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A47174 A serious appeal to all the more sober, impartial & judicious people in New-England to whose hands this may come ... together with a vindication of our Christian faith ... / by George Keith. Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1692 (1692) Wing K205; ESTC R33000 63,270 72

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Jesus Christ imputed unto us but we also say It is imputed to none but such who have Faith Repentance and sincere Obedience and that is true inward Righteousness wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ and though Faith and Repentance and Obedience are not the Foundation of our Justification yet they are the Terms and Condition of it as I have sufficiently showed in my former printed Treatises nor doth Edward Burrough and VV. Penn if their words be duely construed contradict what I have affirmed But the true state of the Question is VVhether men are just●●●●d by Christs Righteousness imputed to them without any inward Righteousness as the requisite Condition and Terms in order to that imputation And whether David lying in his sins of Adultery Murder remained Justified Which we deny In his 11 th Assertion although he states the Question in the Title so as we can own it to wit That a sinless Perfection is not attainable in this VVorld as their Principle but not ours yet he miserably wresteth perverteth and mis-applyeth and jumbleth things in the Explication for that Scripture in Philip cap. 3 v. 12. doth nothing contradict our Assertion who affirm no such degree of Perfection as wherein a man may sit down and make no furder progress which Paul 〈◊〉 not to do but still to go on more and more to Perfection And for that place in Rom. 7.19 c. it is not to be understood of the best Condition of the Saints when they are farthest advanced but of their struggling Time and State before they obtain the Victory and Freedom which Paul doth acknowledge in the same Epistle And for any of the Quakers saying They have no sin in them I know not any that is generally owned and approved by us that have said so it is common to Ranters and such as Tho. Cases Crew that say so but for the honest and sober People called Quakers they do not boast of their Perfection but had rather by their innocent Walk and Conversation demonstrate their growth and progress in Sanctification than by a Talking of it CHAP. V. IN his 12 th Assertion he doth not fairly state the Question especially in the Explanation of it for he should have distinguished betwixt the state of Servants and Sons of the Free Woman and so betwixt Saints by way of Inchoation or Initiation and Saints by way of Confirmation as betwixt Corn in the Bud or Blade or green Ear when it is in danger of blasting and ripe Corn that is past all danger of blasting for as to this latter I did grant in my former printed Treatises in unity with my faithful Brethren that there is a confirmed state in Faith and Sanctification wherein the Saints persevere to the end of all Tryals and from which they cannot fall away and the Faith of such is more precious than Gold that perisheth endureth all Tryals and Tentations even as true Gold endureth the Fire and looseth nothing in it but all have not attained to this State which is indeed the only proper state of Salvation that is as the Harbour or Port of Safety to the tossed Marriner and till the Soul arrive to this state it is but as a Ship exposed to the Waves of the Tempestuous Sea Also I readily grant that none of Gods elect can finally fall away for his 〈◊〉 is over them so to preserve them as that they do not fall or if they do fall as in the case of David to restore and renew them again by Repentance And C M. and his Brethren have granted in that Book call'd their Antidote or The Principles of the Protestant Religion 〈◊〉 That the temporary Faith that may be lost is not false and if not false then true after a sort although I grant it is not that Faith of Gods Elect that 's more precious than Gold that endureth all fiery Tryals yet is of a saving tendency and such who have it it they did well and duely improve it might in due time arrive to that Confirmation in Faith and Holiness that cannot be totally finally lost But whether the Faith that may be lost and the Faith that cannot be lost differ in Kind or Specie or only in Degree it being too Nice and rather Philosophical and too Logical I did not as I said in my former printed Book see cause to enquire seeing it is a very great dispute among Schollars what maketh a Distinction of things in Kind or Specie some affirming That the Mettles and Elements differ not in Specie others contradicting and saying they do In his 13 th Assertion concerning Infant Baptism or rather Rantism or Sprinkling and in his 14 th Assertion concerning the Supper he bringeth no new matter but what I have sufficiently answered in my former Books and therefore shall say no more here as to them But that he chargeth it upon us as if we did not believe Christs coming again and appearance without us in his glorified Body to judge the quick and the dead is that he cannot prove any of us guilty that is generally own'd and received to be of our Faith only we have denyed the gross and ca●nal Imaginations that some have vented as concerning Christs ●●dy c●lling it Natural and Earthly which we believe is spiritual and heavenly and if any call it spiritual and heavenly glorified Flesh as well as Body we shall not contend against them for we do acknowledge it is the same in Being and Essence that it was on Earth but wonderfully changed in Manner and Condition see our printed Sheet called The Christian Faith c. In his 15 th Assertion he doth most grosly prevaricate abusing and ●e●verting our words as because we own an inward quickening and 〈◊〉 ●aised with Christ in our Souls and inward Man that therefore we deny any future Resurrection of the Body a●ter Death which we deny no● but affirm against Ranters and vain Norionists and we believe T●●t the Resurrection of the Body is not attained immediately after Death altho' the Souls of the faithful immediately after Death go into Heaven or Paradise but at Christs coming and Appearance to judge the quick and the dead and the same Body that dyeth is raised in 〈◊〉 true sense being freed and refined from all Dross of Corruption even as Gold is the same when it lieth in the course Oar or Miniral and when it is refined but wonderfully changed in Manner and Condition In his essaying to prove his 16 th Assertion he showeth himself extreamly weak as if because God commanded the Jews to keep the Seventh Day for a Sabbath from the beginning of the World in the fourth Commandment therefore he commandeth the Christians in the same fourth Commandment to keep the first Day But I need say no more on this Head but refer him to his much esteemed Calvin for his Refutation who in that doth fully agree with us as generally do all the Protestants in France and the Low Countries and