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<HEAD>The <HI>Quakers</HI> Proved Apo&s;tats and Heathens. AND A SPECIMEN OF THE QUAKERS Great Malice and Ignorance <HI>In their late Printed</HI> EPIGRAM <HI>they have made or procured to be made again&s;t me both in Latin and Engli&s;h, and which their Printer</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">acy Sowl <HI>doth publickly Sell,</HI> With &s;ome Ob&s;ervations of mine upon it.</HEAD>
<BYLINE><HI>By</HI> GEORGE KEITH.</BYLINE>
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<HEAD>The which &s;aid Epigram both in Latin and Engli&s;h, with its Title, thus followeth.</HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>In</HI> Georgium Keithum <HI>Caledonium Apo&s;tatam Epigramma, Lucis Triumphum, &amp;</HI> Keithi <HI>cum conjuratis &s;uis Cata&s;trophen Praenuncians.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>KEithus, Ecebolius, J'ul anus</HI> Apo&s;tata factus,</L>
<L>Antiquae Fidei perditus Ho&s;tis ade&s;t.</L>
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<L>Credula belligeros memoravit Fama Gigantes,</L>
<L>Caelos Stultiti&acirc; qui peti&ecirc;re &s;u&acirc;.</L>
<L>Sed nova Bella parat <HI>Keithus,</HI> &s;uperat&abque; Gigantes;</L>
<L>Fictum illi, Hic Verum jam petit ecce Deum.</L>
<L>Difficile e&s;t <HI>Keitho</HI> nihil, ip&s;um Acheronta movebit,</L>
<L>In Lucem Satyras ut Vomat ille feras.</L>
<L>A&s;t invicta &s;tetit, &s;tabit&abque; per omnia S&ecirc;cla</L>
<L>Lux, Victo <HI>Keitho</HI> Sacricoli&s;&abque; &s;uis.</L>
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<HEAD>The &s;ame in <HI>Engli&s;h Paraphra&s;e.</HI> An <HI>Epigram,</HI> upon <HI>George Keith,</HI> the Caledonian Apo&s;tate, Predicting The Triumph of the <HI>Light,</HI> and Overthrow of <HI>Keith</HI> and his <HI>Accomplices.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>KEith, Ecebolius</HI>-like, now leads the Van</L>
<L>O'th' Forlorn Hope; Apo&s;tate <HI>Julian!</HI></L>
<L>The Apo&s;tolick Faith once own'd, hut now</L>
<L>This Renegade the &s;ame doth di&s;avow.</L>
<L>Poetick Stories Fab'lou&s;ly Report,</L>
<L>On Heav'n it&s;elf the <HI>Giants</HI> made Effort.</L>
<L>But <HI>Keith</HI> out-does them, his proud Folly view;</L>
<L>They a Feign'd God attack'd but he the True.</L>
<L>Keith nothing Scares, into <HI>Black Hell</HI> he goes;</L>
<L>Thence <HI>Stygian Darkne&s;s</HI> at the <HI>Light</HI> he throws.</L>
<L>But th' <HI>Light</HI> hath &s;till Triumphed ever all</L>
<L>For Ages pa&s;t, and Triumph ever &s;hall:</L>
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<L>Whil&s;t Baffled <HI>Keith,</HI> who better Things once knew,</L>
<L>May Rave ith' <HI>Dark</HI> with his <HI>Benighted Crew.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>Ob&s;erv. 1.</HI> THE <HI>Quakers</HI> fond conceit of glorying in what they formerly called <HI>the mark of the Bea&s;t,</HI> to wit, heatheni&s;h poetical Strains and Fictions, of Latin and Greek Heathen Authors, whom here they imitate and who&s;e words they borrow, yet withal &s;till pretending they will not defile their &s;acred Mou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hes, with giving heatheni&s;h Names to the Days of the Week and Months of the Year. O deep Hypocri&s;ie!</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv. 2.</HI> In their calling me not only <HI>Ecebolius</HI> and the <HI>Caledonian,</HI> (i. e. the Scotti&s;h) Apo&s;tate, but <HI>Julian the Apo&s;tate,</HI> they maliciou&s;ly <HI>reflect</HI> on all true Chri&s;tians of the Three Nations of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and other Chri|&s;tian Nations, with whom I agree, in Chri&s;tian Principles in Faith and Wor&s;hip; and particularly they maliciou&s;ly reflect on the Church of <HI>England,</HI> who hath received me into her Communion, and on our <HI>Gracious Sovereign King William,</HI> and the Parliament, Nobility, Gentry, Magi&s;tra|cy and Commons, with whom, I profe&s;s one Faith, and Religion, now &s;eeing the <HI>Quakers</HI> make me to be <HI>Julian the Apo&s;tate,</HI> by the &s;ame method, they make all the above|mentioned, to be Heathens, and heatheni&s;h Idolaters, and of <HI>Julian the Apo&s;tat</HI>'s Religion. Is not this very in&s;olent, daring and pre&s;umptuous, &s;o to treat the King and Parlia|ment? by who&s;e favour they enjoy, what toleration they have, to u&s;e their own way of Wor&s;hip.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv. 3.</HI> They know in their Con&s;ciences, that this their Libel again&s;t me is &s;tuffed full with Lies, as that like <HI>Julian the Apo&s;tate,</HI> I once owned the <HI>Apo&s;tolick Faith,</HI> but that now I di&s;avow it, or di&s;own it: That mainly for which <HI>Julian</HI> was ju&s;tly termed an Apo&s;tate, was for di&s;owning the Man <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> of <HI>Nazareth,</HI> to be God, and the Sa|viour of the World, and denying that he was to be wor|&s;hipped
<PB N="4" REF="3"> with divine Wor&s;hip, whom he called in Contempt, <HI>the Galilean,</HI> and as he was &s;truck with a Dart, by an un|known Hand, in his expedition again&s;t the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> cryed out, <HI>thou ha&s;t overcome O Galilean.</HI></P>
<P>This was a great and principal part of the Apo&s;tolick Faith, <HI>that the Man Je&s;us Chri&s;t of</HI> Nazareth, <HI>who was born of the ble&s;&s;ed Virgin, called</HI> Mary, <HI>and who &s;uffered under</HI> Pon|tius Pilate, <HI>was crucified, dead and buried, ro&s;e again on the 3d. day and a&s;cended into Heaven, and &s;itteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, and from thence &s;hall come to judge the quick and the dead, was and ever &s;hall &s;o remain, the Son of God, properly &s;o called, and one and the &s;ame God, with the Father, in re&s;pect of his Divinity, and having our nature per&s;onally united to him, in re&s;pect of his humanity, for ever glorified, and who together with the Father, and the holy Gho&s;t, is wor&s;hipped, with divine Adoration, by all true Chri&s;tians:</HI> Which Faith I retain, with all true Chri&s;tians throughout the World&punc; and I hope ever &s;hall, and the <HI>Quakers</HI> know in their Con&s;ciences, and it is publickly known, throughout the Three Nations and el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ewhere, that for this <HI>very Faith,</HI> my great controver&s;ie hath been again&s;t them, I affirming it, and its being nece&s;&s;ary to our eternal Salvation, and they denying it, even the chiefe&s;t Teachers and Authors among them, as I have abundantly &s;hewed in my &s;everal Narratives, particularly my fourth and la&s;t pub|li&s;hed this very Year; and which I offer &s;till to prove them guilty of, even denying the Lord that bought them&punc; <HI>Je&s;us</HI> of <HI>Nazareth,</HI> both God and Man, to be the great Saviour of the World, as <HI>Julian the Apo&s;tate</HI> did, and therefore they and their chief Teachers are fitly compared in this re&s;pect, to <HI>Julian the Apo&s;tate,</HI> being guilty of the &s;ame <HI>damna le Crime and Apo&s;tacy with him,</HI> who generally, (the elder fort among them,) were baptized into the Chri&s;tian Faith, and yet have renounced both it and their Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv. 4.</HI> They mo&s;t <HI>impudently</HI> as well as <HI>maliciou&s;ly</HI> ac|cu&s;e me, that as the <HI>Giants</HI> did attack the fal&s;e Gods, I do
<PB N="5" REF="3"> attack the true God, I dare them to give the lea&s;t in&s;tance, wherein I have ever &s;aid or writ any thing, either again&s;t the <HI>glorious Being, Names, or Attributes of God Almighty,</HI> but I can give in&s;tances of this &s;ort again&s;t them, and have given already, particularly in my fourth Narrative, p. 55 where I have proved, that <HI>George Whitehead</HI> one of their chief Teachers has affirm'd in Print, that <HI>Chri&s;t as God &s;uffer'd,</HI> for proof of which he perverts &s;everal places of Scripture, this I charge upon <HI>George Whitehead</HI> and the <HI>Quakers,</HI> to be an attacking of God, <HI>in his glorious Being, and attribute of impa&s;&s;ibility.</HI></P>
<P>Again, <HI>William Penn,</HI> another of their great Teachers, hath not only denied <HI>that outward Per&s;on that &s;uffered at</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>to be properly the Son of God, meaning by that outward Per&s;on, the Man Je&s;us of</HI> Nazareth, <HI>but hath &s;et up a multitude of new Born Chri&s;ts and Gods,</HI> viz. a new one in every regen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Per&s;on, for thus he teacheth, that <HI>the holy Seed grows up in them, from a Seed</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">See for this in my fourth Narrative. p. 56</NOTE> <HI>to a Child, and from a Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ld to be the mighty God, perverting and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;applying</HI> I&s;a. 9. 6. <HI>to prove it; and the like doth</HI> George Whitehead, <HI>and others among them, yea &s;o did</HI> Georg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ox.</P>
<P>They accu&s;e me that I throw <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ygian Darkne&s;s at the Light,</HI> but on what is this their accu&s;ation grounded? Have I ever denied <HI>the Light within?</HI> Nay; but have given as full and ample te&s;timony to it, both as in Heathens and true Chri&s;tians, as any true Chri&s;tian ought or can, in agree|ment with the Holy Scriptures, for which let the Reader plea&s;e to &s;ee my <HI>Catechi&s;ms</HI> both large and &s;horter, and my other <HI>Books,</HI> but they will needs have me to deny <HI>the Light within,</HI> and con&s;equently deny the true God, becau&s;e I have &s;aid, and &s;till do &s;ay, the Light within, (whither in Chri&s;tian or Heathen) <HI>is not &s;ufficient to Salvation, without &s;omething el&s;e,</HI> i. e. <HI>without the Man Je&s;us of</HI> Nazareth, <HI>and what he did and &s;uffered for us on Earth, and his mediation for us in Heaven:</HI> By the <HI>&s;ufficiency of the Light within,</HI> it
<PB N="6" REF="4" MS="y"> is well enough known, what the <HI>Quakers</HI> mean in op|po&s;ition to all &s;ound Chri&s;tians, as well as to me, which is not, <HI>what God can do, or could ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e done, by his ab&s;olute Soveraignty,</HI> but what he is plea&s;ed to do; that is, <HI>whither God hath given either to all Men, or to any part of Mankind, that &s;ufficiency of Light, that by obedience to its dictates, all or any &s;hall be &s;aved, without the merit of the Man Chri&s;t, his precious Blood that was outwardly &s;hed for us, and whi|ther Faith both in the Man Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and in his Blood is not nece&s;&s;ary to be preached, and received, in order to our Eternal Salvation.</HI> Now by the &s;ame Argument of theirs, they make not only all the Chri&s;tians both now, and &s;ince the Apo&s;tles days, but the Apo&s;tles al&s;o guilty of <HI>attacking the true God,</HI> and &s;o wor&s;e than the <HI>Giants</HI> who attack'd but the fal&s;e Gods, for their affirming, that the <HI>Light with|in</HI> Men, is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the whole and entire Saviour, Je&s;us Chri&s;t, both God and Man, Fle&s;h and Spirit, yea Fle&s;h, Blood and Bones, [the Quakers mad Divinity,] which they learned from their Apo&s;tle <HI>George Fox,</HI> as I have &s;hewed in my fourth Narrative. But had the Apo&s;tles been of the <HI>Qua|kers</HI> Faith, in vain did they Preach, that Chri&s;t dyed for our Sins, on the Tree of the Cro&s;s without us.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv. 6.</HI> They predict <HI>by way of Prophecy,</HI> the <HI>triumph</HI> of the <HI>Light, (vix.</HI> the <HI>Light within all Men,</HI> Heathens as well as Chri&s;tians,) without any thing el&s;e, for eternal Salvation, not only over <HI>Keith,</HI> but all &s;ound Chri&s;tian Profe&s;&s;ors, with whom he is one in Faith, that is, the tri|umph of <HI>Dei&s;me</HI> and <HI>Pagani&s;me,</HI> over the <HI>Chri&s;tian Faith</HI> and Religion, judge Chri&s;tian Reader who is like&s;t to <HI>Ju|lian</HI> the Apo&s;tate here. For if their Principle prevail, and their Prophecy take place, than the <HI>Light within</HI> only is to be Preached, to be &s;ufficient for Salvation, and &s;o fare|well all the peculiar Articles of the Chri&s;tian Faith, [by this mad Divinity] let them be buried in &s;ilence, and the <HI>Bible buried,</HI> or <HI>burned,</HI> and only the <HI>Light within</HI> be Preached up, as the intire Saviour to be the only and alone object of Faith,
<PB N="7" REF="4"> which is <HI>Dei&s;me</HI> and <HI>Pagani&s;me</HI> with a witne&s;s, and was the very Religion of <HI>Julian</HI> the <HI>Apo&s;tate,</HI> who from a profe&s;&s;ed Chri&s;tian, be|came a Heathen Philo&s;opher, and with them did magnifie the <HI>Light within,</HI> (as both <HI>Stoicks</HI> and <HI>Platoni&s;ts</HI> commonly did) and vilifie and de&s;pi&s;e Je&s;us of <HI>Nazareth,</HI> as much as the <HI>Quakers</HI> do.</P>
<P>Note, Whereas &s;everal other &s;currilous Pamphlets are lately Printed by the <HI>Quakers,</HI> and others favouring their wild Antichri|&s;tian Notions again&s;t me, charging me with &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages in my former Books, three Years ago retracted by me [none of which contained their vile Errors, oppugning the fundamentals of Chri|&s;tianity] I think not at pre&s;ent to take further particular notice of them, it being a mean artifice in them, thus to pull at the <HI>Mote</HI> in my eye, which I have pulled out before them, while the <HI>Beam of</HI> a Body of the vile&s;t Here&s;ies that ever were heard in the World, remains in their own Eyes. For &s;hame let them clear them|&s;elves of the things I have proved them guilty of in my <HI>4th.</HI> Nar|rative, and in my Book of the <HI>Dei&s;me</HI> of <HI>W. Penn &amp;c.</HI> and other my Books again&s;t them before they thus charge me with things that I have retracted in mo&s;t particulars, and generally in all. But yet further to &s;top their idle and impertinent clamor, I do by the&s;e Pre&s;ents retract, di&s;own and deny whatever is to be found in any of my Books contrary <HI>to the holy Scriptures, or to the 39 Articles of the Church of</HI> England which I &s;incerely believe is perfectly accord|ing to the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures, and al&s;o di&s;own, retract and deny al <HI>uncharitable Words,</HI> and Expre&s;&s;ions, I have formerly u&s;ed in any of my former Books, while under the Profe&s;&s;ion of a <HI>Quaker</HI> again&s;t either the Church of <HI>England,</HI> or any of her true Members, or any other true Prote&s;tant Church or particular Per|&s;on, or Per&s;ons, Members of any true Prote&s;tant Churches. And this I hope will &s;uffice all moderate Per&s;ons, for others, I neither can, nor will endeavour to &s;atisfie them, being unrea&s;onable.</P>
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<HEAD>Some Ob&s;ervations on a late Sheet Printed by &s;ome of the <HI>Quakers</HI> (but without any particular Names) called <HI>the Chri&s;tianity of the Peo|ple called Quakers</HI> a&s;&s;erted by <HI>George Keith,</HI> which they pretend to be an an&s;wer to the Sheet, lately Publi&s;hed by me, called <HI>a Serious Call to the Quakers,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 1. THey do mo&s;t unfairly and inhumanly labour to fix upon me the &s;ame Errors, wherewith I have charged them, in my &s;aid Sheet, <HI>called a Serious Call,</HI> &amp;c. by quot|ing diver&s;e Pa&s;&s;ages in my former Books, writ by me, while under
<PB N="8" REF="5"> the Profe&s;&s;ion of a <HI>Quaker,</HI> notwith&s;tanding, that whatever is con|trary to the Holy Scriptures, in tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ages I have told them again and again, I have retracted in print about three Years ago, and whatever Error a Man retracts, he is no more chargeable with it, according to common Ju&s;tice, and the general con&s;ent of all rational Men.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;.</HI> 2. On &s;trick Examination, I do not find any of tho&s;e Quo|tations, they bring out of my former Books, to prove me guilty of denying any one Article of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Faith,</HI> commonly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o called, <HI>viz</HI> &s;uch as contained in the <HI>Apo&s;tles Creed,</HI> whereas the Quotations I have given in the Sheet called <HI>a Serious Call,</HI> &amp;c. effectually proves, they have denyed all and every one of the 12 <HI>Articles of that Creed,</HI> and con&s;equently the whole <HI>Chri&s;tian Faith.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;.</HI> 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ivers of tho&s;e Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">otations they give out of my for|mer Books are &s;ound and directly contradictory to their vile Er|rors, and to the Quotations I have given out of their Books, in the Sheet called <HI>a Serious Call,</HI> &amp;c. as the impartial Readers will ea&s;ily find by comparing them together.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;.</HI> 4. They mo&s;t unju&s;tly and ba&s;ely reflect on tho&s;e Eight worthy Per&s;ons, Mini&s;ters of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Church of <HI>England</HI> as on me, <HI>viz.</HI> that the Quotations g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ven by me and atte&s;ted by them, do not exactly agree with the <HI>Quakers</HI> Books out of which the were ta|ken, but they have normall their large Sheet &s;hewed the lea&s;t material di&s;agreement, which if they could no doubt they would have done. They &s;ay they have Examined my <HI>4th. 6th. 20th.</HI> 21&s;t. and find that I am mi&s;taken&punc; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o are my Brethren, but they have not given the lea&s;t in&s;tance or hint&punc; wherein the mi&s;take lies, and upon a fre&s;h Examination, of the&s;e 4 Quotations, I do affirm, there is no mi&s;take in them, and their &s;aying there is, is a meer juggle, and mo&s;t confident fal&s;hood.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;.</HI> 5. They take occa&s;ion to reflect both on tho&s;e Eight Mi|ni&s;ters and me, for a &s;mall mi&s;take of the Printer or Tran|&s;criber, on the Margin of the <HI>7th</HI> Quotation, giving <HI>G. Fox</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> words, <HI>that the Scriptures are not Infallible, nor Divine, but Humane,</HI> p. 89 being put for p 302. which in my <HI>4th.</HI> Narrative p. 22. is rightly placed, but they confe&s;s they are <HI>G. Fox</HI>'s words el&s;ewhere. And this is all they object again&s;t Fifty and two Quotations, con|taining mo&s;t vile Errors and Here&s;ies I have given, in the Sheet called <HI>a Serious Call,</HI> collected our of their Books, and above Two Hundred and Fifty given in my <HI>4th.</HI> Narrative.</P>
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