Some queries proposed, to the monethly meeting of the Quakers at Aberdeen; the sixth day of June, 1700. By Robert Sandilands With their answers thereto; together with some remarks thereupon. Published by authority. To which is prefixed a letter from George Keith, sent to the Quakers in Aberdeen, containing a very serious and Christian expostulation with his old friends, &c.

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Some queries proposed, to the monethly meeting of the Quakers at Aberdeen; the sixth day of June, 1700. By Robert Sandilands With their answers thereto; together with some remarks thereupon. Published by authority. To which is prefixed a letter from George Keith, sent to the Quakers in Aberdeen, containing a very serious and Christian expostulation with his old friends, &c.

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Sandilands, Robert.

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Aberdeen :: printed by Iohn Forbes, printer to the City and University,

[1700]

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Society of Friends -- Early works to 1800.

Quakers -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.

Christianity -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honourable THOMAS MITCHEL, Lord Provost. Bailies.
• To the Christian Reader.
• GEORGE KEITH'S Letter.
• To Andrew Jaffray, John Robertson, Alexander Gellie, John Forbes, Robert Gordon, John Glennic; And the rest of the Monthly Meeting of the people called Quakers at Aberdeen. Something of weighty importance, modestly proposed to your serious Consideration.
  • Querie 1. Whether the Holy Scriptures containing the Old and New Testament called the BIBLE in their plain and literal meaning? Or the Light within, be the certain fixed and standing Rule, whereby to judge and determine matters of contraversie as to Religion?
  • Q. 2. Whether the Light within, be sufficient of it self, to Sal∣vation, without any thing else?
  • Q. 3. Whether the Holy Three, the FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST, that bear record in Heaven, be not threedi∣stinct Persons of one Substance, Power, Glory and Eternity? Or are they only three manifestations, or operations, and is there not some Incommunicable, as well as Communicable Attributes, be∣longing to the Persons of the Holy Trinity?
  • Q. 4. Is not the promised Seed of the Woman, that should bruise the Serpents Head, Gen. 3. 15. The Man CHRIST JESUS, that was born of the Virgin at Bethlehem, in the Land of Iudea.
  • Q 5. That seed of Abraham to which the Promise was made, that in him all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed, accord∣ing to Gen. 22. 18. Gal. 3. 16 Was it not the Man CHRIST JESUS who according to the Flesh, was the Son of Abraham, and the Son of David, Matt. 1. 1.
  • Q. 6 Had not this Man, a real Soul, that was not the God∣head, and a real Body also, that was not the God-head?
  • Q 7 Is not that outward Man who was born of the Virgin, and suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem, properly and truly the SON of GOD, having no immediat FATHER but GOD.
  • Q. 8. Is not JESUS CHRIST, both GOD and Man, and yet but one CHRIST, so that his Godhead is not his Manhood, though the Nature of his Manhood, is most highly, and won∣derfully united to his Godhead?
  • Q. 9. Did CHRIST's Natural Body, which was Crucified and was Buried, rise again? And did that Body after his Resurrection, ascend into Heaven? And is that Body now in Heaven?
  • Q. 10 Is that Heaven, into which CHRIST hath ascended, in the true Glorified Nature of Man consisting of Soul and Body) without us, or within us only? And do you own the Man CHRIST JESUS to be without you, as well as His spirit and Light with∣in you?
  • Q. 11. Are we Justified and Cleansed from Sin, by the Blood of CHRIST that was outwardly shed? And are we sanctified by that Blood meritoriously, as by His Spirit, Grace and Light in us, efficiently?
  • Q. 12. Is it altogether, and wholy, as necessary for us to believe in CHRIST without us, for our Eternal Salvation, as to believe in his Spiritual Light within us? and is not the Faith in the Man CHRIST, as he dyed for our Sins, and rose again, and is at the Right Hand of GOD, and maketh intercession for us, accord∣ing to Rom. 8. 34. necessary to be Preached frequently, as well as his inward appearance, by every true Minister of CHRIST?
  • Q 13. Do you Believe that all that were saved in any Age of the World, had their Sins forgiven them, for the Man CHRIST JESUS his sake, and on the account of his most Ho∣ly, and perfect obedience unto Death, and that what Light and Grace, all Men ever received from GOD in former Ages, or now receive, or shall her after receive to the Worlds end, it is given to Men, for the Man CHRIST JESUS his sake, by his Purchase and Merits, and Continual Mediation and Intercession?
  • Q. 14 Did not the LORD JESUS CHRIST by his most per∣fect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he offered up unto GOD, fully satisfy the Justice of his FATHER, and so pay the Ransom for the sins of Mankind?
  • Q 16. Do the best works, that any are enabled to perform, even by the assistance of the Spirit; merit pardon of sin and eternal Life?
  • Q 17. Shall the Man CHRIST JESUS come again and appear without us to judge the Quick and the Dead?
  • Q. 18. Is there any Resurrection of the Dead, that all or any of the Deceased Saints wait for? and doth the same Natural Body, that Dyeth rise again, or is the Resurrection nothing else, but what ye have already or what ye shall have, immediatly after Death?
  • Q 19. Whither outward Baptism with Water, and the outward Supper called the LORDS Supper, be not Divine Institutions and Ordinances of our Blessed LORD JESUS CHRIST commanded by Him to be continued and practiced to the end of the World?
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