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B03450 The Christianity of the people called Quakers asserted, by George Keith: in answer to a sheet, called, A serious call to the Quakers, &c. Attested by eight priests of the Church of England ... and affirmed by George Keith, or the new sworn deacon. Field, John, 1652-1723. 1700 (1700) Wing F861B; ESTC R177039 9,400 1

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as Preachers and Publishers of their Faith of unquestionable esteem among them and worthy of double Honour as many such there are I know none that are guilty of any such Heresies and Blasphemies Concerning G. Fox G. K. saith Rect. Cor. p. 111. Whom the Lord hath indeed made a worthy Instrument unto us and among us and yet I hope shall unto many more and who is safe in the Hand of Him that holdeth the Seven Stars and the Seven Golden Candlesticks in his Right Hand And all thy Malicious Reviling and Slanderous Defamation of him cannot diminish any thing from that true Honour wherewith the Lord hath Honour'd him and other Faithful Labourers with him whom the Lord hath raised up in this Day of the Appearance of his Great and Mighty Power Now can G. Keith in Truth and Sincerity say more of and for 1st That Religion he now Professeth 2dly Of those People he is now joyned unto 3dly Of the Preachers and Publishers of their Faith 4thly Of any Man or Men amongst them then he hath of G. Fox and other Faithful Labourers with him among the Quakers I'ts left to the Judgment of all Serious Christians ' And all good Christians as in the Postscript to Serious Call are desir'd to have this Sheet in their ' Houses and to show it to their Neighbours as they have opportunity that they may see the Christianity of the Quakers and G. Keith also * Whilst a Quaker and enquire if ever they see heard or read of any Man that hath done like him that pretended to be so many Years sound as to the Fundamentals of Christianity and all the Doctrines of the Christian Religion and that hath made so bold with the Name of the Lord and pretended to such Zeal and Concern for God to contradict himself and feignedly to say He judgeth it his Duty from true Conviction and out of real Love to Truth to say and unsay and so confidently Assert he doth it freely and humbly Can you think this is a Teacher sent or called of God commissionated by Christ guided by his Spirit and fit to Follow or to Preach up that Dispensation of which it 's said every Man shall speak the Truth to his Neighbour And are the so called Doctors and Rectors and those that abet him to be commended for their Wisdom And do they thereby Demonstrate that they have are in or are guided by the Wisdom of God and his Holy Spirit by which so many as are the Sons of God are led in their joyning with this Man It 's hoped if you that follow George Keith c. will duly and well consider these things you will not only Renounce him but consider that his evil Works and those that Joyn with him therein ought to be forsaken and that it wil be more for your Profit and tend more to your Inward Peace and Christian Reputation to hearken to the Voice of Christ in your own Hearts and to mind that Light by which all things that are reproved are made manifest and believe in him who said I am the Light of the World and exhorted to learn of him who will teach you freely and no longer to follow him and such Preachers if you would be Christians indeed and then it 's hoped you will acknowledge viz. as G. K. saith p. 230. of his Presb. and Ind. visible Churches It had been more Manly and seemingly Christian for G. K. and his Abettors or any others of their Sect or Society fairly to have stated the Quakers Principles and then to have refuted them by the best or strongest Arguments they could find But this none of them have done and he truly hath said They never can nor did I ever see to this day any one Writer that did write against the Quakers that did fairly state their Principles but miserably be-lyed and abused them as G. K. hath either by affirming things to be their Principles which were not or by so unfairly Representing and Wresting the words of our Honest Friends by their Addings and Diminishings that they could not at all acknowledge them as such all which is a manifest Evidence of the Weakness and Badness of their Cause as well as of that evil Conscience that is in them when they use such unlawful ways and means to defend themselves or to oppugn others Consider by what 's herein and what G. K. saith p. 15. of his Exact N●r. and Preface thereto whether he hath not proved himself an Apostate a great Hypocrite stark Mad and Crased in his Understanding Published on Behalf of the People called Quakers by some of them London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street 1700.
Concerning the Scriptures ' Geo. Fox says as quoted The Scriptures are not Infallible nor Divine but Humane Note 〈◊〉 there are no such words in the place Cited altho' it is elsewhere notwithstanding the Attestation of the three Doctors and five Masters of Art and Rectors and G. K's Affirmation to the Truth as Cited However hear G. K. G. K 's Truth 's Defence p. 53. I Answer That not only the Old Testament but even the Writings or Letter of the New Testament may be called a Killing Letter to those that remain alienated from the Spirit that quickens even as Origen hath formerly Taught in his Commentary on Leviticus Not only saith he in the Old Testament is found the Killing Letter there is also in the New Testament the Letter which Killeth him who doth not spiritually attend unto the things which are spoken Now if any go from the Spirit that only makes the true Gospel Administration and set up the Letter or Writing of the Apostles in the room of the same these Writings of the Apostles do eventually become a killing Letter no less than that of the Law and can no more give Life or make Perfect than the outward Law could Ibid. 59. The Translations of the Scripture the which Translations are commonly called Scripture have divers Additions which Men have added without any pretence to Divine Inspiration The Letter or External Form of the Writing is not properly the Word of God 54. By the Word of God in the Scriptures is not understood the Letter but Christ 49. Thus far G. K. And will he now say Only the bare Writing or Characters consisting of Ink and Paper is properly the Word of God 47. and are Infallible Divine and not Humane If G. K. will now so assert let him Concerning Christ's Coming to Iudgment Is quoted G. W. as followeth Call What is the Glory of the Father in which Christ's Coming is Is it visible to the carnal Eye and ' where is that Coming to be Is it now to be looked for outwardly G. K. saith G K 's Rector Cor. p. 16. I do seriously and truly tell thee as I faithfully believe that Christ did locally Ascend upwards into the Heavens whence also he shall Descend at the time of the Restitution of all things And if G. K. hath Retracted this the Quakers see no cause to Retract nor yet to affirm that Christ's Coming is Visible to the carnal Eye Concerning Heaven and Hell Call There is none have a Glory and Heaven but within them And in Answer to this and what W. Penn saith hear G. K. saith Rector Cor. p. 14. This is no great Riddle nor Paradox to the least Child of the New Jerusalem Paul indeed was before in Heaven and so is every Regenerate Man Note If every Regenerate Man is in Heaven then he hath a Heaven within him or hath a Peace and Joy in him from Christ. at present Concerning doing Servile Work on the Lord's Day and the Moral Law We might wave till G. K. brought plain and express Scripture and proved by plain and express Scripture and in express Scripture Terms that the doing of any Servile Work on the 1st Day of the Week called here the Lord's Day is forbid and by express Scripture proves the 1st Day of the Week and none of the other Days is called the Lord's Day and that Christ is not the Life of a Christian or the true Christians Life and doth by express Scripture and in plain and express Scripture Terms prove that it 's an Article of Faith or Doctrine in common to be believed but he may expect some Quotations to that Head and seeing in this Sheet use is made of a Quotation out of an Appeal as it 's said out of a Quakers Book concerning the Church of England's Ministry we refer the Reader to a Sheet Intituled Mr. Geo. Keith's Account of a National Church and the Ministry of the Church of England and to the Animadversions thereon and also to the Book Intituled The Portraiture of Mr. Geo. Keith wherein it doth appear what Account G. K. gives concerning the Ministry of the Church of England and the Dissenting Ministry and let him now if he will own or deny them to be Heretical and Antichristian so far as they reflect upon the Persons of our Opposers and most Heretical From the foregoing and following Quotations it will appear what G. K's Belief was and the Quakers is concerning the Ten Articles 1st Concerning Infallibility G. K. saith G. K 's Truth 's Defence p 64. How unreasonable this Consequence is I leave unto sober Men to Judge as to Conclude because Men are * It 's supposed this should be Fallible Infallible that therefore the Dictate and Light of God's Spirit in Men is Fallible also Was not Peter Fallible in some Cases Yea Did not he fail sorely as well as G. K. when he denied his Master Doth it therefore follow that the Dictate or Light of God's Spirit in him was Fallible To say that they have no Infallible Spirit the plain English of which is that the Spirit of God and ' God himself is Fallible saith G. K. in his Presb. and Ind. Visible Churches p. 47. Concerning the Holy Scriptures and their being the Only Rule of Faith and Practice or to try Spirits c. G. K. saith Truth 's Defence p. 65. It 's no Repugnancy that one and the same thing be Superiour and Inferiour in different Respects and as it respecteth different Subjects But there is no necessity to understand the Dictate and Light of God's Spirit in divers Men to be Superiour and Inferiour when it Examines and is Examined for one equal may be a Measure or Rule to another yea one thing may be said to be a Rule unto it self according to that common Maxim or Principle Linea recta est norma sui Obliqui i. e. A right Line is a Rule of it self and also of that which is Crooked The Power of God is the Rule For none know truly the Scriptures p. 68. but they who know the Power of God and therefore that Power which is Life Light and Spirit is the more Principal and Original Rule Concerning the Trinity G. K. saith G. K 's Serious App. p. 2. The only Exception we have is against that Unscriptural Term or Phrase of Three Persons or a Trinity ' of Persons And therefore let all Men know G. K's Presb and Ind. visib Churches p. 58. to whose hand this may come That the People called Quakers never denied but on the contrary faithfully believed and do still faithfully believe whatever is Recorded in the holy Scriptures of that great Mystery to wit That God is One and that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost is that One Only True and Living God the Creator and Upholder of all Concerning Christ and his Blood G. K. saith Ibid. p. 58. The Lord Jesus