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A89410	An answer to George Keith's libel. Against a catechism published by Francis Makemie. : To which is added, by way of postscript. A brief narrative of a late difference among the Quakers, begun at Philadelphia.	Makemie, Francis, 1658-1708.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M307; ESTC W24940	61,656	129

with Papists wh●… assert Justification to be the making of one Just and so Confound it with Sanctification which the Spir●… of God makes to be distinct Acts tho' always unseparable As to Adoption in its nature it is God Numbering us among his Children a taking us from among the Children of Satan and Giving us a Right to all the Priviledges of Gods Children pray where is the falshood and danger in asserting they are Acts of God without us bringing Believers into 〈◊〉 new Relation unto God Christ and the Holy Spirit to whom they are Enemies and Strangers by Nature seeing at the same time we firmly believe that there is no Relative Change wrought by God on any Sinner in Justification or Adoption without a real saving inward gracious and universal Change upon the whole man by Sanctification which are as different by the Language of the Apostle Paul as Sanctification and Glorification is Rom. 8. And none are Justified or Adopted but Sanctified also all which is asserted in my Catechism if Keith's contentious Cavelling and Carping Spirit had allowed him to take notice thereof for none of us hold that God makes any his people or children without a real gracious Change as Pen and Keith would inviduously and falsely Calumniate us and our universally known Doctrine fairly published to the World and yet that renewing work is not properly Justification but Sanctification which is a gradual work whereby the Old man of sin and corruption is Crucyfyed and the New man of Grace Righteousness or Holiness is rrnewed and put on more and more and though Keith would make Peace of Conscience to be the Essence and Nature of Justification yet all Reformed Divines with the Apostle Paul make it a concomitant or rather a consequent Blessing to our Justification Rom 5.1 Being Justified by Faith we have Peace with God And whoever denied Regeneration to work a real change which my Catechism plainly asserts And that Justification Adoption and Sanctification may be Lost is not only the Doctrine of Quakers but of Pelagians Papists and Arminians too though Keith and Barclay own that some may Arrive to such a pitch and measure that they cannot Fall away now this measure must either be higher than Justification Sanctification or Regeneration or they contradict themselves in opposing Free Grace and denying the Perseverance of the Saints in Grace with most discouraging and comfortless arguments to Believers which imply many gross absurdities and concerning this Head Mr. John Brown our Country man in confutation of Barclay layes down our unanimous Doctrine and first animadverts all that we hold the Perseverance of none but such as are Regenerated and how false and absurd were it to say a Sinner Regenerated or made a Child of God to Day and yet be a Child of the Devil to morrow made meet for Heaven and yet go to Hell Pardoned and yet Damned 2. We do not hold a special and inevitable necessity of Perseverance though unwilling and lying in Sin as Enemies would insinuate to the prejudice of Truth as Quakers often have done 3. We do not maintain a Perseverance depending on the will of man but on the gracious Covenant The Everlasting Purpose of God the Unchangeableness of his Love and Efficaciousness of Christ's Death 4 That a Believer may fall away Back-slide and Depart from God by many degrees as 1 From Duty as Hearing Reading Praving Praising c. 2 Into Grievous Sins as Noah David Soloman and Peter 3 Inro great Doubts and Fears af●out their State 4 From Degrees of Grace as ●rom a Strong unto a Weakness of Faith ●heir Zeal for God and Religion may grow very cold they may fall from their First Love they may fall from their former measure of Fear And 5 they may Fall from the Truth of the Gospel from the Doctrine of Our Lord Jesus and embrace many gross and dangerous Errors and Believe a ●ye 6 They may fall from the Accidentals of their Gracious State as Sense of Favour Assurance of Gods Love Strength of Habits Measures of Comfort is oft times and may be remitted and lost And yet in the last place we Believe mentain and hold There can be no Total and Final Apostacy and Defection from a Regenerate State or the Essence and Habits of all Grace and this is not only our Doctrine but the Doctrine of all our Reformed Churches tho' K's Invidious Malice is most commonly set against the Reformed Church of Scotland verifying the Ancient and common saying Omnis Apostate sua Secte osor And every serious soul may easily conceive how comfortless and discouraging the Doctrine of Quakers must needs be to all Regenerated and Believing Souls if after Regeneration being in Covenant with God Sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise Redeemed with the Blood of Jesus they may yet be Damned in the End this and many more are the Absurdities that attend this Ancient Pelagian and Arminian Error as 1 Is it not inconsistent with that Puffing up Doctrine of their Perfection they could never yet demonstrate from instances 2. It is inconsistent with the Immutability of Gods Love for whom He Loves He Loves unto the end for his Gracious purposes are Unalterable and his Will Irresistible Isa 4.1.31 They that wait on the Lord shall renew their Strength they shall mount up with Wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not be Faint 3 It is inconsistent with the Stability of the Covenant that is well ordered in all things and sure and all its Mercies are sure Mercies hence called frequently an Everlasting Covenant Jer. 32 40. And I will I make an Everlasting Covenant with them and I will not turn away from them to do them Good but I will put my Eear in their Heart that they shall not depart from me And all Objecting Instances from Scripture must implye no Saving Faith or true Regeneration or their Fall was neither Final nor Total 4. It is inconsistent with the Faithfulness of Christs undertaking to God the Father in the Covenant of Redemption it destroys the Efficacy of His Death Let any Read Christs Prayer to God the Father in John 17. And he may soon be satisfyed there was a Select Number given unto Christ to redeem and Ransome 24. And Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am And he prays 15. And that God would keep them from the Evil. And he has engaged to God the Father that none that the Father bad given him should be Lost otherwise Christ might be Charged with Unfaithfulness And such as deny the Perseverance of the Saints must be ignorant of what Christ has done for the consirmation of the Gracious State of Believers 1 His Redeeming them from all the Demands of Divine Justice with his Precious Blood 2 Redeeming them from the power of Satan 3 From the Dominion of sin 4 He is gone to prepare a Place for them 5 He makes

it is not unknown how little Ministers have had of Mentainance in Maryland either voluntary or compelled And Quakers themselves own they have Stock Purses out of which they Supply their Teachers and others and what call you this but a Maintainance and it is most easy when they come abroad to conceal their Plenty at home that the Stock Purses may be the more Liberal unto them as I doubt not but those of Maryland Virginia too were in his Late Travels which was the least he could have for he gained but few Proselytes And let all Judge how inconsistent their present practices are with their former unreasonable pratling against every thing that looked like a Maintenance urging as K. still does that Text Freely ye have Received Freely Give which was the Advice of Our Saviour to his Apostles when he enabled them to go forth and work Miracles Heal the Sick G●ea●nse the Leper● Raise the Dead Cast out Devi's of which they should make no Merchandize tho' they were Commanded to Preach the Gospel as they go along telling them that the Time of the Promised Messiah was now come who was setting up his Kingdom in the World and to whose Laws ther were to be obedien● This Doctrine they were to confirm by Mi●acles which he gives them a Charge they should work freely without receiving any Reward for them that the Miracles being used to their private use and profi● might not lose their End which was the confirmation of their Doctrine now it hereby was understood they should reci●ve no necessary Maintenance the Apostles might Rationally Judge they had need then to provide well for their journey no as if Our Lord had said Provide neither Gold nor Silv●r nor Brass in your Purses nor Scrip for your Journer neither two Coats neither sho●s nor staves and the reason added for the workman is worthy of his Meat and else where is worthy of his Hire and pray what is Meat and Hire but the best of Maintenance and it is observable the Command for going abroad so bare in the 10 of Matthew was only a Temporary Command for that short Journey for in Luke they were commanded to take both Purse and Scrip ch 22 If they were commanded to take none of these things and yet to go abroad and Preach the Gospel confirming the same with Miracles they must have received maintenance or they must have perished if their Journey had been long but Our Lord designed thereby 1 To give his Apostles an experience of depending on his Good Providence and 2 Also teach people That the Labourer is worthy of his Hire and l●t Keith consider that in respect of God all things is free therefore his School-keeping should be free also And it is not to be doubted that our Saviour took Mentainance himself sometimes asking sometimes taking without asking what he stood in need of as Water from the Samaritan Woman and the Ears of Corn on the Sabbath And it is to be admited with what Impudence Quakers plead against the Apostle Paul in denying the lawfulness of Ministerial Receiving a Maintainance seeing he gives so particular a Precept Gal. 6.6 Let him that is Taught in the Word Communicate unto him that Teacheth in all good things and if this be the Command of God it must be Sin in the people to omit it But the same Apostle pleads for and reasons the case fully 1 Cor. 9. wherein he has many convincing Arguments against all Quakers in the world proving first That the Maintaining of Ministers and Families is warrantable from 4 5 6 verses 2. In the following Verse he declares the Law says as much both the Law of God and the Law of Nature built upon Equity pleads for it 8 9 10 verse 3. Common Equity and Justice pleads for it verse 11. If we have sown to you Spiritual Things is it a great thing if we shall Reap your Carnal Things yet all Pauls forbearing at several times to partake of Peoples Carnal Things did not at all demonstrate the unlawfulness thereof but only his prudential declining of that he had really a Right unto as expressed verse 12. If others be Partakers of this power over you are not we rather Nevertheless we have not used this power but suffer all things lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ and this was the reason why he wrought with his own Hands and Lastly the Apostle concludes with the Necessity of Ministers living by the Gospel they Preach from the Ordination of God 14. Even so hath the Lord Ordained that they that Preach the Gospel should Live of the Gospel But if Quakers all this while are only against Superfluous Maintenances they have lost their Labour for we pleaded not for such not for any other accidental Abuses that through Corruption of time hath been introduced but any that know their Quibbling and Tenacious Temper are satisfied they will never yield the Cause until they are the sole Judges of that Superfluity Another thing in this Charge which needs an Answer And that is concerning the Call and Ordination of Ministers which I did not intend to Treat of at all in my Catechism Published for the instruction of Young Ones and if this Point be one of the Quakers First Principles they should be more distinct and clear in proving the Call and Ordination of their Masculine and Feminine Teachers which they are Pleased to Call Immediate Extraordinary and Apostolick of which K in a vain manner Publickly and Privately has Boasted and Affirmed the same at my House And in his Paper charges all others That they Run to the Church or Pope of Rome for their Call and Mission and this he would seem to the Ignorant to Reason so Profoundly as if it would confound all gainsayers but I shall First Examine Quakers Immediate Mission the Call so much talked of but never yet proved by any demonstration but their own words which shall never be wanting to False Teachers who go about to Decieve and I am perswaded Quakers must have no small conceit of themselves who expect their bare words should have more Credit with Men then Christ or his Apostles expected theirs should have received in the World in their Day for they brought in no such slender but more Convincing Testimonies able to perswade all as Nicodemus confesseth of Christ No man can do the works that thou doest or Miracles except God be with him And this we Believe and that with Warrant from the Word of God that we are to believe no Immediate or Extraordinary Mission or can even from the Highest Pretenders without Extraordinary and Answerable Demonstrations as Our Saviour when John sent His Disciples to be informed Whether he was the Promised Messiah and our Lord who might have easily dispatched them with words bids them Go and tell him The Lame Wa●k the Sick are healed and the Blind receive their sight and Let him not trust Words Lest Seducers should take an Opportunity and Advantage