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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Hymeneus and Philetus in this Article of the Resurrection were direct Quakers These were they who as St. Paul tells of them 2 Tim. 2.18 Concerning the Truth have erred saying that the Resurrection is past already That is they Spiritualiz'd it away from the Letter and meant it only of the Spiritual rising of Christ in our Hearts which having obtain'd as their Light within did assure them their Resurrection they supposed was past already and they expected no other The Snake does in p. 161. Charge W. P. with making Arbitrary Interpretations on 1 Cor. 15. but proves it not But I do here charge and shall shew that this Interpretation of the Snake's is Arbitrary and against the sense of the place The Holy Apostle speaking of these Men 1 Tim. 1.19 20. adviseth Timothy to hold the Faith and a good Conscience And he adds Which some having put away concerning Faith have made Shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to Blaspheme And 2 Tim. 2.16 17 18. But shun Profane and Vain Bablings for they will increase to more Vngodliness and their word will eat as doth a Canker of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning the Truth have erred saying that the Resurrection is past already and overthrow the Faith of some From all this I would desire to know how the Snake does prove that Hymeneus Alexander and Philetus did Spiritualize the Resurrection from the Letter By the Character the Apostle gives them they do not seem to be such Spiritual Men for he says they had made Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience and were Profane and Vain Bablers For Blaspheming Profane and Vain Ba●●ing they could have no assurance from the Light 〈◊〉 which they departed from when they made Shi●●rack of Faith and a good Conscience And the ●nake by his Blasphemous Profane and Vain Flo●●● at the Light within Christ in Men shews him●●lf to have Shipwrack'd Faith as by his notoriou●●alshoods he has Shipwrack'd a good Conscience Ibid. p. 163. And as they deny any outward Resurrection so consequentially they deny any outward Heaven But as we own as is plentifully before shewn what the Snake calls an Outward Resurrection so consequentially we own an Outward Heaven Ibid. p. 164. Where repeating the above quoted words in his G. F 's way that is never exactly seldom truly though they complain grieviously if but a Comma be mis-placed in quoting any of their Words c. That G. Fox hath truly if not exactly which I cannot say not having those Books which he answered to compare with quoted his Adversaries Books I take for granted in the Snake's Instance For if otherwise why did he not detect it And a Quotation may be be said to be truly made if it contains the whole meaning of the Writer in that place though it may not be exactly in the words of the Writer But the grievous Complaint which we have made against former Adversaries as now against this Snake is not for simple Comma's but for cutting assunder and sometimes leaving out Sentences for making breaks that break the sense of the Writer But if they happen to escape in all this which the Snake has hitherto seldom done then they pervert our words and will have them to speak their sense not our own and we must not be allow'd to mean by them what we have always declared we did and do mean but their Comment and Glossings they will have pass for our Text and that shall be either Blasphemous Impertinent or Ridiculous according to the several appearances in which they will draw us forth either of Monstrous Insignificant or Foolish according to their several Aims in which they would make us Obnoxious This is what I now complain grievously of in this Snake as others my Friends have grievously complained of former Adversaries Ibid. p. 164. Quoted from Great Mystery p. 214 There 's none have a Glory and a Heaven but within them which was before Man had a being And if the Snake had taken the pains to have consulted his Bible he might have found our Saviour testifying Luke 17.21 Behold the Kingdom of God and which is frequently called the Kingdom of Heaven is within you And this Kingdom ' tho it be in Man yet it was before Man had being and will always endure and whosoever are made partakers of this Kingdom of God in Men and continue obedient Subjects in this Kingdom that is in the Power and Spirit of Christ they shall surely have their Lot and Eternal Inheritance in the Father's House in which there is many Mansions Thus Reader having followed this Snake in his Entwinings and Foldings and in good degree I hope detected his ill practices and rescu'd ou● sincere Belief from his perversions in his several Instances hitherto I now proceed SECT XII Concerning Baptism and the Supper commonly called Sacraments WE have not in this Section of the Snake Entituled Of the Holy Sacraments any Quotations as in all the foregoing Sections That was not now necessary because of our known disuse of them But here what he gives is a continued Declamation against our disuse of them This Declamation he hath intersperst with some false reasonings to prove their continuance But he has not as it might have been expected he should examined and refuted those very many Reasons and Scripture Defences which we have frequently published for this our disuse But in Magisterial and Despotick Manner would obtrude his Arbitrary Interpretation and Additions to the Text of Scripture which he would have to pass and we must ask no Reasons Wherefore I might justly pass by without further notice taken of this his idle and false Declamation or at most only refer to those our Reasons and Scripture Defences which have been so often given till he should have shewn their Invalidity and have established what he proposes beyond the strength of those Arguments which we have offered And this I might likely have done but for the sake of those into whose hands this may come who possibly may not have seen them our Reasons and Defences Chiefly for the sake of such it is that I am content to follow him through this his Section to detect his false Reasoning and also to shew that by our Practice herein we are not unagreeable to the Scriptures though we are so to him The Snake in his first Paragraph as is his custom hath taken care to prepossess his Reader with a false comparison concerning us by joyning to our Description Hymeneus and Philetus That they did err we have Apostolical Warrant and the Snake the more easily to beguile his Reader would explain their error by a that is and then does boldly assert that what the Apostle did condemn them for is what this Snake does now condemn us for But upon Examination it will appear that his abitrary Interpretation or Explanation of their Error has in it much confidence but no certainty of which

now in order Snake p. 165. That is say they with Hymeneus and Philetus till his coming Spiritually in our Hearts I have in p. 255. foregoing briefly observed already concerning these Men part of whose error was and which is only taken notice of by the Snake their saying the Resurrection was past already That they do not seem by the Character the Apostle gives of them of being profane and vain Babblers such who had put away a good Conscience and shipwrack'd Faith I say they do not seem hereby to be such who did contend for the Spiritual Coming of Christ in their Hearts Profaneness is Immorality and what has that to do with the Coming of Christ in the Heart It is in direct opposition to it And the Apostle could not have made their Character as above had they so contended for Christ because it was what the Apostle declares himself did follow after Phil. 3.10 11 12. That I may know him and the power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of his Sufferings being made conformable unto his Death If by any means I might attain unto the Resurrection of the Dead Not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus Reader Think'st thou that Hymeneus and Philetus those profane and vain Babblers who shipwreckt Faith and a good Conscience in themselves and did overthrow the Faith of some did do all these things and expound that saying of theirs That the Resurrection was past already in such manner as the Snake says Spiritually in our Hearts No it could not be they were gone from the Spirit of Christ in them when they went into profane Babbling and what degrees soever they might have known while in obedience of the Power of Christ's Resurrection Yet that they quite lost when they shipwreckt Faith and a good Conscience So that the Snake's explanation is not only arbitrary but contradictory to the Apostles character of them He goes on with great assurance and pretence of familiarity with the Holy Apostles and of the purest Primitive Christians and Blessed Martyrs and affirms of them all in his frothy manner Ibid. p. 165. None of them dream'd of the time being thus expired For the observance of what he calls the Sacraments but that they did think them obligatory to the end of the World the litteral Resurrection at the last day It can be no small acquaintance which this Snake pretends to have had with this variety of Persons who dare so boldly affirm of them all while sleeping that they did never dream of their Expiration and while waking that they all did think these Ordinances always were to continue I suppose the observing Reader will with me be apt to question how he came by this great Intimacy and desire him to give some proof of the truth of what he hath so affirm'd But if we should suppose that he could prove which he never can that none of them did so dream that would not be ground sufficient to us to prove that the time of their continuance is not expired For the Question being concerning Ordinances said to be appointed by Christ we are not to look to Dreams but to consider the Appointment of Christ for from thence can only be truly learn'd both the things appointed and the time for which they were appointed And here of a sudden the Snake hath much abated of his pretence to know what was not Dream'd by the Holy Apostles purest Primitive Christians and Blessed Martyrs and comes to lay his pretence upon the Commission given by our Saviour to his Disciples mentioned Mat. 28.19 20. And this Commission he gives by piece-meal so as that it might if possible be so large as to take in the Addition which he makes to it For first He would have it to be a Commission for Water-Baptism next He would have it to express the Continuance of the Water-Baptism to the end of the World And having in disjoynted sort thus given it he draws this Pithy Conclusion p. 166. For if this be the time during which Christ promised to assist his Commission it must doubtless infer the like continuance of the things required in the said Commission We say so too But the Question is concerning something said to be required in the Commission which the Commission does not express therefore we say not contained in it And that this has been our frequent Objection to our Opposers in this particular the Snake could not but know and therefore if he would have established his addition Water to the Text he ought to have refuted our objections to the addition and then to have given his better reasons for it but none of this is done But he goes on begging the Question and taking that for granted which we deny viz. That when our Saviour saith Mat. 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all Nations Baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost He doth herein Command them Disciples to Baptize with Water If the Snake had given us some reason why we ought to take this his Addition of that wherein the Text is silent that reason might have been considered And it will be yet of greater force if he can prove from Scripture that our Saviour is here giving to his Disciples Commission concerning John's Baptism with Water and not his own which is with the Holy Spirit But of this the Snake says p. 167. The Holy Ghost is his Christ's Gift only It is true that the Holy Ghost is originally Christ's Gift yet it is as true that Men prepared fitted and quallified by the operation of his Grace have Instrumentally as Ministerial Ofcers given the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Thus the Apostle Rom. 1.11 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some Spiritual Gift And the same Apostle tells the Corinthians 1 Cor. 4.15 For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel And he declares that his Commission was Acts 26.18 To open their Eyes and to turn them from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to the Power of God Now strictly speaking it is only Christ by the Gift of the Holy Ghost who does these great Works of which the Apostle speaks The Apostle herein was Instrumentally made the Minister of those things wherein God did appear unto him And at this day those who are of God made Ministers of those things wherein he does appear by his Spirit unto them such he fits furnishes and quallifies Instrumentally to be able to impart Spiritual Gifts and to beget People to God by turning them from Darkness to Light and from Satan's Power to the Power of God Thus Spiritual Baptism and Teaching mentioned in the Commission of Christ continues to be assisted by Christ and will be so to the end of the World Now this teaching with respect to the sound of words may be said to be

what we assert and vindicate in each particular Snake p. 175. My Accuser presently shews his Prejudice and Enmity against me without cause As with a new Confession of Faith in such dubious and general Terms as may at first sight deceive the unwary Reader tho' I gave it in as plain and as much in scriptural Terms as I could and as the Matters concerned would admit of And I know my own Sincerity therein better than my Accuser who insincerely calls me Honest George whilst he is aspersing me and casting Dirt at me as Deceiving keeping off contradicting the Heart of the Heresie still preserving it safe and untouch'd and not only so but often with a slily insinuated Excuse and Defence of it So that my confessing Jesus to be the Christ and both his coming in the Flesh and in the Spirit according to holy Scripture-Testimony and also to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament namely the Holy Doctrine and Divine Precept therein as given by Divine Inspiration on which much of my said Confession against F. Bugg depends this hath no beter Acceptance or Resentment with my Accuser than as no Contradiction to the Heart of Heresie but as still preserving it safe and untouched and which is worse a slily insinuated Excuse and Defence of it Oh sad Stuff Whither will not Pride and Envy precipate some Men What scripturally to confess Jesus Christ and the holy Scriptures as above is this no Contradiction to Heresie But to preserve excuse or defend it What 's Heresie then pray Is it to confess Jesus Christ come in the Flesh c. according to holy Scripture-Testimony of him Oh! For shame leave off such blind Envy and blasphemous Abuse And now to come to the Point How or wherein have I slily insinuated Excuse and Defence of it i. e. of the Heart of Heresie as before p. 175. Thus saith my Accuser in his first Article he confesses Jesus to be the Christ even the same Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem c. I confess this is part of my Confession but cannot believe this is either not contradictory to the Heart of Heresie or that it is any Excuse or Defence of it Nor that our confessing God or Christ to be our Light can be any such Excuse or Defence Neither do we attribute the Name Christ to any much less to every one of our selves as we are often falsly accused as here whence he also most unjustly infers That then this will appear that this Confession of Whitehead 's is a meer Fallacy while it attributes no more to Jesus Christ than to G. W. Which is a very foul and absurd Falshood and notorious Lie in Fact and contradiction to my said Confession even so far as it is cited by himself as before which is 1. We sincerely own profess and confess Jesus to be the Christ even the same Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem in Judea Mat. 2. suffered Death upon the Cross without the Gates of Jerusalem was quickened and raised again by the Power of God and ascended into Heaven and Glory according to the Scriptures Now have I herein attributed no more to Jesus Christ than to my self as he saith Where did I ever attribute this to my self Where is the meer Fallacy Not in my Confession to Jesus Christ but in this Horrid Abuse and Gross Perversion thereof Did I ever say that I am Jesus Christ Or that I was born of the Virgin Mary Or that I suffered Death upon the Cross at Jerusalem c. Oh! For Shame who cannot see such Malice and Madness as my Adversary has vented against me in this Matter Again I find no Fallacy in my Confession to Christ as without nor is there any unless I had denied the Virgin Mary of whom Christ was born to be without or Bethlehem and Judea and Jerusalem to be without us nor doth Christ being without prove him not to be our Light within for the same Christ said I am the Light of the World therefore he is our Light yea the Quakers Light as he calls it they being included in the World Does not the Sun shine in our Houses because the Body and Fulness of it is without them My Accuser Quibbles and Quarrels with Art 10. of my Confession viz. Our Ministers do not Teach that the Name of Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body or Church as amply as to Christ the Head And here he leaves out all the following explanatory part of the Article as he calls it and Scornfully descants upon the Word amply being in a different Black Character lest quoth he Ibid. you should mistake and think that George was Christ as amply as Jesus And then goes on scoffing That was modest indeed but then George thou art Christ as well as Jesus though not so amply Which is both a false Implication and foreign to my Intention The word amply in that place was only used and intended in direct opposition to F. Bugg's falsly saying The Quakers Teach That the Name Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body as amply as to Christ the Head New Rome Arraign'd p. 47. But even in the same 10 Art quoted against me I do not allow any Member to be called Christ but expresly disallow it though I confess how Christians have some Interest in his Name but not to be called Jesus but Christians The explanatory part of my Confession in the said 10th Article disingenuously left out by this Scoffer is in these Words viz. But that the Divine Anointing to which Name Christ hath relation virtually is in some measure or degree afforded to every Member of his Body but not so amply as to him the Head nor for any Member to be called Christ but a Christian because Christ received the Anointing the Holy Spirit not by measure but in fulness and because he is the Head of the Body the Church And this very Matter is more fully explained in my Charitable Essay in Answer to F. Bugg p. 4. as before It was far from my Thoughts or Intention to imply any such thing as That I am Christ as well as Jesus for I have often written my self A Servant of Christ and so I am I Humbly Bless his Name that is above every Name Therefore I am still very unjustly accused Ibid. with Rank Sophistry Doging and Deluding and casting a Mist before the Eyes of Poor Deluded People or Leading them into the Mystery of Iniquity or of any Equivocation or Jesuitical Confession of Faith I have a Conscience towards God in what I confess and in good Conscience testifie That thou my scornful lurking Adversary hast cast manifold false and gross Defamations upon me and many others of my Christian Persuasion And in the true Sense of Scripture I have both confessed Christ's coming in the Flesh and as he the Word was made or took Flesh John 1.14 And more than