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<HEAD><HI>The Chri&s;tianity of the People called</HI> Quakers <HI>A&s;&s;erted, by</HI> George Keith: In ANSWER to a Sheet, called, <HI>A Serious Call to the Quakers,</HI> &amp;c. </HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Atte&s;ted by Eight Prie&s;ts of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> called,
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<ITEM>Dr. <HI>I&s;ham,</HI> Rector of St. <HI>Buttolphs-Bi&s;hop&s;gate,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Wincop,</HI> Rector of St. <HI>Mary Abb-Church,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Bedford,</HI> Rector of St. <HI>George Buttolph-Lane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Altham,</HI> M. A. Rector of St. <HI>Andrew Under&s;haft.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Bradford,</HI> M. A. Rector of St. <HI>Mary-le-bow.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Whitfield,</HI> M. A. Rect. of St. <HI>Mart. at Ludgate.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Butler,</HI> M. A. Rector of St. <HI>Mary Aldermanbury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Adams,</HI> M. A. Rector of St. <HI>Alban Wood&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>And Affirmed by <HI>George Keith,</HI> or the New Sworn <HI>Deacon.</HI></ITEM>
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<Q>It's a marvelous thing, that the&s;e Men have no other way to oppugn the <HI>Quakers,</HI> but by gro&s;s and horrid Lyes, and fal&s;e Calumnies, and meer Abu&s;es; like unto the ways that ever the wor&s;t of the Adver&s;aries of Truth have u&s;ed again&s;t the True Witne&s;&s;es of it, <HI>&s;aith</HI> G. K. <HI>in his</HI> Presb. and Indep. Vi&s;ible Churches, <HI>p. 222, 230. But</HI> It never yet hath been proved, nor ever will, That the Religion profe&s;&s;ed by the &s;incere and faithful People called in &s;corn <HI>Quakers,</HI> is either <HI>Pagani&s;m,</HI> or any other thing, than <HI>Real Chri&s;tianity,</HI></Q>
<BIBL><HI>&s;aith</HI> G. K. <HI>in his Preface to his</HI> Serious Appeal.</BIBL>
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<P>MEeting with a Sheet, Intituled, <HI>A Serious Call;</HI> wherein are &s;everal Quotations, already replyed unto, in a late Book, Intituled, <HI>The Creed-Forgers detected,</HI> &amp;c. Yet &s;eeing they are &s;aid to be Atte&s;ted by the Eight <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> afore&s;aid, and Affirmed by <HI>George Keith; Ex|actly to Agree with the Books out of which they are taken, as Cited in the Margent.</HI> We there|fore have examined the&s;e following, and find he is mi&s;taken, and &s;o are his Brethren, the eight <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> afore&s;aid, as tho&s;e that will examine his 4th, 6th, 20th, 21&s;t. Quotations may find; but we know, as to <HI>G. K.</HI> it's not the fir&s;t fal&s;e Affirmation he hath made, both before and &s;ince his Ordination, and to gratifie his new Brethren, and to &s;hew his Enmity, is licking up, and ca&s;ting forth again, tho&s;e things again&s;t us, many of which were ca&s;t upon us before ever he was called a <HI>Quaker,</HI> although he was about 30 Years or more among&s;t us, and hath not yet granted that he was Erroneous in any of the Ar|ticles of Faith, commonly called, the <HI>Simpliciter Credenda;</HI> for he &s;aith in his <HI>Antichri&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Sadduces,</HI> p. 43.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Antichri&s;t. and Sadd. <HI>p. 43.</HI></NOTE> <Q>I know no Principles I now hold, but I am able to prove, I have held them ever &s;ince I came among the People called <HI>Quakers,</HI> as touching all the Articles of Faith, commonly called the <HI>Simpliciter Cre|denda.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid.</HI> p. 42.</NOTE>&mdash;And indeed the <HI>greate&s;t</HI> Mi&s;takes that I find I have been under, were my mi&s;under&s;tanding the&s;e places of Scripture, <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.19. and 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.26. For, &s;aith he, I remain Con&s;tant to my for|mer Principles,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Retract.</HI> p. 41.</NOTE> with re&s;pect to the&s;e great Doctrines of the Chri&s;tian Faith.</Q></P>
<P><Q>I do therefore, &s;aith <HI>G. K.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Serious Appeal,</HI> p. 6, 7.</NOTE> make this Solemn Appeal to the more Sober, Impartial and Judicious People, to who&s;e hands this may come, whether <HI>Cotton Mather</HI> is not extremely uncharitable, and po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed (as <HI>G. K.</HI> is) with a Spirit of Prejudice, and envious Zeal (to u&s;e <HI>R. Baxter</HI>'s Phra&s;e) again&s;t the <HI>Quakers</HI> in General, and me in Particular, as guilty of manifold Here&s;ies, Bla&s;phemies, and &s;trong Delu&s;ions, to the rendering us <HI>no Chri&s;tians</HI> in the lowe&s;t Degree or Rank (while I &s;uppo&s;e he hath &s;ome Charity to &s;ome in the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> called <HI>Papi&s;ts;</HI> and to <HI>Lutherans, Arminians,</HI> and divers others that differ widely from him) yet agree in the afore&s;aid Fundamentals, when we hold the <HI>&s;ame Fundamentals</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;tian Doctrine and Faith,</HI> notwith&s;tanding <HI>C. Mather</HI>'s &s;trong A&s;&s;everations (or <HI>G. K</HI>'s <HI>we may now &s;ay</HI>) again&s;t us, as if we denied almo&s;t all, or mo&s;t of the Fundamental Articles of the Chri&s;tian and Prote&s;tant Faith; yet he &s;hall <HI>never</HI> be able to prove it, That we are guilty of this his &s;o extremely ra&s;h and uncharitable Charge, either as in re&s;pect of the Body of that People, called in Scorn <HI>Quakers,</HI> or in re&s;pect of any particular <HI>Writers</HI> or <HI>Publi&s;hers</HI> of our <HI>Doctrines,</HI> and <HI>Principles,</HI> and <HI>Preachers</HI> among&s;t us.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid.</HI> p. 7.</NOTE>&mdash;And it &s;ufficeth me <HI>(and we may &s;ay us)</HI> and I hope, doth to many others, that according to the be&s;t knowledge I have of the People called <HI>Quakers,</HI> and the&s;e mo&s;t generally owned by them, as <HI>Preachers,</HI> and <HI>Publi&s;hers</HI> of their <HI>Faith,</HI> of unque&s;tioned e&s;teem among&s;t them, and worthy of double Honour, <HI>as many &s;uch there are;</HI> I know none that are guilty of <HI>any one</HI> of &s;uch Here&s;ies and Bla&s;phemies, as he accu&s;eth them.&mdash;And I think I &s;hould know, and do know, the&s;e called <HI>Quakers,</HI> and their Principles<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Writ</HI> 1692.</NOTE>,&mdash;having been Conver&s;ant with them in publick Meetings, as well as in private Di&s;cour&s;es, with the mo&s;t noted and e&s;teemed among them for about Twenty Eight Years pa&s;t, and that in many Places of the World, in <HI>Europe,</HI> and for the&s;e divers Years in <HI>America.</HI></Q></P>
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<HEAD>And now concerning Infallibility.</HEAD>
<P><Q>We affirm, <HI>&s;aid G. K.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 7.</NOTE> That the Spirit of God in us, and all Believers, in every Di&s;covery it gives, is Infallible; yet we have <HI>never</HI> judged our &s;elves ab&s;olutely Infallible; nor did we ever place or fix an ab&s;olute Infallibility upon any Man&mdash;but on the contrary, that the Dictates and Leadings of God's Spirit in us,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Truth's Defence.</HI> P. 65.</NOTE> are Infallible, and have a direct tendency to Lead, Guide, and Move us Infallibly.</Q></P>
<P>And if <HI>G. K.</HI> now thinks it's a vile mon&s;trous Error for any to &s;peak and write from <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;t, Immediately</HI> and <HI>Infallibly,</HI> and that tho&s;e that have only gotten the words, and have not the Spirit of <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> are not under the Cur&s;e, and in another Spirit than the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> were in, let him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>See</HI> Seri|ous Call.</NOTE>And if he doth not, Why doth he quote <HI>G. F.</HI> and e&s;teem it a vile Error,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Note. G. K.</HI> did, whil&s;t a|mong the Quakers, vindicate the&s;e very Per&s;ons, in the &s;ame Do|ctrines which he now calls <HI>Vile Errors;</HI> and thereby ren|ders him&s;elf <HI>In&s;incere,</HI> in pretending to be igno|rant of them.</NOTE> for his &s;aying, <HI>viz.</HI> <Q>And Thou and You, all that Speak and Write, and not from God <HI>Immediately</HI> and <HI>Infallibly,</HI> as the <HI>Apo|&s;tles</HI> did, and <HI>Prophets</HI> and Chri&s;t, but <HI>only</HI> have gotten the words: You are all under the Cur&s;e, in another Spirit, Ravened from the Spirit that was in the <HI>Apo&s;tles.</HI></Q></P>
<P>If this be a vile and mon&s;trous Error, will and doth he A&s;&s;ert the contrary, <HI>viz.</HI> That all that <HI>only</HI> have gotten the Words, but are in <HI>another Spirit,</HI> than Chri&s;t, the Prophets and Apo&s;tles were in, do all Write and Speak from God <HI>Immediately</HI> and <HI>Infallibly,</HI> and are not under the Cur&s;e, nor ravened from the Spirit that was in the <HI>Apo&s;tles:</HI> If &s;o, and this be now his Doctrine, he is changed from what he was when a <HI>Quaker,</HI> when he Vindicated their Doctrines in the Name of the Lord; and when he held, as the <HI>Quakers</HI> &s;till do, <HI>all the Doctrines and Principles of the Chri&s;tian Faith.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Scriptures.</HEAD>
<P>'<HI>Geo. Fox</HI> &s;ays, as quoted, <Q>The Scriptures are not Infallible nor Divine, but Humane.</Q> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Note.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> there are no &s;uch words in the place Cited, altho' it is el&s;ewhere, notwith&s;tanding the Atte&s;tation of the three Doctors, and five Ma&s;ters of Art, and Rectors, and <HI>G. K</HI>'s Affirmation to the Truth as Cited: However hear <HI>G. K.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">G. K<HI>'s Truth's Defence,</HI> p. 53.</NOTE></P>
<P><Q>I An&s;wer, That not only the Old Te&s;tament, but even the Writings or Letter of the New Te&s;ta|ment, may be called a Killing Letter to tho&s;e that remain alienated from the Spirit that quickens, even as <HI>Origen</HI> hath formerly Taught, in his Commentary on <HI>Leviticus.</HI> Not only <HI>(&s;aith he)</HI> in the Old Te&s;tament is found the Killing Letter; there is al&s;o in the New Te&s;tament the Letter which Killeth him who doth not &s;piritually attend unto the things which are &s;poken. Now if any go from the Spi|rit, that only makes the true Go&s;pel Admini&s;tration, and &s;et up the Letter or Writing of the Apo&s;tles, in the room of the &s;ame; the&s;e Writings of the Apo&s;tles do eventually become a killing Letter, no le&s;s than that of the Law, and can no more give Life, or make Perfect, than the outward Law could.&mdash;</Q></P>
<P><Q><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid.</HI> 59.</NOTE>The Tran&s;lations of the Scripture (the which Tran&s;lations are commonly called Scripture) have di|vers Additions, which Men have added without any pretence to Divine In&s;piration.&mdash;The Letter or External Form of the Writing is not properly the Word of God.<NOTE PLACE="marg">54.</NOTE>&mdash;By the Word of God in the Scrip|tures, is not under&s;tood the Letter, but Chri&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">49.</NOTE> Thus far <HI>G. K.</HI></Q></P>
<P>And will he now &s;ay, Only the bare Writing or Characters, con&s;i&s;ting of Ink and Paper, is properly the Word of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">47.</NOTE> and are Infallible, Divine, and not Humane? If <HI>G. K.</HI> will now &s;o a&s;&s;ert, let him.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning Chri&s;t's Coming to Iudgment. <HI>Is quoted <HI>G. W.</HI> as followeth.</HI></HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Call.</NOTE> <Q>What is the Glory of the Father, in which Chri&s;t's Coming is? Is it vi&s;ible to the carnal Eye, and 'where is that Coming to be? Is it now to be looked for outwardly?</Q> <HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith, <NOTE PLACE="marg">G K<HI>'s Rector Cor.</HI> p. 16.</NOTE></P>
<P><Q>I do &s;eriou&s;ly and truly tell thee, as I faithfully believe that Chri&s;t did locally A&s;cend upwards into the Heavens, whence al&s;o he &s;hall De&s;cend at the time of the Re&s;titution of all things.</Q></P>
<P>And if <HI>G. K.</HI> hath Retracted this, the <HI>Quakers</HI> &s;ee no cau&s;e to Retract, nor yet to affirm that Chri&s;t's Coming is Vi&s;ible to the carnal Eye.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning Heaven and Hell.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Call.</NOTE> There is none have a Glory and Heaven, but within them: And in An&s;wer to this, and what <HI>W. Penn</HI> &s;aith, hear <HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rector Cor.</HI> p. 14.</NOTE></P>
<P><Q>This is no great Riddle nor Paradox to the lea&s;t Child of the New <HI>Jeru&s;alem; Paul</HI> indeed was before in Heaven, and &s;o <HI>is</HI> every Regene|rate Man<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Note,</HI> If every Regenerate Man is in Heaven, then he hath a Heaven within him, or hath a Peace and Joy in him, from Christ.</NOTE> at pre&s;ent.</Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning doing Servile Work on the Lord's Day, and the Moral Law.</HEAD>
<P>We might wave till <HI>G. K.</HI> brought plain and expre&s;s Scripture, and proved by plain and expre&s;s Scrip|ture, and in expre&s;s Scripture Terms, that the doing of any Servile Work on the 1&s;t Day of the Week, called here the Lord's Day, is forbid; and by expre&s;s Scripture, proves the 1&s;t Day of the Week, and none of the other Days, is called the Lord's Day, and that Chri&s;t is not the Life of a Chri&s;tian, or the true Chri&s;tians Life; and doth by expre&s;s Scripture, and in plain and expre&s;s Scripture Terms, prove that it's an Article of Faith or Doctrine, in common to be believed; but he may expect &s;ome Quotati|ons to that Head; and &s;eeing in this Sheet u&s;e is made of a Quotation out of an <HI>Appeal,</HI> as it's &s;aid, out of a <HI>Quakers</HI> Book, concerning the Church of <HI>England</HI>'s Mini&s;try, we refer the Reader to a Sheet, Intituled, <HI>Mr.</HI> Geo. Keith's <HI>Account of a National Church, and the Mini&s;try of the Church of</HI> England; and to the <HI>Animad|ver&s;ions thereon;</HI> and al&s;o to the Book, Intituled, <HI>The Portraiture of Mr.</HI> Geo. Keith, wherein it doth appear, what Account <HI>G. K.</HI> gives concerning the Mini&s;try of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and the Di&s;&s;enting Mi|ni&s;try; and let him now, if he will, own or deny them to be Heretical and Antichri&s;tian, &s;o far as they reflect upon the Per&s;ons of our Oppo&s;ers, and mo&s;t Heretical.</P>
<P>From the foregoing and following Quotations it will appear, what <HI>G. K's</HI> Belief was, and the <HI>Quakers</HI> is, concerning the Ten Articles.</P>
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<HEAD>1&s;t, <HI>Concerning Infallibility,</HI> G. K. &s;aith.<NOTE PLACE="marg">G. K<HI>'s Truth's Defence</HI> p, 64.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><Q>How unrea&s;onable this Con&s;equence is, I leave unto &s;ober Men to Judge; as to Conclude, becau&s;e Men are <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It's &s;up|po&s;ed this &s;hould be Fallible.</NOTE> Infallible, that therefore the Dictate and Light of God's Spirit in Men is Fallible al&s;o; Was not <HI>Peter</HI> Fallible in &s;ome Ca&s;es? Yea, Did not he fail &s;orely (as well as G. K.) when he denied his Ma&s;ter? Doth it therefore follow that the Dictate or Light of God's Spirit in him was Fallible?</Q></P>
<P><Q>To &s;ay that they have no Infallible Spirit, the plain Engli&s;h of which is, that the Spirit of God, and 'God him&s;elf, is Fallible;</Q> &s;aith <HI>G. K.</HI> in his <HI>Presb. and Ind. Vi&s;ible Churches,</HI> p. 47.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Holy Scriptures, and their being the Only Rule of Faith and Pra|ctice, or to try Spirits, <HI>&amp;c. G. K. &s;aith.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Truth's Defence,</HI> p. 65.</NOTE> </HI></HEAD>
<P><Q>It's no Repugnancy, that one and the &s;ame thing be Superiour and Inferiour in different Re|&s;pects,and as it re&s;pecteth different Subjects. But there is no nece&s;&s;ity to under&s;tand the Dictate and Light of God's Spirit in divers Men to be Superiour and Inferiour, when it Examines and is Examined, for one equal may be a Mea&s;ure or Rule to another, yea, one thing may be &s;aid to be a Rule unto it &s;elf, according to that common Maxim or Principle, <HI>Linea recta est norma &s;ui &amp; Obliqui,</HI> i. e. A right Line is a Rule of it &s;elf, and al&s;o of that which is Crooked.&mdash;The Power of God is the Rule&mdash;For none know truly the Scriptures,<NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 68.</NOTE> but they who know the Power of God; and therefore that Power which is Life, Light and Spirit, is the more Principal and Original Rule.</Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Trinity, <HI>G. K. &s;aith.<NOTE PLACE="marg">G. K<HI>'s Serious App.</HI> p. 2.</NOTE></HI></HEAD>
<P><Q>The only Exception we have, is again&s;t that Un&s;criptural Term or Phra&s;e of <HI>Three Per&s;ons,</HI> or a <HI>Trinity 'of Per&s;ons.</HI></Q></P>
<P><Q>And therefore let all Men know,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>G. K</HI>'s Presb and Ind. vi&s;ib. Churches, <HI>p. 58.</HI></NOTE> to who&s;e hand this may come, That the People called <HI>Quakers</HI> ne|ver denied, but on the contrary faithfully believed, and do <HI>&s;till</HI> faithfully believe, whatever is Recorded, in the holy Scriptures, of that great My&s;tery; to wit, That God is One, and that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Gho&s;t, is that One Only True and Living God, the Creator and Upholder of all.</Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning Chri&s;t and his Blood.</HEAD>
<P><HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid.</HI> p. 58.</NOTE> <Q>The Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, whom the Apo&s;tles preached, that died for our Sins, and ro&s;e again for our Ju&s;tification, is a&s;cended and gone into Heaven, is <HI>that alone Son</HI> of God, and that his Body was Crucified, and Buried, did not &s;ee Corruption, <HI>that the People called</HI> Quakers <HI>own.</HI></Q></P>
<P><HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith farther,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Truth's Defence,</HI> p. 228.</NOTE> <Q>I grant neither our Souls nor our Vertues merit Heaven nor Redemption, as <HI>Me|rit</HI> &s;ignifieth <HI>Equality:</HI> But &s;eeing God hath counted our Souls &s;o dear, as to give &s;o great a Price for them, as the Blood of his dear Son, they may at lea&s;t be &s;aid to have &s;ome <HI>Dignity</HI> or <HI>Worth</HI> (which is to &s;ay, <HI>Merit</HI>) in them, otherwi&s;e God would never have given &s;o great a Ran&s;om for them, if the Souls of Men, in re&s;pect of their Nature and Being, had not been of great Value; which is all I un|der&s;tand by the word <HI>Merit,</HI> as u&s;ed by any of us.</Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning Bapti&s;m and the Lord's Supper.</HEAD>
<P><HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith, of their Two Sacraments, called <HI>Bapti&s;m</HI> and the <HI>Supper:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>G. K</HI>'s Prseb. and Ind. vi&s;it. Chuhches.</NOTE>
<Q>As for the Term or Word <HI>Sa|crament,</HI> it is no where to be found in all the <HI>Engli&s;h Tran&s;lations</HI> of the <HI>Bible,</HI> received among Prote&s;tants; neither is there any Word either in the <HI>Hebrew</HI> or <HI>Greek,</HI> that doth properly an&s;wer unto it, unle&s;s they will Tran&s;late the Greek Word that &s;ignifieth <HI>My&s;tery,</HI> to &s;ignifie a <HI>Sacrament;</HI> as the old Latin hath it in <HI>Eph.</HI> 5.32. <HI>Hoc e&s;t magnum Sacramentum,</HI> i. e. This is a great Sacrament: For which our Engli&s;h Tran|&s;lation readeth, more properly, <HI>This is a great My&s;tery.</HI> But if <HI>Sacrament</HI> &s;ignifie <HI>My&s;tery,</HI> then there mu&s;t be as many <HI>Sacraments</HI> as <HI>My&s;teries.</HI></Q></P>
<P><Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 179.</NOTE>As for Infants-Bapti&s;m, and Sprinkling a Child of Eight Days or more or le&s;s, on the Forehead, and call it <HI>Bapti&s;m,</HI> it hath no footing in all the Scripture, neither of Precept nor Practice; as will ea&s;ily appear, by con&s;idering the places of Scripture they cite for it&mdash;as <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.10, to 22.&mdash;<HI>Gen.</HI> 17.9.&mdash;we find neither <HI>Command</HI> nor <HI>Practice</HI> in all the Scripture, nor was the Practice of <HI>Baptizing Infants</HI> in u&s;e for an Hundred Years and more after the Apo&s;tles days, among Profe&s;&s;ors of Chri&s;tianity.</Q></P>
<P><Q><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid.</HI> p. 182.</NOTE>And as for Water-Bapti&s;m in General, We &s;ay, It did only properly belong to <HI>John</HI>'s Mini&s;try and Di&s;pen&s;ation, and is <HI>expre&s;ly</HI> contra-di&s;tingui&s;hed from the Bapti&s;m of Chri&s;t, both by <HI>John</HI> and al&s;o by <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elf.&mdash;And if any were Rai&s;ed up by the Lord, as <HI>John</HI> was, and could prove and in&s;truct their being &s;ent to Baptize with Water, as he was; the&s;e, to whom they &s;hould be &s;ent, ought gladly to Receive it; but to do it by <HI>bare Imitation,</HI> or <HI>a meer pretended Call,</HI> which they <HI>cannot prove</HI> to be either <HI>Mediate</HI> or <HI>Immediate,</HI> is great <HI>Pre&s;umption,</HI> yea, <HI>Super&s;tition;</HI> and to call that a <HI>Command</HI> of God, which he hath given them <HI>no <HI>Command</HI></HI> to Practice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&lindx;</NOTE> is to &s;et up the <HI>Precepts</HI> of Men in the Room of God's Commandments, as the <HI>Phari&s;ees</HI> did of old, and is a taking of his Name in vain, for which he will not hold them <HI>Guiltle&s;s.</HI> And they can never prove, by all their Art and Skill, that <HI>Water-Bapti&s;m</HI> is Commanded by Chri&s;t, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.18, 19.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&lindx;</NOTE> For all God's Commands and Precepts, <HI>e&s;pecially</HI> of Publick In&s;titution, relating to the Church, are expre&s;s, in &s;o many expre&s;s Words, and are not left to be gathered by uncertain and doubtful Con&s;equences.</Q></P>
<P><Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 183.</NOTE>When God &s;ent <HI>John</HI> to Baptize with Water, Water was expre&s;&s;ed; but in the Apo&s;tle's Commi&s;&s;ion to Baptize, no mention is made of Water, nor no words of in&s;titution commanded to be u&s;ed.</Q></P>
<P><Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 185.</NOTE>We grant that Chri&s;t had an outward Supper with his Di&s;ciples, when he did eat the Pa&s;chal Lamb with them; and this was a real Supper, and not like that which ye now u&s;e, that is neither Sub&s;tantial Supper nor Dinner, being only a little Crumb of Bread, &s;carce &s;o big as a <HI>Nut;</HI> and a <HI>Spoonful</HI> of Wine, or two, which hath little outward Sub&s;tance, and <HI>no <HI>Inward</HI></HI> and <HI>Spiritual</HI> Signification unto you&mdash;your Supper is a <HI>meer Shadow,</HI> and none of Chri&s;t's Supper, nor of his In&s;titution. <HI>With much more.</HI></Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Re&s;urrection.</HEAD>
<P>In the &s;aid Sheet it's &s;aid, <HI>They</HI> (that is the <HI>Quakers) deny the Re&s;urrection of the Body after Death.</HI></P>
<P><HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">G. K<HI>'s Serious Appeal,</HI> p. 9.</NOTE> <Q>By <HI>W. Penn</HI>'s words, it is clear to prove the contrary, of a Carnal Re&s;urrection.</Q></P>
<P><HI>G. K.</HI> al&s;o &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Presb. and Ind. vi&s;ib. Churches, <HI>p. 227. 228.</HI></NOTE> <HI>That they (i. e.</HI> the Quakers) <HI>Deny the Re&s;urrection of the Dead.</HI></P>
<P>This is al&s;o a mo&s;t fal&s;e Charge, which they can <HI>never</HI> prove: But becau&s;e we deny their Carnal Con|ceptions of the Re&s;urrection, and hold us to Scripture-words, which is mo&s;t &s;afe, therefore they have &s;o <HI>be-lyed</HI> us.</P>
<P>And for the more Satisfaction of the Reader, I refer him to a little Book, called <HI>The Principles of Truth,</HI> publi&s;hed by &s;ome noted Men of the <HI>Quakers;</HI> in which Book it is expre&s;ly Affirmed,
<Q>That we (to wit, the <HI>Quakers</HI>) believe, That the &s;ame Body which is laid down, &s;hall be Rai&s;ed up at the Re|&s;urrection of the Dead, as much as a Natural Body can be the &s;ame with a Spiritual Body, or an Earthly Body can be the &s;ame with a Heavenly Body, according to the Scripture's Te&s;timony; <HI>It is &s;own Natural, but rai&s;ed Spiritual; and the Glory of the Heavenly is one, and the Glory of the Earthly is ano|ther;</HI> and this may &s;atisfie any &s;ober Inquirer.</Q>
And <HI>Paul,</HI> writing concerning the Re&s;urrection of the Dead, &s;aith, <Q><HI>That is not fir&s;t which is Spiritual, but that which is Natural</HI></Q> (or Animal, and afterward that which is Spiritual) 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.46. And ver&s;. 49. <Q><HI>As we have born the Image of the Earthly, we &s;hall bear the Image of the Heavenly.</HI></Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning that called the Sabbath.</HEAD>
<P>The <HI>Po&s;t&s;.</HI> al&s;o &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ser. Call.</NOTE> <HI>They,</HI> the Quakers, <HI>do allow doing Servile Work on the Lord's-Day.</HI></P>
<P>G. K. &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Presb. and Ind. vi&s;ib. Churches. <HI>p. 190. 191.</HI></NOTE> <Q>Concerning that ye call your <HI>Chri&s;tian-Sabbath,</HI> which ye &s;ay is the <HI>Fir&s;t Day of the Week,</HI> &mdash;but ye bring no &s;ober Proof for any &s;uch Change, and the Scriptures ye cite &s;ay no &s;uch thing, as <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.2, 3. <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.10. <HI>Exod.</HI> 20.8, 10. <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.17. For that outward Sabbath, that was enjoyned unto them was a Sign and Figure.&mdash;And when the pure Go&s;pel and Chri&s;tian Di&s;pen&s;ation did take place, all the&s;e Figurative and Shadowy Sabbaths were changed to the Sub&s;tance, and that Sub&s;tance or Body is Chri&s;t, according to <HI>Col.</HI> 2.17. With much more on this Head.</Q></P>
<P>And now, hear <HI>G. K.</HI> farther, in his Preface to his <HI>Serious Appeal.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Quakers.</HEAD>
<P><Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Preface to Serious Appeal.</NOTE>It never yet hath been proved, nor ever will be, <HI>i. e.</HI> That the Religion, profe&s;&s;ed by the &s;incere and 'faithful People, called in &s;corn <HI>Quakers,</HI> is either <HI>Pagani&s;m,</HI> or <HI>any</HI> other thing than real <HI>Chri&s;tianity.</HI></Q></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Quakers Preachers, and Publi&s;hers of their Doctrine.</HEAD>
<P>G. K. &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Serious Appeal.</HI> p. 7.</NOTE> <Q>The People called <HI>Quakers,</HI> and the&s;e mo&s;t generally owned by them; as Preachers and Publi&s;hers of their Faith, of unque&s;tionable e&s;teem among them, and worthy of double Honour, as many &s;uch there are; I know none that are guilty of any &s;uch Here&s;ies and Bla&s;phemies.</Q></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Concerning</HI> G. Fox.</HEAD>
<P>G. K. &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rect. Cor.</HI> p. 111.</NOTE>
<Q>Whom the Lord hath indeed made a worthy In&s;trument unto us, and among us, and yet I hope &s;hall unto many more, and who is &s;afe in the Hand of Him that holdeth the Seven Stars, and the Seven Golden Candle&s;ticks in his Right Hand: And all thy Malicious Reviling, and Slanderous Defamation of him, cannot dimini&s;h any thing from that true Honour wherewith the Lord hath Honour'd him, and other Faithful Labourers with him, whom the Lord hath rai&s;ed up, in this Day of the Appearance of his Great and Mighty Power.</Q></P>
<P>Now can <HI>G. Keith</HI> in Truth and Sincerity &s;ay more of and for, 1&s;t, That Religion he now Profe&s;&s;eth. 2dly, Of tho&s;e People he is now joyned unto. 3dly, Of the Preachers and Publi&s;hers of their Faith. 4thly, Of any Man or Men among&s;t them, then he hath of <HI>G. Fox,</HI> and other Faithful Labourers with him among the <HI>Quakers?</HI> I'ts left to the Judgment of all Serious Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>'And all good Chri&s;tians (as in the Po&s;t&s;cript to <HI>Serious Call</HI>) are de&s;ir'd to have this Sheet in their 'Hou&s;es, and to &s;how it to their Neighbours as they have opportunity, that they may &s;ee the Chri&s;tianity of the <HI>Quakers,</HI> and <HI>G. Keith</HI> al&s;o, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Whil&s;t a Quaker.</NOTE> and enquire if ever they &s;ee, heard or read of any Man that hath done like him, that pretended to be &s;o many Years &s;ound, as to the Fundamentals of Chri&s;tianity, and all the Doctrines of the Chri&s;tian Religion, and that hath made &s;o bold with the Name of the Lord, and pretended to &s;uch Zeal and Concern for God, to contradict him&s;elf, and feignedly to &s;ay, He judgeth it his <HI>Duty</HI> from true <HI>Conviction,</HI> and out of real Love to <HI>Truth,</HI> to &s;ay and un&s;ay, and &s;o confidently A&s;&s;ert he doth it freely and humbly; Can you think this is a Teacher &s;ent or called of God, commi&s;&s;ionated by Chri&s;t, guided by his Spirit, and fit to Follow, or to Preach up that Di&s;pen&s;ation, of which it's &s;aid, <HI>every Man &s;hall &s;peak the Truth to his Neighbour?</HI> And are the &s;o called Doctors, and Rectors, and tho&s;e that abet him, to be commended for their Wi&s;dom? And do they thereby Demon&s;trate that they have, are in, or are guided by, the Wi&s;dom of God, and his Holy Spirit (by which &s;o many as are the Sons of God are led) in their joyning with this Man? It's hoped, if you that follow <HI>George Keith.</HI> &amp;c. will duly and well con&s;ider the&s;e things, you will not only Renounce him, but con&s;ider that his evil Works, and tho&s;e that Joyn with him therein, ought to be for&s;aken, and that it wil be more for your Profit, and tend more to your Inward Peace and Chri&s;tian Reputation, to hearken to the Voice of Chri&s;t in your own Hearts, and to mind that Light by which all things that are reproved are made manife&s;t, and believe in him who &s;aid, <HI>I am the Light of the World,</HI> and exhorted to <HI>learn of him,</HI> who will teach you <HI>freely;</HI> and no longer to follow him and &s;uch Preachers, if you would be Chri&s;tians indeed, and then it's hoped you will ac|knowledge, <HI>viz.</HI> as <HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith, p. 230. of his <HI>Presb. and Ind. vi&s;ible Churches.</HI></P>
<P><Q>It had been more Manly and &s;eemingly Chri&s;tian, (for <HI>G. K.</HI> and his Abettors) or any others of their Sect or Society, <HI>fairly</HI> to have &s;tated the <HI>Quakers Principles,</HI> and then to have refuted them by the be&s;t or &s;tronge&s;t Arguments they could find: But this none of them have done [and he truly hath &s;aid, <HI>They never can</HI>] nor did I ever &s;ee to this day, any <HI>one Writer,</HI> that did write again&s;t the <HI>Quakers,</HI> that did fairly &s;tate their <HI>Principles,</HI> but mi&s;erably <HI>be-lyed</HI> and <HI>abu&s;ed</HI> them, (as <HI>G. K.</HI> hath) either by affirming things to be their Principles which were not, <HI>or by &s;o unfairly Repre&s;enting</HI> and <HI>Wre&s;ting</HI> the words of our Hone&s;t Friends, by their <HI>Addings</HI> and <HI>Dimini&s;hings,</HI> that they could not at all ac|knowledge them as &s;uch; <HI>all</HI> which is a manife&s;t Evidence of the <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Badne&s;s</HI> of their <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> as well as of that evil <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> that is in them, when they u&s;e &s;uch <HI>unlawful ways</HI> and <HI>means</HI> to de|fend them&s;elves, or to oppugn others.</Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;ider, by what's here|in, and what <HI>G. K.</HI> &s;aith, p. 15. of his <HI>Exact. N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r.</HI> and Preface thereto, whether he hath not proved him|&s;elf an Apo|&s;tate, a great Hypocrite, &s;tark Mad, and Cra&s;ed in his Under|&s;tanding.</NOTE></P>
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