Conversations Discussions and Anecdotes Author:Thomas Story Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. GEORGE KEITH. 1695. THE ASCEXSIOX. As I was going one day to attend the Lord Chief Justice, in order to have a fine passed upon an estate ... more »offered in mortgage for security of a sum of money, there came to me, upon the pavement near the office, a man well dressed, and of grave behavior, desiring to have some conversation with me; in which I could not gratify him then, being instantly engaged in the business I went about; but when I had finished it, and was come out from the office, I found him waiting; and, advancing toward me, he began to discourse about George Keith, saying, " That we (meaning the body of Friends) had missed our way in contending with him as we did; for he, being a man of learning and knowledge, might have been very serviceable to our Society, in helping ua over some mistakes we labored under." I replied, that we were not under any mistake about the Christian faith or religion, or any part of it; and did not want instructions from George Keith, or any other like unto him, we being taught of the Lord, and by such as he raises, qualifies, and sends in his own name and power; and these we know, own, and receive, in the same love in which they are sent. Then he moved one of George Keith's notions and subjects of debate, by way of question : " Whether we believe that Jesus Christ is now in Heaven in the same body in which he suffered on the cross on earth ?" I replied, that we believeall that the Holy Scriptures relate concerning the Lord and his body; that he asceuded, until a cloud received him out of the sight of the witnesses who saw him ascend; but as to the identity, or sameness of his body, or the mode of its existence now in Heaven, as I do not remember that to be revealed in the Holy Scriptures, 'tis a little too presumptuous, I th...« less