An ADVERTISEMENT

OF an intended Meeting, to be held by George Keith and his Friends, at their usual Meeting-place, in Tur­ners-Hall, in Philpot-Lane, the 29th. day of this instant and present Month called April, 1697. to begin about the 9th. Hour. To which Meeting William Penn, Tho­mas Ellwood, George Whitehead, John Penington, and these of the second Day's weekly Meeting at Lombard-street, are justly desired to be present, to hear themselves recharged and proved Guilty of these vile and gross Errors and Heresies, wherewith they have been formerly charged by George Keith, and proved Guilty off, at a Meeting held at Turners-Hall, on the 11th. of the Month called June, 1696. notwithstanding of the pretended Answers and Defences, given by Thomas Ellwood in his pretended Answer to the exact Narrative of the Proceedings at Tur­ners-Hall, at the abovesaid Meeting; and not­withstanding the pretended late Answer and De­fence of George Whitehead, in his late printed Book, call'd, An Antidote, &c. At which Meet­ing, to be held at the Time and Place above­mention'd, by Divine Permission and Assistance, and by permission of the Civil Authority, he is further to detect the vile and gross Errors of the abovemention'd Persons; with respect to four great Fundamentals of the Christian Religion, to which these Errors and Heresies are directly Repugnant; the which Errors, as they were for­merly in the printed Advertisement and Narra­tive expresly mention'd, are here again expresly rehearsed, viz.

1. That Faith in Christ, as he outwardly Suf­fered at Jerusalem, is not necessary to our Sal­vation.

2. That Justification and Sanctification is not by the Blood of Christ outwardly shed.

3. That there is no Resurrection of the Body that dyeth.

4. That Christ is not to come without us in his Glorify'd Body, even the same that former­ly Suffered Death for our Sins, to Judge the Quick and the Dead.

At which Meeting also, he purposeth to shew, that the Answers and Defences given by Thomas Ellwood, and George Whitehead, in their late prints, in the vindication of themselves and some of their Brethren are (as to the principal things charged against them) weak, impertinent, false and pal­pably Sophistical; and that notwithstanding their seeming present contradiction to some of these gross Errors, and disowning them; yet until they disown, retract, and acknowledge their for­mer Errors, as they stand upon Record in their printed Books, they are still justly chargea­ble with them. But this they refuse to do, for one hath in print by approbation of their 2d. days Meeting) put his and their Infallibility and Immu­tability in a Class, with the Immutability of God and Truth, saying, God is the same, Truth is the same, His People is the same; but George Keith is not the same. And let all impartial Men judge, with what Conscience these Men can say, they are the same as ever formerly they were (since their profession of being Quakers,) as God and Truth are the same (with whom is no varia­bleness nor shadow of change) as to all their for­mer Principles, Doctrines, Words, and Sayings, and yet so palpably to contradict their former Assertions, that stand upon Record in their prin­ted Books, against them. Is not this thick Ae­gyptian darkness that may be felt? notwithstan­ding their false pretences to the Light within, which they still hold to be sufficient to Salvation without any thing else; so exclude the Man Christ Jesus of Nazareth, and all that he did and suffer­ed for us on Earth, and his Mediation and Inter­cession for us now in Heaven, as being joyntly concerned, as a necessary concurring Cause, to­gether with the Divine Light and Spirit in the work of our Salvation: And in their so doing, notwithstanding their fained pretences to Christi­anity, yet do what in them lyeth to throw down the Christian Faith and Religion, and set up Deisme and Gentilisme in its place; which all sincere Christians ought to be awakened to con­sider and contend against; and more especially such as Occupy the Room and Place of Christi­an Teachers and Pastors, to oppose (not with Car­nal, but Spiritual Weapons) this spreading Gangrene and Contagion, that hath infected, and doth at present infect many Thousands in these three Nations, and many abroad in other Places.

To which said Meeting, to be held on the 29th. of this Instant, at the said place, any moderate and friendly People of other Professions (as well as these call'd Quakers) have freedom to be pre­sent, so far as there is room in the place to re­ceive them, hoping they all will so peaceably and civilly demean themselves, as to give no offence either to Civil Authority, or to any other Per­sons, by any undue or unsutable Behaviour of Words or Actions.

George Keith.

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