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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

a Quaker's Book Intituled The Sword of the Lord drawn p. 5. viz. Your Imagined God beyond the Stars your Carnal Christ is utterly denied That Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lie To which he saith G. Whitehead does not deny the Quotation but says p. 145. We do not affect the Terms Then he adds Was not this a Terrible Rebuke a full Condemnation of the Author and such damnable Heresie p. 357. See how grosly Abusive and Partial this Snake Author is as if we do not affect the Terms were my whole Answer to those fore-going Expressions quoted by him wherein he appears as in many other things very unjust and injurious for I call them offensive Words in my Answer i. e. as quoted by him saying As to those Offensive Words your Carnal Christ your Imagined God c. we do not affect the Terms neither are they proper to the True Christ or Omnipresent God Antidote p. 145 146. but his Falacy in the Quotation I refer to the fore-going Treatise p. 204. I further add That an Imagined God and Imagined Christ is not the true God nor the true Christ which all meer Imaginations fall short of and of the true Knowledge thereof However I neither liked the said Offensive Words nor the Person that wrote them i. e. C. A. for he neither writ all he did in true Reverence toward God neither did he abide in His Fear or Council but was disown'd by us Therefore the Snake's Insinuation against me That he was a Friend in saying of them and had a good Intention as if I would so excuse him and his said offensive Words is utterly false for I never design'd to excuse or plead for him therein or in any other rash or irreverent Expressions And the Snak's Inferences against the Quakers in general As that all the World cannot excuse them from being the most Outragious and Blasphemous Heresie And that all Men must look upon the Quakers as Monsters and no Christians and their Ancient Friends with Blasphemies Heresies Treasons and damnable Doctrines c. p. 368. Thus concluding with a Storm of Railery when he has taken occasion to Calumniate and Condemn us all by Whole-sale from a few rash and offensive Expressions of one Person and perhaps from some other Words or Passages which many Thousands of us were never concerned in besides his many foul Perversions and partial and false Quotations and Citations And lastly he makes this Apology He must not surfeit the Reader with a Breakfast lest he lose his Stomach to his Dinner But should the Reader be so unwary as to make his Breakfast of such Cookery as the Snake's Railery Foul Abuses and dirty Stuff as he has Cooked against the People call'd Quakers 't would be enough not only to Surfeit but to Poison the Reader Now that I would not seem to conclude with harsh but mild Expressions as well as Matter of Moment I may a little farther take notice of his Profound Questionary Test to try if we are sound in the Faith viz. Whether they i. e. the Quakers believe in Christ as without them without all other Men Seeing our Adversary and his Confederates so much Insist upon the words without us Christ as without us and sometimes gives him the Character of an Outward Christ as if he were not an Inward Christ Inwardly Anointed I may take leave a little to follow them in their terms yet with a real Respect and Honour to the True Messiah the Very Christ the Anointed of God of whom all his Holy Prophets gave Witness Acts 10.4 namely we believe and confess that this very Christ of God the Only Begotten Son of God was conceived by the Holy Ghost and Born of the Virgin Mary without us that he was Born in Bethlehem of Judea without us that he liv'd an Innocent Sinless Life preached most Blessed and Excellent Doctrine without us that he wrought most Eminent and Wonderful Miracles without us that he went about doing Good without us that he was Crucified and put to Death by wicked hands without the Gates of Jerusalem without us that by the Power of God he revived and rose again the third day without us that after he was raised from the Dead he shewed himself Alive after his Passion by many Infallible Proofs unto his Disciples without us being seen of them forty days after which he Ascended into Heaven being seen to Ascend without us and a Cloud received him out of their sight who beheld him Ascend Unto whom it was said by the 2 Angels present This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1.3 9 10 11. and doubtless when he so comes and all his mighty Angels with him it will be in great Glory and open Triumph and he will in that day be greatly glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that believe 2 Thes. 1.7 8 9 10. But now I must not stop here we must not leave this same Jesus Christ all without us we must humbly consider and own him as He is within us also As Christ is the Word of God that true Light which enlightens every Man coming into the World John 1.9 He is within us As in Him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men He is within us his Life as the Light of Men is within us John 1.4 As Christ is the Light of the World given to lead Men out of Darkness and to give the Light of Life to all who follow him John 8.12 He is within Men within us to lead us out of that Darkness and Corruption that was in us As Christ is given for the Light of the Gentiles and for a Covenant unto the People and to be God's Salvation to the Ends of the Earth Isa. 42.6 49.6 Acts 13.47 He must be known as such within them Seeing his coming was that we might have Life and that we might have it more abundantly John 10.10 This Life we must have within us Jesus said If a Man love me he will keep my Words and my Father will love him and We will come unto him and make our abode with him John 14.23 which must be within us Abide in me and I in you saith Christ as the Branch cannot bring forth Fruit of it self except it abide in the Vine no more can ye except ye abide in me John 15.4 Therefore if we abide in Christ he abides in us The Branches must abide in the Vine to partake of the Life and Virtue thereof in them to cause Fruit. John 14.18 I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you said Christ. Ver. 20. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you Therefore we must know Christ within us if we be his true Followers John 17.22 23. Where Christ saith And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me And Ver. 26. And I have declared unto them thy Name and will declare it that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them What 's more clear than Christ's own Testimony for his Being within us i. e. within all his true Followers especially 2. Cor. 13.5 Examine your selves whether ye be in the Faith prove your own selves Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates Therefore they who are not Reprobates but in the Faith know that Jesus Christ is within them Colos. 1.27 To whom God would make known what is the Riches of the Glory of this Mystery which is Christ in you the hope of glory Therefore the Saints know Christ within them to be the Hope of Glory to them Gal. 4.6 And because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father The Son of God is therefore by his Spirit within us who are Sons of God Galat. 4.19 My little Children of whom I Travail in Birth again until Christ be formed in you Rom. 8.29 For whom he did fore-know he also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of his Son that he might be the first-born in many brethren 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In multis fratribus Therefore the Son of God is within them Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the door and knock if any Man hear my Voice and open the door I will come In to him and will sup with him and he with me Was not this the Son of God the Faithful and True Witness who thus spake ver 14 And where is that Door that must be opened unto him Many more Instances might be shewn for the nearness of Christ with and In his Faithful Followers and Members And Blessed are they who truly Believe in his Name and follow him in the Regeneration FINIS Ibid p. 6. Acts 5.36 37. Josephus p. 426 532. Printed 1683. Great Mystery p. 224. Snake p. 31. John 10.3.14.6 Luke 22.28 Mark 1.13 Mat. 4.6 7. John 7.49 Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae p. 21. art 51. Foot yet in the Snare Printed 1656. p. 6. Jam. Nayler Vid. Hierom. Apol. adv Ruff. ad Pammach Marcel Ep. 141. ad Marcel

altogether impossible for God to remit or forgive without a plenary Satisfaction and that there was no other way by which God could obtain Satisfaction or save Men than by inflicting the Penalty of Infinite Wrath and Vengance on Jesus Christ the second Person in the Trinity who for Sins past present and to come hath wholly born and paid it to the offended Infinite Justice of his Father This Reader is the Satisfaction or strict and rigid Notion of it which we do deny and which W. P. as quoted by the Snake p. 154. does totally exclude as anon I shall have occasion more largely to shew But that we do from hence deny the Satisfaction which Christ did make and which the Father did accept as mentioned and declared in Holy Writ is very false For we do believe that as our Saviour does declare John 10.18 No Man taketh it from me speaking of his Life but I lay it down of my self I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again This Commandment received I of my Father I say we do believe that as Christ had this Commandment and Power from the Father so by his pure divine free and voluntary Resignation Not as I will but as thou wilt Mat. 26.42 he did thereby endear the Father's Love unto him as himself declares v. 17. Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my Life And this his free and unconstrained voluntary Offering of himself as a Ransom for all did include his Agony on the Mount and his Agony on the Cross in fine It includes all his Sufferings both inward and outward whereby he became a compleat perfect and satisfactory Sacrifice and as such was accepted of the Father This briefly but truly and according to Scripture is a short account of the Satisfaction which we do positively own as the former is an account of the Satisfaction which we do positively deny But tho' we have in terms often more largely but to the purpose above declared our Sentiments herein Yet the Snake that he may in some respects imitate the grand Serpent and false Accuser does with his usual assurance speaking of this Doctrine say p. 151. Mr. Penn Blasphemes it as both Irreligious and Irrational But with his false Glossing neither shews what the Doctrine of Satisfaction is nor wherein W. P. doth Blaspheme it Now Reader for thy fuller Information herein I shall acquaint thee and that the rather because W. P. is the only particular Person of our Friends who the Snake in this Section does Hiss at briefly with the State of that Controversie which will give at least some Light to thy Judging of it About the Year 1670 or sooner as we have been seldom without opposition as now there was a Combination of Adversaries who writ many things against us and we then as now were not backward to inform the Honest Inquirer and reprove the Envious Slanderer by making publick our Scriptural Belief and Sentiments in those things wherein we were misrepresented and abused as the several Books of ours Printed about that time will plentifully shew Among other things wherein we were then falsly accused the Doctrine of Satisfaction was one And the line by which we were to be measured was not the Scripture but their own wrong Opinions of it which I have already mentioned p. 231. foregoing This among other things gave occasion to them Books of W. P's Reason against Railing Sandy Foundation shaken and the Serious Apology c. Innocency with its open Face Of which Books the Snake does make so much use as here and there to pick a Line or two and what is more unjust He heaps up 12 or more lines p. 152. without naming Book or Page and that must represent W. P's force tho' not his as there laid down and against this the Snake levels his Artillery and Determines of the whole Books and all the Quakers p. 154. They exceed the Impudence of the very Socinians in their bold Effrontry against this most Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Religion And notwithstanding a trifling excuse which the Snake here makes for his not proving his Charge I see not how he can avoid being thought exceeding Impudent so liberally to accuse and then fob the Reader off with saying Ibid. My business at the present being not to enter into the large Field of the Socinian Controversie but to shew the much misled generality of the Quakers Are they much misled because of his false Charge No himself is therein much misled But for proof against us we may expect what he saith Ibid. He hath wrote at large upon this Subject which may hereafter see the Light So that till his Darkness come to Light the Reader may if he please take our Adversary's word that we are much misled and exceed the Impudence c. I doubt not but to find a much more Impartial Judgment from my Sober Reader to whom I now apply my self and do acquaint him That W. P. in his Sandy Foundation c. does in great part imploy himself against that rigid and unscriptural Doctrine of Satisfaction which I have set down p. 231. foregoing Against which W. P. does in p. 14 c. cite at large the Scriptures hereafter refer'd to and shews the contrariety of this Doctrine to these Scriptures and some absurdities which unavoidably follow thereupon The Scriptures refer'd to are these Exo. 34.6 7. 2 Chron. 30.7 Neh. 6.17 Isa. 55.7 Jer. 31.31 to 34. Micah 7.18 Mat. 6.12 John 3.16 Acts 10.34 Rom. 8.31 32. 2 Cor. 11.5 18 19. Eph. 1.7 1 Pet. 5.10 1 John 4.9 These dispatch'd He further shews from reason under three Heads that this rigid Doctrine is not true from distinct Arguments raised that Jesus Christ did not give such rigid Satisfaction either as God or as Man nor as God and Man These for brevity sake I omit and come to some of those Irreligious and Irrational Consequences which W. P. does shew do arise from this their rigid Notion of Satisfaction the 5th 6th 7th of which are these which follow and by which the Snake says W. P. Blasphemes the Doctrine 5. It the Doctrine in p. 231. ut supra represents the Son more kind and compassionate than the Father Whereas if both be the same God then either the Father is as Loving as the Son or the Son as angry as the Father 6. It robs God of the Gift of his Son for our Redemption which the Scriptures attribute to the unmerited Love he had for the World in affirming the Son purchased that Redemption from the Father by the Gift of himself to God as our compleat Satisfaction 7. Since Christ could not pay what was not his own it follows that in the payment of his own the case remains still equally grievous since the debt is not hereby absolv'd or forgiven but transfer'd only and by consequence we are no better provided for Salvation than before owing that now to the Son which was