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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

The Word was made Flesh c. dwelt on the Earth and took on him not the Nature of Angels not any Aerial or Fantastical Body But the Seed of Abraham and David and this he did for the same reason and behoof mentioned by the Apostle Heb. 2.17 18. Wherefore in all things it behoveth him to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a Merciful and Faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the People For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted For which Infinite Love of Jesus Christ in being both the Saviour and Reconciler of Men to God through himself we sincerely say with the Apostle Heb. 3.3 For this Man was counted worthy of more Glory than Moses in as much as he who hath builded the House hath more Honour than the House Reader These and all other Testimonies recorded in Holy Writ testifying to the Manhood as well as the Divinity of Jesus Christ we do and always did sincerely own So that should our Books in which is treated directly on this Subject and abundantly more largely and particularly than here it can be be collected They would make many Volumes Yet such hath been and is the Inveterate Malice of our Enemies that our Writings no more than our Words must not mean what we so often and solemnly have declared we do mean by them But what our Adversaries will have them to mean that so they may not seem to want proofs for these their false and envious Charges What now remains for us to do But still to persevere in our True and Scriptural Belief and to repeat our Testimonies of it to the envious Objections of Enemies and for the satisfaction of the Sober Enquirer And this Reader thou wilt find in reply to the false and envious Suggestions and Perversions of the Snake herein in this Section Snake p. 125. The Quakers Heresie in this is taken from the Socinians they say Christ took Flesh but no otherwise as they explain it than as Angels assumed Bodies or as he Christ or the Word did Inspire or Dwell in Prophets or Holy Men of old c. What the Socinians hold herein I neither know nor is it my business to now enquire But this I know that we do believe that Christ the Word took Flesh but not as Angels assumed Bodies His Body which he took of the Virgin was really truly and properly Flesh and had the gradual and natural Growth of Mankind from Infancy to Childhood to the State of a Young Man and so to the degree of Perfect Man and being Perfect Man did Dwell Eat Drink and Converse with his Disciples and with the Multitude did Preach did work Miracles was Tempted did Hunger and Thirst was crucified and did Rise again and Ascend into Glory Thus did never Angels assume Bodies Those Ministring Spirits when they have assumed Bodies it hath been upon particular and short but special occasions at once appearing without the gradual degrees of natural Growth or subject to the Infirmities and Accidents of natural Bodies and it could not be otherwise they being only Aerial and not truly Flesh and Blood as was that Body of Jesus the Son of the Living God Ibid. p. 125. But they deny any proper Incarnation of Christ that is that he was made Flesh or that he and Jesus was one Person 'T is false we own that He the Word was made Flesh properly Incarnate and was in the form of a Servant Ibid. p. 125. Yet they allow Jesus to be called Christ from the dwelling of Christ in him And if the Snake will not allow so much he contradicts the Apostle who saith of Jesus Christ With him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead Bodily Col. 2 9. Ibid. p. 125. But for the same reason they take the name Christ to themselves and say that it belongs to them as well as to Jesus c. Jesus Christ when he ascended up on High he led Captivity Captive and did give Gifts unto Men the Gifts of his Holy Spirit of which the Apostle hath testified Ephes. 4.7 But unto every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ. Thus much we have often declared and that truly But it is falsly said and charged that we take the Name of Christ to our selves or say it belongs to us in any other manner than in these and other Scriptures is mentioned We say that Christ by his Ascension into Glory hath given the Gift of his Spirit to Men to which as they are obedient they will witness the Power of the Spirit of Christ in them to bring every thought into subjection and when through the assistance of this Spirit they thus have got the Victory over their own Corruptions and Lusts they will truly say it is no more I but Christ in me Yet the name Christ cannot hereby be supposed to belong ●o such nor was it ever said by any of us that it did belong to us in such manner as to Jesus for to him it belongs by Origination to us only by participation through him For he by partaking of our Nature made thereby Mankind partakers of his Spirit I say this with respect to the generality of the Gospel Dispensation for there were many particular Persons not within the Covenant of the Law in the time of the Law who had manifestations of the Spirit of Christ and in no other sense have we ever taken the name of Christ to our selves Ibid. p. 125. They say that Christ did raise up the Body if Jesus from the Dead but they say not that Christ did carry it up with him into Heaven What then do we say he did with it Why that the Snake shews not and good reason there is for this his Silence But Reader I will tell thee that we do say and believe according to Acts 1.9 When he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a Cl●ud received him out of their sight Ibid. p. 126. They say there is no other Christ but what is within them they allow him no Humans Body but their own When we say there is no other Christ than what is within us we say true because Christ as God cannot be divided and the Measure or Manifestation of the Spirit of Christ in us is not another but a Manifestation of the fame Christ which did in fulness and Bodily dwell in the Man Jesus But when the Snake says we allow him no Humane Body if he means Manhood he says false as I have before shewn and as is very often testified in many of our Books Ibid. p. 126. One of their Preachers prayed at a Solemn Meeting O God who was Crucifi'd Dy'd and Rose again in us We know very well that G. Keith did accuse Thomas Fitzwater of so praying at a Meeting in Pensilvania But unless the Snake has better proof than that

own Blood by whom we only expect to enjoy the same where we shall Rest from our Labours and Sufferings and give Glory to our God and to the Lamb who is worthy of Honour and Dominion for ever Amen Signed in the Behalf of the People called Quakers in the Counties aforesaid Will. Laurence Will. Reeve Manassah Orchard Roger Brown John Gannicliff Will. Gravett John Colsworthy John Chappel Robert Ford Peter Leman John Smith Thomas Powell Rich. Lincoln John Hopkins Thomas Martin Thomas Combe Jas. Batt Tho. Bagg Humph. Spragoe Edw. Collyer Samuel Sprake John Nicholls William Ellet William Ferris Edw. Gunning Will. Smith jun. Rob. French This Reader is in good earnest an Account of our Principle against outward Force and we do continue to think that it leads us to lay aside all War and Fighting of which the above Instance is a better Proof than the confident Imposing of the Snake by Lies and Perversions is to the contrary And tho' I wou'd not be tedious to my Reader upon this Point of our Non-Resistance by bringing in all the many Certificates which our Friends then had as Testimonials of their quiet and peaceable Behaviour from the Towns and Places then immediately concern'd in the War or adjacent to it Yet I will take leave to Transcribe one because it is amongst others Verbo Sacerdotis and that sure must be allow'd by the Snake It is as follows To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Certificate of us the Inhabitants of the Parish of High Littleton in the County of Somerset Humbly Certifieth to Your Sacred Majesty THAT the several Persons commonly called Quakers Living within the said Parish of High Littleton was not in the least manner Assisting Aiding or Abetting the late James Duke of Monmouth in the late Rebellion with Arms Ammunition or Money to the best of our Knowledge Witness our Hands this Third Day of August in the First Year of Your Majesty's Reign Phil. Marsh Vicar Sam. Jones Church-Warden Joseph Dando Overseers Will. Yourge Overseers James Carter Tithing-Man Edward Jones Thomas Rudduck Robert Langford The Snake next turns to William Penn and in hypocritical sort says p. 240. I do earnestly invite Mr. Penn to follow this Chase it is most incumbent upon him of any other because I think my self obliged to tell it him he is suspected by some of his Fellow-Quakers as favouring this Principle of using the Carnal Sword To which the Snake adds part of a Letter said to be sent from Philadelphia and says he will make no Comments but leave it to Mr. Penn himself to Own or Deny the Matter of Fact Whatsoever may be the Groundless Suspicions of some Apostatizing Quakers or the Forgery of the Snake herein it cannot be incumbent upon W. Penn to be accountable to Scandalous Nameless Libellers for what past betwixt him and so many Persons of Quality of the King's Council-Board His Demand was a plain Demand of Right and as such had their Concurrence the Registry whereof as it is his sufficient Justification so had not this Snake for his security the meekness of that Principle which he reproaches he might be corrected for his Insolent Sawciness to meddle with the Determinations of those before whom he would dread to pass an Examination Ibid. p. 242. I hope this dismal Prospect of the Birth and Growth of Quakerism will cure those Quakers of Honesty and Sense who have a just apprehension of the Heinousness of Schism in the Church and Rebellion in the State I hope that such who have a just apprehension of the Heinousness of those many Slanders Forgeries Lies and Perversions which are hitherto detected in the Snake will from that Prospect see that he hath neither Honour nor Honesty whatsoever degrees of Sense he may have To which I need here only add that by his Notion of Schism he has made the Church to which he pretends Schismatical and Rebellious But whether or no She be so He is both of which I have already spoken Ibid. p. 243 244. Let them Produce and Publish such their Condemnation of Fox Burroughs c. for their False Prophesies and Traiterous Abetting of Oliver and the Rump and that in the Name and from the Mouth of the Lord c. That the Prophesies of G. F E. Burroughs c. were False and Traiterous is not yet made appear nay the contrary is plain for they with others did truly and largely tell Oliver with all the other Governors during the time of the Common-wealth of which I have above given some proofs that for their Refusal to do Justice relieve the Oppressed and for their Pride and Exaltedness God would otherthrow them as accordingly it came to pass This for their Truth next for their Peaceable and Faithful Obedience though great Sufferers under all those Governments I have already so largely spoken of it as prevents the labour of saying more and therefore shall here close this Section which is already swell'd unproportionable to the rest and proceed to the next Section of Tythes SECT XVII Concerning Tythes Snake p. 244. THere is no Point wherein the Quakers are more Positive and Fierce than in Opposition to Tythes That 's for their Credit for Tythes as drawn by the Romish Church from the Levitical Law and Practice and by others taken from the Church of Rome along with other of her Errors and Superstitions is a Legal Right abrogated by Christ the Re-establishment whereof is an Implicit Denial that Christ is come in the Flesh which together with the Unreasonableness Inequality and Oppression thereof and the unsuitableness of Tythes to a Gospel Ministry is the true reason why the Quakers are so Positive and Zealous in Opposing of them But the reason which the Snake gives is not much for the Clergy's Credit which is Ibid. Because if they Tythes were once taken away the Clergy as they suppose wou'd sink of Course being depriv'd of their Subsistence and so the total ruine of the Church would follow This Supposition is either true or false If it be true it concerns the Favourers of that Clergy to consider what sort of Clergy that is how unlike the True Primitive Ministry of the Gospel and how unworthy to be held up which would sink of course if depriv'd of Subsistence by Tythes And also whether that is likely to be the true Church of Christ whose Total Ruine would follow for want of Tythes to support it The Apostles and first Preachers of the Gospel had nothing to do with Tythes The Gospel Ministry in the First Ages of the Christian Church medled not with Tythes had not their Subsistence by them yet these did not sink but stood upright and firm much better and faster than those that came after in those corrupter Ages wherein Tythes were hook'd in again The Christian Church was more pure in its Primitive Simplicity before Poyson to use the words of an Historian was poured into it by setling of Worldly Riches and Temporal Revenues upon

we were a People And therefore where it is said p. 235 236. Such of us whose Principles were once so viz. for Fighting are chang'd c. the meaning is not as the Snake would pervert it that such were for Fighting though of us before the Restoration but are chang'd now since that but that such of us whose Principle was once for Fighting before they were of us are now since they came to be of us chang'd And whereas it is there also said We are all of that mind that in the Administration of the Gospel it is on all Occasions whatsoever Vnlawful to War and Fight with Carnal Weapons This respects those who are in and under the Gospel-Ministration of which I have already spoken and not those who are not yet come under it But the Snake thinks now he has a full Proof for he says p. 237 238. When a fair occasion seem'd to offer towards the Re-asserting the Good Old Cause in Monmouth 's Rebellion 1685. several of the Quakers in the West where he Landed took Arms and Fought Yet we heard nothing of their Repentance or that they were any way Censur'd for it by their Yearly Meeting or any other Authority of theirs That Seeming Fair Occasion as the Snake calls it for Rebellion was I doubt not he will own snatch'd at by many who did profess to be of his Communion but whether they were therefore Censur'd I shall not inquire it is sufficient for us that if any who had pretended to be of us did do so that they were therefore disown'd And if the Snake hath neither heard this or whether they Repented it had well become one who pretends though herein as well as in many more Instances it appears falsly to so much Charity to have Inquired Whether either of these had been But since it appears not that he has I will here subjoin concerning this Matter the Testimony against and Denial of such who were so concern'd and their Practices as given from our Friends in the Counties of Somerset Devon and Dorset and then Presented to Authority in the Terms following A Faithful Testimony from the Peaceable People called Quakers in the Counties of Somerset Devon and Dorset upon Occasion of the late Insurrection and Rebellion Humbly Presented to Authority WE whose Names are Subscribed do hereby Solemnly Testifie and Declare on behalf of our selves and the People of God called Quakers with whom we have Christian Society in the aforesaid Counties And that in the Presence of Almighty God who knows our Hearts and whom we Reverence and Trust in His Son Christ Jesus our Lord being our Foundation on whom we Build and Believe in Him for Wisdom and Power to inable us to do and suffer whatever He requires of us in whom is our Life and Salvation manifest by his Spirit Light and Grace given us in which we Worship God as Christ our Lord hath Ordained We being Taught to Deny all Ungodliness and Worldly Lust and to Live Godly Righteously and Soberly in this present Evil World By the same we are taught to be Subject to that Government and those Governours which it hath pleased God to set over us To the King as Supreme and those in Authority under him Praying for them that they may so Rule in Mercy and Truth as God thereby may be Honoured and they Everlastingly Happy and we under them may lead our Lives in Peace Godliness and Honesty utterly denying all Plotting Sedition Contriving or Assisting in any Insurrection or Rebellion or to use any Force or Violence whatsoever to relieve defend or deliver our selves from any Suffering we lie under It being our Christian Persuasion and Principle to yield Active or Passive Obedience unto Authority without Resistance And if any particular Person or Persons under our Profession or Reputed a Quaker c. either as not being grounded in this our Peaceable Principle or through the Temptation and Subtilty of the Evil One or Unfaithfulness have been overcome to Join in the late Insurrection and Rebellion the same are wholly disowned and testified against by us and their Miscarriages and Evil Actions whatever they Profess ought no more to be charged on us who are Innocent than the Treachery of Judas on the Faithful Disciples of Jesus Christ. And further To manifest our Innocency as a Christian Society and People from having any Hand in the late Insurrection At a Publick Meeting of the said People called Quakers near Taunton the same Day that the late D. of Monmouth Marched with his Army thither it was Testified by the said People That whatever our Sufferings were we must not expect Deliverance by the Arm of Flesh but look unto the Lord from whom our Salvation comes and who will not Save us by Sword nor Spear but by his own Spirit And therefore our Friends were Warned not to concern themselves in this War and all Unanimously consented thereunto So that if any one hath followed the Counsel of his own Will or Instigation of Satan contrary to our peaceable Principle Profession and our Christian Advice and Counsel so openly given such a one hath excluded himself from our Society and Fellowship and must bear his own Burden whose Offence as it cannot be justly charged upon us as a People much less upon the peaceable Truth professed by us And moreover to manifest our Care and Innocency on this occasion it deserves to be noted That some of our Friends being Prisoners at Ivelchester for Conscience sake as they have been for several Years past a Party of the late D. of Monmouth's Horsemen on the 18th of the 4th Month last past Rid thither and turned out of Prison several that were detained on his account and also forcing out one of our Friends left him in the Market-place but he immediately returned to Prison again and though they strictly charged the Keeper no more to detain our Friends yet they took no Advantage of that Liberty but continues Prisoners as formerly which plainly shews they did not own that Authority nor accept of their Liberty in such an indirect way This Testimony and Account have we given forth in the Sincerity and Singleness of our Hearts in Vindication of Truth and the Lord 's innocent People to clear them from such Scandal and Reproach as may through Mistake Ignorance or Envy be cast upon them by any Person whatsoever and as much as in us lies to remove all occasions of Stumbling and Offence against our Principle or Profession committing all to that God that Searches the Heart and Tries the Reins and knows our Integrity herein with full purpose and resolution to Persevere in this our Peaceable Principle and Profession as before Declared through the Assistance of our God while we have a Being in these Earthly Tabernacles in full Assurance That when our Testimony is finished and this Mortal Life ended we shall have a Dwelling-place in that Kingdom of Glory which Christ Jesus hath prepared for us and purchased by his