yet I was resolved to give no Paper to them to be read in their Meeting unless I were present so that Evening two of the Meeting came to my House and told me the Yearly Meeting agreed I should come next day about the sixth hour in the Evening and have entrance to read my Papers or hear it read providing I would withdraw when dersied which I promised so at the time appointed I came and was allowed to sit at the great square Table among the Ministers and Commissioners that can hold about it either fully or near double to the number 24 whether by allusion to the 24 Seats and Elders mentioned Rev. 4. But doubling the Numbers I do not determine only I think it suits not with their crying out so much as they were wont against chief Seats in the Synagogues to erect such a stately Fabrick in their Meeting-House at that time it little differing from the manner of a Throne but that it is low upon the Floor covered with green Cloath yet few take liberty to sit there but the chiefest in respect among them After some time of Universal silence I stood up and declared that I had brought a Paper which I desired they might suffer to be read among them Jasper Batt much opposed its Reading but George Whitehead stood up and made a Speech the substance of which was That I had the Advice of the last Yearly Meeting given me but instead of hearkening to it I Printed a Paper reflecting on the Yearly Meeting the last year and no wise answering the mind of the Meeting and though I mention not the Yearly Meeting in that Printed Paper called The Causless Ground yet it is apparent I meant them for I recite some of their words and by that which Robert Hannay that came over with me and owned our Proceedings in America had Printed of Vile Reflections against the Last Yearly Meeting it is evident I did mean the Yearly Meeting for his Printed Paper is a Commentary upon mine And now said G. W. if thou hast any Paper to offer to this Yearly Meeting to give Friends satisfaction that thou will hearken to the Advice of the Last Yearly Meeting and disown what thou Printed in that called The Causless Ground Reflecting on Friends the Meeting will hear rhy Paper Otherwise I think it ought not to be heard To which I replied As in that Printed Paper I mentioned not the Yearly Meeting so there are no words in that Paper answered by me but were spoke by other Persons before and after the Yearly Meeting therefore ye cannot prove that I Reflected on the Yearly meeting Beside I do not own that that Paper called A True Account of the Proceedings c. was the Yearly Meetings Act but of a Prevailing Party or Faction in it and I do not own Robert Hannay's Paper to be any Commentary upon mine he is of Age to answer for himself I desired him he would not Print it and had no hand in Printing it as I have oft formerly declared which Th. Elwood wrests as if my Sence were I did not work it at the Press But this is one of his many other gross Perversions of my words And as to my Paper giving satisfaction to the Meeting I cannot say whether it will actually satisfie the Meeting but I judge there is enough in it to be just Cause of Satisfaction to them but whether it will satisfie I know not the Event will best prove that therefore I desire ye will permit it to be read I claiming their Promise without any condition to suffer it to be read so after some time they allowed me to read it After I had read it and some time of silence interveened Charles Marshal one that abounds with his Prophecies and Predictions but I know not if ever any of them came to pass but surely many have failed apparently stood up and said He had some few words of Exhortation to me from God and they were so weighty on his mind that he was minded to come to my House and deliver them but finding me there he would communicate them which was To exhort me to come down to the Witness of God in my Heart and return to that which convinced me at first and gathered me out from among the Professors and leave all these Imaginations and bury them and be reconciled to Friends After he had ended I stood up to reply but there was a great Opposition in divers to hinder me they saying There was no need of a Reply to a few words of Exhortation I answered I hoped I might have the like Liberty to Exhort him as he had to exhort me so way being made I replyed That I was come down to the Witness of God in my Heart and was not departed from that