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A47766 The snake in the grass: or, Satan transform'd into an angel of light Discovering the deep and unsuspected subtilty which is couched under the pretended simplicity of many of the principal leaders of those people call'd Quakers. Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. 1696 (1696) Wing L1156; ESTC R216663 156,109 630

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from the Priesthood of Aaron as well as from the House of David and set up opposite Altars to that of Jerusalem But on the other Hand tho' God sent many Prophets to Reprove the Kings and the Priests yet they neither Rebell'd against the Kings nor set up opposite Altars against those of those wicked Priests But as they paid all Dutiful Obedience to their Persecuting Kings and suffer'd Martyrdom under them without Resistance so did they always keep in the Communion of those same Priests whom they had Provok'd and Reprov'd and paid all due Obedience to their Sacred Authority and never wou'd Countenance any Separate Communions set up in Opposition to Their Communion at the same time that they were Denouncing the Judgments of God against them for their manifold Iniquities and Prevarications And when our Saviour himself came into the World he did not Separate from the Publick Worship and Communion of the Jewish Church But in the same Chapter Mat. 23. where he inveighs most severely against their Wickedness he Guards their Authority as Sacred and Inviolable and to shew that the receiving of Christianity it self was no Exemption from paying all Obedience to them he Commands his own Disciples as well as the Multitude to pay them all manner of Obedience Then spake Jesus to the Multitude and to his Disciples saying The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses Seat All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do And the Apostles after our Saviour frequented the Jewish Temple Luke 24.53 and observed their hours of Publick Worship Acts 3.1 Acknowledged the Anthority of their High Priest and submitted themselves to him as to one invested with God's Commission as to God's High Priest even when he was judging them unjustly and Commanding them to be smitten contrary to the Law Acts 23.3 4 5. And they frequented the Jewish Temple and Liturgy tho' they had Separate Meetings for the breaking of Bread and other Institutions of the Christian Religion which they cou'd not have in the Jewish Communion from which they did not abstain while it lasted in the World that is till the Destriction of Jerusalem by the Romans By all which Examples we are instructed how strongly we are to adhere to the Publick Communion of the Church and to suspect all pretended Inspirations which wou'd draw us away from it But this concerns the others of our Dissenters as well as the Quakers Let us return to them And we shall find their Infallibility disprov'd not only in particular Instances such as that fore-mentioned of Solomon Eccles and the Glover's Prophets But 2dly in whole Floods and Parties for Francis Bugg and many others have come openly off from their Communion after having liv'd many years with them and as Zealous Quakers as the best But now Detect their gross Errors Publickly and in Print But Thirdly Those among them who continue still Quakers have notwithstanding joyn'd in disproving their Pretences to Infallibility and discovering many other Damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils among them Denying the Lord who bought them c. From which Diabolical Errors George Keith being Converted he has endeavour'd to strengthen his Brethren and has gain'd many and has Separated them in a distinct Communion from the other Quakers who call these Separatists Apostates and False Brethren that have Erred from the Faith And the Separatists say the same of Them Now if their above-told Pretences to Infallibility do hold then it will follow that these their former Opinions which the Separatists now Condemn were True Then and False Now. Nay that they are both True and False even Now because some Quakers do now hold them to be True and others contend as Zealously that they are False Then the Separate Quakers and the others do not differ tho' they Damn one another nor are they Separate tho' they be Separate All these Contradictions must be Reconcil'd or else it must be granted that G. Fox and others have grosly Erred who asserted that They the Quakers and every one of them in particular were Infallible as above is Quoted And that they cou'd discern who were True Quakers and who were only False or Pretended ones without speaking ever a word For either Francis Bugg who liv'd 25. years in their Communion their Secretary and a Principal Man among them G. Keith who as Sam. Jennings tells us in his State of the Case hereafter mentioned p. 2. was 28 years of their Communion Yea says he most of that time a Preacher amongst us a Vindicator of us and others were true Quakers or not If not why were they own'd as such all that time Then G. Fox nor any of them had an Infallible discerning Spirit to which they have falsly pretended But if Keith Bugg c. were True Quakers then True Quakers are not Infallible And then G.F. c. who said they were Infallibile were led by the Spirit of Delusion and not by the Spirit of Truth But that nothing may be wanting to the full Conviction of this Fourthly The Infallibility of the Private Spirit or of each Particular Quaker is now Damn'd by their Church and their Infallibility is now Reduc'd by them as in the Church of Rome whence their first Inspiration came as told before and wherein it naturally ends to that of their Church For Proof of this First Their Meetings or Churches in Pensylvania c. in America have Censured G. Keith and other Separatists there for not submitting to their Judgment which these Churches have given forth against them This appears in the Account of the Proceedings There against the said G. Keith c. in the Year 1692. which was Published by G. Keith or some of his Party and Printed in the Year 1693. under this Title New-England's Spirit of Persecution transmitted to Pensylvania and the pretended Quaker found Persecuting the True Christian Quaker in the Tryal of Peter Boss George Keith c. In Answer to this was Publish'd a Vindication of the Proceedings against G. Keith c. call'd The State of the Case betwixt the People called Quakers in Pensylvania c. in America and George Keith with those seduc'd by him into a Separation from them This was wrote by Samuel Jennings a Quaker Justice of Peace in Pensylvania and one of the Prosecutors of G. Keith and the Separatists and Printed in London in the Year 1694. To which G. Keith hath Printed a Replication Entituled A further Discovery of the Spirit of Falshood and Persecution c. I will not trouble my self nor the Reader to say any thing either for or against the manner of these Proceedings of the Old Quakers against their Modern Separatists let them implead one another as to that All I am at present concern'd for is that their Churches have Censur'd these Separatists and consequently given Judgment against the Light within Particular Persons which was the Original Pretence and only Infallible Guide of the First Quakers And upon this only ground they
and he shall want no Encouragement from me for I love his Spirit and Honour his Gifts and his Peculiar Learning especially Tongues and Mathematicks his Platonick Studies too All being sanctify'd to the Truths service which is worthy to have the Preheminence Thus Mr. Penn. And that which I wou'd know from him is whether G. Keith has since vary'd from that Doctrine which he Then Preach'd in Pensilvania I do not hear that it is so much as alledged that he has in the least tittle vary'd since that time And if so Here will be sad account of that Infallible Discerning Spirit which the Quakers do appropriate to themselves to Judge Persons and Things See hereafter Sect. X p. ●1 Powers Magistrates Kingdoms and Churches And may it not upon this occasion be said to Mr. Penn in the words of G. Fox Gr. Myst. p. 96. Thou not being Infallible thou art not in the Spirit and so art not a Minister For when he wrote the above Letter he judged G. Keith to have a Right Spirit and desir'd to let him live in his Principles And yet for the very same Principles he has since judged him an Apostate over the Head of him I love his Spirit says Mr. Penn. It is An Vnchristian Spirit says the Yearly Meeting whereof Mr. Penn was a Principal Member The Tendency of divers of his late writings says the Yearly Meeting in their aforesaid Bull of Excommunication against G. Keith hath been to Expose the Truth Did not Mr. Penn then Guess very ill when he gave it under his Hand as abovesaid that All G. Keith 's Studies were Sanctify'd to the Truths service These Writings which the Meeting meant were what G. Keith had Printed in Pensilvania in Defence of those Principles which Mr. Penn then approv'd at least so far as to give them Toleration and to let G. Keith live peaceably in them For G. Keith had not before that Excommunication Printed any thing against the Quakers after his return into England from Pensilvania The use I have to make of this is not to Upbraid or Expose but to beseech Mr. Penn and all the sober-minded among the Quakers now at last to consider whither their strange Pretences to Infallibility has led them Even from the only Infallible Oracles now in the World the Holy Scriptures by setting their Light within above the Scriptures which they do in refusing to let their Light within be judg'd by the Scriptures But on the contrary allowing no Obligation which the Holy Scriptures have upon them in any thing which is not likewise Dictated to them by their Light within But thinking the Dictates of their Light within to be Obligatory and Infallible in things wherein the Scriptures are silent Alas If that were all Even in things where the Scriptures are Repugnant and Command quite otherwise But in the Authority which they have taken over the Letter of the Scriptures they can over-rule every Command in Scripture tho' in Terms never so Positive as in the Case of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and many other Instances Chiefly in that upon which I have so much insisted because it is the Principal their Spiriting away the Letter of the Promised Seed The Humanity of Christ and the Satisfaction Thereby made for our sins and his Intercession and Mediation Therein now at the Right Hand of his Father to which we Dayly owe the Gifts and Graces of his Blessed Spirit And the Adversary cou'd never have gain'd this point upon them which is the Heart of Christianity if he had not first Disarm'd them of the Assistance of the Holy Scriptures wherein this is so mainly and so frequently insisted upon by persuading them to take their own Light within for the Infallible Rule instead of the other And the Devil cannat keep his hold much longer than we shall return to the Scriptures and submit to them as our Rule Which we may perceive by this That no other Sect amongst us has run into this Excess of throwing off the Humanity of Christ but the Quakers because no other has under valu'd the Scriptures so much as they What other sort of Men that call themselves Christians have abus'd the Scriptures by the contemptible Names of Beastly Ware Dust Death Serpents-Meat c. but the Quakers If they say That this was only meant of the Letter that is sufficiently answer'd in what follows But I have now to ask them whether the Letter of their Writings be not as Beastly Ware c. as the Letter of the Scripture And then why they do not give the same Epithets to their Writings No no. Let them not Dissemble the matter They know very well that the giving of Vile and Contemptible Names to any Writing can be for no other end but to render the Contents of such Writing not the Letters Ink or the Paper Vile and Contemptible And this is the Reason that they have taken such care to secure the Honour of their own Writings not only from such Vile Names as they bestow upon the Holy Scriptures but even from such Names as are Honourable and of the Highest Estimation among Human Writings such as Canons for the Laws of the Church and Edicts for the Laws of Emperors and Temporal Government But these the Quakers think too Mean and Contemptible Names for their Writings they will have them nothing less than the Immediate Commands of God Himself And as to themselves they scorn the Titles of Elders Popes and Bishops or that their Meetings shou'd be call'd by such Contemptible Names as Courts Sessions or Synods Hear the Order of their Yearly Meeting at London for the Year 1675. in the following words It is our Sense Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit to Friends and Brethren in their several Meetings That no such Slight and Contemptible Names and Expressions as calling Mens and Womens Meetings Courts Sessions or Synods That Faithful Friends Papers which we testifie have been given forth by the Spirit and Power of God are Mens Edicts or Canons Elders in the Service of the Church Popes and Bishops with such scornful sayings be permitted among them but let God's Power be set upon the top of that unsavory Spirit that uses them c. Here you see the World has not Language or Titles good enough for the Quakers nor for their Writings Edicts or Canons are too slight and contemptible Popes and Bishops are scornful sayings to them But while they thus vindicate their own Honour and the no less than Divine Authority of their Writings at this Sublime ra●e They take upon them to vilifie the Holy Scriptures of God in the most opprobrious and disgraceful Terms You must not call their Writings by such Slight and Contemptible Names as Canons or Edicts of Men. But you may call the Holy Scriptures by the not only much more Contemptible Names of Dust and Beastly Ware but the Cursed Appellations of Carnal Death and the Meat