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

many are Unqualified for the Ministry this is a weighty Ground indeed and a just Cause and it is not to be doubted but applicable to both Partys so that a seperation from them both is Warrantable which all good Christians are to pray that God may accomplish to the Glory of his own Name and the Honour of Truth as the Issue of the begun Controversy and Confusions and alass it must be strange that all these things have been concealed so long since the Rise of Quakers in Europe and none found Faithful or Zealou s●or Truth among them to bring them to Light until this very Prejudice Passion and Malice or envy among them for it is not to be doubted but K in his Travels over the World could not meet with as many Insufficient Teachers as are now among them in the Government of Pensilvania East and West Jersys and also Innumerable impertinencys Inconsistencys Errors and Falshoods as he has been sensible of of late abounds among them so that it is to be feared he has been moved from Prejudice Passion and other Quarrels whereby he has taken this time and place for assuming the Honour of New Reformer for what he charges them with is no New thing but known by all who have converst with that Party to have been their Constant Sentiments as much known to K as any now in being for the Time he has followed that Novelty And according to the Present State of Affairs and Notable Alterations in a Place so the Discourses of all Regulated and Directed for most places of this Province this Division has given all Partys a Theme of Discourse and Subject of Debate and K in his Postscript to his Reasons gives a Brief account of the matters Controversed both at Meeting and other Places we suppose for the Information of Inspired Men. As 1 Whether we are only to believe in Christ Within or in him without also and in Heaven Our Advocate with the Father 2 Whether to Preach Faith in Christ within and Faith in Christ without be to Preach two Christs 3. Whether it be a Doctrine necessary to be Preacht to Believe in Christ without 4 Whether Christ's Body that was Nailed to the Cross and was Buried and Arose again be with him in Heaven Some of them saying as Keith told me at his House it never Rose but Evanished or Remained in the Grave others saying it arose but after it Ascended in the Cloud was separated from it others say it is a Nicety and to be ignorant of it does not hinder a man from being a true Christian and a Minister of Christ Others saying it is a dividing of Christ Others accusing of some for Denying the Sufficiency of the Light within from all which it is evident notwithstanding of all their high pretences to Immediate inspirations and Extraordinary Illuminations from he Spirit of God what great Error Ignorance and ●lindness they discover to the World 1. Their Ignorance of Christ Jesus our Saviour whom to Know is Eternal Life and whom Quakers say is dwells substantially in all of them and if so could it be possible to Remain so I gnorant of him as they proclaim themselves to be and who in their right wits but must look upon them as deluded Souls rather than Inspired from Heaven 2. They know not how necessary the Faith and Knowledge of the true Christ as Mediator is to make a true Christian real Minister hence they plainly tell us what Christians and Ministers will pass among Quakers even such as neither know Christ aright nor believe the true Knowledge of him necessary seeing they call Christ-man Ascended and Glorified in Heaven a Nicety conclude all such Christless Christians and Christless Ministers As an Appendix to the reasons we have an Account of the Faith of Quakers published by Keith and called in its Frontispiece the Faith of some Quakers in Pensilvania which is an Argument of their difference in Principles and Fundamentals but this will not do being so far from being Quakers Principles every where that they are not even the Principles of all in Pensilvania and for any thing I know but of a very few for tho' itis the Ambition of both Parties to Increase their Numbers Engross Followers yet to this Account of Faith he has procured but five Subscribers beside himself and as I am Informed men of mean Parts and Account but that I may briefly animadvert all Lovers of Truth concerning this Account of Faith which should be Fundamentals chiefly I shall deliver something in general and something particularly And in general 1. It is more guilty of Deficiency and Omission then a Catechism lately Censured by him to which he has an Answer for there are none acquainted with Quakers Principles can conclude this Account to be Faithfu or Full 2 Their Faith is here so obscurely delivered in Scripture Language in controversy as to the Exposition of them between them and the Reformed Churches that except in some few things that are not Fundamentals they are the Faith of others as well as of Quakers and so not fairly done But particularly 1 In page 29. He owns a particular Election of all that shall be Saved before the Foundations of the World which he must never recede from 2 Page 30. He is lame in describing the Corruption conveyed from Adam to his Posterity and says It is not Imputed to Damnation but if there be any Sin not Damnable with Quakers Death must not be the Wages of Sin with them neither must the Loss of our Original Righteousness or the Image of God be Damnable Strange flattering Doctrine to Natural Sinners 3. He says Page 31. That the common Ministration which they say is in all even in their meer Gentile State is of a Saving Nature tendency●…in a general way so that any may see what a Change is in this mans mind from all Quakers who still have asserted the Sufficiency of this Universal Grace for Salvation for here he neither calls it Sufficient nor Saving but only it is of a Saving Nature and tendency and yet Page 32. He contradicted by saying it is sufficient to Save every man 4 He omits wholly any thing concerning the Covenants of Works and Grace which are undoubtedly main points of Faith seeing it is according to the Tenour of the Covenant of Grace every Sinner must be Saved and Christ is Mediator of the New Covenant 5. He tells us nothing of Women Teachers at all in his Section concerning but perhaps he dare not tell his mind yet in that point as he says of other things 6. He Transiently runs over the Ten Commandments 7. He continues to cry down Swearing in Witnessing to Truth while they decry the name they really maintain and practice the thing in all Courts in Pensilvania 8. He fills up a whole Section of their Faith with Baptism and the Lords Supper but seeing it is known to all they deny the use of both they should be ashamed