The people called Quakers cleared by Geo. Keith from the false doctrines charged upon them by G. Keith and his self-contradictions laid open in the ensuing citations out of his books / by John Penington.

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The people called Quakers cleared by Geo. Keith from the false doctrines charged upon them by G. Keith and his self-contradictions laid open in the ensuing citations out of his books / by John Penington.
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Penington, John, 1655-1710.
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London :: Printed and sold by T. Sowle ...,
1696.
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Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
Society of Friends -- Apologetic works.
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Fourthly, Of Christs and the Saints Glorified Bodies.

I shall give one instance, that his Notion herein is of late as gross as other Profes∣sors, whom he hath formerly oppos'd, and confront him by a passage or two out of a former Book of his, and so leave it.

In Truth Advanced, p. 111. he saith,

Paul distinguisheth between the Belly and the Bo∣dy, saying, God will destroy the Belly, but he doth not say, he will destroy the Body: For seeing after the Resurrection of the Dead, Men shall need none of the Meats of this corruptible World, nor shall they need a Belly to put them in, as Guts, and Draught, or any gross parts, as Men have now.
This shews he hath very Carnal Conceptions of the Resurrection at present, like those Sadducees,

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who Erred, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the Power of God, Matt. 22. 29. Now let's see his Sentiments formerly in his Book called, Rector Corrected.

We do believe, (saith he, p. 23.) That we also shall be raised up, to have an Immor∣tal, Spiritual, and Glorified Body, like un∣to him—This Virtue is not any visible thing, nor is the Glorified Body of Christ, visible Flesh—Seeing the Body of Christ is Glorified and wholly Spiritual, (as the Body of every true Believer shall be at the Resur∣rection) how can it be visible Flesh? And Christ, the second Adam, is called in Scrip∣ture the Quickning Spirit, but not visible Flesh. Therefore in this thou dost grossly Err, and needest Correction,
said G. K. to the Rector, and so say I to him.

Again p. 54.

Is not Christs Body a Spiri∣tual Body, which he hath now in the Hea∣vens? Seeing the Body of the Saints at the Resurrection is raised Spiritual, according unto the Glorious Body of Christ, shew a Syllable that Christ hath any other Body, but that which is Spiritual.
Had G. K. retained these Sentiments, when he wrote his bulky Book, styled, Truth Advanced, he needed not have told us of Belly, Guts, and Draught: They do not Symbolize with a Spiritual Body, nor indeed with Spiritual Senses. But as is the Man, so is his Communicati∣on.

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