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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47159	More divisions amongst the Quakers as appears by the following books of their own writing, viz. I. The Christian faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers. II. The false judgment of a yearly meeting of Quakers in Maryland, condemn'd by George Keith, Thomas Budd, &c. all Quakers : to which is added, A discovery of this mystery of iniquity / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing K182; ESTC R14234	21,479	25

MORE DIVISIONS AMONGST THE QUAKERS As appears by the following Books of their own Writing VIZ. I. The Christian Faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a Meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers II. The false Judgment of a yearly Meeting of Quakers in Maryland condemn'd by George Keith Thomas Budd c. all Quakers To which is added A Discovery of this Mystery of Iniquity By GEORGE KEITH First Printed beyond Sea and now Re-printed and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1693. The Christian Faith of the People called Quakers in Rhode-Island in New-England vindicated from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick that formerly was of that Profession but is lately fall'n therefrom WHereas Christian Lodowick hath given forth several Papers Challenging all these belonging to Newport Meeting who speak in the Meetings of the People called Quakers and that within these few days past he hath renewed his Challenge accusing the Foundation of their Gospel Faith Doctrine and Religion to be unscriptural false and naught shaken and sandy and challenging them to appoint one of their number to dispute with him These are to give notice to all sober People and Neighbours that these so challenged by him having taken his Challenge into consideration and finding many things in it falsly and perversly stated which they could not own so stated by him to be the Foundation of their Faith c. did meet with him at the House of Walter Clark in Newport in Rhode-Island the 18th of the 4th Month 1691 in order to have things fairly stated that if any did dispute with him they might know before hand what he was to dispute against but they could not procure him to allow of this but after that some of the things charged by him in his Papers began to be discoursed of in order to a fair and right stating of them he would not hear of it but went away And whereas divers of us challenged by him declared sincerely before many People there assembled on the said day their sincere Faith as concerning the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth and what the holy Scriptures testifie of him yet he did continue to accuse them still as denying the true Christ alledging They had another sence than the Scripture words did bear and that his sence was true but their sence was false appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so Thus making himself Judge over our secret thoughts as having a secret sence in our thoughts of Scripture words contrary to the true sence of them tho' we have not given him or any other occasion to judge so rashly and uncharitably of us and our Consciences bear us witness in the sight of God that we do sincerely believe and think as we speak when we say according to the holy Scripture That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Christ of God and the only true Saviour and there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby men must be saved and that this same Jesus was in fulness of time born of the Virgin called Mary being conceived of the Holy Ghost who died for our sins and rose again for our Justification and by his death on the Tree of the Cross was a most acceptable Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole world having tasted death for every man and given himself a Ransom for all And we believe that Christ was God manifest in the Flesh even in the Body of Flesh in which he did suffer death on the Cross and that the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him and doth still dwell bodily in him and that of his fulness we all receive and grace for grace And we also believe according to holy Scripture that Christ's Body that was crucified on the Tree of the Cross was raised again on the third day and after forty days did ascend into Heaven in the sight of the Disciples and who is exalted at the right hand of God and ever liveth to make Intercession for us and that Christ hath his Body in Heaven a most glorious Body not changed in Being or Substance but in condition and manner of Being and that Christ is true and perfect God and true and perfect Man the Son of God begotten of God from everlasting glorified with the Father before the World began and also begotten of God in the Womb of the Virgin called Mary and born of her in the fulness of time the Son of Abraham the Son of David who took not on him the Nature of Angels but the Seed of Abraham and which he still hath and that Christ as Man hath both Soul and Body and his Manhood is most excellently and wonderfully united with his Godhead yet his Manhood is not his Godhead nor is his Body that he had of the Virgin and now hath in Heaven his Godhead but the Temple of it as Christ called his Body the Temple and is the Garment or Cloathing wherewith the Eternal Word did clothe himself who is that new and living Way that he hath consecrated for us through the Vail that is to say his Flesh And we believe That God the Father hath appointed the Man Christ Jesus to be the Judge of the Quick and the Dead and that he is to come to judge all Mankind and that his coming so to Judge all Mankind with the great and last Judgment is at the end of the world the which End of the world we do believe is not come either within us or without us as he doth falsly charge for the End of the world as the Scripture declareth it is the End of the Ages or Times of this World for the Times and Ages of this world shall have an End and God hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man Christ Jesus whom he hath ordained but of that day and hour knoweth no Man as Christ hath declared that all might be watchful And because according to Scripture Testimony we do faithfully believe that Christ hath also inwardly and spiritually appeared in the Hearts of men and that all true Christians do believe and own his inward Appearance and Revelation in them as he is the Word Light and Life in them in various measures and degrees of Divine Revelation and that he is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and that we testifie that all should turn to his Light in them that convinceth of sin and should believe in it and obey and follow it and that all who so do will be led in due time to believe in him in whom the Fulness is and to receive the benefit of Christ's Death and Resurrection in the outward therefore hath this Accuser joyned with Thomas Hicks a Baptist Teacher at London and John Faldo an Independant Teacher and divers others to accuse us as Denying the true Christ because we believe and confess to Christ's Inward Coming and Appearance were to deny his Outward or to hold

Drunkards But G.K. said he had not made them stink but themselves had done it as when the Sun shines warm on a Dunghil the Dunghil is to be blamed for the stink not the Sun Also G. K. did expostulate with T. E. and his Companions Why they did lay open to the World the Adultry of T. T. once a great Preacher among them whereby the Quakers generally thereaway became a stink and a song of the Drunkards and many on that very account left the Quakers Meetings They replied His wickedness rested on his own head To which G. K. said If carnal Adultery be not to be hid no more is spiritual Adultery as this is to deny the Lord that bought us So that their blaming G. K. for not sending to Friends in other Parts or to London is as idle as if we should send to London to enquire whether Adultery be a sin for which we ought to deny them who are guilty as fit to be separated from and not fit to hold Communion with And why should G. K. and his Friends any more delay their publishing to the World after endeavours used to reclaim them a Testimony against some mens spiritual Adultery here which is their gross Heresie in denying the Faith of Christ without us as he died for our sins c. as necessary to our Salvation any more than they in Maryland delay'd to publish T. T 's carnal Adultery Or why should G. K. and his Friends call for the assistance of Friends in remote Parts or at London to condemn a Heresie that is as manifest a sin as Adultery is and if Friends at London found themselves concern'd to give forth a Testimony in print against one that was said to carry the Bible to the Exchange to burn it ought not G.K. and his Friends to be concerned to give forth a Testimony against them that deny Christ without us not owning him to be concerned in our Salvation but only the Light within us seeing to deny Christ of whom the Bible declareth is more than to deny the Bible that is a declaration of him And one of T. E's Companions viz. Rich. Johns charged G.K. for casting the Errors of particular Persons on the Body of Friends which G. K. denied and proffer'd to show him that he clear'd faithful Friends of it and did not charge these Errors and Heresies upon all here nor elsewhere nor yet upon any others that are not guilty as we believe many are not but only upon a Party or Faction of men that are no true Quakers but degenerated from the true Principles and Practices of the Quakers And in their Paper Richard Johns and the rest give false Judgment in matter of Fact viz. That we have rent and separated from Friends for these who have separated from us and we are separated from them are no true Friends and Brethren because holding Antichristian Doctrines and we have not rent nor are separated from faithful Friends as we have always declared see our first Book call'd Some Causes of the late Separation p. 23. we say We design not any Separation from our faithful Brethren here or any where else in any part of the world for we declare we are one with all our faithful Brethren in all parts of the world both in Spirit Doctrine and Practice of true Christianity we faithfully believe that our Faith in all things doth well agree to all our faithful Brethren every where and is the real sound and upright Faith as is hath been received not only by ancient Christians in all Ages of the World but also by the most sound ancient and present Friends of Truth called in scorn Quakers And in The Plea of the Innocent p. 10. it is expresly declared That G. K. is in unity with Truth and faithful Friends not only in old England but all places where they are The next is a Letter from W. Richardson to G. K. dated the 20th of the tenth Mon. 92. from West-River in Maryland who chargeth G. K. That his Spirit strikes at the Light as not being sufficient and sets people a gazing in the Air and some to question whether they have received the Truth or not saying further What is the meaning of these Noises of Faith in Christ without and Faith within like to what Rich. Johns said to G. K. That it was a needless distinction viz. Christ within and Christ without seeing no true Believer in Christ within dare disown the Work Miracles and holy Doctrine performed in that Body Note Reader the fallacy of his words concerning Christ without which are no more than any Socinian or Pelagian will own but he hath not a word of owning Faith in Christ without us being necessary to our salvation for it is not enough to own the Doctrine Miracles and Works of the Man Christ without us for the Doctrine Miracles and Works of the Prophets and Apostles are to be owned but yet none of them are to be believed in as the Author of our Eternal Salvation but Christ only and it is apparent by his Letter that he agreeth with J. Wilsford and other his ignorant Brethren that only the Faith of Christ within is the true Faith that purifieth the heart and that the Faith of Christ without is historical outward and traditional a made and formed Faith that the Lord never was the Author of and this is that Faith which he blameth G. K. for contending about whereby he showeth his exceeding great Ignorance for G.K. hath preached in the hearing of W. Richardson several times the Faith of Christ both without and within not to be any made or formed Faith of mens making but the inward work gift of God wrought in all who have it by the Spirit and Power of God even that mighty Power that raised Christ from the dead Therefore let who will despise and reject this Faith we are well assur'd we have many faithful Brethren both in America England Scotland Ireland and other parts of the world who are lovers of the crucifi'd Jesus and will bless God in our behalf that he hath rais'd us up to stand witnesses for his holy Truth in the midst of such great contradiction and opposition To conclude it is no small matter of Admiration to us that so many called Quakers in Maryland who have all along pretended That they were not free in Conscience to contribute to the Militia yet now joyn with our Opposers here who have begun to persecute some of us by Fines and Imprisonment for asserting the Quakers Principle against the use of the outward Sword See our Printed Appeal George Keith Thomas Budd A DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity and Hyprocrisie Acting and Ruling in HVGH DERBOROVGH HAving seen a Paper of Hugh Derborough's which was read by Sam. Jenings at their last Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphia and approved by the Meeting and he received and owned as one of their Church-Members I found it convenient to say something in Answer to it he