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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

Gross Error and Hypocrisie DETECTED IN GEORGE WHITEHEAD AND Some of his BRETHREN 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 Penn and John Whitehead Leading Men in the said Meeting wherein the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answers 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 LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1695. TO THE FRIENDLY READER THE Method I propose in this following Treatise is First To set down the said Queries mentioned in the Title-Page Next The Answers given by George Whitehead and some of his Brethren and Sign'd by them Thirdly The Answers I have faithfully and sincerely collected out of the Printed Books of George Whitehead William Penn and John Whitehead that shew the great Inconsistency and Contradiction of their present late Answer to the express Words and Sentiments of their Printed Books The which Answers will also give a farther Account of their vile and pernicious Errors opposite to some Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith And here I would have the Reader to understand That if these Men had by their late Answers contradicted their former Sayings and Sentiments from any sincere Conviction and professed Acknowledgment of the vile and gross Errors boldly asserted by them in their Printed Books I should have been so far from charging of them with Hypocrisie for their so doing that I should have commended their Ingenuity But they are so far from any such Acknowledgment that in their late Answer they referr to the Answer given by them in Publick to the Objections made against them in Publick Now it is plain that by their Answer made in Publick they mean their Answer and Doctrine Sayings and Sentiments contain'd in their Printed Books so far are they from professing or owning any real Conviction they are under of their former vile Errors Though it is not improbable that some of them and particularly George Whitehead hath some contrary Apprehensions and Sentiments in divers of these weighty Matters to what he hath formerly with great Confidence asserted in Print as not only being his own Principles but the Quakers Principles Tho' I thank God those Vile Errors asserted by him in divers of his Printed Books and particularly in that most Antichristian Book call'd The Light and Life of Christ within c. in Answer to William Burnet and which he calls the Quaker's Principles were never my Principles and in Charity I am apt to believe nor the Principles of divers others that have with me gone under that Designation But it is easie to apprehend the Reasons why on supposition that George Whitehead and some other leading Men among them have chang'd their Sentiments of latter times to what they formerly Printed yet they are not so sincere as to own it and to retract in Publick their Errors expos'd in Publick even lest such Retraction or Correction should lessen and abate their Honour and Esteem among their too credulous Followers and Admirers who without all doubt have taken things too much on Trust from them and suffer'd themselves to be too much influenc'd and led by them into the same Errors as I have found by sad Experience how too many of them are guilty of the same Errors with their Leaders And George Whitehead and some others so highly pretending to the infallible Teachings and Leadings of the Spirit both in what they have Preached and Printed they loving the Praise of Men and seeking the Honour from below Pharisee-like and not regarding the Honour of God nor the Danger of Souls by those hurtful Errors wherewith they have poisoned Thousands If they should Retract or Correct what they have formerly Printed and is on publick Record wou'd seem so greatly to reflect on them and their high Pretences that they will rather seek to uphold their Honour and Repute among their Followers than Honour God or rescue Souls out of the Snare they have brought them into by a free Acknowledgment and Retraction But until they so do they can never have any true Character among sincere intelligent Persons who are acquainted with their Books but that they are great Hypocrites And however in some things of weight it is possible that George Whitehead and some others have chang'd their Sentiments yet I have no ground or reason to think otherwise but as touching divers weighty Matters of the Christian Doctrine and Faith he and they are still under great Blindness Darkness and Error Which that they may be recover'd from and brought to a true Sense and sincere Acknowledgment of is my real and sincere Desire And though some of them and particularly George Whitehead notwithstanding his pretended Smoothness at times have utter'd not only most bitter and injurious Speeches aginst me but false and lying Prophecies with a thus faith the Lord yet I can truly say I never felt any thing either in my Mouth or Heart to rise against any of them to render them Evil for Evil Cursing for Cursing but Good for Evil Blessing for Cursing knowing that all sincere Christians are call'd not to Curse but to Bless tho' it hath been too familiar with them so to do to many others in this as in other things wresting and perverting and misapplying some places of the Holy Scripture which mentions the sharp Words and Woes that Christ and some of the Prophets and Apostles gave forth against such as deserv'd them As if because Christ and the Prophets and Apostles did so Prophesie from an infallible Knowledge that these Persons against whom they so declared were guilty and the Woes they pronounced were really Prophetical that therefore they may do the like But as the Gifts and Miracles and Tongues are not George Whiteheads attainments so nor has he any just Ground to profess such an extraordinary Spirit of Discerning and Prophesie nor any at present I know on Earth Although the infalliable Teachings and Inspirations of the Holy Spirit I own with all true sincere Christians to teach us all Truth and lead us into all Truth that concerns the Salvation of our Souls as the common and universal Privilege of all the Faithful but not that Men should lay claim to such extraordinary things which they can give no satisfactory Evidence of far less to pour out bitter Curses and Woes and Prophesies against them who have deserv'd no such things But notwithstanding his bitter Words and false Prophesies against me I have great Comfort that I feel the Blessing of God upon me and the Witness of his good Spirit in my Heart sealing to the Favour of God towards me and his favourable accepting my Service and publick Opposition to

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