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A67845	A snake in the grass, caught and crusht, or, A third and last epistle to a now furious deacon in the Church of England, the Reverend Mr. George Keith with some remarks on my former epistles to him, especially that against plunging in baptism / by Trepidantium Malleus.	Trepidantium Malleus.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing Y87; ESTC R25218	11,121	25

Luke 1.6 And they were hath Perfect walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blamelesly 1. Why good Mr. Keith were Zachary and Elizabeth commended for walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of Men No the Pharisees were severely Censur'd for this by our Lord and so the Churches by Paul With an in vain do you worship me And I am afraid of you I hope Sir you have not lost your Senses if you were so weak to think we had lost ours 2. Can you charge any of us against whom you most set your sellf at that time with not walking in the Commandments and Ordinances of God Your Work lay then not with the Quakers Zachary observ'd Circumcision Sacrifices c. Not washing of Hands Philacteries We observe Baptism and Lord Supper not Cross nor Surplice No wonder I over-heard a Clergy-man say in the Church your Sermon was nothing to the Text. Was it not a lovely sight to hear you declaring against Schism who soon lept from Turners Hall after the Sacrament receiv'd to a publick Church To tell us you were only as a Catechist there or that the Bishop gave his Consent is poor thin Sophistry what is his Lordship such a Plenipotentiary as if all Power were given to him in Heaven and in Earth That he can make Schism no Schism and Lay-mens Preaching lawful without Ordination You were pleas'd to tell us That there were no lawful Sacraments where was no lawful Administrator That no Man was a lawful Administrator but one Ordain'd by a Bishop c. That all other Churches wanted what was integral Episcopacy I thank you that on my Letter to you you were pleased to leave this out in the Printed Sermon Dared you thus to fly in the Faces of the Reformed Churches Holland Geneva and now blessed be Cod Scotland and other Churches who own Presbytery and that by Divine Right For those Protestant Churches that have Bishops they only preside in Synods and out of them are as other Men no Spiritual Courts c. Such an Episcopacy and Bishop Vsher's Episcopacy many Presbyterians would yield to You know Bp. Jewel Bp. Davenant and others Even Mr. Hooker himself in his Eccles Pol. as well as honest Bishop Crofts in his Naked Truth abhorr'd your Notions These never thought Episcopacy of Divine Right nor doubted the validity of Presbyterian Ordinations beyond Sea You cannot be ignorant That when two Scottish Ministers were made Bps. in the Reign of James the 1st when one objected their not having Episcopal Ordination how sharply he was reproved by a Prelate and others for his Objection Laud that Semi-Protestant talkt as you do he and you have but little Thanks from your own for such bold Assertinns If you are a Laudensian already Sir what will you be next A Cardinal's Cap was offer'd him I hope God will keep you from the Temptation When one talkt before the present Bishop of London at your rate he gravely and wisely said He was ●ot there to judge Christian Churches These wilde Notions I have consider'd in my two fore-named Books and there I refer and if you think it convenient to Reply Answer me there as well as here It was not long since you told the Anabaptists they were in the right about the Subject and Form of Baptism Some are pleas'd to say I Cured you of these Errors Then Independency was the best Government but for Presbytery I confess you never had a good Word then and why because they were not pure enough in admission to the Lord's Table Yet gave a jump to Episcopacy I thought you would as soon turn to the Church of Rome You are now gotten among pure Communicants The Church was lately in the Wilderness and you had found in the Revelations she would not come out these Thirty Years Well seeing the Mountain will not come to Mahomet Mahomet will go to the Mountain Seeing the Church will not come out of the Wilderness to you you are gone to her in the Wilderness so it is to get her Blessing too whilst you live You then told your Friends Baptism was an Ordinance of Christ but there was not an Administrator upon Earth To be plain I wish That as you have long left the Quakers for talking of a Christ within not of a Christ without you have not run among them that talk of a Christ without not of a Christ within I was not a little surpriz'd looking lately into your Quakerism no Popery A Book done with all imaginable Subtilty to find you assert Perfection in the Quakers Sense and Phrases and with Robert Barclay on 1 John 1.8 to distinguish aliud est peccare aliud peccatum habere And what I found in your Immediate Revelation you may imagin Are you not changed in Principles Had W. C. harped on these things I had never written my Reprimand Whoever heard you 1. Hearty in the Confession of sin to this Day 2 Sigh or shed one Tear for deluding Thousrnds of Souls to Quakerism Deism as you now call it How come you to have so many good Words for the Papist in the Sermon I heard I am inform'd you are desir'd to tell us where as you say Mr. Baxter said The Sign of the Cross was no more than the putting of a Thread about a Man's Fingers to put him in mind of what he wou'd remember 1. Women and Children more do thus then Wise Men. 2. I remember no such Words of his tho' I have read so many of his Books But he declared often he could not conform here In his Life written with his own Hand he call'd it p. 199 a Hemane Sacrament a Transient Image Are not your Studies fill'd not only with Calvin's Work but Mr. Pool's Synopsis the Works Of Dr. Owen and other great Dissenters as well as our Studies with some of your Bishops Works When where and how got Bp. ●tillingfleet Bp. Tillotson and other Bishops and Clergy-men their Learning That you talk at such an idle rate as if the Cabalistical Notions were still working in your Head or Transmigration of Souls That all our Souls were in Adam's Head as Legions of Divels in one Man Are you ●u●ed ●ere Was it proper to tell us at Turner's Hall That you believed M. Penn and the Quakers would find Mercy with God notwithstanding their Errors and yet offer to prove they owned not one Article of the Christian Faith and yet that Faith in a outward Crucified Christ was necessary to Salvation These are Mysteries I cannot fathom nor any Man else 2. Is it proper to tell us what Refreshment you find at Common-Prayer Once in Quakerism I knew a Man that would say all Drinks were sweet to him strong or small fresh or dead One said he found great Refreshment when he saw the King's Head cut off 3. Was it proper to tell us of your Conversion and Change of Heart before a Quaker and when so No Sir deceive not your self you were no Convert when you

as is commonly said Have we one High-Priest c. Go then to the Church of Rome What Church could Zacary or Elizabeth if they separated go into c. My Old Friend but new Enemy you have a Male many Males in your Flock ability of speaking aptly to God by Prayer and to the People by Counsel in Sacraments and other Ministerial Administrations Offer not to the Lord a corrupt Thing for he is a great King Offer it to thy Governour see whether he would accept it Should Ingeniou● Mr. Keith make a Speech to K. William and in the close pray for his welfare would he be pleas'd to see him take out a Book and read another Mans Speech and Prayer before him VVould you could you read the Liturgy in your Family Morning and Evening I believe not You generally approve not of the lazy Creatures that do tho they may plead that Ignorance you cannot If not tell me Sir at parting Can you imagin God is well pleased with that lazy careless VVorship of yours in his own House That you or not only most serious Men but sober Men cannot be pleased with in their own Is this to stir up the Gift of God in thee Dare you to offer to the Lord that which cost you nothing If you do create me any Trouble for my Plainness as some think you will I plead you are the Aggressor I onely the Defendant I am against any Dissenters beginning with you if you with us I pray give us leave to Reply and vindicate our Cause against your Charge if not to be plain we will take it If you are set already on Persecution do your worst I only say of my self The VVill of the Lord be done Tho you closed your Sermon I heard without one VVord of Prayer to God I will not end my VVork so with you who as I am inform'd every where Preach against all Dissenters The Lord rebuke thee And now Mr. Deacon let me know your Office and how you come by it A Deacons Work is to take care of the Poor Have you left the Word of God to serve Tables A Deacon to Preach to Baptize and give only one Element in the Lord's Supper is not a Creature of God's making but Mans or To Ordain to Preach and not permit to do it without a License after what shall we call it You may go up and down with your Prayer-Book to Baptize and so regenerate more then we Non-cons can do by all our preaching For when you have mumbled out a few VVords and Baptized a Child he is regenerated and born of the Spirit immediatly and if he die before he hath committed any actual Sin he is undoubtedly saved Since we are all guilty of Schism in our Meetings when you were not so at Turners-Hall because you had the Bishop's leave as you pleaded Do you think if the Bishop gave us leave to do as we do we were clear of the odious Crime of Schism you and your Fraternity charge on us If we be in danger of going to Hell for Schismaticks will he not have so much pity on our Souls to speak one word to save us from endless Misery VVere you a Catechist as you say what Catechism taught you then or who were the Children or younger sort so taught You chose a Text rais'd Doctrines made Uses as others do to my Knowledge This Plea was the most Non-sensical Harangue I ever heard from Mr. Keith When you talk of the Ignorance of some Scottish Presbyterians I pray remember Thousands of the Sons of the Church What get you by such Stories as these you talk of Of a Scottish Presbyterian that Catechis'd a young Man in the Church Q. Who made Man A. God Q. Who made Woman A. I cannot tell that is not in my Catechisme Q. Who made the Deel Devil A. I cannot tell Minist God made him A. Did he I think it was the worst Days mork that ever he did Do not such Ignorant Cattle abound every where Seeing you and many of your Communion often urge Mr. Baxter's Authority or Opinion against us I pray you consider How in his English Nonconformity a large Book written since the Revolution he tells us what manner of Saints be in your Church He says a certain Doctor of Physick gave an Account That Eight Hundred Persons in such a time dyed of the French Pox in London Now said the Brisk Old Gentleman if Enquiry were made I doubt not there could not be found Eight of those Eight Hundred but what were of your Church except some good honest Women who got it of their Husbands of that Communion He that pretended to give an Answer to that Book Wrote like one who understood not Five Pages in it But what a Noise is hear Mr. Baxter said this and Mr. Baxter granted that What then It may be a foul a very foul Error for all that Mr. Baxter was neither yours nor ours He disown'd himself to be a Presbyterian we thank him You that talk so much oh the excellency of Peace and Union but will not part with Ceremonies for it Consider the Story Mr. Alsop told Dr. Stillingfleet almost Twenty Years since They were like that Gentleman who pretended to be at Deaths-Door for a Coy Lady that refus'd him but she being importun'd by his Friends to accept the Gentleman and save his Life said let him then Clip his Whiskers He being told this reply'd I will not part with one Hair of my Face for any Lady in the Land King Charles pleas'd himself with the Story and its Application and said Mr. A. gave a true Character of the Men he described You see Sir I am not yet in the Number of your Defamers I dare not say if George Keith and not William Pen had taken the Chair when George Fox dyed we had never heard of George Kieth the Reformed Quaker I believe Dr. Hicks and Mr. Lashly two strenuous Advocates for the Church of England have reconcil'd you to Liturgies Ceremonies ●nd Episcopacy They who call you Aesop forget what a Wise Man Aesop was and who said He hath made us and not we our selves With out a Complement I know I yet Love you and value you for those acomplishments God hath blest you with you are a Man of Thought and if it plea●●d you to Visit as before you should be as Welcom● to me as ever without harping on any unpleasant String but seeing you refuse this and love not a Dissenter I only say I am sorry I have lost so good so Ingenious a Friend to serve whom I wolud yet ride or go far Give over Preaching up every where Conformity to the vain Traditions of Men or censuring the best of Churches But Cry aloud spare not Lift up your Voice like a Trumpet shew to the lasy Prelates and Priests their Transgresions and to the Drunken Swearing Whoring Members and Communicants of the so Call'd Church of Eegland their Sins I never doubted but among you on the one Hand and the Anabaptists on the other are found some as God like men as are in the World and pray you may be in the Number I hate the least thought of doubting any Mans Integrity or State for his Opinion in these Matters I dare not say such a Man wrongs his Conscience Sins against his Light I did not when I read or rather say'd without Book the Liturgy or attended on it Neithe● may Mr. Keith as far as I know The Searcher of Hearts knows from what Principles he Acts and what ends he propounds to himself He now knows or may know and Men and Angels shall know another Day Blessed is the Name and Memory of Humble Bp. Vsher Devout Bp. Hall Holy Dr. Connot and others and Zealous Dr. Hornick of whom I know extraordinary instances of Converse with Heaven May the Name and Memory of my Dear Old Friend Mr. Keith be blessed also Some ask us may a Man be saved in the Church of England Yes what need then of Nonconformity I ask May a man live on Barly-Bread and Water Yes What need then of good Meat and good Drink May a Man live and go up and down London streets Winter and Summer naked above the Wast Yes A Jacobite did it several Years what need then of a shift or Coat about these Parts May a Man be in a House with them that Dye with the Itch Small Pox or Plague it self and yet live Yes what need then leaving that House Need enough tho the Separation were call'd Schism and forbidden by the civil Magistrate with penal Laws I suppose you will quickly hear from others If from Mr. Owen I pitty you Consider I pray you what he hath done above most Men about Ordination by Presbyters not Bishops As many Reformed Quakers have gon back again on the News of your Conformity so I doubt more will Are you to be made a Biship Have you not been already Consecrated in a Dream I would rather you were s 〈…〉 times then once otherwise M 〈…〉 know the Story Bp. Latimer mentions in one of his Sermons of a Bishop that thundered when he saw one of the Bells want a Clapper one pointed to the Pulpit there is a Bell that hath been without a Clapper for two years past provide one there Mind not great Sir Toys and Trifles with the neglect of the great Matters of the Law The good words you have for the Papists do the Dissenters a kindness under your keen Censures of them Grotius had not one good Word for Calvin gets up all the little Stories he could agginst him a● Judica● prout 〈…〉 mas odisti amas odisti prout libet c. Nay toucheth him as to his Morals when learned Papist have been his Compurgators here as Mr. Baxter hath learnedly and unexceptionally proved in his Key for Catholicks yet he had many a good word for the Catholicks for so he always call'd the Papists at last he says That Humour or a spirit of opposition or words of the same import made some charge them with Idolatry when they were no more guilty of it then the Jews in looking towards the Ark and about Transubstantiacion he talks of Transelementation Grotius Appendix Are not such good Sons of the Church of England which in her Homilies and Liturgy charges the Church of Rome with Idolatry FINIS