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The woman-preacher of Samaria a better preacher, and more sufficiently qualified to preach than any of the men-preachers of the man-made-ministry in these three nations / by George Keith.
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Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
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not all He must be Christ who is God And as I said before this was inwardly and not outwardly he could not tell her outwardly all that ever she did in so short a time but inwardly he could in a moment even as the outward light of the Sun in a moment representeth things unto our eye in the outward and letteth us see in a moment all at once as it were a thousand things and thus she was taught and thus she reasoned concerning him And thus also hath the Lord taught us to reason concerning Him He who hath in wardly conuinced us of our sins and told us all the sins that ever we did and brought them to remembrance before us when we had forgotten them or cast them behind our backs this is the Christ this Light in us must be the Light of Christ or this He in us must be the Christ and not any meer humane or natural Light this must be Divine Spiritual and saving yea the Saviour the Christ so she Preached him and so the Lord hath taught us to Preach him But so do not these Men of the Man-made-Ministry Preach him Nay but the contrary for say they That is not Christ which convinceth every man of his sins and tells him all that ever he did it is but a humane principle not Divine it is but Natural not Spiritual a natural Light and so instead of Preaching him thus as he is in the hearts of People convincing them of sin and shewing them their sins they plainly deny him they confess them without but deny him within and so deny his Divinity and Divine power and Godhead for if he be God is he not within and that both in Believers and Unbelievers doth he not by his Spirit convince the world of Sin Is he not the Light of the world who lighteth every man that cometh into the world that all men through him might believe as Iohn declared Chap. 1. Yea so contrary are they unto the being of Christ within that they plainly and openly deny him to be really and properly and immediately or essentially within his Saints yea to say that he is they call it Blasphemy O say they he is in us by his Graces and by his Operations or Virtue but not immediately or essentially He is in us say they immediatione virtutis but not immediatione suppositi i. e. he is in us immediately by his Virtue but not by himself as the Sun appeareth in us by his Virtue or heat yea the real in-being of the Spirit of God by himself they have generally denyed and judged some among themselves who have affirmed it And yet how clear and full is the Scripture unto this Truth that Christ is not only in all men by his Light but also upholdeth all things by his Word and Power which canot be separated from him and if he were not every where he could not be infinite and as he is in all so he hath his several ways of operation and manifestation in all in Unbelievers after one manner and in Believers in another according unto their several capacities and conditions 8. She Preached him as One they could both come unto and see immediately as she had heard him and seen him her self so she had a great desire that they also might see him Come and see said she she did not thus Preach unto them it is enough for your Faith O ye men of Samaria that others have heard of Christ and seen him and from what they have heard and seen to have reported of him unto you Oh! Nay but Come and see And after this manner did all the true Servants of God Preach unto Peopole O tast and see said David That which we have heard and seen we declare unto you saith John in the Name of all his Brethren that you may have fellowship with us that ye may hear with us and see with us and handle with us of that Word of Life But so do not these Men of the Man-made-Ministry neither Episcopal Presbyterian nor Independent so called None of them all say or Preach Come and see Christ himself or hear himself Nay nay that is all ceased say they Christ is gone into Heaven and will not come again till the last day he has left us the Scriptures and the Sacraments in his room we cannot know him otherwise but by these visible things we cannot see himself nor hear himself all immediate Revelation is ceased there is no Vision of God or Christ to be expected in this life nor immediate teaching or hearing of Christ himself O sad and Comfortless Doctrine but this is their Doctrine nor Christ's I will rather hear this Woman of Samaria than hear them She bids Come and see Christ himself they say there is no seeing of him nor hearing of himself so long as we live upon earth Oh blind and deaf men who because they have neither heard him nor seen him therefore deny this blessed priviledge Oh that people should follow after them and not see these blind men What great matter can they tell of Christ what great or excellent thing can they attain by their Preaching who deny that they can either hear him or see him while they are upon Earth But who in some measure hear him not nor see him while on Earth be this told unto you as from the Lord it will be in vain for you to think to hear him or see him to your Comfort and Joy hereafter 9. Again the Method of this Womans Preaching was not like their School Method who make a Tale of an hours length and yet never come to the matter it self who take a Text from some place of Scripture and raise from it so many points of Doctrine which they have studied so long before hand and must study a day and some perhaps two or three days to preach one hour and then to deliver off unto the people that dry dead and barren stuff that they have scraped and gathered together out of so many old and Worm eaten Authors which they cannot say is their experience and have not received it from the Lord. But they are Theeves and have stolen it yea perhaps it is an hundred times stolen having come through so many hands who have stollen the words of God concerning the conditions and experiences of the Saints as the false teachers and Prophets of old of whom the Lord said Jer. 23. Behold I am against these Prophets who steal my Words c. They shall not profit the People at all And is not this fulfilled abundantly Where is the profitting of the people doe they not remain still in their sins and wickedness And as for these made and composed Sermons by art and cunning of mans wisdom and Spirit it is plain deceit and is expressly so called in Scripture where the Apostle said That with feigned words the false Teachers should make merchandize of the People according unto the Greek properly and truly it is thus With made