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George Keith was born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, about the year 1638.
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George Keith was born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, about the year 1638.
Keith was educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen and received the degree of Master of Arts at Aberdeen University in 1658. He was a scholar of marked ability, especially in mathematics and Oriental studies.
Keith intended to enter the ministry of the Church of Scotland but became a convinced Quaker under the ministry of the Quaker apostle, William Dewsbury, in 1664. He quickly became one of the foremost interpreters of the central principles of the Quaker faith for which he suffered severe persecution, including a long imprisonment in the tolbooth (local jail). He exercised a profound influence on Robert Barclay, the author of the Apology, the first great interpretation of the faith of the Quakers. In his own line of interpretation Keith wrote in 1668 his book Immediate Revelation not Ceased and in 1671 The Universall Free Grace of the Gospell Asserted.
He traveled in 1677 with George Fox, William Penn, and Robert Barclay on a momentous missionary expedition through Holland and Germany. Shortly after his return from the Continent Keith established a boarding school in Middlesex. About 1685 he was appointed surveyor-general of New Jersey to run the boundary line between East and West Jersey. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia where he became head master of the famous school which William Penn was founding in that city, now called the William Penn Charter School. Before going to America Keith had become influenced by the teaching of Francis Mercurius van Helmont. In one of his early publications in Philadelphia, The Presbyterian Churches in New England Brought to the Test (1689), he expressed sympathy with the use of the Lord's Supper as an agape, or love meal, as portrayed in the New Testament.
After the death of Fox (1691) and Barclay (1690) Keith quite plainly aspired to be the recognized Quaker leader and authority. For these reasons, and owing to his somewhat contentious disposition, he came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in Pennsylvania, especially with Thomas Lloyd, the deputy-governor of the province, and with William Stockdale, a prominent Quaker preacher. The controversy became extremely bitter and ended in the formation of a separatist party known as the "Christian Quakers, " popularly known as "Keithians. " The defection was serious from the point of view of the main body of the Quakers, as it profoundly affected sixteen out of the thirty-two Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Earnest efforts were made for a reconciliation and when these efforts failed a vigorous declaration of disunity was issued against Keith by the Meeting of Ministers and Elders in Philadelphia, and the action was approved by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting held at Burlington, New Jersey, July 4-7, 1692.
Three years later he was "disowned" by London Yearly Meeting, the complaint being his "unbearable temper and carriage" and because he refused to withdraw intemperate charges against Friends in Philadelphia. Keith thereupon rented a hall in London where, while still wearing the Quaker garb, he preached and administered baptism and the Lord's Supper, issuing vigorous pamphlets against prominent Friends, especially against William Penn.
In 1700 he entered the Anglican Church and was ordained by the Bishop of London, preaching his first sermon at St. George's Church, May 12, 1700. He returned to America in 1702 as the agent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He did much to expand and establish the Episcopal Church in New Jersey and he spent two years traveling widely throughout the colonies, everywhere attacking the Quakers and drawing away many of their members to the Episcopal Church. One counter effect of the work of Keith was to push the Society of Friends in Philadelphia over to a much more positive formulation of orthodoxy. The "Keithians" gradually joined the Episcopal Church or in some cases drifted into the Baptist societies, or, as frequently happened, returned to their original home in the Society of Friends. Keith returned to England in 1704 and died in March 1716.
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At the beginning of his career, Keith joined the Religious Society of Friends. He was a mild advocate of the transmigration of souls. He denied the sufficiency of the inner Light and criticized the Philadelphia preachers for their tendency to slight the importance of the Christ of history. Later in life, he changed his views towards Anglicanism.
Keith was married to Elizabeth Johnston of Aberdeen.
