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.

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If this be not gross Socinianisme, and Samosatenianisme, I leave unto all un∣derstanding and sound Christians for to Judg: For both the Socinians now, and Samosa∣tenians of old, denyed that Christ was be∣fore Mary; and so doth this Author, con∣trary to the express. Testimony of many Scriptures cited and opened in my Book called, The Way cast up; to which again, I Refer the Reader: and what a gross and unchristian, yea, Blasphemous comparison is this of the Author, betwixt Cyrus and Christ, as if Christ were no more Gods Anointed before his outward Birth in the Flesh, than Cyrus, was before his birth; and

so by this means, all the Saints from the beginning of the World unto the outward birth of Christ, containing near about four Thousand Years, had no Christ, nor no Sa∣viour, no Head, no Mediator; nor indeed, no∣thing of the Heavenly and Spiritual Anoin∣ting or Unction; and so had nothing of the Holy Ghost, which is that Anointing: for how could they have it without Christ, who is Gods Anointed, originally and first of all, and from, and by, and through whom, it cometh down, and is conveyed unto the Saints, even as the Oyl that was poured on Aarons Head, ran down from the Beard unto the skirts of his Garment: Now that David and all the Saints, before Christ came in the flesh, were in measure anoin∣ted with the holy Unction, or Anointing; even the same wherewith the Saints are now A∣nointed: see Psal. 23. and Psal. 133. 1, 2. And how did they receive this Oyl or A∣nointing, but from Christ, who is Gods Anoin∣ted first of all, and by whom it descendeth unto them, of whom Aaron the high Priest, was the Figure or Type; & therefore Christ was Gods Anointed from the beginning, not only be∣fore Cyrus, but before all other men, ac∣cording unto Prov, 8. 23. I was anointed from the beginning, (so the Hebrew word Nissakti, doth signifie, as I have already

shewed in my Book) or ever the Earth was.

Moreover, when Paul said, the Fathers of old, drank of the Rock, and that Rock was Christ, was this only a Prophecy of Christ? who, but one so blind and grosly ignorant, as the Author of this Pamphlet, can so affirm? Nor, do thefe Scriptures Ci∣ted by thee, Mat. 3. 16. Luk. 4. 1. concer∣ning Christ his being anointed with the ho∣ly Ghost, after his outward birth, prove, that he was not anointed before: For, in contradiction to thy self, thou grantest, he was Anointed before he was born; as indeed he was both then, and also from the beginning.