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<HEAD>One WONDER more, Added to the Seven Wonders of the World.</HEAD>
<P>Verified in the Per&s;on of Mr. <HI>George Keith,</HI> once a <HI>Presbyterian,</HI> afterwards about Thirty Years a <HI>Qua|ker,</HI> then a <HI>Noun Sub&s;tantive</HI> at <HI>Turners-Hall,</HI> and now an Itinerant Preacher (upon his Good Beha|viour) in the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England:</HI> And all without Variation (as him&s;elf &s;ays) in Fundamentals.</P>
<BYLINE>By a Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enter.</BYLINE>
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<P>HIS Education, Judgment and Affection, in his Youth, &s;o dipp'd him in the <HI>Scotch Solemn League</HI> and <HI>Covenant,</HI> that he Glories in it: Page 38, and 39. of <HI>Help in Time of Need,</HI> <Q REND="margQuotes"><HI>That by it, as Prelacy was declared</HI> a Limb of Anti-Chri&s;t, the Horrible and Filthy thing &s;et up in the Land. &amp; <HI>he, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HI> had vowed to the mo&s;t High God again&s;t it, and had kept his Vow.</Q> What is become of his Vow now?</P>
<P>The &s;ame Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> whil&s;t a <HI>Quaker,</HI> &s;aith in behalf of them, in the &s;ame Book, thus: <Q REND="margQuotes">I declare unto you </Q><HI>(Pre&s;|byterians)</HI> <Q REND="margQuotes">and that in the Name and Power of the Living God, That ye &s;hall look till your Eyes fail you, and rot in your Holes, ere ever ye &s;ee another Day or Ap|pearance of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to your Comfort, than what
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y"> We, the People of the Lord, called <HI>Quakers,</HI> do witne&s;s Come, and more abundantly Coming:</Q> <HI>Help in Time of Need,</HI> page 78, 79. printed 1665.&mdash;</P>
<P>Again, <Q REND="margQuotes">It &s;ufficeth me, and I hope many others, that ac|cording to the be&s;t Knowledge I have of the <HI>Quakers,</HI> as Preachers and Publi&s;hers of their <HI>Faith,</HI> of unque&s;tionable E&s;teem among them, and worthy of double Honour, as ma|ny &s;uch there are. I know none are Guilty of any one of tho&s;e <HI>Here&s;ies,</HI> he <HI>(C. M.)</HI> accu&s;eth them of, </Q><HI>(which are the &s;ame Mr.</HI> Keith <HI>now accu&s;eth them of, and the &s;ame he hath vindicated them from)</HI> <Q REND="margQuotes">'And I think (adds Mr. <HI>Keith</HI>) I &s;hould know, and do know, the <HI>Quakers</HI> and their <HI>Principles;</HI> ha|ving been Conver&s;ant with them in Publick and Private, with the mo&s;t noted among 'em, for about Twenty Eight Years pa&s;t, in both <HI>Europe</HI> and <HI>America:</HI></Q> <HI>Serious Appeal,</HI> page 7. printed 1692. Twenty Seven Years Experience, after <HI>Help in Time of Need,</HI> printed 1665. Add to this the Multitude of Books he writ in their Defence, again&s;t <HI>Epi&s;copalians, Pre&s;|byterians, Independents, Bapti&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. in Vindication of tho&s;e <HI>ve|ry</HI> Books he now quotes for their <HI>Here&s;ie;</HI> &s;o that he cannot <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">nly</HI> pretend <HI>Ignorance,</HI> concerning either the <HI>Books,</HI> or the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> therein contained.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ame Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> in his <HI>Interregnum,</HI> after the <HI>Quakers</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">communicated him, (for he left not them) in Re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> which is &s;weet) &s;aith, <Q REND="margQuotes">The <HI>Quakers</HI> hold &s;uch vile <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> and Here&s;ies, as are Repugnant to the Chri&s;tian <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">&s;s and that no &s;uch Damnable Here&s;ies, and Doctrines <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Devils, is tolerated in any Prote&s;tant Society: <HI>Never|thele&s;s,</HI> he is in Love and Charity with a Con&s;iderable Number; yea, with all the Faithful, both in the City of <HI>London</HI> and Country.</Q> <HI>Antichri&s;t and Sadduces, Loving Epi|&s;tle,</HI> &amp;c. printed 96, 97, 98, 99.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> an Itinerant Preacher for the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> in the Year 1700. (a very Remarkable Year for
<PB N="3" REF="2"> Wonders) from the Pulpit, &s;ends his repeated Exclamations again&s;t all Di&s;&s;enters, except the Church of <HI>Rome;</HI> which is not only a&s;toni&s;hing, but makes us believe, that the Qua|kers had good rea&s;on to Expel him their Communion; nor can we think him any other than a <HI>Tool,</HI> for no good, either to us or the Quakers.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Mr <HI>Keith,</HI> in his Book, <HI>Quakers Politicks,</HI> makes good my Jealou&s;ie of him; <Q REND="margQuotes">For doth it not, &s;aith he, p. 26. de&s;erve the &s;erious Con&s;ideration of the Civil Govern|ment, to be a Warning to them to keep a watchful Eye over the Quakers?&mdash;Again, What &s;ecurity has the Civil Government? But when they think fit, and apprehend they are moved by the Spirit &s;o to do, they may take up the Sword, con&s;idering their Numbers, Wealth and Poli|ticks; for the Pro&s;perity therefore, of the Chri&s;tian Reli|gion in the&s;e three Nations, which is in danger to be un|dermin'd, by their Crafty Politicks, if not &s;ea&s;onably pre|vented (which I de&s;ire may be done) I publi&s;h this their Politicks to the Nation.a</Q> P. 29. He goes on, <Q REND="margQuotes">And I do &s;ay, I have a good Con&s;cience, and great Peace herein, if Suf|ferings come on them, after this my Expo&s;ing them. Again, I can ju&s;tly &s;ay, neither I, nor others concerned with me, (viz. <HI>Bugg, Snake,</HI> &amp;c.) in the like oppo&s;ition again&s;t them, are chargeable with it.</Q></P>
<P>Behold here <HI>Revolution</HI> upon <HI>Revolution,</HI> and all with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> a Thou&s;and Years; as wonderful as Tran&s;migration or Tran|&s;ub&s;tantiation! not for the uncon&s;tancy of the Man, and his many Changes, Sayings for and again&s;t, and again&s;t and for; out and in, and in and out; backwards and forwards, and forwards and backwards: But in the mid&s;t, beginning and ending, he is always in the right of it! for in all the&s;e Turnings and Di&s;putings he is not <HI>Contradicting him&s;elf in <HI>any thing,</HI> Serious Appeal,</HI> p. 7. nor has he, in all, or any of the&s;e <HI>Removes, <HI>varied from one Fundamental Principle of
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y"> the Chri&s;tian Faith; nor indeed from any one Fundamental Principle,</HI></HI> 1&s;t <HI>Narrative,</HI> p. 15. For he has the only skill of any Man in this Age, to be <HI>as</HI> a Jew, but not one; to be <HI>as</HI> a Gentile, but not one; <HI>Bri&s;tol Quakeri&s;m expo&s;ed,</HI> p. 32. His de&s;ign being, as he &s;aith, to gain &s;ome; if he means Mo|ney, I believe him.</P>
<P>The <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> whil&s;t he was with them, both they, and he, hold the <HI>Fundamentals</HI> of Chri&s;tianity; yet <HI>he left</HI> them, and &s;ettled with the Quakers about 30 Years, they and he <HI>agreeing in the Fundamentals of Chri&s;tianity;</HI> for he &s;aith, He knew them 28 Years, and was in <HI>dear</HI> Unity with them; but for <HI>breaking</HI> that <HI>dear</HI> Unity, they Excom|municated him, upon which he fell in with the <HI>Turner's</HI> at their <HI>Hall;</HI> untill <HI>&s;ome</HI> con&s;idered him, and found him a fit Tool to begin this work with, upon the Quakers: Fir&s;t, as the weake&s;t part; that our Golden or Glorious Chain of Toleration might be broken; from which mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">chie|vous De&s;ign, I pray God, Deliver us. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<Q>Mon&s;trum! Horrendum, Informe, Ingens, cui <HI>Lumen ademptum!</HI></Q>
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