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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	faith_n	object_n	1,989	5	8.3938	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

or was a Co-creator with God is to imply two Gods Thus by George Whitehead's way of Reasoning Christ was neither visible Man nor the invisible God but what else he cannot tell It is strange that he should thus Argue against Christ's being God with God when the Scripture saith expresly John 1. The Word was with God and that Word was God And Christ said he was glorify'd with God before the World was And was he not the Son of God by an Eternal Generation and yet One God with the Father If Christ had only a Father as he was Man then he was not God by Eternal Generation Query 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 Men For a Suitable Reply to this hear George Whitehead who if he hath not denied him to be Man yet whether he hath not denied him as Man without us to be the Object of our Faith let the Judicious Reader judge in his Book call'd The Light and Life c. page 61. Another while saith he People must seek their Saviour above the Clouds and Firmament contrary to the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 10. Another while they must seek to Jerusalem for Justification to the Blood that was there shed contrary to Deut. 30.13 14. and Rom. 10. And in page 45 46. he saith But if he say he hath sought Christ at such a Distance by Faith He goes on I ask if the Object or Foundation of Faith be divided from the Faith or if the living Faith doth not stand in the living Power of God And whether the Righteousness of it doth tell of seeking and finding Christ above the Clouds Stars and Firmament But why tells he so much of above the Clouds are not the Clouds and Circumference of the Heavens as well under us as above us Note It is evident here from George Whitehead's Words That to him Christ without us is not the Object of Faith and to direct Men to Christ above the Clouds is contrary to Deut. 30. and Rom. 10.6 and oft he perverteth this place of Scripture in that and other his Books and hath led many into the same gross and vile Errours with him as if it were contrary to Deut. 30. Rom. 10. to direct Men to Christ without But no such thing doth so appear either from Deut. 30. or Rom. 10.6 or from any other place of Scripture But on the contrary there is a plain Direction Rom. 9.10 to Christ without as well as in Rom. 10.7 8. to Christ within For the one doth not exclude the other and yet Christ is but One. For though we have not his Person and Body as Man within us yet as he is that Word that was with God in the beginning and is God he is in all Men. But there is a plain Direction in Rom. 10.9 10. to Christ as he rose again from the Dead and to be sure that was without us And a great stress the Scripture layeth on the true Faith and Confession of that great Truth as being a necessary Terms of Salvation If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth and believe with thine Heart that God hath raised Christ from the Dead thou shalt be saved This is more than a bare Historical Faith It must not be a Faith or a bare Notion of Faith only in the Head and Brain but it must be in the Heart and have its Root and Rise from the Word of Faith in the Heart And in Heb. 12.2 as in many other places there is a Direction to Christ without us as the Object of Faith together with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit not only as without us in Heaven but every where present as well as within us And to deny that both God and Christ consider'd as without us as well as within us is the Object of our Faith is not only great Unchristianity but worse For to deny God to be the Object of our Faith without us is as much as to say God is not without us or if he be we are not concern'd to believe it But did not Christ direct his Disciples to pray to God saying Our Father which art in Heaven and was that only within Men It is strange how he would limit and confine the Object of Faith only to God and Christ within This has given great Occasion to some to charge George Whitehead and others with Idolatry For if the God and Christ that is the Object of George Whitehead's Faith be only within and not without he has not the true God and Christ for the Object of his Faith But if this be an Inadvertency in George Whitehead he ought to correct it and remove the great Offence he hath cast in the way of many who have occasion given them by his unsound Words to think he and many of his Brethren neither worship the true God nor the true Christ who would confine the Object of Faith only to be within And for George Whitehead so to taunt William Burnet for his saying Christ is to be sought and found above the Clouds Stars and Firmament bespeaketh him that he was then at least when he so wrote too much leavened and corrupted with Ranter's Notions that held God and Christ Heaven and Hell and Devils to be no-where but within Men or at least as some of 'em held That God is no-where to be minded but as within For though no Man can have a true and saving Knowledge of God and true and saving Faith in him but as it is wrought in him by the Spirit of God within yet that true Faith and Knowledge respects him as Omnipresent as well as Omniscient and Omnipotent and in his other infinite Perfections And it is a miserable wresting and perverting of that place Rom. 10 as if Christ were not as really to be minded as an Object of our Faith in Heaven without us as within us whereas it is plain that place is to be understood of Christ's Body So that we are not to say Who shall bring it down to us from Heaven and the Jews were not to expect that Christ in Moses's time nor long after should come down from Heaven to assume and take a Body until the fulness of Time And now that Christ's Body is ascended that we are not to say Who shall bring him down to us in that Body But this doth not hinder that by Faith and Meditation we should respect him now in Heaven as the real Object of our Faith Love and Obedience or that we should not in Faith hope for his real Coming again in his Glorify'd Body in the time appointed And his Philosophy wherein he would seem to be some Body is false and vain in taking William Burnet to Task for telling of Christ so much above the Clouds and querying Are not the Clouds and Circumference of the Heavens as well under us as above us I say to speak properly according to the best Rule of