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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

Arrogate the Name of Christ to themselves As Isaac Pennington says in his Book above quoted p. 27. Doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole Body and and every Member of the Body as well as to the Head Are they not all of 〈◊〉 yea All one in the Anointing Nor is the Apostle ashamed to give them the Name Christ together with him 1 Cor. XII 12. The Body is the same with the Head Thus they Reckon their own Blood to be the Blood of Christ And to be that Blood which Cleanseth from Sin As you may Read in a Book of theirs called The Guilty Clergy-Man Vn-vailed by T. S. Printed 1657. Where p. 17. He tells their Persecutors as he stil'd them That you will by no means be thence Cleansed i. e. from the Guilt of the Quakers Blood B●● by the same Blood which you so Cruelly shed 4. This was the Reason of their frequent Idolatries to George Fox giving him the Titles and Attributes of God Falling Prostrate before Him and Adoring Him with these Appellations Thou art the Son of the Ever Living God the King of Israel All Nations shall Worship thee c. Which I have not onely from their Books Quoted in The Snake in the Grass but from Eye-Witnesses They said This was not to the outward George Fox But to the Christ or Light within him And no otherwise wou'd they allow to Worship CHRIST while upon the Earth i. e. Not the outward Person of Christ which they make to be nothing but a Vail or Garment And they cannot call the Bodily Garment Christ But to the Christ or Light within Christ They will sometimes allow That Christ had a greater Measure of Christ or The Light than G. Fox And G. Fox than other of the Friends But I cannot see how they can allow this For if none can Partake of an Infallible Spirit without Partaking of the Infallibility of the Spirit which is the Quakers Plea for Infallibility Then must All Partake of it Alike for there are no Degrees in Infallibity And thus every Quaker must be equally Infallible and equally Adorable And I have been told that when some Quakers have been Reprov'd for Bo●●ng one to another tho they wou'd not do it to the Men of the World contrary to their Principle of not giving Honour to Man They have Answered That they did not Bow to the Man but to the Light within him which they take to be God Thus Committing Wild Idolatry to one another while they deny Civil Honour to others 5. Isaac Pennington as above Quoted calls the Blood of Christ the Blood of the outward Earthly Nature And George Whitehead in his Light and Life c. oft mentioned before p. 58. In excuse of that Blasphemous saying of Solomon Eccles's That the Blood which was forced out of Christ'● side by the Spear Was no more than the Blood of another Saint says That ●t was no more Simply as to the Essence of Blood And Argues That Se●ing the Children had Flesh and Blood and Christ took Part of the same how was it more or another simply as to the matter of Blood Yet Thomas Ellwood in his present Answer when he wou'd ward off the Consequence of Christ's Body being the same in substance which it was upon Earth and so a true Humane Body still which was urg'd upon G. Whitehead crys out p. 205. As in a surprize But hold a little Did G. Whitehead ever call or own Christ's Body now in Heaven or while it was on Earth to be Terrestrial or of the Earth J. P. calls it the Earthly Nature And G.W. says that it was the same with ours as to the Essence or matter of Blood Yet says T.E. where did G.W. ever call it Terrestrial or of the Earth Thus do these Men turn and wind their Hypothesis at every Pinch They cannot make it hang together The truth is They are Bewildred and know not what they say 6. The Quakers have an outward and an Inward Flesh of Christ The outward they make nothing of no more than of the Flesh of any other Good Man But their Faith is in the Inward Flesh i. e. Their Light within And this onely is it which with them do's take away Sin G. Fox in a Paper which he directs To all People in Christendom concerning Christ's Flesh which was offered c. Printed 1671. p. 55. Sets forth in a Monstrous Jargon for he cou'd Write no otherwise this Inward Flesh of Christ as Crucify'd c. when Adam Fell. And in this Flesh says he is the Belief that takes away the Sin This G. Keith objected And says Thom. Ellwood in his Answer p. 207. That G. Fox there speaks of Christ according to the Flesh Crucify'd And was not this his outward Flesh Says T. E. What! That was Crucify'd when Adam Fell● This is too Gross Thomas to put upon us Then he says he has not seen the Book That he remembers and knows not how faithfully G. Keith recites out of it Tho G. K. said that he had the Book and sets down G. Fox's words at Large And p. 51. Of his Narrative Invites all that Pleas'd to see the Books which he had Quoted at his House And if T. E. disdain'd to go or send thither he might no doubt have purchased a sight of that Book many other ways Which I a greater stranger to their Books have done And found the Quotation exact except one Typographical Error Viz. The Life Read which in G. Fox's Book is The Life Read An usual Cant among the Quakers who cry often Read within Read within i. e. Hearken to The Light within And G. Fox in this place to let them know what sort of Flesh of Christ he spoke of And what sort of offering of that Flesh says The Life Read i. e. Read or understand that I mean all I have said of the Life or Light within But take the whole sentence It is p. 50. of Fox Speaking of the offering of Christ when Adam Sinned So through this offering says he is the Reconciliation through the offering of that Flesh that 〈◊〉 Corrupted but takes away Corruptions and his Blood Cleanseth from Corruption The Life Read There is much more there to the same purpose besides what G. K. hath Quoted T. E. next Complains how hard it was for G. Keith to fall thus upon his old Friend G. Fox and tells how good an opinion G. Keith once had of him Well Let that Pass I suppose he has alter'd his opinion as of G. F. So of G. W. T. E. and several others And he has fully satisfy'd the World that he had good Cause so to do And I verily believe that what he did was out of a Principle of Conscience For he has got nothing by his Change but Losses and great Abuse The Quakers Prosecuted him for his Life in Pensilvania And had nor a New Governour Colonel Fletcher come there in time he had in all Probability been Condemn'd the Quakers

being both his Prosecutors and Judges And since he came to England he has been Persecuted with the strife of Tongues Excommunicated and Ruin'd as much as in their Power who before did highly Honour and Support him Nor has he put himself in any other way that might Ballance these Losses So that he has visibly gone against his Worldly Interest And what other Motive cou'd he have but Conscience to Enable him in a single War against so Many and such Potent Adversaries But he Fought for the great Fundamentals of the Christian Religion which the Quakers had vilely cast away And than Spirit which Inspir'd them has Arm'd all their Rage against him But the Truths which he contends for has Prevail'd so far against them as to force them to at least a Feigned Complyance with the Doctrine that he Teaches which they Pretend always to have held as he now does And thereby Condemn their Excommunication of him ● unjust since they have Publickly at ●urners-Hall Declar'd that they had no objection against him as to his Morals 7. T. E. often calls upon G. K. for a Reply to his Truth Defended which he wrote in Answer to a Book of G. Keiths called A List of Vile and Gross Error c. But T. E. shou'd first have given a Full Answer to that Book and to another Book of G. K's called Gross Error and Hypocrisie Detected which T. E. pretends to Answer in this present Answer to the Naratin● Particularly p. 20 21. Where G. K disputes against this the very Fundamental Error of Quakerising which is Transferring the Merit and Satisfaction of the outward Sufferings and Sacrifice of the outward Christ to their Fancy'd Sacrifice and Sufferings of the Inward Christ or Light within G. K. there produces their own words as justify'd by W. Penn G. Whitehead c. Viz. Christ in us offereth himself a Living Sacrifice to God for us by which the wrath of God is appeased to us And again Christ offers himself In his Children in the Nature of a mediating Sacrifice To this says G. K. I will set down his words because they are short and Material ● satisfaction be totally Excluded which are W. P's words before Quoted because a Sin or Debt cometh both Paid and Forgiven what ●●d is 〈◊〉 is there of a Mediating Sacrifice of Christ within Men more that without them Secondly seeing it is the Nature of all Sacrifices for Sin that they be sl●●n and their Blood shed how is Christ sla●● in his Children and when For we Read in Scripture that Christ ●●●th in the Faithful as he did in Paul but not that he is slain in them Thirdly If any sla● the 〈◊〉 of Christ in them by their S●ns doth not that hinder the Life to be a Sacrifice by G. Whitehead's Argument That the Killing of a Christ outwardly being the Act of Wicked Man cou'd be no ●eritorious Act Fourthly Where doth the Scripture say Christ offers 〈◊〉 self In h●s Children a Sacrifice for 〈◊〉 Fifthly Is not this to make more ●acrifices or at least to say that Christ offer himself often yea Millions of ti●●s contrary to Scripture that saith Christ offered himself once Sixthly Why cou'd no Beast under the Law that had a Blemish be offered but to signify that Christ was to offer up himself in no other Body but that which was without Sin Seventhly Why was it Prophesied of Christ A Body hast thou Prepared me why not Bodies many if he offer up himself in the Bodys of all the Saints Eightly Is not this to make th● Sacrifice of Christ in his own Body of less value and Efficacy than his Sacrifice in W. Penn's Body Because the sacrifice in that Body which was offered at Jerusalem was a Type but this in W. Penn's Body the Anti-Type That the History This the Mystery As he calls i● in his Answer to John Faldo p. 336. 337. Ninthly Doth not this strengththen the Papists in their false Faith That Christ is daily offered in the Mass and Vn-bloody Sacrifice Now T. E. in his Truth Defended p. 148. Falls upon defending W. P. for calling Christ but the History and the Light within the Mistery after his usual manner of making the matter still worse But very civilly slips all the rest above Quoted which is the Jugulum Causae the very Heart of our Controversy with the Quakers And yet calls his Book an Answer to G. K. and Insults because he has not got a Replication But he must first amend his Long-short Answer Or let him put in an Additional Answer as to the Nine Reasons above nam'd against their Inward Sacrifice And then we will come with him when he pleases upon the Merits of the Cause III. 1. I have before taken notice of the great Moderation and stay'd Judgment of the Quakers in not Rashly passing Judgment upon any without duely and seriously weighing the Consequence of the Charge and the Defence of the Accused and the utmost Good meaning that cou'd be put upon words Of which T. E. shews a Remarkable instance p. 124. of his Answer Where in Return to G. K. who wou'd have had them to have Censur'd as Blasphemous that Doctrine of a Prophet of their own Sol. Eccles. Viz. That the Blood of Christ was no more than the Blood of another Saint T. E. Answers That if G. Whitehead to whom G. K. spoke had been as Hot Headed as G. K. perhaps he might But that Blasphemy is an High Charge and they that understand it aright are not so Forward as G. K. it seems wou'd be to Brand Persons with it for every unsound expression When I Quoted this above I laid before these Moderate Men how freely they had Branded all the Christian World for they have greater Tenderness towards the Heathen whom they make the next True Christians to themselves as Apostates Blasphemers Devils Conjurers c. For making the outward Christ an object of their Faith I will now shew you what other weighty Causes they have Decreed to be Blasphemy Viz. Any opposition whatsoever made to Them or their Diana the Light within In a Renowned Book of theirs Intituled The West Answering to the North. Printed 1657. Containing some of the Travels and Labours of their Fox Apostle and other of his Cubs there is 〈◊〉 down p. 1. A Blasphemous Bantering Paper of his turning the Christ to the Light within which will bring you says he off all the Worlds Teachers and Ways and Doctrines i. e. Off all the Doctrines and Teachers in the World All that Preach an outward Christ Which Paper being justly call'd Sinful and Wicked Than which says the said Book p. 12. What Higher Blasphemy is there greater Abomination or more Horrible Wickedness Take another Instance One William Rogers a Quaker of Bristol happen'd to differ with the other Quakers about their Womens Meetings Concerning Leaving Friends at Liberty to Pay Tythes if their Light so directed and some such other things And he wrote a Book upon