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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47152	Immediate revelation, or, Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God revealed in man and revealing the knowledge of God and the things of his kingdom immediately : or, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit of promise, the spirit of prophecy poured forth and inspiring man and induing him with power from on high ... not ceased, but remaining a standing and perpetual ordinance in the Church of Christ and being of indispensible necessity as to the whole body in general ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner of the truth in the Tolbooth of Aberdein, the 29th of the third moneth, 1665.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1668 (1668)	Wing K175; ESTC R28754	117,830	152

Revealeth in Man these he believeth But if he or any other would thus reason then every one who have the gift of Faith must have the Prophetical Revelation and so all believers are Prophers and do Prophecy Answ. 2. All Saints have the same Spirit and Word of Prophecy in some measure more or less that the Prophets had who ever directed people to the same Spirit and Word in their hearts from which they spoke that they might in themselves hear the same Word and Spirit whereby the true Faith comes and such who turned in their minds to this Word and Spirit in them or rather by the drawings thereof were turned by it believed the Prophets Testimonies and all others did not believe but rejected their Testimony as false and seigned I shall not need to cite Scriptures for this or produce reasons having done both at large in the fore-going Treatise but whereas they say then all should be Prophets and Prophecy who believe Answ. 3. All the Saints must know the sheepherds voice in them and witness Christ Jesus the great Prophet Prophecying or speaking in them and must carry his Testimony which is the Spirit of Prophecy Revel 19. 10. compared with 12. 17. But we do not say neither followeth it from our Doctrine That all are called forth as Prophets to Prophecy or Minister or Teach or have the gift of utterance given them only this we affirm That none ought to Minister or Teach but who witness the Internal Call and furnishing of the holy Spirit given them what to speak Immediately from it self and inwardly revealing the truth of these things in them whereof they declare and they who Prophecy or Preach of Faith ought to believe themselves and to have the same Spirit of Faith according to that 1 Cor. 4. 13. We having the same Spirit of Faith believe therefore we speak and so speaking a Prophecying of the effect or consequent of Faith in all whom God calleth thereunto Thirdly saith he This opinion too openly favoureth the Swendefieldians Anabaptists and others vaunting of Internal Breathings or Inspirations and enthusiasms for saith he that Internal Revelation which is upon the part of the object and which is ever by Supernatural and disjoynedly Infused representations truly and properly is Enthusiasme Answ. Lo how the fleshly denies the Inward Breathings or Inspirations of Gods Spirit whereby alone the understanding is opened and the true Wisdom and Life received but what saith he here against it but that the Swendefieldians and Annabaptists maintain this Doctrine and vaunt themselves to be Inspired but this will not prove it false though they had not been Inspired more than when the false Prophets in Ieremiah's daies said They were Inspyred by the Spirit of God that therefore Ieremiah was not Fourthly saith he Hence it followeth that the whole Church that is all the faithful are ruled by new Revelations Answ. What evil is this or rather is it not a blessed dispensation for all who believe to walk after the Spirit and to Witness God dwelling and walking in them as he hath promised It is observable how both this man and all his brethren take it for granted rather it hath passed all along among them as a Principle then that ever any of them could prove it That there no Immediate Revelation and upon this sandy Foundation they have built their Church Ministry Worship and Ordinances which is now a falling and great is and shall be the fall thereof but this we say and certainly know such who can receive it let them all true Christians have the dayly and hourly Manifestations Revelations and Influences of the Life eternal fresh and new from the Fountain as the Israelites gathered the Manna new from Heaven every day c. Fifthly saith he Internal or Immediate Revelations cannot make us more certain of the Divine Authority than the outward Revelation viz. the Scriptures therefore if the outward is not to be believed for it self neither the inward and so either an infinite progress or vitious Circle must be committed Answ. The Antecedent is Manifestly false and therefore it concludes not truly for what man of the meanest discerning will not acknowledge that God Immediately Revealing or speaking in Man whose voice is full of heavenly vertue sweetness and holiness which his Sheep by their heavenly nature hear and discern from the voice of a stranger maketh him more certain than when he has but a report from another Writ in the time of my Imprisonment in the Tolboo●…h of Aberdeen in Scotland where I was shut up ten Months for no other cause but my Testimony to the Truth The 3d. of the 6th Month 1668. G. Keith Errata or faults escaped in Printing PAge 10. Line 13. for annull read animal p. 12. l. 27. for God r. of God p. 25. l. 33. for stuffe r. strife p. 17. l. 15. for light r. life p. 52. l. 9. for misery r. mercy p. 88. l. 25. for swords r. words p. 92. l. 31. for him 1. her p. 109. l. 15. for darkness r. drunkenness p. 137. l. 3. for none r. is there none p. 121. l. 21. for Christians r. Christians have p. 126. l. for with r. ●…ot with THE END Prov. 5. 2. and 3. 2 Cor. 4. 6.

he that is born of God desire his Fathers face the Kings face the light of his Countenance this made David and so maketh it all the Children of God say We have more joy and gladness in the light of our Fathers Countenance though it were shut up in a Dungeon with Bread and Water than they whose Corn and Oyl and Wine doth abound Now whereas it is said The Scriptures are plain evident and manifest in themselves they have a secret glory Majesty and Purity in them which mans writings in his own wisdom have not and this abundantly manifests them to the spiritual Eye I grant it is so and certainly knows it to be so which makes them so precious unto me but consider a little what this Glory Majesty Plainness Purity c. is which makes them Manifest and to whom it Manifests them Such an Example will somewhat figure it forth having first known such a man of rare beauty comeliness and majesty which appears in his countenance and afterwards seeing his Portrait drawn so exactly as a Pensel could do this Image or Portrait has a pretty lively representation of him and the Characters of his Beauty and the Majesty of his Countenance appear somewhat in the Portrait whereby I Manifestly know That it is the representation of such a Man Now these Characters of Beauty and Majesty in the Image come far short of the Mans countenance and it was the seeing of him first made me know his Image to be his and so the glory and beauty of his Face may be called Primarie but that in the Portr●… Secondary or Derivative and the seeing himself makes me believe that it is his Description and it is Manifest enough so I reading in the Scripture wherein there are as it were rare and excellent draughts shaddowing forth Jesus Christ and I then coming to know himself the Scriptures lye open and plain unto me and they are very evident and manifest but to him that never saw the King of Glory himself they are hid and as a sealed Book and he who has heard God himself speak will manifestly know the words writ or declared by others in whom he has also spoken and he stands near himself to testifie and witness to the truth of these words which come from himself So Queen Sheba easily believed the report concerning Solomon and his wealth when she saw it and I reading the Description of such a Countrey I have been in and travelled thorow it is easie for me to know whether it be true or false and I being so long a hearer of such a Man speaking from word of mouth and afterwards reading a book containing his words I know them to be his having heard him before but the words as they lye in a book come far short of these which proceedeth from his own mouth for these had much móre Life and Power with them Then how much more do the words Immediately proceeding out of the Mouth of God excell a Declaration or writing of them though they be also precious and excellent but where the Word of the King himself is there is Power and blessed are they who know this joyful sound of the Voice of the living God in their hearts and have thus learned the truth as it is in Jesus having so learned Christ having heard himself and so having him the Witness in themselves Ephes. 4. 21. 1 Iohn 5. 10. They are built on a sure Foundation which gives them fullness of Assurance That the Prophets and Apostles Doctrine is of God having found himself Come and seen him of whom Moses and the Prophets wrot Iohn 1. 45. 46. And as it was the Spirit of Jesus Christ Witnessing in the hearts of them who believed to the Truth of the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles by which they were made Manifest in their Consciences and their words were believed which proceeded Immediately from their own Mouthes and seeing that was necessary then it must be also necessary now also much if not much more seeing these Apostles and Prophets are not alive themselves in the flesh to tell us that they spoke or wrot so but that their writings are transmitted to us through many generations from hand to hand and no question they have fallen into enemies hands and how can a man be so fully assured as is sufficient for his Salvation but that Papists Iews and others who had them before us have wronged them and both added and taken away and altered if the Spirit of the Lord perswade him not to the contrary seeing it is possible they might have done so if the Lord had permitted and what a light Foundation have they to their Faith which men of corrupt minds or Devils or any powers whatsoever of this World may brangle spoile corrupt add to or take from for as we know through the rich mercy and gracious Providence of God the Lord hath so wonderfully preserved the Scriptures Testimony so far uncorrupt and pure as that they abundantly testifie the true foundation and these things sufficient for Salvation not that they are sufficient themselves but they abundantly testifie to that which is sufficient and this we know by the Spirit of God that wrought them but what a tottering and Lubrick and uncertain Foundation ye have made to your selves some of you affirming and these men of great account with you that the points of the Hebrew Coppies in which Language the old Testament was writ are but mens aditions and the first writers used them not and it is affirmed by many of your selves they are but a late invention Now what a great difference and considerable the pointing makes any skilled in that Language but a little may know the points being the vowells even so great that the points otherwaies set or added may not only alter one or more words but whole sentances and if so what a loss are ye at in your Foundation I found it only to touch this a little and refer the Reader to Samm●…el Fishers Book where he treats of this at large and Iohn Owen Confesseth the points or vowels to be so weighty that if they be invented or added since the writeing of the Scriptures by fallible men it mightily threatens the ruine of the Christian Faith thus he in words to the same purpose as may be seen in his book and yet these men who set forth the Biblia Polyglotta and many others affirm the points to be added since or that the contrarie is not Certain but they are happy whose Faith depends not on mans saying or unsaying but on that Word which was in the beginning and this only can certifie us of the Scriptures Argument 12. And as by the Spirit of Jesus Christ his Revealing Immediately in mans heart and bearing testimony to the Scriptures that they are of God and writ from his inspiring and moving of these holy Men of God who penned them Man can only be sufficiently perswaded to believe them so this can only