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A47142	George Keith's explications of divers passages contained in his former books as also his free and open retractations of sundry other passages contained in the same, which may at present suffice for a reply to the late, as well as former books of Tho. Elwood, and John Penington, published against me, in respect of the most material things.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing K163; ESTC R18950	49,736	50

called Mary really and truly according to the flesh And his Birth thus after the flesh as he was born of the Virgin at Bethlem in Judea I did always believe as I do at present so believe was really intended and foretold in these words Gen. 3. 15. And as Mary was the immediate Mother of Christ according to the flesh so Evah who was the Mother of all Men was his Mother remotely But the Allegorical sense of Christ's Birth or Formation in the Saints is warranted both by Scripture and Antiquity By Scripture as Mat 12. 50. Rev. 12. 2. 5. And by Antiquity for Augustin first and long after him Erasmus said If Mary had not born Christ in her heart or soul he could not have been her Saviour tho she had born him in her flesh But this Allegorical Allusion of Christ's Birth in the Saints I did not ground on Gen. 3. 15. but on Mat. 12. 50. and Rev. 12. 1 5. And how and in what sense I understand the Birth of Christ in the Saints I refer to the 4th Paragraph of this Section XX. Page 254. And this is as proper a Death as when a man dieth for when a man dieth his soul dieth not in it self but it dieth unto that Fellowship it had with the body by reason of the Vital Union betwixt it and the body being broken Here Note I acknowledge this passage is not safely worded therefore I retract it For tho I had very safely asserted That the Life af Christ viz. The Principle of the Divine Life in men never dieth in it self but only as to men when they commit great and heinous sins whereby they are said to quench the spirit and crucifie the Son of God afresh to themselves after they had known a divine quickening yet the Union betwixt the soul and body of a man being broken is more properly a Death the other I take to be understood rather figuratively than proper For when the Vital Union betwixt Soul and Body is broken the Soul doth wholly cease to act in that body while it is dead But Christ ceaseth not oft times to act in a dead soul but doth oft act in it by sharp Reproof and Conviction for its sin and also by new and fresh Visitations of his Life and Love in order to quicken and renew it again Moreover the Soul and Body of a Man are so united that they make up one Person but so are not Christ and the Soul united as to be one Person for that would make every Saint to be Christ The Union betwixt the Soul and Body of a Man is a Personal Union whereby every Action of the body is chargable upon the Person according to that true Maxim Actiones sunt suppositorum i. e. Actions are of Persons as what the hand doth the Man whose hand it is is justly said to do it whether Good or Evil. But the Actions of Mens Souls in whom Christ is are not chargeable upon Christ for as Christ is no wise chargeable with the least Sin that the Soul Acteth so when the Soul repenteth and believeth c. That is not Christ that repenteth and believeth in that Soul Christ indeed is the Author and chief efficient cause of true Repentance and Faith in believers but he is not the subject of reception This excellent Union betwixt Christ and true Believers is compared in Scripture to that Union betwixt the Head and the Body the Vine and the Branches the Foundation and the Building but it is better felt by the Faithful than it can be defined by the best of words for it is unspeakable and yet is incomparably short of that Union that is betwixt the Godhead and Manhood of Christ which is a Personal Union So that the Man Christ is God yet so that the Manhood is not the Godhead And the Union betwixt Christ and Believers is by their Faith in him and Love to him by which Faith and Love as they are United to his Spirit and Measure of his Life and Grace in them so thereby they are United to the Man Christ in Heaven and to that fullness of Grace that dwells in him as every Member of the Body as it is United to the Life in that Member so it is to the Head and to the Life that is in the Head and as all the Members in the Natural Body are United both to the head and to each other so all the faithful are United to Christ and to one another The Reader that is willing to know my sense further as to these weighty matters above-mentioned relating to Christs Birth or Formation in the Saints and their Union with him may read if they please my Appendix to the General History of the Quakers by G. Croese Printed at London this present Year 1696. SECT II. Containg diverse Explanations and Emendations of Passages in my Book called The Universal free Grace of the Gospel Asserted Printed 1671. TItle Pag. Proved by many infallible Arguments in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit of Truth Here Note That I had the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit of Truth on my side in diverse of the Arguments I have used in that Book I still believe but whereas on a further consideration and more mature Judgment I find diverse Passages in that Book that need correction therefore I Acknowledge my Weakness and Rashness in ascribing all the Arguments in that Book and my whole way of Arguing on that subject to the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit of Truth and I freely and most willingly retract that clause both here or any where else in any of my Books where I have used it so far 〈…〉 have ascribed any saying or Passage to the Spirit of 〈…〉 that is not according to the Testimony of the Holy 〈…〉 the Spirit of Truth leads into all Truth and into 〈◊〉 but Truth therefore whoever ascribes whether I or any Man else any untruth or Inpertinency or undue Application of Scripture to the Spirit of Truth however unwittingly they so do as what I did was unwittingly they do greatly Err and Sin in so doing And my sin and error herein I freely confess trusting in the Mercy of God for Christs sake for the pardon of that and all my other Sins I. Pag. 4. That God by an Eternal decree hath wholly passed by the most part of Men and left them in Darkness without any Light to shine in their Darkness that can possibly at any time Lead them out of it Doth not this discourage People Here Note That it is this which I mainly opposed in my Book Viz. The decree of absolute reprobation making salvation impossible to the greatest part of Mankind And on the other hand I earnestly plead for the Universality of the Light Word Grace and Spirit of God towards and upon all In a day of Visitation for making salvation possible unto them compared with p. 110. And in this Testimony I remain against that absurd Doctrine of absolute

Math Mark Luke and John the Gospel while they understand it not strictly and barely nor primarily but figuratively by way of Metonimy we should not contend with them as neither in their calling the Scriptures the word of God providing they call it not the only word of God as in opposition to any internal word and teaching of God in Mens hearts And certainly it has been not only an unprofitable but an hurtful and groundless Contention that many called Quakers have raised in denying that the Scriptures should be called the word of God or so much as the written word Clamouring unjustly where do ye read in Scripture of a VVritten word and to call the Scripture words which are many the word say they is a Lie or Nonsense But in Answere we read expressly that a sentence out of one of the Psalms of David recited by our Saviour John 15. 25. They hated me without a cause is called by him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The written word nor is it a Lye to call many words the word as it is not a Lye to call many Letters the Letter as the Scripture calleth it and so high did this Groundless contention arise betwixt some called Quakers and other professions that they made this one of the Causes why they did separate from them because they called the Scriptures the word of God and Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel whereas themselves commonly call the Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John the Acts with the other following Books and Epistles of the Apostles the New Testament For with such Figurative Speeches the Scripture aboundeth and to charge them to be a Lye or Nonsense is to charge a Lye or Nonsense upon Christ and the Holy Spirit But in a late Book Stiled the Quakers cleared c. By B. Coole given out by approbation of the second days Meeting of them called Quakers at Grace-Church-street they say as they viz. the Scriptures declare the mind of God with respect to us and are his Commands to us they may in that respect be called the word or Command of God and so the Quakers own and esteem them And so indeed do all other Professions in Christendom and not otherwise X. Pag. 64. We are not those Prophets Here Note it is a Typographical Error which should be Corrected thus we are not that Prophet And not only in this but in many or most of my former Books diverse Typographical Errors are to be found which yet are obvious enough to the judicious and unprejudiced Reader to be such as indeed are to be found in most Books and it is very unfairly done by my late Adversaries to charge me with such Typographical Errors as if they were mine as on the other hand to make that a Typographical Error in some of their own Books which is plainly obvious to be no such thing XI Pag. 74. Now the Bowels of the Fathers love stirred in Compassion to the work of his hands that of the pure Creation in Man which tho shut up in Death yet it remained and perished not as to its being it did not become a nothing but remained a being and this is the lost which God sent his Son into the World to seek and to save not to seek and to save the Old Adam that Birth of the Serpents begetting but to destroy it For it is not capable of Gods salvation Here Note that I said that which Christ came to save is the work of Gods hands that of the pure Creation in Man to wit the Soul of Man that is a Created being and that I called it That of the pure Creation I did not mean that it had not been defiled by Sin but because of its great worth in respect of its Original and Primitive State and its near capacity to be Cleansed and Purified And this is said not only agreeable to mystick Writers that have distinguished betwixt the Soul of Man and the impurity of the Serpent or Serpentine Seed and spawn that became mingled with the Soul of Man by Transgression and have called the true Soul of Man the nucleus i. e. The kernel but that of the Serpent or of the Devil in Man since the entrance of Sin the Cortex and Putamen i. e. the Shell and Husk and the Impurity of Belial but also in agreement with the Holy Scripture that plainly distinguisheth betwixt the Wheat and the Tares the good and the bad Seed good and bad Fish the Silver and the Dross the Sheep with other clean Animals that the Scripture calleth clean and Dogs Swine and other unclean Animals And as a Sheep how much soever defiled with dirt is called a clean Animal and a Dog or Swine how much soever washed is called an unclean Animal so the distinction holds good in a Mystical and Allegorial sense betwixt the true Soul of Man that may be said to be pure Comparatively tho defiled in respect of the Serpent impurity that cleaves to it the which when separated from it the Soul is simply and compleatly pure and after this manner the People of Israel in respect of the Heathen Nations are called in Scripture the Holy Seed tho even then they had great defilements also tho the Nations before Christs passion were called unclean yet afterwards by virtue of his Passion they are forbidden to be called common or unclean as the Lord said to Peter in the Vision Acts 11. VVhat Gods hath cleansed Note cleansed call not thou common This was only comparatively And briefly all Souls of Men that belong to Gods Election and shall be saved are called in Scripture the Good Seed the VVheat c. But these that shall not be saved are called the bad Seed the Chaff Tares Dross XII Pag. 75. That which Christ came to save is that of God which proceeded from him The Seed of God in Man the Seed of Abraham whereof Abrahams old decayed Body and Sarahs Barren womb was a Type Here Note that I call the elected Souls of Men that shall be saved and belong to Gods Election the Seed of God is to be understood only in a secondary sense according to diverse places of Scripture as Isaiah 53. 10. and 59. 21. and Rom. 4. 16. and 9. 8. Mal. 2. 15. The Hebrew hath it Seed of God See the Margin and that I call it the Seed of Abraham is only by an Allegorical Allusion to the Spiritual and Divine Birth in the Faithful signified by Isaac the Son of the free Woman which Allegorical Allusions is grounded on Gal. 4. 24. But this was never intended by me to lessen or obscure that great Truth of the Gospel That the Man-Christ is the promised Seed of Abraham in the true literal sense and without all Allegory as he was Born of the Blessed Virgin In whom all Nations of the Earth are Blessed And that promised Seed of the VVoman that should bruise the Head of the Serpent XIII Pag. 87. Through him viz. Christ not at a distance

but near Here Note my sense was not at a discontinued distance but both near and far off both within us and also without us in the Heavens as where it is said Acts 17. 27. That God is not far from every one of us viz. at a discontinued distance for otherwise he is both a God a far off and a God nigh at hand And pag. 88 While I remained Ignorant of the Appearance of Jesus Christ to meditate in me it is a Typographical Error read to mediate in one Here Note That I did not intend in the least by asserting the Mediation or Intercession of the Mediatory Spirit of Christ in the Saints according to Rom. 8. 26. to deny or derogate from Christ's Mediation and Intercession without us in Heaven XIV Page 99 Jesus Christ revealed in Man is the Foundation of the True Church Here Note That I did not mean by Christ Jesus only and alone the Light within but my sense was That the true Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he is both God and Man and who as Man died for our sins rose again and ascended into Heaven and is our High Priest Mediator and Advocate with the Father in Heaven is grounded upon him as inwardly revealed by his Spirit and Light in our Hearts which was my Design chiefly in this Treatise and how much and how far I did then own the Man Christ Jesus without us in Heaven as our Head and Foundation and Object of our Faith I recommend to the Reader to read what I have writ in this same book of Immed Revel from page 243 to page 247. where note that particular passage page 245. where I say The Man Christ Jesus who suffered in the Flesh at Jerusalem above sixteen hundred years ago is the Spring out of which all the streams of Living VVater flow into our souls And the Sun out of which and from which all the Light we have shineth into our souls in whom the fullness of the Godhead dwelleth and through whom God doth communicate unto us every good and perfect Gift And page 247. I say All our Prayers and Breathings and Crys in the spirit and Life of Jesus in us do immediately reach unto the Man Jesus ascended unto Glory and he is touched with them And through the Man Jesus help doth come down unto us from the Father of Lights And all our Refreshments Quicknings Consolations and Renewings of Life and strength come unto us from God through him in whom we have favour with God in whom God is well pleased with us And a few Lines after I say In whom we believe as we do in God as he himself hath taught us Ye believe in God said he believe also in me In whom believing we also call upon him even Jesus who as concerning the flesh was crucified who is God over all blessed for ever And lest any should surmise That by Christ Jesus in all this large Citation I did mean the Light within only and not the Man Christ Jesus without us I expresly mention the Man Christ Jesus without us page 246. who is ascended into the Heavens with whom we have immediate Fellowship and Union through the measure of the Life of Jesus as Man made manifest in us Which is abundantly sufficient to discover the Impudence of my late Adversaries who by perverting my words assert That I made the Light within the alone Object of Faith which I never did altho I grant That with all True Christians I hold That as God who is Light is every where present so in a special way of Presence he is together with his Word and Spirit in the Saints and as so present is the Object of their Faith yet so as that Christ Jesus as he is both God and Man is also the Object thereof XV. Page 123. and Luke 15. 8 9. He compareth it to a Woman having lost a peice of money c. Here Note This I freely confess is one of these places of Scripture that I have through weakness of understanding misunderstood and unduely applyed to prove a truth for whereas I have with others among the People called Quakers construed the lost Piece of Money mentioned in this place to be the Light within being too much swayed by their Authority I am sufficiently convinced by the lost peice of money in this Parable of our Saviour he did not mean the Light within but the lost Souls of Men whom he came to seek and to save and I plainly now understand that by the lost Sheep the lost peice of Money and the lost Son is understood Men or the lost Souls of Men who when they have sincerely repented and are Converted unto God are said to be found therefore that the Repenting Sinner is the lost peice of Money is clear from our Saviour's Words v. 10. Likewise I say unto you there is Joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner that repenteth But they who expound the lost peice of money to be the Light within will find difficulty to show what the Nine Pieces are that were not lost Whereas to understand it of the Souls of Men there is no difficulty in it for as of these many created Angelical rational Spirits many did not Sin and so were not lost so the Souls of Men did Sin and these are fully signified by the lost piece of Money yet although by the Light within is not to be understood the lost piece of Money but the Soul of Man the Light within is very well proved from that part of the Parable which saith that the Woman Lighted her Candle to seek the lost piece of Money which plainly signifieth That the way that the Lord useth to find the lost Soul is by Lighting a Candle in it and Inwardly enlightning it to see its lost condition and how it may return to God by sincere Faith and Repentance And tho it is not the intended sense of this place of Scripture that the Light within i● the lost peice of Money but the Soul of Man is that lost peice ye it may well be allowed to be a Truth That as God and Christ ●ad lost the Soul of Man so that Soul had lost God and Christ and the loss was mutual and the finding is also mutual as soon as God and Christ findeth the lost Soul that Soul formerly lost finden God and Christ and greatly rejoyceth on that Account I find the same mistake happened to Origen in his expounding this Parable of the lost piece of Money to signify The Kingdon of God within the Image of the Heavenly King Hom 13. in Genesin Again whereas I said pag. 125. So all his Ministers ever Preached People to this the lost in them that it might be found That they may find a lost God a lost Christ whom they had lost and from whom they were seperated by their Sins Tho. Hicks in one of his Dialogues had imposed a perverse Gloss upon them by leaving out the latter