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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

of all the Ease that cou'd be given them and to let them Recover from their Errors with the least Pain But where so Publick a Scandal has been given to the whole Christian World Especially where so many of the Generality of the Quakers do still as above shewn stick in the very Bottom of that Sink of Heresies which they have been Taught and are like so to stick while they see their Leaders go about to Justify to Excuse and Palliate them In this Case there is an absolute necessity for them Plainly and Fully to Retract and Condemn these Heresies And without this there can be no True Repentance without doing all that is in their Power to Draw those out of the Ditch whom they have led into it Were their Repentance sincere it wou'd Provoke not onely a willingness but a great Zeal to do this to save those Souls whom they have misled Without which they can never save their own But so far have they been from doing any thing of this that on the contrary they have in the most Solemn and Publick manner that is Possible for them Riveted and Confirm'd All that they have Taught even from the Begining They have a Yearly General Council every Whitsun-week in London compos'd of Representatives from all the Counties in England and either Deputies or Letters of Consent from all the Bodys of Quakers in the World And every year this Soveraign Authority of the Quaker-Church do's Issue forth in Print an Yearly Epistle as they call it Directed to All Quakers throughout the World which is their Supream Law and counted Infallible with them I have seen that of this Year 1696. Wherein mention is made of Deputies or Letters sent thither from Barbadoes Maryland West-Jersey Pensilvania Burmudoes Antegua Holland Ireland and Scotland And since so great a Schism was Risen in their Church by the opposition chiefly which G. Keith gave to them by Accusing them of such Gross Heresies as we have heard it wou'd be Expected That this their General Council shou'd give an ultimate Decision in this Controversy which they have done in Terms as full as they cou'd in Prudence use while the Contest was so Publick But it is plain enough to be understood by all those for whom it is ●ntended The Quakers are therein Requir'd to Hold up the Holy Testimony of Truth which hath made us say they a People to God and Preserved us so unto this Day and that in all the Parts of it For Truth is one and Changes not And what it convinced us of to be Evil in the Beginning it Reproves still These are the words of their Decree And by this we are as Evil in their opinion as ever we were And the Clergy of the Church of England are still That Abominable Tribe Baal's Priests Wolves Dogs Bears Devils-Incarnate c. But what they think of us is not so Material But by this they are all as bad who place their Faith in the outward Jesus For it is onely for this that the Quakers have so Condemned us It is for this that they say the Devil is in us All. As G. Fox said to Chr. Wade Great mistery p. 250. The Devil was in thee thou say'st thou art saved by Christ without thee and so hast Recorded thy self to be a Reprobate But we have seen enough of this before And this which the Quakers call Truth is not onely to be kept in the main the great Branches of their Doctrine but In all the Parts of it Every Tittle of all of what we have already seen For Truth is one and Changes not i. e. The Quakers have not Changed in any thing from that Truth which they Taught at First Infallibility must not give way no not in a Circumstance 2. But I have a Question to ask which I know the sincerity of the Friends will not Refuse to Answer Whether among the Quaker-Bishops who compos'd this their Last General Council there was not one George Archer by Name a great Preacher in or about Wiltshire Who this last year having out of Pure Zeal to Propagate the Truth gotten a Woman with Child to cover the Scandal perswaded an Old Man to Marry her and himself Performing the Priest's Office Preach'd at the Espousals much in Commendation of the Bride But she not staying the Formality of nine Months after her Marryage and Teeming sooner the Old Man complain'd to this Archer who being assur'd of the Firmness of the wench and to Remove all suspicion of himself Pray'd that she might not be deliver'd of her Pains till she discover'd the true Father Which beyond his Expectation she did and put the Saddle upon the Right Horse And the Knaves of that Countrey getting this by the end forc'd him to shift ●is Quarters And he came up to London to whom the other Quakers gave the Right hand of Fellowship And there he Preached and exercis'd his Talent with great Approbation Till Failing in a Worldly as well as a Carnal sense he was put in Prison for Debt since the last Yearly Meeting Wherein whether he did not Assist as one of the Infallible the Infallible Friends will let us know But if he be not Fail'd in another sense a Prison will no more cool his Courage than it did Christopher Atkinson's another Preacher Prophet and great Author of the Quakers who wrote The Sword of th● Lord Drawn to cut down Churches Kingdoms and Nations yet Lightned his Heart with Thomas Symonds his Maid in Norwich Goal 1655. And none of the Infallible cou'd find it out till himself confess'd it You may see that sad story at Large in The Snake in the Grass Par. 2. p. 89. c. Yet none of these things nor Henry Winder's Quaker-witches nor 1000 other Instances can be given does abate any thing of the Quakers Pretence to an Infallible discerning Spirit to Judge all Persons and all things as well as Magistrates Kingdoms and Churches which G. Fox Positively asserts in his Great Myst p. 5.96 c. And says p. 89. That they can discern who are Saints who are Devils and who Apostates without speaking ever a word And Edw. Burrough in his Epistle Prefixed p. 7. Extends this to all and every of the Quakers To us says he every one of us in Particular And this Light gave us to discern between Truth and Error between every False and Right way And it Perfectly discover'd to us the true State of ALL THINGS And whoever wanted this Infallibility of Discerning the Quakers counted them False-Ministers Conjurers Witches Devils c This was their great Charge against the Church of England and others That because they did not Pretend to this Infallibility of Discerning therefore they were False Churches c. As Fox in his Great Mistery p. 94.107 c. And all this In all the Parts of it this last Yearly Meeting has Confirmed 3. But they support this not onely in words they take care to have their youth fully Tinctur'd with the same