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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40787	The snake in the grass further discovered, or, The Quakers no Christians proving out of their own writings, that they deny, I. The Scriptures to be the Word of God, II. Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, III. The manhood of Christ, &c. : with an account of their canons, constitutions, ecclesiastical order and discipline.	Faldo, John, 1633-1690.	1698 (1698)	Wing F305; ESTC R40574	226,252	360

equalled by the expression of his mind by his Word they being much more imperfect and unintelligible then words the holy conversations of the sound and godly do eminently and effectually declare the mind of God yet had we them in its stead we should be great losers Not only the Writings and Sayings of intelligent § 5 creatures but also the inanimate part of the Creation is a Declaration of God and of his mind also in many things Psal 19. 1 2. And those Psalms wherein they are called upon and are said to praise the Lord. Rom. 1. 19 20. Acts 14. 17 The Heathen were blamed for not learning the Lesson taught by them after their kind no better yet who will say that the Declaration made by them is of equal value with the Word of God either for matter stile manner or perspicuity Fifthly They are a Declaration of the Word of God § 6 By the Word of God they mean Jesus Christ This is a true Character of a considerable part of the Scriptures but not of all and they often restrain them to this as if it were all the use were to be made of them So much of them the Scriptures as was given Smit● Cat. p. 14. forth by the Holy Men of God through the Inspiration of the Almighty they testifie of Christ and that is only their service in their place You may observe what a skeleton they make of the Scriptures so much of them as if all of them were not of the same divine Abstract They say the Letter is it the Word which doth but Morning-Watch Farnworth Light out of darkness declare of it They do but testifie of me They testifie of him and it is with a but lest you should take them to have any more hand in conveying Christ and his benefits to the souls then a meer witness of who is or what is the Christ To clench the Nail I have been driving hitherto SECT VII I must demonstrate that to deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God is to deny the Scriptures which I shall do three ways in few words First to deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God is to deny them that title by which they are commonly known and distinguished from and lifted up above all other Writings whatsoever I will ask any man who understands sense and hath but one grain of reason if to deny the Supreme Magistrate of Great Britain to be the King of England were not to deny the King though he that doth so should allow him to be entituled a Man a Gentleman yea a Nobleman or Duke which are titles common to him with others or below him sure I am we Christians are else under an old musty mistake and guilty of great slander for affirming the Turks to deny Christ because they will not own him to be greater then their Prophet Mahomet or to be the Saviour of mens souls while they own him to be not only a Man but also a great Prophet and next to Mahomet himself I suppose a Quaker whose Child should own him to be a Man and a good man too and one that provides well for him and yet say He is not his Father and stand to it in earnest would say that Son denies him and is a naughty wicked Child It is said of the Jews they denied him in the Act. 13. 13 presence of Pilate vers 14. they denied the Holy One and the just Did they deny him to be a man or some common thing No they denied him to be Christ the Saviour and loaded him with reproaches in stead of his glorious and peculiar titles and this the Holy Ghost calls denying him To deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God § 2 is to deny that Appellation on which their Authority is grounded and which puts an awe upon the Consciences of men Though all truths as such so far as they are apprehended carry with them the countenance of Authority yet how much more when a Command Promise Doctrine c. comes with this written on its forehead the Word of God the Word of the Lord 't is said Where the Word of a King is Eccles 8. 4. there is Power and who shall say unto him What doest thou 't is natural to men to despise the best and most excellent things under common and contemptible titles It is all one in a plain and true construction as to § 3 deny that the matter and sense expressed by them was ever spoken by God Experience hath sufficiently taught this that no sooner this principle is taken in but the Scriptures become with such as weak as a burnt thread and whatever you may pretend to we know and shall prove that after this title is put off they become like Sampson when God was departed from him The Papists who are the more subtil will tell us that in their Image-worship they terminate their worship in God alone but alas the common people are for downright language and they poor souls being exhorted to worship the Images do it devoutly and think no● on God all the while It is no otherwise in the present case people will understand after the common sense and acceptation of words I have sometimes been amazed and not without § 4 good Company and consideration that men of such dexterity in matters that concern not Religion should be so prodigiously blind and besotted as to deny this truth hitherto vindicated But since I have been better acquainted with their principles I find it to be the most necessary to maintain and support their Great delusion viz. The light within For that they do hereby rob the Scriptures of abundance of places wherein that phrase The Word and The Word of the Lord is found and deck their Idol with them And indeed so many are the excellent Characters given to the Scriptures under that notion that if they wear them and shine in their lustre the Quakers Glow-worm must sparkle no-where but in the dark and may still keep its Court and Confines in the Heathen-world CHAP. IV. The Quakers equal their own Writings and Sayings with the Scriptures and prefer them before the Scriptures I Need not spend time with those who are yet in SECT I their wits to prove that they who fall under the Charge expressed above deny the Scriptures To take all rubs out of the way I shall furnish you with a few Demonstrations First This is to unhallow them and make them common things or worse with the conceits of any who shall be so presumptuous as to pretend to Inspirations and Revelations and of this sort there are a crowd among the Men and Women also of the Quakers If they declare if they write yea whatever religious Action they move in they pretend all to be from the immediate Guidance and Impulse of the Spirit of God and that in as ample a manner as ever the Apostles and Prophets could pretend unto So that this principle being as