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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

concerning the Blood that saves and does away sin hear what R. C. in his 11. pag. saith My Brethren you are bought with a price not of blood of Bulls and Goats nor Heifers of a year old but by the Blood of God But in his 13. pag. he is of another Opinion and saith quite contrary these are his words viz. which blood being the Blood of his Humanity as he was Creature was that which did with God expiate for sin so now which of these two Doctrines shall we believe that we are saved by the Blood of God or Blood of the Humanity or shall we suppose them to be both one and so God to be Human and so the Doctrines indifferent R. C. will do well to clear up these things or own his Condemnation upon his folly and presumption Obs There needs little observation to demonstrate how unsound and unsavory these words are but some to excuse them say they are only by way of Query but it is a plain case he not only querieth but positively affirmeth that to say we are bought by the Blood of God is quite contrary to say which Blood being the Blood of his Humanity as he was Creature was that which with God did expiate for Sin so that it is clear as S. C. did hold them to be two Bloods he did hold Expiation not to be by the Blood of the Humanity whereas the Blood of the Man Christ is called the Blood of God because Christ whose blood it was was and is both God and Man 2dly Whereas S. C. putteth R. C. to own his Condemnation upon his folly and presumption this is no query but a positive affirmation Now R. C. his supposed folly and presumption charged by S. C. was That he said the Blood of God did expiate for sin the which was the Blood of the Humanity of Christ But this is a sound Assertion and to contradict it is folly and presumption for God hath not Blood strictly considered being a pure Spirit but the Blood of Christ is worthily called the Blood of God because Christ is not only Man but God also And like to this is that place 1 John 3. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his Life for us this He is Christ who is not only Man but God also and yet one Lord Jesus Christ the Immanuel 1. An Additional List to the Former G. Whitehead saith in his Printed Book the Light and Life of Christ within c. pag. 64. The shedding of that Blood let out by the Spear was an act of a wicked Man and the Spear an Instrument of Cruelty which to lay the Meritorious Cause or stress of Justification upon is false Doctrine For there is a great difference betwixt Christ's Offering up himself by the Eternal Spirit a Lamb without spot with God and the Acts of Wicked Men inflicted upon him as it 's said by wicked hands they put him to Death Obs Here not only he Excludes the shedding of that Blood but the Death of Christ and all his bodily Sufferings from being concerned in that Offering and so chargeth false Doctrine upon the Holy Scriptures that attributeth the making Peace betwixt God and us to Christ by the Blood of his Cross called so because it was that Blood that was shed when he suffered on the Cross and the Scripture saith He was wounded for our Transgressions c. And by his Stripes we are healed which doubtless are to be understood of his Bodily Sufferings as well as of the inward Grief of his Soul And it is a great undervaluing of Christ's Sufferings and Death and Blood that because by wicked hands men put him to Death that therefore his Death Sufferings and Blood was not Meritorious for though the violent Death of the Martyrs was not Meritorious for Remission of our sins yet it was precious in the sight of God and had great acceptance with God and at this rate of G. W's carnal Reasoning I am sure the Light of Christ in him never taught him so to reason but a dark carnal Spirit more like a scossing Celsus who wrote slightingly of Christ against the Christians not only all the Martyrs sufferings but all Friends sufferings and his own sufferings also who I heard was once Whipt for his Profession was of no value being Inflicted by Wicked Men. And tho the Blood that came out of Christ's side when the Soldier Peirced him was shed after he was Dead yet that doth not hinder but it was of the same value with that Blood of his that was shed before his Death and with all his other Sufferings and when Christ said to his Disciples before his Passion Take eat this is my Body and this Cup is the New-Testament in my Blood shed for the Remission of the Sins of many as all Protestant and sincere Christians hold as by his Body he meant his real Body whereof the Bread was a Figure so by his Blood that was shed he meant his real Blood whereof what was in the Cup was a Figure and by a Figure called Enallage Temporis he said of his body This is my Body broken for you c. And this Cup is the New Testament in my Blood shed c. Tho the thing was not then done but soon after was done and tho our blessed Lord in his bodily Sufferings was wholly passive yet his obedience to the will of his Father which was a most Holy and Perfect Obedience in his most Holy and Perfect Resignation and Patience in his exceeding Love both to his Father and also to Men in his most profound Humility and all other most excellent Virtues that God did regard in his Sufferings chiefly and that was so highly Meritorious yet the Blood and the shedding of it is mentioned in Scripture because he could not be a true and proper Sacrifice without his Blood had been shed for without shedding of Blood there could be no Remission and though his Death and Sufferings and Blood were all Valuable and precious in God's Sight yet his Obedience was chiefly considered as it is said because he humbled himself and became Obedient unto Death therefore God hath highly exalted him c. And his Obedience Blood Death and Sufferings are jointly to be considered by us in that great Work of our Redemption Again In the forecited Book pag. 58. He excuseth these most Blasphemous words of Sol. Eccles which were The Blood that was forced out of him by the Soldiers after he was Dead who before that bowed his Head to the Father and gave up the Ghost I did say that was no more than the Blood of another Saint G. Whitehead to excuse this gives three Answers 1. He saith now to these words viz. No more than the blood of another Saint his intent was as to Papists and you whose minds are carnal who oppose the Light within Secondly he saith and also simply as to the essence of the blood which you do not say is

still in being but not as to the spiritual virtue which is still in being And a little after he argueth thus in the same page And seeing that the children had flesh and blood and Christ took part of the same if the same how was it more or another simply as to the matter of blood His third answer is that he owns the blood shed in one sense was more then the blood of another Saint tho not in the matter of it as to the visible in that it had a peculiar signification c. Obser As to his first answer that his intent was that that blood was no more than the blood of another Saint as to Papists and Baptists whose minds are carnal who oppose the light within here is a plain denyal that Christs death and blood shedding was of value for all men Papists and Baptists and all others are excluded whose minds are carnal and who oppose the light within We had wont to blame the narrowness of them that said Christ dyed not for all men and shed not his blood for all but G. W. here excludeth Papists and Baptists and all others whose minds are carnal who oppose the light within from any other benefit by Christs blood than what they have by the blood of any other Saint but have we not Preached and Printed that the light within is a benefit that Papists and Baptists yea Jews Turks and all Mankind have by Christ's Obedience unto Death which we have proved from Rom. 5. 15 18. and other places of Scripture but this benefit all Men have not by the Death and Blood of any other Saints To his 2d Answer That that Blood of Christ was no more than the Blood of another Saint simply as to the Essence of the Blood by his rate of Arguing he might excuse it if S. E. had said It was no more than the blood of a common Thief as it was reported he or some other did say seeing the blood of a Saint and the blood of a common Theif simply considered differ not as to the visible or matter of it But I say as the blood and body of a Saint differeth much from the blood and body of a wicked man because the body and blood of a Saint is Sanctified so is not the body and blood of a wicked man while such so the blood and body of Christ differeth from that of all Saints by way of Excellency and that in a very high degree beyond what can be expressed or conceived not only that it was never defiled with sin but for other great Reasons And tho Christ took flesh and blood and the true nature of man yet that proveth not that as man Christ had not that which was more excellent even belonging to his body and blood as well as to his Soul far above all other men his very body being Miraculously conceived and having no immediate Father as Man but God As to his 3d. Answer That is as weak and impertinent as the other two he owns that in one sense the blood shed was more in that it had a peculiar signification c. But this is but a small preference to say in one sense it had a peculiar signification the blood of the Beasts in one sense had a peculiar signification that were Offered in Sacrifices under the Law being Types and Typical significations of Christ's Blood But the blood of Christ that was outwardly shed had not a Typical Signification as the blood of beasts had but was a real part of the true Attonement together with his Body and Soul and if he had any knowledg of the great Mistery of that Blood and any due value for it he would not only have owned it to be more than the blood of another Saint in one sense but in a manifold sense or rather every way having the preference the blood as well as the Body of the Saints is corruptible and doth corrupt but neither the body nor blood of Christ did corrupt and that G. W. insists so much on that Argument that because that blood is not in being which W. B. had confest that therefore it is not Meritorious of Justification this is but Argumentum ad hominem at most against W. B. but what saith G. W. to it is that Blood in being or did it corrupt Let him speak out plainly and not shift or quible as his manner too much hath been in Controversy and if nothing can merit or be efficacious which is not in being this doth as much render Christ's Death and bodily Sufferings ineffectual but only for that little time that he suffered and because Christ's Death and bodily Sufferings are now at an end Christ having once died dieth no more But the Scripture saith that Christ by one Offering hath for ever perfected them that are Sanctified and that was the Offering his body once for all his blood being also a part of the Offering together with his Soul and this Offering was effectual in all Ages before he Died as well as it is now effectual and will be to the Worlds end to all that truly believe and obey his Gospel But what little true knowledg either G. W. or W. P. hath of the Mistery of Christ's Flesh and Blood or of Christ without us doth sufficiently appear from two Citations more I shall bring one of G. W. another of W. P. in the Second Part of the Christian Qnaker done by G. VV. pag. 243. VVe really own saith he and confess to the Blood of Christ both in the History and in the Mystery c. By this it plainly appeareth that he did not own the blood of Christ as it was ourwardly shed to have any mistery in it that blood outwardly shed was blood in the History but the life or spirit or Light within that 's blood in the Mistery Next VV. P. in his Answer to John Faldo findeth great fault with him See his Rejoynder p. 335. 336 337. For his holding it to be a Truth That Christ without is a great Mistery who died as a Malefactor by his Death reconciled to God c. Yea and more misterious than for Christ to be in the Gentiles rightly understood But in opposition to John Faldo's Assertion VV. P. saith in way of reply The History is made the greatest Mistery and to believe the one matter of greater difficulty than to experience the other And p. 336 337. He saith further It is strange that should be reputed most Misterious which was the Introduction to the Mistery and these Transactions counted most difficult that were by the Divine wisdom of God Ordained as so many facile Representations of what was to be accomplished in Man In short saith he it is to lessen if not totally to exclude the true Mistery of Godliness which is Christ manifested in his Children their hope of Glory Obs It is plainly evident that they make not only Christ's Works and Sufferings without us but History but even Christ himself without