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KEITH, GEORGE (c. 1639-1716) , British divine, was born at Aberdeen about 1639 and was educated for the Presbyterian ministry at -Marischal College in his native city. In 1662 he became a Quaker and worked with Robert Barclay (q.v.). After being imprisoned for preaching in 1676 he went to Holland and Germany on an evangelistic tour with George Fox and William Penn. Two further terms of imprisonment in England induced him (1684) to emigrate to America, where he was surveyor-general in East
Jersey
Cotton
Mather , but after a time fell out with his own folk on the subject of the atonement, accused them of deistic views, and started a community of his own called " Christian Quakers
Turner
Hall
rector . Among his writings were The Deism of William Penn and his Brethren (1699); The Standard of the Quakers
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