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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

do such great Things how much more wou'd a Godly Zeal for Truth and Religion Prevail V. Thomas Ellwood wou'd turn all the Vile Billingsgate-Railing of the Quakers against the Church of England and others into a Pure Godly Zeal But W. Penn has very Justly Corrected any such Defence in his Address to Protestants 1st Edit p. 242. and of the 2d Edit p. 246. Where he speaks like a Christian and a Gentleman thus They that are Angry for God Passionate for Christ that call Names for Religion and fling Stones and Persecute for Faith may tell us they are Christians if they will but no body wou'd know them to be such by their Fruits To be sure they are no Christians of Christ's making G. Keith in his Narrative having quoted this and objected W. Penn's own Practice as very opposite to it of which he gives some Imstances particularly in his Guide mistaken Printed 1668. p. 18. Where he falls upon The Idle Gormandizing Priests of England as he calls our Clergy and says That No sort of People have been so universally through Ages the Bane of Soul and Body of the Vniverse as that Abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is Reserved to Act their Eternal tragedy upon And in his Quakerism a New Nick-Name c. p. 165. he calls the Dissenters An Ill-bred Pedantick Crew the Bane of Reason and l'est of the World the Old Incendiaries to mischief and the best to be spar'd of mankind against whom the Boiling Vengeance of an Irritated God is ready to be poured out c. These are Terrible Words and very like being Angry But T. F. says in his Answer p. 219. That these Words did not proceed from Anger or Passion but from a Just and Godly Zeal against Deceivers and Deceit However both the Church of England and Dissenters are much oblig'd to him for his moderate and Charitable Opinion of them And Decently express'd we cannot Deny But which way soever they have deserv'd it from him yet is not this Calling of Names Is not this flinging of Stones with a Vengeance If there be no Anger or Passion in this what Words shall we find out wherein to express Anger or Passion But I understood the Force of Mr. ●●nn's Reasoning to consist in this That the Calling of Names and 〈◊〉 Indecent manner of Expression was a certain sign that such a Zeal was not 〈◊〉 Christ But if as T. E. excuses it the most Imbitter'd and Violent Express●●● can come from a Godly Zeal then is there no meaning at all in what Mr. ●enn has said And we may call Names and sling Stones to the End of the Chapter and still be good Christians of Christ's making But what is Anger in others is Zeal in the Quakers and so there 's an End of the business But if the utmost ●ierceness may be Excus'd upon Pronouncing a Sentence of Damnation as here and sending us together Church of England Dissenters and All into the Bottomless Pit See Snake in the Grass 2 par p. 32. And as such Reprobates we deserve no other Epithets than Thieves Robbers Conjurers Witches Devils Scarlet-Colour'd Beasts Blood-hounds c. Yet can such Senseless and Childish Rattle as Green●headed Trumpeters Gim-cracks Whirligags Mo●●-Calss Thread-bare Tatter de Mallums c. Which the Quakers have bestow'd upon their opponents can these too come from a Godly Zeal● Can their abominable Nasty stuff come from thence too which wou'd make one Sick to Repeat But I must venture the strength of the Readers stomach to give him a little Taste of it lest he shou'd not believe me See a Book Printed by J. Wiggans whom the Quakers had Provoked to Dis●●● with them which having Published they Reply upon him thus This hath caused thee to spue out on a Piece of Paper for the Dogs to ●ick up●●● And they take so much of thy Filthy spuing that it causeth them to Vomit 〈…〉 Purges upwards and downwards Thou hast need of one to wipe thee Th●● makest a pitiful stink Through thy Vomiting and Purging thou Besmea●s every one that comes nigh thee One may follow thee by the smell Wi●t not give one Vomiting Thou stinks all the Countrey ●●er ●i●e a Man with a Seal●d Herd and a Horse with a Gall'd Back Making People Vomit and Sp●●e And Margaret Fell afterwards M●●ry'd to G. Fox wrote to him thus Thou hast Committed Sacriledge which will never be forgiven thee Thou art Accursed and no other Portion ca● tho●e have Thou Infidel Child of Darkness The Curse Christ hath Pronounced on thee Thou art the Man Thou Impudent Lyar Night Owl wicked Lyar c. Now the cause of all this Rage was his denying The Light within to be Christ yet he own'd a Light to come from Chri●● into the Hearts 〈◊〉 True Believers This Marg. ●ell after she was Marry'd to G. Fox became the Mother of the Quaker Church She was then Past the Age of Child hearing yet he gave out that she shou'd have an Isaac And she gr●w Big and Great were the Expectations The time came on All things Provided for the Lying in The Midwife attend●● several weeks in the House But all vanished and c●me to n●thing This Fox said That his Marriage was a Figure of the Church coming out of the Wilderness above the State of the first Adam in his Innocency in the State of the Second Adam that never ●ell I can produce one that saw a Quaker fall down Prostrate at the Feet of this Margaret Fox and say O thou my Heavenly Mother Pray to my Heavenly Father for me I have before Quoted G. Fox where he say That wh●●ther speaks a word and not from the ●●uth of the Lord it is 〈◊〉 ●●w then by this Rule All the Ranc●●ous All the Senseless All the 〈◊〉 ●●tly Expressions above Quoted were from ●he Mouth of the Lord 〈◊〉 otherwise All those who spoke them were Co●●●rers Will T. E. 〈…〉 were all Acted in this by a Godly Zeal Otherwise by 〈…〉 sentence they were no Christians of Christ's making How Dreadfully Astonishing is it to see Men father their Rage and Fury their Effeminate senseless Billings-Gate their very Nastiness upon the Holy Spirit of God! But I am glad to leave this subject VI. 1. I am come now to the Last point and that is to see how far the Present Quakers have Censur'd or Forsaken All these things which have been objected and Prov'd against them Were they Convinced of them and onely willing to come off without the shame of a Publick Retractation but wou'd teach sound Doctrine for the Future And Learn some more Decency tho they hate Manners in Expressing of themselves which they have come to more of Late than Formerly and with it have in a great Measure Abstain'd from that Furious Damning of all Christendom in such Dreadful and Boyling Passion as they were wont If they cou'd be Penitents without being Confessors in this Case I shou'd be glad

and the Blood Spilt after it as a Force upon Him and so take away all the Vertue and Efficacy of it and make no more of it than of the Blood of another Saint But Saint John ch xix 34.35 lays much Greater stress upon it And tells this with more Particular Observation than of the shedding of any other Part of His Blood Then it was that the Blood and Water Issued forth out of His side the Two Sacraments of Baptism and His Supper and Two of the Three Great Witnesses upon Earth 1 John v. 8. And this Piercing of Christ's Body after He was Dead is Recorded ver 37. as the Fulfilling of that Famous Prophesie Zech. xii 10. And as the Great Ground and Confirmation of our Faith And he that saw it bare Record and his Record is True And he knoweth that he saith True that ye might Believe Know ye not said St. Paul That so many of us as were Baptized into Jesus Christ were Baptized into His Death Rom vi 3 4. Therefore we are Buried with Him by Baptism into Death But why Buried with Him upon the Quaker Doctrine more than with any other ●●int For His Burial was not Voluntary He was then Dead And it is no Wonder that they have thrown off the Baptism of His Death who have Renounced the Benefit of His Death it self of His Blood after that shed and of His Burial He was no more to them after He was Dead than any other of their Friends or Saints Can Christian Ears bear this Well then to Mollifie this since Christians do take it so Ill T. E. will let it pass as an Vnjustifiable Expression And says that in his Truth Defended p. 112. he has call'd it so But when was this Book Printed last Year 1695. In Answer to this then objected against them by G. Keith and to stop All Christians from Running upon them as Blasphemers But 2dly How do's T. E. call this an Vnjustifiable Expression in that Book Do's he do it Plainly and Honestly and with any Zeal against so Foul a Contempt cast upon the Death of our Lord No nothing like it Nay he do's not so much as own it to be Vnjustifiable but puts an If to it And therefore says he If Sol. Eccles did let fall any Vnjustifiable Expression concerning that Blood that was forced out of Christ's Body by the Souldier's Spear after He was Dead as that it was no more than the Blood of another Saint How Mr. Ellwood Do you make an If of it It is Easie then to see what you think of it You meant by an Vnjustifiable an Inconvenient Expression and so Vnjustifiable that should lay you open to the Odium of All that own the Name of Christ. You say that G. W. has likewise disclaimed those Words of Sol. Eccles. How is that After such a Manner as you have done by saving as you Repeat his words p. 117. I do not make S. Eccles 's Expressions therein an Article of our Faith This was a Terrible Rebuke They may be True and Laudable too for all this For Many things are so which are no Articles of Faith But Hark you Good T. E. How came you to Falsifie your Friend G. W's Words by Concealing a Material Part of them and Nibbing them out of the middle of one short Sentence For his words are these p. 59. of his Light and Life c. And yet I do not make Sol. Eccles his Expressions therein especially as construed by our Adversaries to be an Article of our Faith Here is a secret Reserve As construed by our Adversaries Then it seems the words are justifiable enough in themselves but how do their Adversaries construe them we have seen what Constructions they can put upon their Adversaries Meanings And here is a Hole for them to creep out at when ever they shall be Taxed by any of their own Party with this their Modest Reproof of Sol. Eccles. G. Keith taxes them very justly for not shewing their Dislike of this Blasphemy of S. Eccles severely and sharply as T. E. mentions it p. 124. and answers That if they were as Hot-headed as G. K. perhaps they might But that Blasphemy is an High Charge and they that understand it aright are not so forward as G. K. it seems would be to Brand Persons with it for every unsound Expression This is wonderful Cautious and Discreet But they had not all this Moderation when they Branded all the Christian World in Heaps as Apostates Conjures Devils See G. Fox's Great Mystery p. 89. 98. 111. 153. 158. 175. 217. 219. 226. 253. 267. and 311. from the Days of the Apostles for those same Doctrines which they now Pretend to hold themselves They Excom●●nicated John Story John Wilkinson and many more with them for not submitting to the Jurisdiction of their Womens Meetings as an Ordinance of Christ which was first Invented by George Fox And they have since Past the same Sentence upon G. Keith for not Retracting what he had wrote against the Corruption of their Doctrine● But as to the Broad and Impious Blasphemy of Sol. Eccles That must pass at the most among other Vnsound Expressions And they must not judge so severely and Brand Persons for every Vnsound Expression No not for Every one and it seems this must go for a Peccadillo amongst the Rest There never was surely such a Company of Good-Natur'd Forgiving People They can slip over cover and excuse the Lewdest Blasphemies in a Charitable way Nothing can Provoke them They would not Censure any or Give an Ill Name for the World They can see no Faults in their own Friends G. W. says of this very Passage of Sol. Eccles that it was so Harmless as might have satisfied any Spiritual or Vnbyassed Mind this is in his Light and Life before quoted p. 58. And if so it was Perfectly Innocent and Harmless indeed And must satisfie the Friends that no Reproof was meant against it by G. W. though something so seeming must be said by way of Policy to stop the Clamours of All Christian People It was this which put T. E's Wit upon the stretch and it found out at last that Distinction abovenam'd betwixt the Blood of Christ which was shed upon the Cross before and after He was Dead which helps not their Cause but has made it worse as before is shewn But tho' Sol. Eccles names the Blood shed after He was Dead yet he makes no Distinction betwixt that and what was shed Before which T. E. now Ingeniously puts upon him But meant it in the true Quaker Notion of the outward and Material Blood whether shed Before or After Death in opposition to their Notion of the Inward Blood shed in their Hearts For Sol. Eccles says in the same Letter That none of you Baptists Independents Presbyterians and Pope Vnderstand the Blood of Jesus Christ no more than a Bruit Beast i. e. They All Understood and Contended for the outward Blood But of