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A47149	Gross error and hypocrisie detected in George Whitehead and some of his brethern as doth appear from the disingenuous and hypocritical answer he and some others have given to some queries sent to the last Yearly Meeting of the people call'd Quakers, in the third month, 1695, by comparing the said answer with the printed books of the said George Whitehead, William Pemn, and John Whitehead, leading men in the said Meeting, wherein the great inconistency and contradiction of their present late answer to the express words and sentiments of their printed books is discovered : with a further account of their vile and pernicious errours / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.; Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing K172; ESTC R3387	26,885	44

those vile Errors that not only too many in America did hold but George Whitehead and other leading Men among the People call'd Quakers here in England are as much guilty of and which by their unsound and hurtful Books they have led them in America and many others elsewhere into And here in the Close of this Preface and Introduction I think fit to add that which commonly goeth for George Whitehead's Curse he sent to me in Writing the same Day Month he and others gave out their False and Vnjust Sentence of Excommunication against me which by his means was gone abroad and was clandestinely handed about against me before I gave forth any Copy of it to any And let the Spiritual Reader that hath Salt in himself to savour withal savour and judge whether this his Prophesie or Curse as it may be called hath not come from a malicious Spirit full of Wrath and Enmity and doth not greatly bewray and discover his great Hypocrisie as well as Malice in charging me so much as he and they have in their Bull of Excommunication with bitter Expressions while he is so extremely Guilty himself persisting in his old way he hath used against some others that differed from him in other Matters calling them incarnate Devils Wolfs Dogs c. But I am sure neither he nor any can give any such Instance of my bitterness as he hath done in this his pretended Prophesie wherein I do really judge him as false a Prophet as Zedekiah was and they may be ashamed and he in particular to give these odious and uncharitable Names to many others having better Works and Fruits of Christianity than themselves of Baal's Prophets while several of themselves do more deserve such Designations The false Prophesie or Curse thus followeth And thus saith the Lord Because thou hast poured out great Contempt Scorn and Reproach upon my Servants and People I will assuredly pour out and bring great Contempt and Confusion upon thee Signed Geo. Whitehead TO THE QUAKERS Assembl'd in their YEARLY MEETING at LONDON this Whitsun-Week 1695. GReat Objections have been made against you in many Books which of late Years have been wrote as well by those who have departed from your Communion as by others But because we wou'd not willingly take an Account of you only from your Adversaries no nor yet the Advantage which may be had from some of your own Apologists We have chosen this Solemn Time of your most General Assembly that you have in the World when there came of your Number out of all Parts where any of your Profession live even as far as from the West-Indies on purpose to attend this your Yearly Meeting at London we have chosen this most proper and convenient Opportunity for you to vindicate and clear your selves and to give satisfaction to the World particularly to the Church of England as to these great and grievous Objections which are made against you It is said of you That as Hymeneus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2.18 did construe the Resurrection Spiritually saying that it was perform'd Inwardly within us in our Souls and so avoided the Literal and Outward Resurrection of the Body which the Scripture calls overthrowing the Faith so that you do construe the Resurrection in the same Spiritual Manner To be the rising again of Christ or the Light in our Hearts and consequently that the Saints generally have attain'd the Resurrection already and that there will be no Resurrection of these our Bodies after they lie down in the Dust And not only this But that you construe likewise those Scriptures which testifie of our Lord Jesus Christ in this Allegorical manner to mean no more than what you call the Light within and that this Christ or Light is Born and Crucified Died is Buried Rises again Ascends and is Glorify'd within you that it sheds its Blood within you and thereby quenches the Wrath of God in you as your Sacrifice or Propitiation and that Christ has now no other Blood or Body than what he has within his Saint or others than he had with his Father before the World began That the outward Blood of that Man Jesus which was shed at Jerusalem was not the Propitiation or any Satisfaction to the Justice of God for our Sin But only the Spiritual Blood shed inwardly within us And by these means when you are ask'd Whether you believe in Christ that he Dy'd for our Sins Rose again and Ascended That by his Blood we are sav'd c. You can answer Yea That you believe all this and yet mean it all in an Inward and Allegorical Sence that is The Blood shed within you the Light or Christ suffering within you c. and thereby deceive others and your selves and keep your Meaning hidden and double that the Truth of what you hold may not be known which if in plain Terms told and asserted wou'd grate all Christian Ears and shew you to be those miserable Heraticks before-told who brought in Damnable Doctrines denying the Lord who bought them Therefore that you may clear your selves from this grievous Charge you are desir'd to give a plain positive and direct Answer to these following Queries Your Reasons or Explanations are not requir'd this not being intended for a Dispute but only your plain Yea and Nay to each of these Queries that your Doctrine and Faith may be known I. Do you believe in a Christ without you now in Heaven II. Hath he now in Heaven the same Body tho' now chang'd in Qualities and Glorify'd which he assum'd in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin in which he Suffer'd Dy'd was Bury'd Rose again and Ascended outwardly III. Will he return in the same Body outwardly or without Men to judge the World in the last Day IV. Will our dead Bodies then arise The same Bodies in Substance tho' alter'd in Qualities and Properties which we now have and shall lie down in the Dust Or do you believe an Outward or Literal Resurrection to come contrary to Hymeneus and Philetus Do you believe that the Saints generally or any of them have already attain'd the Resurrection either before or since Christ came into the World V. Do you believe that Christ or the Eternal Word was so made Flesh as that he truly and really became a Man as truly Man as he was God and not only as the Socinians say That he dwelt in or did inhabit the Person of that Man Jesus Christ as a Garment or a Veil as he dwells in or inspires other Holy Persons tho not in so high a degree or as Angels assume Bodies like Men wherein they appear without taking them into their own Nature or thereby becoming Men. VI. Is Christ now at this Day and for ever to come truly and really a Man in true and proper Humane Nature without all other Men VII Was his outward Blood outwardly shed at Jerusalem the true Propitiation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the World And is Faith in

that Outward Blood so outwardly shed as the Payment of our Debt and Satisfaction for our Sins is this the true saving Faith Was not his outward Blood that Blood without sheding of which there cou'd be no Remission Heb. 9.22 But if your Mystical and Allegorical Notion of Inward and Spiritual Blood that is Only Light and Spirit within may be constru'd to be that Blood and that it is shed inwardly at this Day when as you say in the above Queries that he has no outward Blood then it might have been shed before Christ came in the Flesh or if he had never come And so renders his coming unnecessary and our Faith in him as come in the Flesh to be altogether vain These Questions may be propos'd to the Assembly and their Answer demanded W. Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London May 15. 1695. Return your Answer to Dr. Lancaster at Mr. Wiseman ' s House a Chirurgeon in Long-Acre London 3. Day 4. Month call'd June 1695. Friend William Lancaster HAving received a Paper of great Objections against Us the People call'd Quakers with Seven Queries therein subscrib'd William Lancaster directed to our Yearly Meeting in Whitsun-Week 1695. and deliver'd to some of Us very near the Conclusion thereof and therefore only read in the said Meeting which not having any further Time to consider the Contents thereof or to give any particular Answer thereunto it was by the said Meeting left to a few to consider and answer as in the Fear of God and Meekness of Wisdom we should see Cause Wherein we observe is noted Great Objections have been made against Vs by those who have departed from our Communion as by others To which we reply That 's True and they have been answer'd to which we referr And we observe in the said Paper it 's said We would not take an Account of you only from your Adversaries c. and We have chosen this Solemn Time and again And We have chosen this most proper and convenient Opportunity c. And then states the several Queries and says These Questions may be propos'd and their Answer demanded Now the Objections having been publick and our Answers publick we desire to know who the Wee are that are intended in this Paper that we may apply our selves to them or give such Scriptural Answers as we hope may tend to Satisfaction But to repeat Answers in Writing or Print to we know not who so often as demanded to the same things already answer'd we think it not needful Therefore have herewith only sent thee a few brief Lines being grosly wrong'd and mis-represented in the said Objections And divers of the Queries contain several Questions in them in different Terms and some Unscriptural so not plain and direct Queries therefore cannot positively be answer'd by our single Yea or Nay to each Query as desir'd We therefore at present send this general Answer to the Queries for thy Information as followeth viz. We sincerely believe and profess Jesus Christ and the Resurrection according to the Holy Scripture-Testimony and to that measure of Understanding which God hath been pleased to give us by his Holy Spirit We sincerely believe in Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of the Living God both as He is True God and Perfect Man our Emanuel and Mediatour and as in the Fulness of Time he was Conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judaea Suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was Crucify'd and put to Death was Buried Rose again the third day and visibly Ascended into Heaven and was received into Glory and that this same Jesus Christ that was crucify'd shall so in like manner come as he was seen to go into Heaven in Power and great Glory to judge both the Living and the Dead according to their Works at the last and great Day of Judgment in that great Harvest which is the End of the World And that by Jesus Christ there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead both of the Just and Unjust unto the Righteous Judgment of the great Day consequently That the Resurrection is not past as Hymeneus and Philetus said 2 Tim. 2.18 And that the Dead shall be rais'd Incorruptible every Man in his own Order and that our low Body shall be chang'd and made like unto Christ's glorious Body The Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints we believe shall be Spiritual and Glorious and that the Sons of God and of the Resurrection shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven and shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father and yet there is such a great Mystery in the Resurrection as that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption 1 Cor. 15. The whole Sacrifice of Christ whereof his Blood outwardly that was shed was a Part was of great Price with God for Man's Redemption Christ's Blood that was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem together with the whole Sacrifice of Himself both of Soul and Body was a true Propitiation and Atonement for Man's Reconciliation and Peace with God for Remission of Sins through a living Faith and true Repentance in his Name given and wronght by his Spirit and Word of Power in Mens Hearts whose sincere Obedience to Christ and walking in his Light being required of them in order to experience Christ the Author of their Eternal Salvation and to wash them from their Sins in his own Blood for without this true Faith Repentance and Obedience to Christ Jesus Men lose and forfeit the great Benefit of Christ's Sufferings and deprive themselves of that Eternal Redemption and Salvation which he hath thereby obtained for Us tho' he dy'd for all Men tasted Death for every Man and gave himself a Ransom for all to be testify'd of in due Time being a true Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World From thy Friends and Well-Wishers John Gratton Samuel Wattson Thomas Lower James Parke John Bowater Geo. Whitehead John Vaughton A True Copy THE SEVEN QUERIES Delivered to the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers met at Grace-Church-Street Meeting-House the 15th Day of the third Month 1695. Signed by William Lancaster with these Words prefix'd to his Signing These Queries may be proposed to the Assembly and their Answer demanded by William Lancaster Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London Answered plainly and directly out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead and William Pen. Query I. DO you believe in Christ without you now in Heaven Answer To this G. Whitehead's Words in his Answer to William Burnet in his Book called The Light and Life of Christ within c. Printed at London in the Year 1668. may be a proper Reply to signifie his Perswasion touching this weighty Question I shall first recite the Words of William Burnet as I find them quoted by Geo. Whitehead in the 38 th page of his Book The Light and Life of Christ within Baptist Now the

either Philosophy or Divinity or Astronomy the other Hemisphere of the visible Firmament is not under us but above Above hath relation to the Earth as the Centre and so whatever is remote from the Earth more or less whether in this or the other Hemisphere of the Heavens is above And the Scripture also teacheth us this Language Exod. 20.4 Query VII Was his outward Blood outwardly shed at Jerusalem the true Propitiation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the World and is Faith in that Blood c To this Query we have full and plain Answers from George Whitehead and William Penn out of their Printed Books sufficient to shew their Unbelief and Antichristian Doctrine directly contradicting the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures in this great Fundamental Article Let us first hear George Whitehead in his Book call'd The Light and Life c. It is confessed saith he page 56. That God by his own Blood purchas'd to himself a Church Acts 20. Now the Blood of God or that Blood that relates to God must needs be Spiritual he being a Spirit And the Covenant of God is Inward and Spiritual and so is the Blood of it George Whitehead page 56. The Light and Life of Christ within and page 55. Where do the Scriptures use those Expressions and so much vary about the Blood of Christ as one while to say that the shedding of that Blood Outwardly was the meritorious Cause of Salvation Another while the Word shedding to be left out and the stress laid only upon that Blood it-self which the Soldier shed or let out of his Side with a Spear which was after he was put to Death And page 59. of the same To say that Material Blood viz. of the Sacrifices under the Law was a Type of that which was Material viz. the Visible and Material Blood of Christ shed upon the Cross This is to give the Substance no Preheminence above the Type especially if neither of them be Mystical nor in Being or like as if one should say one Type was a Type of another and page 38. of that same Book And where do the Scriptures say the Blood was there shed for Justification and that Men must be directed to Jerusalem to it when as that Blood shed is not in Being citing page 40 viz. of William Burnet's Book And whereas William Burnet had said in his Book as cited by George Whitehead The Blood shed upon the Cross the Material Blood meritorious to Salvation sprinkles the Conscience Sanctifies us Justifies Redeems George Whitehead answereth in these express Words following Observe here a twofold stress is laid upon that Blood First Merit to Salvation Second Works of Sanctification and so he hath set it up above God for God could not save he saith and yet is not in Being gross Absurdity whereas Sanctification being a real Work inward that is certainly in Being which Effects it Note Here it is plain that George Whitehead doth altogether deny Justification by that Outward Blood or that it was the meritorious Cause of Salvation And in this he agreeth with William Penn that saith One outward Thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the way of Holy Scripture so to teach us The Outward Lamb sheweth forth the Inward Lamb. page 97. of William Penn's part of the Christian Quaker And thus by his Doctrine the Priests or High-Priests under the Law were no Type of Christ without and we have no High-Priest without us in any Heavens without us And that most Holy Place made without Hands into which the Man Christ is enter'd that was signified by the High-Priest going once every Year into the most Holy Place made with Hands is not any Place without us The Body that Christ offer'd on the Cross no more than the Blood was no real Sacrifice without us that made any real Atonement But that only Sacrifice and Blood that makes the Atonement is the Body and Blood of Christ within Note again But why should there be any Sacrifice or Atonement made by Christ within to make Mens Peace with God or satisfie Divine Justice according to the Doctrine both of William Penn and George Whitehead more than without It is altogether vain and superfluous First let us hear William Penn's Reason against Railing page 91. And forgive us our Debts as we forgive our Debtors where saith he nothing can be more obvious than that which is forgiven is not paid And if it is our Duty to forgive without a Satisfaction received and that God is to forgive us as we forgive them then is a Satisfaction totally excluded Mark these Words they deserve to be put in Capital Letters But if a Satisfaction be totally excluded then there is no Satisfacton made by Christ within more than by Christ without by his Doctrine And again Let us hear George Whitehead page 51. The Light and Life of Christ within Is it good Doctrine to say that God pacify'd God when he saw himself angry For says the Baptist it was God-Man that did it c. But tho' George Whitehead finds fault with the Expression God-Man as not being Scripture yet Edward Burroughs owneth it saying page 138. in his Collection We prize the Lord Jesus Christ God-Man to be precious unto us And if George Whitehead say by God-Man Edward Burroughs meaneth not Christ without but Christ within as I will not contradict that to be his meaning for he blameth John Buni●n for saying The Spirit of Christ leadeth to Christ without and saith it is contrary to Rom. 10.6 7 8. and asketh his Reader whether this be not near to Popery p. 306. But allowing that by Christ God-Man Edward Burroughs meant only Christ within Where doth George Whitehead find such an Expression in Scripture for Christ his being God-Man within but not God-Man without And seeing according both to William Penn and George Whitehead no Satisfaction is needful to satisfie God for the Debt of Men's Sins for that would hinder free Forgiveness Why do they both justifie William Smith's Saying Christ in us offereth himself a living Sacrifice to God for us by which the Wrath of God is appeased to us See George Whitehead page 44. The Light and Life of Christ within and William Penn's Rejoinder to John Faldo page 284. where he not only justifieth William Smith's Words but laboureth to confirm them saying That Christ offers himself in his Children in the Nature of a Mediating Sacrifice But here it is fit to ask William Penn some Questions If Satisfaction be totally excluded because a Sin or Debt cannot be both paid or forgiven what need is there of a Mediating Sacrifice of Christ within Men more than without them Secondly Seeing it is the Nature of all Sacrifices for Sin that they be slain and their Blood shed how is Christ slain in his Children and when for we read in Scripture that Christ liveth in the Faithful as he did in Paul but not that he is slain in them Thirdly If any slay the Life of Christ in them by their Sins doth

proper to meddle with his said Book in this Treatise farther than to show briefly in a few Lines two or three silly Juggles which Thomas Elwood useth to cloak and excuse some of his guilty Brethren The first is in page 108. of his late Book call'd Truth defended where to excuse and cloak George Whitehead's most unsound and impious Doctrine saying The Quakers see no need of directing Men to the Type for the Antitype viz. neither to the outward Temple nor yet to Jerusalem either to Jesus Christ or his Blood He alledgeth it should have been printed either for Jesus Christ or his Blood the Word to there next before Jesus Christ being through mistake set instead of for which it should have been and in the Book he saith which he hath he finds it hath been so amended with a Pen and the former part of the Answer shews it should have been so But that this is a dull and silly Juggle is easie to perceive for first whereas he saith the Word to was through Mistake set instead of for Who hath told him this If George Whitehead why did he not Name him for he was the only proper Person to tell him this being the Author of these Words and every Man is the best Corrector of his own Words Secondly Who mended it in the Book he hath and when was it amended Thirdly Why was not this Amendment made in all the other Books or Copies as well as that one And how is it that after Sixteen Years the Book hath been in print we never heard of such Amendment till now And why was it not put in the Book as an Errour of the Press seeing many less Errours are usually corrected But Fourthly Seeing not only we find the same Expression elsewhere in that Book but that it is a principal part of the Design of that whole Book to take off People from looking to Jesus Christ without as be suffer'd at Jerusalem or to his Blood as it was shed there for Justification as any will perceive that either seriously considers the Book it-self or the Passages cited out of it it is manifest it was no Mistake or Errour of the Press Now that the same Expression is elsewhere in that Book see page 61. where he blames William Burnet's Doctrine in these Words Another while People must seek their Saviour above the Clouds and Firmament page 33. contrary to the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 10.6 Another while they must look to Jerusalem for Justification to the Blood that was there shed page 24. contrary saith he to Deut. 30.13 14. and Rom. 10. Note how he useth the Word to here and in the same sence as in page 38. And why did not Thomas Elwood tell us that place was also mended in his Book And Fifthly The Amendment made by him helps not the Matter the Word to and for in this respect and case having one signification For to all true Christian Ears it is as offensive to say We are not to be directed to Jerusalem the place where Christ suffer'd for Jesus Christ or his Blood as to say to Jesus Christ and his Blood for all true Christians by Faith and pious Meditations though not by the Bodily Eye which was not intended by William Burnet are directed to look as well for Jesus Christ as to him as he suffer'd at Jerusalem for their Sins that God might pardon them upon sincere Repentance and Faith in Christ And though the Temple at Jerusalem was a Type of Christ's Body yet I no where find either in Scripture or in any approved Author that Jerusalem was a Type of Christ but it was the place whereabout he suffer'd and where he was sentenc'd to Die which is a weighty Circumstance necessary to be believ'd by them to whom it is preached viz. That Christ suffer'd for our sins without the Gates of Jerusalem And though the Types are not to be practised as some of the People call'd Quakers have in their Declarations showed how some of the Types pointed at the Spirit 's Teachings and inward Operations and in that respect directed to the Type for the Antitype why also may not and ought not the like Directions or Instructions be used to show how the Types pointed to Christ without us well as some of 'em pointed to the Spirit of Christ within and to his inward Operations A Second dull and silly Juggle of Thomas Elwood and of George Whitehead also is in their excusing Solomon Eccle's Blasphemy in saying The Blood that was forc'd out of Christ's Side by the Spear c. was no more than the Blood of another Saint which they both seek to excuse and whose Excuses I have shewn to be deceitful and may further show And to blind and hoodwink the Reader they bring some of Solomon Eccle's Words wherein they say he did speak highly of the Blood of Christ and new Covenant as more excellent and Living and Holy and Precious than is able to be utterred c. and this saith George Whitehead might have satisfied any Spiritual or unbyassed Mind But that this is thick and palpable Deceit in George Whitehead first and next in Thomas Elwood is plain because in that very letter of Solomon Eccle's cited by George Whitehead Solomon Eccles maketh a distinction of Blood and so doth George Whitehead calling the Blood of the new Covenant inward and Solomon Eccles expresly denieth that Blood that came out of Christ's Body after he was dead to be the Blood of the New Covenant So when he affirmeth the Blood of Christ to be more excellent c. he tells plainly his meaning that it was not that Blood that came out of his Side after he was dead so this thick and palpable Deceit of both is discovered And what a poor and silly Off-come makes he to excuse that most unchristian Saying of William Penn viz. This Seed must be inward and Spiritual since one outward Thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the Way of Holy Scripture so to teach us The Outward Lamb shews forth the Inward Lamb And whereas in Answer to this I said If this be not a plain Denyal of Christ to be any outward Being having any Bodily Existence without us I know no English All his Answer I can find to this is a silly Joke saying For a Scotchman not to know English is not so great a Wonder as it would have been if he had said he knew no Scottish But until he give a better Answer it remains as a great Reflection he casts on the English That the outward Types of the Law 〈◊〉 the Sacrifices and Pascal Lamb were not Types of Christ without but of the Lamb within which I am sure is not true Doctrine neither English nor Scottish FINIS * Which he saith is in love to my poor Soul But whether such Cursing proceeds from true Love let the Intelligent judge * See his Book call'd Christ Ascended above the Clouds pag. 21.24 * As he calls it in Answer to John Faldo