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A47759	Satan dis-rob'd from his disguise of light, or, The Quakers last shift to cover their monstrous heresies, laid fully open in a reply to Thomas Ellwood's answer (published the end of last month) to George Keith's Narrative of the proceedings at Turners-Hall, June 11, 1696, which also may serve for a reply (as to the main points of doctrine) to Geo. Whitehead's Answer to The snake in the grass, to be published the end of next month, if this prevent it not / by the author of The snake in the grass.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1697 (1697)	Wing L1149A; ESTC R2123	80,446	76

he was seen of me also Now if he was not seen of Paul then was he seen of none of the Rest And so they are all together False-Witnesses As St. Paul makes the Inference v. 15. Yea and We are found False-Witnesses of God because we have Testified of God that he Raised up Christ Whom he Raised not up if so be that the Dead Rise not But T. E. says quite contrary to this Reasoning of St. Paul That tho we shou'd deny that Christ was Bodily seen of Paul yet this wou'd not Allegorize away Christ's Resurrection St. Paul thought that it wou'd totally overthrow it and all our Faith with it And moreover That to deny the Resurrection of one Bodys do's Infer the Denyal of Christ's Resurrection As he Argues ver 12 c. Now if Christ he Preached that he Rose from the Dead 〈◊〉 say some among you that there is no Resurrection of the Dead But now if t●ere be no Resurrection of the Dead then is Christ not Risen And if Christ be not Risen then is our Preaching vain and your Faith is also vain You see how these Articles of our Creed the Resurrection of Christ and our Resurrection are linked so closely together that they do mutually suppose one another and taking away of the one do's destroy the other Therefore I do Earnestly Recommend it to the Quakers to Consider from whence they are Fallen how their Error as to our Resurrection has taken away likewise the Resurrection of Christ And the denyal of his outward Resurrection is Rendring our Faith vain and overturning the whole Foundations of Christianity Of which this of the outward Resurrection of Christ was the main Pillar And therefore in the Choice of one to succeed Judas it is said Act. 1.21 That he must be chosen out of those who had been Eye-Witnesses of Christ all along that he might be a Witness with us said the Apostles of Christ's Resurrestion This was the Hinge and very Basis of the Christian Faith Which the Quaker New Light has wholly overturn'd V. Page 204. The Perversion of that Text Isa LIII 9. Is instanc'd He made his Grave with the wicked which R. Hubberthorn of the First Rank of Worthies among the Quakers to favour their Notion of the Inward Christ or Light within Suffering Dying and Rising again in the Heart Corrupts thus He made his Grave in the wicked To this says T. E. First That R. Hubberthorn did not mention Isa LIII As if a Man might not Repeat a Text and that it were not usual without Quoting Chapter and Verse Secondly He says that R. H. was not there treating Of the General Resurrection or the Resurrection of the Body His words are Christ the Seed made his Grave in the wicked and in the Rich in his Death and out of that Grave shall rise with his Body into Everlasting Life And adds If thou canst Receive it thou mayest be satisfied Right If thou canst Receive it There you are pretty secure For who can Receive such Unintelligible Jargon T. E. is desir'd to tell us what they mean by the Christ or Light within Rising out of the Wicked into Everlasting Life But to his Answer He says this was not spoken of the Resurrection whereas it is Plain that it was spoken of the Resurrection and of nothing else Unless he will say that by Rising out of the Grave they do not mean a Resurrection and so give us a New Language and have secret meanings of their own for words that no body may understand them Which I am afraid is the Case VI. Here follows a War about Contradictions in G. W. with which I will not meddle thinking it not worth a Victory to find Contradictions in him But I will onely mark where he discovers his Principles as to Religion As at the end of p. 205 and beginning of p. 206. Did G. W. says T. E ever call or own Christs Body now in Heaven or while it was on Earth to be Terrestrial or of the Earth Then it was not a true Human Body while on Earth or now in Heaven And Christ was not then nor is now Truly and Really a Man But of this enough before VII Page 207. T. E. makes a nice Distinction betwixt Summoning God as a Witness as he words it and declaring such a thing as truth In the Presence of God He says one is an Imprecation especially the words So help me God but that the other is not But when I declare a thing as In the Presence of God is there not an Imprecation Imply'd if I speak False But this touches a sore place of the Quakers For there was nothing wherein they were more Positive than of the Unlawfulness of Attesting God in whatsoever Form in any Worldly business or going beyond plain Yea or Nay And that every such Attestation was by them counted an Oath and utterly Forbidden under the Gospel What! say they in a Treatise of Oaths Presented to King and Parliament 1675. Signed by William Pen George Whitehead and 11 more p. 17. make God the great God of Heaven and Earth our Caution in worldly Controversies as if we ●rou'd bind him to obtain our own Ends It is to make too Bold with him c. And p. 74 putting the Question What shall we say is beyond Yea and Nay Ans Without doubt an Oath And in their Book call'd A Positive Testimony against all Swearing under the Gosp●● Printed 1692. p. 23. The Appealing after any manner to God as a Judge or any ways using his sacred Name or Mentioning any thing whereby it may be Imply'd ●s by Heaven Earth c. When Relating onely to Human Worldly and Inferior matters may be Granted to be an OATH And p. 31. How can any Invoke God for a Witness or any other Purpose or any ways Imploy or use his sacred Name for a security in Earthly matters if it was not a PROPER OATH And p. 39. From hence it may be seen an Invincible Reason against Swearing and the Naming or using God's sacred Name any ways to Confirm the Truth of my Speech Relating to Human and Worldly matters And p. 46 47. With what Face or Pretence can any that sincerely Profess Christianity take any Oath or use any Higher Expressions for Confirming Human and Temporal ma●ters than Christ's Evangelical sentence of Yea Yea and Nay Nay or what is Equivalent thereto And what Christian Men or Magistrates or Powers of the Earth can Lawfully Prescribe or Require more than Christ hath Permitted herein Yet all this Notwithstanding they have the very last Session of Parliament not onely submitted but Imploy'd their Interest to obtain and when opposition was made struggled hard and at last Prevail'd for an Act of Parliament that they shou'd be admitted to use in Temporal Courts and for Worldly matters this Form of giving their Evidence In the Presence of the Almighty God the Witness of the Truth of what I say For they found themselves Pinch'd in their

Arrogate the Name of Christ to themselves As Isaac Pennington says in his Book above quoted p. 27. Doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole Body and and every Member of the Body as well as to the Head Are they not all of 〈◊〉 yea All one in the Anointing Nor is the Apostle ashamed to give them the Name Christ together with him 1 Cor. XII 12. The Body is the same with the Head Thus they Reckon their own Blood to be the Blood of Christ And to be that Blood which Cleanseth from Sin As you may Read in a Book of theirs called The Guilty Clergy-Man Vn-vailed by T. S. Printed 1657. Where p. 17. He tells their Persecutors as he stil'd them That you will by no means be thence Cleansed i. e. from the Guilt of the Quakers Blood B●● by the same Blood which you so Cruelly shed 4. This was the Reason of their frequent Idolatries to George Fox giving him the Titles and Attributes of God Falling Prostrate before Him and Adoring Him with these Appellations Thou art the Son of the Ever Living God the King of Israel All Nations shall Worship thee c. Which I have not onely from their Books Quoted in The Snake in the Grass but from Eye-Witnesses They said This was not to the outward George Fox But to the Christ or Light within him And no otherwise wou'd they allow to Worship CHRIST while upon the Earth i. e. Not the outward Person of Christ which they make to be nothing but a Vail or Garment And they cannot call the Bodily Garment Christ But to the Christ or Light within Christ They will sometimes allow That Christ had a greater Measure of Christ or The Light than G. Fox And G. Fox than other of the Friends But I cannot see how they can allow this For if none can Partake of an Infallible Spirit without Partaking of the Infallibility of the Spirit which is the Quakers Plea for Infallibility Then must All Partake of it Alike for there are no Degrees in Infallibity And thus every Quaker must be equally Infallible and equally Adorable And I have been told that when some Quakers have been Reprov'd for Bo●●ng one to another tho they wou'd not do it to the Men of the World contrary to their Principle of not giving Honour to Man They have Answered That they did not Bow to the Man but to the Light within him which they take to be God Thus Committing Wild Idolatry to one another while they deny Civil Honour to others 5. Isaac Pennington as above Quoted calls the Blood of Christ the Blood of the outward Earthly Nature And George Whitehead in his Light and Life c. oft mentioned before p. 58. In excuse of that Blasphemous saying of Solomon Eccles's That the Blood which was forced out of Christ'● side by the Spear Was no more than the Blood of another Saint says That ●t was no more Simply as to the Essence of Blood And Argues That Se●ing the Children had Flesh and Blood and Christ took Part of the same how was it more or another simply as to the matter of Blood Yet Thomas Ellwood in his present Answer when he wou'd ward off the Consequence of Christ's Body being the same in substance which it was upon Earth and so a true Humane Body still which was urg'd upon G. Whitehead crys out p. 205. As in a surprize But hold a little Did G. Whitehead ever call or own Christ's Body now in Heaven or while it was on Earth to be Terrestrial or of the Earth J. P. calls it the Earthly Nature And G.W. says that it was the same with ours as to the Essence or matter of Blood Yet says T.E. where did G.W. ever call it Terrestrial or of the Earth Thus do these Men turn and wind their Hypothesis at every Pinch They cannot make it hang together The truth is They are Bewildred and know not what they say 6. The Quakers have an outward and an Inward Flesh of Christ The outward they make nothing of no more than of the Flesh of any other Good Man But their Faith is in the Inward Flesh i. e. Their Light within And this onely is it which with them do's take away Sin G. Fox in a Paper which he directs To all People in Christendom concerning Christ's Flesh which was offered c. Printed 1671. p. 55. Sets forth in a Monstrous Jargon for he cou'd Write no otherwise this Inward Flesh of Christ as Crucify'd c. when Adam Fell. And in this Flesh says he is the Belief that takes away the Sin This G. Keith objected And says Thom. Ellwood in his Answer p. 207. That G. Fox there speaks of Christ according to the Flesh Crucify'd And was not this his outward Flesh Says T. E. What! That was Crucify'd when Adam Fell● This is too Gross Thomas to put upon us Then he says he has not seen the Book That he remembers and knows not how faithfully G. Keith recites out of it Tho G. K. said that he had the Book and sets down G. Fox's words at Large And p. 51. Of his Narrative Invites all that Pleas'd to see the Books which he had Quoted at his House And if T. E. disdain'd to go or send thither he might no doubt have purchased a sight of that Book many other ways Which I a greater stranger to their Books have done And found the Quotation exact except one Typographical Error Viz. The Life Read which in G. Fox's Book is The Life Read An usual Cant among the Quakers who cry often Read within Read within i. e. Hearken to The Light within And G. Fox in this place to let them know what sort of Flesh of Christ he spoke of And what sort of offering of that Flesh says The Life Read i. e. Read or understand that I mean all I have said of the Life or Light within But take the whole sentence It is p. 50. of Fox Speaking of the offering of Christ when Adam Sinned So through this offering says he is the Reconciliation through the offering of that Flesh that 〈◊〉 Corrupted but takes away Corruptions and his Blood Cleanseth from Corruption The Life Read There is much more there to the same purpose besides what G. K. hath Quoted T. E. next Complains how hard it was for G. Keith to fall thus upon his old Friend G. Fox and tells how good an opinion G. Keith once had of him Well Let that Pass I suppose he has alter'd his opinion as of G. F. So of G. W. T. E. and several others And he has fully satisfy'd the World that he had good Cause so to do And I verily believe that what he did was out of a Principle of Conscience For he has got nothing by his Change but Losses and great Abuse The Quakers Prosecuted him for his Life in Pensilvania And had nor a New Governour Colonel Fletcher come there in time he had in all Probability been Condemn'd the Quakers

which he calls His Second Coming This is the Meaning of those Questions above quoted Is it visible to the Carnal Eye And when was that Coming to be Is it now to be looked for outwardly c. By which it is plain that they mean That their is no visible Coming of Christ to be Now looked for outwardly I have told above what they mean by a Glorify'd or Heavenly Body not any thing either Visible or Intelligible But if they would consider that Christ's Glorify'd Body was visible to St. Paul at his Conversion as to other of His Apostles at His Trans-Figuration upon the Mount they would not find such Difficulties in apprehending that He may be Visible at the Last Day even to outward Eyes when they shall be strengthned much more than those of the Apostles upon Earth Then shall the Jews with their outward Eyes look upon Him whom they Pierced according to the Literal Prophesie Zech. xii 10. And St. Barnabas in his Cathol Epist chap. vii says That His Body tho' Glorify'd shall then be so Like what it was upon Earth that they shall be amazed at the Likeness And he says That this Likeness was Prefigur'd in the Likeness of the Two Goats the Scape-Goat and the other offer'd in Sacrifice Lev. xvi II. T. E. has another Pleasant come off p. 161. He says that G. W. oppos'd W. Burnet only as to the Opinion of the Millennium or Thousand Years Reign of Christ upon Earth and that this was the Third Coming of Christ which G. W. Denys Whereas neither in Burnet nor G. W's Book is there one Word of Millennium or any thing like it But their Dispute was only concerning the Last Judgment So that this must pass among the rest of T. E's Supposes to help him out at a Dead Lift. III. But if T. E. must Down he is Resolv'd to Fall in Good Company For p. 162. he makes St. Paul as Fallible as Himself He supposes that Saint Paul did Expect the Day of Judgment to come in his time from 1 Thess iv 17. We which are alive shall be caught up in the Clouds c. G. Keith says That the Apostle's using the word We there we that Remain is an Enallage Personae putting We for They like that of James Therewith Bless we God and therewith Curse we Men James iii. 9. But says T. E. Though he delivers it Positively and like a Dictator yet I see not why he must needs be believed Why might not the Apostle speak in the first Person We as supposing that Great and Extraordinary Appearance of Christ was so near at hand that it might Probably fall out in his time Why might he not I 'll tell you Why Mr. Ellwood Because it did not fall out in his Life time And if He thought it might then it will follow that He was mistaken and consequently that what He wrote was not Truth and so not only the Authority of this Epistle but of All His Epistles and of all the Rest of the New Testament will fall to the Ground for did not He write by the same Spirit as the other Pen-Men of the New Testament And you cannot think to come off by such a Text as 1 Cor. vii 6. I speak this by Permission and not of Commandment For concerning the other Text he says Expresly 1 Thess iv 15. This we say unto you by the Word of the Lord And if he was mistaken in this then was He Guilty of Great Blasphemy to speak a Lye In the Name of Lord And we cannot Believe one Word of this or any thing else that he either said or wrote I Expect now that T. E. should tell me That he only made a Quere of this and put a Perhaps to it 1st This was a very Reverend Suppose to throw dovvn the vvhole Scriptures all at once But 2dly T. E. go's further than a Suppose for he aftervvards Positively Asserts it and endeavours to Prove it thus For as the Apostles says he accounted the Times they Lived in the Last Days or Last Times so they thought the End of the World was not far off What else made Paul when he had told the Corinthians That the things he had Related were written for our Admonition add Upon whom the Ends of the World are come 1 Cor. xi 11. Why else did Peter say The End of All things is at Hand 1 Pet. iv 7. And now I am come to vindicate the Apostles against T. E. He strikes Home Therefore let him know That by the Later Times and the Last Times was Understood The Last Dispensation which was to be Given to the World viz. That of the Gospel or the Messias Which Time was usually called by the Jews the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Age that was to come or the Last Age. But now as to Saint Paul who seems homest Charged He has as foreseeing such misconstruction of his Words or some having so misconstrued them fully Clear'd himself and the other Apostles in a following Epistle to the Thessalonians 2 Thess ii 2. Now I beseech you Brethren says he with Great Earnestness by the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our Gathering together unto Him That ye be not soon shaken in Mind or be troubled neither by Spirit nor by Word nor by Letter as from us as that the Day of Christ is at Hand Let no man Deceive you by any means for that Day shall not come except there come a Falling away first c. But T. E. will not Believe him or else he must not believe G. W. who says in a Book he and others wrote Anno 1659. called A Brief Discovery of the Dangerous Principles of John Horne c. p. 9. And as for that 1 Thess iv 15. concerning the Coming of our Lord from Heaven which these Men aforesaid would blindly put Afar off The Saints who then were Alive Remained unto it so their Conversation was in Heaven i. e. a Heaven within them for they did not say their Conversation was at a Distance off above the Clouds from whence you ●ook for a Christ And thence Concludes That your Faith which is not Grounded in Christ's Appearing In you is to be turned up by the Roots In the Title Page This Book is said to be wrote By the Truth which is in George Whitehead John Whitehead and George Fox the Younger I will not Detain the Reader with Applications These things are so gross as not to be made Plainer III. The next Quotation is p. 164 G. W's words before mentioned Dost thou look for Christ's coming again to appear outwardly in a Bodily Existence if thou dost thou mayst look until thy Eyes Drop out before thou wilt see such an appearance of him And here T. E. crys out of Fraud and Falseness in G. Keith for leaving out these Words as the Son of Mary Dost thou look for Christ as the Son of Mary to appear c. which mean no more than Christ in His true Human