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A67209	Anguis flagellatus, or, A switch for the snake being an answer to the third and last edition of The snake in the grass : wherein the author's injustice and falshood, both in quotation and story, are discover'd and obviated, and the truth doctrinally deliver'd by us, stated and maintained in opposition to his misrepresentation and perversion / by Joseph Wyeth ; to which is added a supplement, by George Whitehead.	Wyeth, Joseph, 1663-1731.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. Snake in the grass.	1699 (1699)	Wing W3757; ESTC R16372	333,418	578

ever had any Estate in Impropriate Tythes and have not paid them to the Priests of which among the Nobility and Gentry especially there are very many He Proclaims he is not afraid to say they are Guilty of Sacrilege And what must be their Doom ●his next words tell where he says This Sin will not be forgiven without a Severe Repentance and Restitution What course they will think fit to take who are yet living I know not But if this be true which is the concluding part of that which he says he is not afraid to say Woe be to all such of them as are Dead For as while Living they made no Restitution to evidence to Repentance So being Dead there is no Repentance in the Grave And since without Repentance and that Severe too as well as Restitution he will not have this supposed Sin of Sacrilege to be forgiven what must become of all those Kings Lords Commons Nobility Gentry People of all sorts who since the first Dissolution of Abbies and in H. 8. time were possessed of Tythes and are Dead Has he not damn'd them to all Intents and Purposes And he that is not afraid to say this of them that are Dead what would he be afraid to do to those of them that be alive if he had power to his Will Ibid. p. 268. And let this be added to all that I have said that several Kings of England who had then the sole right and property in all the Lands of Enland have a-new dedicated by Particular Vows as Jacob Gen. 28.22 all the whole Tythes of the Land of England to God c. And to this of the Snake let this be added that had he not made further addition he had said untruths enough before Several Kings of England Let him instance if he can any one King of England who had the Sole Right and Property in all the Lands of England And next that any King either singly or jointly with his People did dedicate all the whole Tythes of the Lands of England to God And when he has done that or rather something towards it for what he has here said he can never make Good Let him also set forth the Grounds on which any such Vows were made that they may be compar'd with that of Jacob and that the Reader may see what Religion and Principles those Kings were of and for what reasons they made those Vows and dedicated Tythes as he says When this be done what he shall offer may be further Consider'd But his saying in the Close of this Paragraph That the same has been confirm'd by several Acts of Parliament shews his Partiality and Hypocrisie who can urge Acts of Parliament for Confirming but Damn not only Acts of Parliament but Parliaments and Kings too for putting any of those Tythes into Lay-hands Ibid. p. 269. It was the Friars and Schoolmen who first set up the Notion of Tythes being Eleemosinary And they the Quakers have only lick'd up the Spittle of the most Corrupt part of the Church of Rome and gone into the Scandal of our Reformation c. That Tythes were Eleemosinary was asserted maintained and defended not only by our Countryman Wickliff but by John Huss Jerome of Prague the Churches of Bohemia the Waldenses and others first Reformers from Popery Did all these Lick up the Spittle of the most Corrupt part of the Church of Rome What Protestant can hear that and not spit him that says it out from amongst them Ibid. But the High Places were not taken away The High Places among the Heathen and Corrupted Jews to which he here alludes were the Groves and Oratories where their Altars stood where they offer'd the Sacrifices and perform'd the Ceremonies of their Superstitious Worships Parallel to these in his Allusion must be those Houses which are commonly call'd Churches in which the Papists had their Alta●● and were wont to offer their Idolatrous Sacrifice of the Mass and perform the rest of their Superstitious Devotions These were not taken away Is that it he complains of Reader can'st thou pitty him that he had that occasion left him to Grumble Ibid. Our Iehu Reformer destroy'd indeed Baal out of the Land 2 Kings 10.28 29. but he departed not from the Sin of the Golden Calves Whom can he here mean by Iehu Reformer not Hen. 8. sure For he did not destroy Baal out of the Land if either by Baal the Snake here means the Idol then worshipped or as he has before express'd it the Baal of Tythes But left the Mass standing and the Popish Priests in the Exercise of it If they that came after whether Edw. 6. or Q. Eliz. when by suppressing the Mass they Destroy'd Baal departed not from the Sin of the Golden Calves which were Idols set up to be worshipp'd instead of Baal the more 's the Pity Thus this allusion of his to the Golden Calves with his former to the High Places makes not for the Credit of the Reformation or particularly of that Church which he pretends to be of Ibid. p. 270. They Simper with half a Mouth and say they mean it not against a Civil Protestant Government when no longer since than in their Yearly Epistle 1693. It is positively enjoin'd That none should Pay Tythes but refuse the payment thereof as an Antichristian Yoak of Bondage Which is least offensive to Simper with half a Mouth or tell a Lye with a whole Mouth as he does But setting aside his simple Flout of Simpering 'T is false that we did ever tell or endeavour to persuade the Civil Government that we refused Tythes to one sort of Priests or Men only for we have always refus'd them to all sorts of Demanders And therefore when in the Yearly Epistle 1693. it was advised not as the Snake says positively injoin'd That our Christian Testimony which we have greatly suffer'd for be born against the grand Oppression and Antichristian Yoak of Tythes It was but agreeable to our Practice since we were first a People and very good advice it was because agreeable to the Apostles Doctrine Ibid. Where do they find any Law of Christ against Tythes no they are not able to produce one word or any thing like it Hebrews the 7th affords enough if he will allow what is there written to be a Law of Christ against Tythes There are words enough to manifest that Tythes were abrogated by Christ as well as Circumcision Sacrifices and other things depending on the Ceremonial Law There it is said expresly vers 12. The Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law If it be ask'd what Law He had said before vers 5. They that are of the Sons of Levi who receive the Office of the Priesthood have a Commandment to take Tythes of the People according to the Law Hence it appears that by the Change of the Priesthood there was made also a Change of that Law according to which the Sons of Levi

in your high Nest of Liberty in the Lust and Pride and Filthiness of the Flesh. And in like manner he goes through many of the then Parties into which the People were divided and faithfully tells them their Trangression and admonishes to Repentance that so their then impending Destruction and which did come might have been averted And this is so far from being the effects of a Cursed Spirit or Hellish Thundrings and the opening of the Infernal Pit that it hath many Examples in Holy Writ in which God by his Prophets hath denounced and foretold grievous Desolations and Destruction which should come because of Transgression Thus the Prophet Amos 8.11 Jeroboam shall die by the Sword and Israel shall be led away Captive out of their own Land And the treatment he met with was much such as the Snake gives for we read in the 10th vers Then Amaziah the Priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam King of Israel saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the House of Israel the Land is not able to bear all his words Thus Amaziah and our Snake are of the same Mind who when a Prophet from the Lord declares his Will concerning the Disobedient these will have such a Prophet to Approve of and Glory in their Destruction Which horrid Imputation cannot appear in any thing to be more false than that these same Men with many of the Prophets of the Lord who have been concerned in like Messages have called in the Word of the Lord to Repentance and Amendment by which the Impending Judgments that they foretold should come might have been turned away and that there was need of Repentance King Charles in the Declaration before-mentioned has abundantly testified but of that I care not to be more large at present The Snake p. 208. next carps at a Book Entituled Good Council and Advice but mentions no more of the Title lest it should betray and destroy the purpose he quotes it for and testifie that the Writers of it were true Prophets it is thus Rejected by Disobedient Men. And the days of Oliver Cromwell 's Visitation passed over and also of Richard Cromwell c. Printed 1659. From which Book p. 27 36. the Snakes quotes thus and begins Oh Oliver arise and come out which is an abuse and false Quotation for these words in that Book do stand twelve Lines assunder and begins thus Oh Oliver hadst thou been Faithful And of this the Snake declares they did blow the Trumpet to Oliver effectually But it is very false for from the Title of the Book their Visitation passed over and from the event viz. Oliver's Death and Richard's being Cast out it appears otherwise Ibid. p. 208. And he further charges Oliver not to turn Sober Men and True Hearts out of his Army And a very good Charge it was Ibid. So it seems they esteem'd Fighting a Lawful and a Good Thing in a Good Cause because they thought it consistent with Sober Men and True Hearts According to what I have before observed p. 138. God not having disarmed himself of the Outward Sword he may and often hath for Causes seeming Good in his Sight put the Sword into the Hands of such whom he hath appointed to be the Ministers of his Anger against wicked Men and among these his Ministers we believe there very often is and hath been Sober Men and True Hearts according to those Discoveries of the Will of God which they have had And this we also know that if Sober Men and True Hearts who have been raised up by the Lord and made Instrumental in his Hand by the outward Sword to Castise His and His Peoples Enemies do humbly wait upon God to have further discoveries of his Will and thereby come into greater degrees of Obedience to the Holy Spirit of Christ the Peaceable Saviour they may at length come to see concerning them against whom God raised them up as Joshua in the word of the Lord recounts to Israel concerning their Enemies Jos. 24.12 And I sent Hornets before you which cast them out before you even the two Kings of the Amorites and not with thy Sword nor thy Bow For it is certainly true that those 〈◊〉 do come to that Spiritual Marriage with the Lord spoken of by the Prophet Hosea 2.9 they will witness the compleating of that Prophecy mentioned in the 18th verse of this Chapter And in that Day will I make a Covenant for them with the Wild Beasts and with the Fowls of the Heavens and with that that creepeth upon the Earth And I will break the Bow and the Sword and the Battle out of the Earth and will make them to sleep safely Ibid. p. 209. But since 1660. it is an Antichristian Doctrine Before and since 1660 even ever since we were a People it hath been our Principle and Practice not to use the outward Sword Ibid. One of the Orders given forth by their Yearly Meeting 1693. Commands that none should carry Guns in their Ships Our Yearly Meeting did never give forth any Commands but in Brotherly sort hath caution'd against those things which are not consistent with our Holy Profession of which this is one Ibid. p. 209. They presented G. K. as endeavouring to Subvert the Government which by their Law is Death because that in the 9 th and 10 th Articles of a Paper there Published called an Appeal from the 28 Judges c. he queried whether it was consistent with their Principle against using the Carnal Sword c. That it was not Because he Queried c. as the Snake falsly says he was presented but because of his indecent and tumultuary Behaviour the Declaration of the Sessions it self will best shew which I shall here quote from S. J's State of the Case p. 50 51. Their words are these Therefore for the undeceiving of all People we have thought fit by this Publick Writing not only to signify that our Procedure against the Persons now in the Sheriffs Custody as well as what we intend against others concerned in its proper place respects only that part of the said Printed Sheet viz. The Appeal which appears to have the tendency aforesaid that is Sedition Disturbance Subversion of the Government or aspersing the Magistrates and not any part relating to Difference in Religion c. Ibid. p. 210. But it is plain that they are not against Force of Arms when they like the Quarrel for they did not only encourage Oliver c. but they fought themselves against the King if you will believe G. F. who complains of many Quakers being Disbanded out of the Army and that for being Quakers tho' they were good Fighters It is false G. F. does not complain that any Quakers were disbanded much less that they were disbanded for being Quakers That which G. F. does here complain of is the Pride and Haughtiness of them to whom he writ and as an instance of their Apostacy from that tenderness towards Religious and

of God in the Consciences of them that without prejudice and with an equal mind do read them But if he denies the Thesis viz. That God can speak and make known his Mind now to Men Immediately by the same Spirit in and by which he spake to the Holy Prophets and Apostles Let him shew when and where God hath imposed that Silence upon himself and bound himself to speak no more in that Immediate manner by his Spirit to Men. Ibid. p. 246. And from the same Mouth of the Lord Tho. Ellwood denounces that they who pay Tythes c. How knows the Snake that Thomas Ellwood did not say he delivered it from the Mouth of the Lord Yet what he there delivered is true But if T. E. did not deliver it from the Mouth of the Lord but laid it down as a plain proposition deduced from Scripture and this abdicated Snake positively says he did From whose Mouth did the Priest denounce that Lye Unless from the Mouth of him who is the Father of them which is the more likely in that he wrongs T. E. in the Quotation also which he gives thus T. E. denounces That they who pay Tythes thereby deny Christ to be come in the Flesh which is a Mark of Anti-christ But T. Ellwood's words are They who pay Tythes do therein uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ and thereby deny Christ to be come in the Flesh which is a Mark of Anti-christ 1 John 4.3 The Snake by leaving out those words do therein uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ hath conceal'd from his Reader that part of T. E's proposition on which the remaining parts depended which he hath also done in p. 254. and repeated the same again with some addition in p. 273. to make the more noise for the proposition consists of three parts 1. That they who pay Tythes do therein uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ. 2. That by upholding a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ they deny Christ to be come in the Flesh. 3. That to deny Christ to be come in the Flesh is a mark of Anti-christ for proof of which Tho. Ellwood quoted 1 John 4.3 Now if the Snake can without nibling and taking T. E's words by piecemeal disprove them or the Authority on which they are built it may answer his purpose otherwise the Conclusion is Firm. Ibid. G. Fox in his decretal Epistle bearing date the 3 d. Month 1677. commands Severely that the Friends Testimony against Tythes be kept up with Vigor And yet none of these words Command Severely nor Vigor are in that Epistle which this Scoffing Snake calls Decretal The Quotation he gives out of that Epistle begins thus For any to cry against the Priests in words and yet to give them means and put into their Mouths he has left out here that they may not prepare War against you as not willing to publish that their Unchristian Practice is a Contradiction And is it not so Then he goes on And therefore take heed for if the Lord God do bless you with outward Creatures and you do bestow them upon Baal 's Priests the Lord may justly require the Outward Things from you again Here the Snake stops and covers with a what follows in the Epistle thus Who i. e. the Lord saith that his Christian Ministers should freely give as they have freely received of Jesus Christ. This the Priests don't love the People should hear of no by no means giving Freely is what they care not for And if for a Reason they offer and say they have not freely received though it be Truth yet it will be of no great Advantage But it seems by the Snake's quarrelling with this Quotation that he would have God's Creatures bestowed upon Baal 's Priests for which I should want a reason had I not this viz. That he himself might hope to get a share of them But we have not yet done with G. F's Epistle The Snake goes on with the Quotation thus So all the Preachers for Tythes and Mony and the Takers and Payers of Tythe must be testified against in the Lord's Power and Spirit Here he leaves off again dashing out several lines which mention the Spoil that had been made by the Tythe-mongers upon such as refused to pay them and the Judgments that have come upon those Persecuting Spoilers And therefore said G. F. in the next words In the Power of the Lord maintain the War against the Beast that is that Persecuting Spirit in the Priests and do not put into his Mouth c. To pervert this passage the Snake has printed it Beasts in the Plural that he might make way for a false and wicked Comment of his own that is says he as well Payers as Receivers of Tythes and that adds he is the whole Kingdom King and Parliament Whereas by those words and do not put into his Mouth c. which the Snake has left out it is very plain that G. F's words in that place related to those that exacted not to those that pay'd Tythes But as he hath perverted this Quotation to render the Quakers Obnoxious to the Government by insinuating as if they set up an Outward Authority against it So he craftily but falsly says G. F. concludes his Epistle abovesaid with these words Keep your Authority and Dominion Whereas that is not the Conclusion but after those words Keep your Authority and Dominion it follows in the Power and Spirit and Name of Jesus Which shews the War before mentioned was a Spiritual Warfare to be maintained by a Suffering Testimony and this also shews the Malice and Falshood of this Adversary Ibid. p. 247. There they wou'd perswade us that all they have said against the Payment of Tythes was only meant by them against the Payment of them to the Popish Clergy But by no means against the Right of the Church of England to their Tythes as settled upon them by the Civil Government This is false and the words he quotes from that Paper Signed on the Behalf of Friends and their Yearly Meeting do not say or imply it There is not in them any acknowledgment of any Right the Church of England hath to Tythes He goes on and quotes from that Paper We are not convinced that it can be against the Fundamental Laws of the Land either to deny Tythes What when the Law enjoyns them The Law and that made in the same Reign and not much after that which was the first express Statute-Law for Tythes enjoyn'd owning of the 6 Articles viz. Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Altar Auricular Confession c. Was that a Fundamental Law of the Land The Martyrs that then chose rather to suffer Death in Flames of Fire than keep it did not think so Again are not all Acts of Parliament though made in Popish Times Fundamental Laws of this Realm Tho' such as were made about Religion for if they had either the Popish Religion must have yet

who received the Office of the Priesthood had a Command to take Tythes of the People What can be plainer Yet more if needed might be urged from vers 18 where it is said There is verily a disannulling of the Commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof What Commandment was this which was disannulled That Carnal Commandment mentioned vers 5 16. after which the Levitical Priesthood was made and maintain'd Here then that Law that Commandment by which the Levitical Priesthood took Tythes of that People is declar'd to have been chang'd and that Change explain'd by the word Disannulled If this be not one word against Tythes or any thing like it Let the Reader Judge Ibid. But on the Contrary there are plain Intimations in the Gospel of their Continuance particularly 1 Cor. 9.13 14. Intimations Oh! Oh! is it come to that must the world be Decimated by Intimations Does God's Right God's Due God's Tythes depend upon Intimations at last Must all our Kings and Parliaments from Hen. 8. till now all the Nobility Gentry and others concern'd in with-holding Impropriations from the Priests be Damn'd for Sacrilege upon Intimation only This sufficiently Intimates what sort of Fellow this Snake must be Well let us see how plain his Intimations are 1 Cor. 9.13 14. The words of the Text are Do ye not know that they which Minister about Holy Things live in the Margin feed of the things of the Temple And they which wait at the Altar are Partakers with the Altar Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel Here 's not so much as the Name of Tythes and will he call this a plain Intimation that Tythes should be continu'd So far from it that this place neither speaks of Tythes nor the Levites who took them For to the Levites were the Tythes given Numb 18.21 not to the Priests they were to have but the Hundredth Part the Tythes of the Tythes vers 26 27 28. and the Levites were so far from Ministring about the Holy Things that they were not permitted to touch them Numb 4.15 No nor to see them vers 20. on pain of Death But Aaron and his Sons the Priests were commanded to take down the Tabernacle upon any remove and to pack up and cover close all the Parts and Utensils therof vers 5 c. before the Levites might come near to take up and carry their Burdens which was the service of the Tabernacle they were appointed to But it is evident that the Apostle 1 Cor. 9.13 spake not of the Levites but the Priests them that Ministred about Holy Things them that waited at the Altar them that Liv'd Eat or Fed of the Things offer'd on the Altar and so partook with the Altar Hence this place is so far from Intimating a continuance of Tythes that if a continuance of any thing were intimated here it must be a continuace of those Offerings at the Temple and at the Altar which belonged to the Ceremonial Law which as on all occasions the Apostle shews was abrogated so he would in no wise Intimate the continuance of it But further if the Apostle had spoke of the Levites and mentioned the Name of Tythes in his comparison yet his Allusion to those Legal and Shadowy things wou'd still have as what he mentions hath served his purpose very well to convince the Corinthians that since Christ had ordained Luke 10.7 8. that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel as well as they who under the Law ministred about Holy Things and waited at the Altar were then to partake with the Altar And thus he and the rest of the Apostles might freely and without blame live of the Gospel while they preached the Gospel by receiving such necessaries as were freely offered them by those that received and embraced the Gospel Ibid. p. 271. But we need no new Commandment for them in the Gospel if they are not forbidden and abrogated by Christ. The contrary way of arguing is of more force viz. There needed not a positive or express Prohibition or verbal Abrogation of Tythes in the Gospel For if they are not expresly Commanded to be continu'd under the Gospel they are not of force that Law being temporary by which they were Commanded and now expired It was adapted to the Oeconomy of the Jews made to answer that Dispensation appropriated to that Levitical Tribe and Typical Priesthood restrained to the Land of Canaan no other spot of Ground under the Sun being Tythable by vertue of that Law and all this limitted to the Time of Reformation Heb. 9.10 The coming of Christ in the Flesh and offering up himself to his Father on the Cross an Attonement for Mankind So that an Express Abrogation of Tythes in the Gospel was no more necessary than an Express Repeal of an Act of Parliament which was but Temporary and would expire of course at the end of that Term for which it was appointed Ibid. They are no part of the Typical or Ceremonial Law and nothing else of the Law was abrogated by Christ. Indeed Snake this is striving against the Stream and giving the Lie to Protestant Writers both at home and abroad For the Readers satisfaction I shall mention some Dr. Fulk on Heb. 7. § 4. says The payment of Tythes as it was a Ceremonial Duty is obrogated by Christ. Dr. Willet in his Synopsis of Popery before quoted Fifth General Controversie p. 314. arguing against the Rhemists who with the Snake affirm'd that the payment of Tythes is a Natural Duty that Men owe to God in all times and to be given to his Priests in his behalf for his Honour says St. Paul saith in flat words If the Priesthood be changed of necessity also there must be a change of the Law Heb. 7.12 But the Priesthood of the Law is altered and changed ergo also the Law of the Priesthood and so consequently the Ceremonial Duty of Tythes Thomas Wilson in his Christian Dictionary on the word Tythes tho a zealous contender for them acknowledges that they were a Shadow and Figure as other Oblations were figuring Christ. Among Foreigners I shall first instance Chemnitius in Harm Evang. C. 109. He having distinguished Tythes into Political and Ecclesiastical says of the Ecclesiastical Tythes thus Porro quia ex hac Disputatione Christi cum Pharisaeis patet Christum decimarum solutionem inter Ceremoniales Leges rejecisse opponit enim iis Judicium Charitatem Dei hoc est forenses morales Leges Ceremonialis autem Lex per adventum Christi est sublata ideo non inepte quaeritur c. Moreover seeing by this Dispute of Christ with the Pharisees it appears that Christ threw off the payment of Tythes among the Ceremonial Laws for to them he opposes Judgment and the Love of God that is the Judicial and Moral Laws and the Ceremonial Law is taken away by the Coming of Christ therefore