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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

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

distinguishes this from the Blood outwardly shed for having told us what Blood he so Highly values as above he subjoins in the next words to signifie what Blood of Christ it is which he did not value more than the Blood of another Man and that was the outward Blood which was shed upon the Cross His words are these following But the Blood that was forced out of Him by the Souldiers after He was dead who before that bowed His Head to the Father and gave up the Ghost but thou sayest that was the Blood of the New Covenant which was shed after he was dead which I deny yet I did say that was no more than the Blood of another Saint These were my words And he adds a little after That the Baptists and Independants and Presbyterians and the Pope are all of one Ground and none of you understand the Blood of Jesus Christ no more than a Brute Beast therefore Repent for God will suddenly overthrow your Faith and your Imputative Righteousness too for the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness which He did at Jerusalem and without the Gates the Pope the Episcopal the Presbyterian Independants and Baptists shall fare all alike and shall sit down in sorrow short of the Eternal Rest But the true Imputative Righteousness of Christ we own but it is Hid from you All till the Lord open an Eye within you These are the words of his Letter which I have transcrib'd out a Book wrote by William Burnet Entituled The Capital Principles of the People call'd Quakers Printed 1668. p. 41. And here you may see how they construe the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to be only within them And disown that which the whole Christian World understand by it and their Notion of Christ's outward Blood shed without the Gates of Jerusalem But they have a Notion of inward Blood inward shedding and inward Imputation which no other Christians know of more than Brute Beasts says Eccles. And they expresly deny Christ's outward Blood to be the Blood of the New Covenant And make no more of it than of the Blood of any other Good Man See G. Whitehead's Impious Defence of this in The true Copy c. above Quoted p. 24 25. To which I will only add as a Confirmation of what I before observ'd That the Quakers will seem to Confess any thing but with such Reserves as secure their own meaning and serve to Amuse the Inadvertent Readers Thus in G. Whitehead's Answer to this Passage of Solomon Eccles in the 58. p. of his Book Entitled The Light and Life of Christ within Printed 1668. Repeating the above-quoted words of Solomon Eccles where he speaks of the Blood of Christ as more Excellent and Living and Holy than is able to be uttered c. he adds which might have satisfy'd any Spiritual or Unbyass'd mind And the Reader might have gone away with this as a full Vindication of Solomon Eccles without taking notice how he had in the same place explain'd himself as I have above Quoted him not to mean this of Christ's Blood shed outwardly upon the Cross but only of a Notion which the Quakers have of Spiritual Blood Spiritual shedding c. which is all perform'd within them And G. Whitehead Entitles that very page of his Book The Blood of the New Covenant Spiritual And therein Argues thus Blasphemously against his Opponent Will. Burnet These are his words But if W. B. intends that the Blood outwardly shed by wicked Hands was the Price and Life of Christ as his words import then it follows from his own words that the Life of Christ is not in being and this wou'd render Him a Dead Christ c. But G. Whitehead can speak Honourable things of the Blood of Christ in his own Sense and this is enough to satisfie any Unbyass'd Mind Tho they have evaded the most Express Texts for Christ's Humanity even that Gen. 3.15 His being the Seed of the Woman They Allegorize all that too into a Spiritual Sence quite away from the Letter and to mean nothing else in the World but their Light within Where they have a Spiritual Woman and Spiritual Seed as well as Spiritual Blood Hear how Mr. Penn endeavours to prove it in his part of The Christian Quaker p. 97 98. The Serpent says be is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something that is Spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then cou'd He not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an Holy Principle of Light and Life that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpent's Head And because the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ as testifie the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed is Christ c. Thus Mr. Penn. And this is his Deduction That the Seed being Christ and he having Prov'd as he thinks that the Body of Christ was not the Seed his Consequence is that the Promis'd Seed was not any Person but a Principle And that this Principle is the Light within and consequently that the Light within is Christ And his Syllogism stands thus in Mood and Figure The Seed is Christ But the Light within is the Seed Ergo the Light within is Christ But the Minor remains yet to be Prov'd That the Light within is the Promis'd Seed Which Mr. Penn has only supposed and that the Seed is not a Person but a Principle Which is a Supposition of so Pernicious a Nature that it Unchristians any one who holds it For the Faith of Christians is built upon that Man Iesus Christ as the Seed Promis'd to Bruise the Serpent's Head And that the Bruising of it was Perform'd by the shedding of Christ's Blood outwardly upon the Cross as a Propitiation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the whole World Tho' the Application of this to our Souls must by inwardly by Faith in our Hearts not only a bare Historical Faith that Christ did so Suffer Die Rose again c. which the Devils do Believe and Tremble to see their Power so overcome But by a Lively Faith and full absolute Dependance and Trust in that Satisfaction made by Christ's Death for our Sins as our Surety who has paid our Debt for us and Purchas'd an Eternal Inheritance for us upon our Performance of the Conditions which He has set to us And not only so but as our High Priest now sitting in His true Humane Nature whereby He is our Mediator and in the same Body tho' Glorify'd and Chang'd in Qualities but not in Substance at the Right Hand of His Father to make continual and daily Intercession for us and to power down His Spirit upon us to give us this Saving Faith for it is the Gift of God And this Influence and Inspiration of His Blessed Spirit is the only true Saving Light within us but