The true Christ owned as he is, true God and perfect man containing an answer to a late pamphlet having this title The Quakers creed concerning the man Christ Jesus &c. writ by a nameless author : which pamphlet containeth many gross lies and wilful perversions beside some other great mistakes occasioned by the author his ignorance and blindness / by George Keith.

Answ.

Cyrillus Alexandrinus and others do Judge, that Plato, by his anima mundi, did understand that which the Scripture calleth the Holy Ghost; for as the Scripture speaketh of three that bear record in Heaven, the Fa∣ther, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: Plato like∣wise spoke of three, namely, the good, the mind, and the Soul: and the Good he calleth the one, and the Father; the Mind, he calleth the Son, as being generate of the Father: both which answer unto the Father and the Son, which the Scriptures Testifie of, and therefore they conclude, that by that he cal∣led the Soul, he did understand, the Holy Ghost; And that Plato had learned this myste∣ry of the Three from the Egyptians, who had learned it from Moses; But that he had wrong∣ly understood it himself, for he seemeth to call them Three Gods, as being distinct, in a threefold being, or substance: And the first greatest of all, the second less than the first, but greater than the Third; so that Plato his Doctrine of this Mystery was unsound, and imperfect, although it seemeth that he aimed at the Truth. Now, whereas we believe that the Holy Ghost, is one and the same Essence with God; and that the Hea∣venly Man-hood or Nishmah of the Soul of

Christ, is distinct in essence or substance from the God-head, although by a most excellent and wonderful union united with the same for ever, and yet is not any third essence, as Plato calleth his Anima Mundi. It is very manifest, that Plato his Anima Mundi, can∣not at all be acknowledged to be the Soul of Christ. Again, Plato calleth it the Soul of the World, as Judging the World it self to be an Animal or living creature compo∣sed of Soul and Body: But this doth by no means agree unto the Soul of Christ, for if it did, then the world should be Christ, and the body of every beast, fish, foul, tree, or stone, and also the earth it self, should be the real body of Christ; all which is false and absur'd, and therefore Plato's Anima Mundi cannot be the Soul of Christ.