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.

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 Whit∣sun-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 Ʋs, 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 pro∣per 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. There∣fore 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 se∣veral 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-Testimo∣ny, 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 be∣gotten 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 Beth∣lehem 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 man∣ner 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 Resur∣rection 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 Bo∣dy 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 Glo∣rious, and that the Sons of God, and of the Resur∣rection, shall be equal to the Angels of God in Hea∣ven, 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 Him∣self 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 Eter∣nal Salvation, and to wash them from their Sins in his own Blood; for without this true Faith, Re∣pentance 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 eve∣ry 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.