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A65834	An antidote against the venome of The snake in the grass, or, The book so stiled and the Christian people called Quakers vindicated from its most gross abuses and calumnies in certain reflections detecting the nameless author's malice, outrage, and persecution against the said people : unto which is annex'd a brief examination of the author's second book stil'd Satan dis-rob'd : also, some notice taken of his discourse for The divine institution of water-baptism.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1889; ESTC R27066	123,381	290

the Tabernacle which was called the Holiest of all in the Old Covenant that the golden Censor and Ark of the Testament were put and the golden Pot which had Manna and Aaron's Rod that had budded and the Tables of the Testament and over the Ark the Cherubims of Glory shadowing the Mercy-seat Heb. 9. Exod. 26. So the most excellent things were within the Veil tho' there was a Beauty and Glory also without it All which I doubt not were Shadows of the New Covenant and the spiritual Dispensation thereof in Christ Jesus in whom the most holy place of that divine Service and Worship in the New Covenant Sanctuary which the Lord has placed in the midst of his People is in the Spirit and in the Truth And all our spiritual Blessings and heavenly Treasures are in Christ Jesus who is our Sanctuary and Hiding-place And it is in the inmost or most inward and spiritual Dispensation of the New Covenant that Mercy and Forgiveness is receiv'd and Christ most livingly and effectually known to us and enjoyed and in him the most holy and heavenly Places wherein the true spiritual Believers sit down with him and as being washed from their Sins in his Blood by his Spirit are his Church and Sanctuary also and thereby have boldness to enter into the holy Place even by that new and living Way which Christ hath prepared for us through the Veil that is to say his Flesh Heb. 10. that we may follow him therein into Heaven it self And what entrance through Christ our Mediator we have here in measure received into this new and living Way and holy and heavenly Places in him we doubt not but it is to us an Earnest of a more full Enjoyment of Heaven and Glory hereafter with Christ Jesus our Fore-runner Leader and Captain of our Salvation we continuing faithful to the end in this his new and living Way as true and constant Followers of him God in his great Love and Wisdom has afforded several Dispensations one higher and more glorious than another in order to bring Man nearer and nearer to himself as that of the Law and of Shadows and Types that of the Prophets that of John the Baptist that of Christ in the Flesh and that of Christ in the Spirit and New Covenant which is higher more powerful and more glorious than the former and therein a more clear knowledge of Christ than in all the former wherein there was some Sight of him through Shadows and Veils but by his divine Light shining in our Hearts God is pleased to give us the Light of the knowledge of his Glory in the Face of his dear Son Christ Jesus that we all with open Face as in a Glass may behold the Glory of God and be changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory as by the Spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 18. Ch. 4. 6 7. Now tho' our Adversary has made a deal of Dispute and Quarrel with us about calling Christ's Flesh the Veil as in Heb. 10. yet he is fain to grant That Christ's Body is called a Veil in relation to its Type the Veil of the Temple p. 262 263. but he 'll have this not to be in the Quakers Sense They call it a Veil that is saith he a Garment in contradistinction to its being Christ's Substance and of his Nature p. 262. Whereas its rather in contradistinction to its Being his Divine Natnre or to its being in the first place or principally or chiefly Christ himself who is the Son of God for whom the Body was prepared because he did pre-exit it or was in Being before he took upon him that Body even in his Father's Glory before the World began wherewith he is glorified However the Veil which was Christ's Flesh through which he set open the new and living Way we never deny to be Christ's Body or to be a real Body but own it was and never believed it to be a Fantastical Body as I have often said but that Christ the Son of God took upon him real Flesh and Blood of our Nature yet pure and incorrupt in him And as his Flesh was called the Veil it answers its Type or Figure i. e. the Veil of the most Holy Place or Oracle where God gave Answers 1 Kings 6. 20. 8. 6 8. 2 Chron. 3. 10 16. And these most Holy Places in the Tabernacle and Temple being Places of divine Service then peculiar to the High Priest to enter into their Antitype is in Christ Jesus the New Covenant where in the Spirit and in the Truth God is truly worshipped and meets with and speaks to his People even by Christ Jesus their High Priest who is present in the midst of his Church and Assemblies of his People the true and spiritual Worshippers who meet in his Name Spirit and Power whose Light and Truth brings its Followers unto his Holy Tabernacles Psal. 43. 3. And as to Christ's Substance and Nature what does our Opposer mean thereby How has he distinguished in this Point Christ has in him a divine Nature as well as that of Man which he hath also in the purest Sense But which is the greatest Is not the divine Nature the Deity in him greater than the Manhood As he said My Father is greater than all greater than I John 10. 29. Nevertheless as our great and only Mediator and Intercessor it was necessary he should be Man as he is the most glorious heavenly Man and as the Christ of God he is spiritually in us in his Saints and Members in some measure by his Spirit Light Life and Power even as the incorruptible immortal Seed in Man is of the Father Son and Holy Ghost and therein all true spiritual Believers do in measure partake of the divine Nature being born again of this incorruptible Seed The gross Calumnies cruel Mockeries false Stories and Perversions of the Author of The Snake in the Grass are therein so numerous together with his partial picking nibling mincing and carping at our Books which is so perverse and much on 't so silly that I confess many of them are waved in this Answer as not worthy of spending more precious time about them and I shall leave the said Author to the just Judgment of him that judghth righteously wishing his Repentance before it be too late And tho' he sculks and hides himself as if he were afraid or ashamed to own his Work with his Name to it so am not I of my Name or Vindication tho' I be and expect to be reproached and misrepresented for Christ's sake whose Servant I am George Whitehead A BRIEF EXAMINATION OF Some Passages IN THE Second Book of the Author OF The Snake in the Grass FALSLY STILED Satan dis-rob'd from his Disguise of Light Or The Quakers last Shift to cover their monstrous Heresies laid fully open WHEN I looked upon the Title of the said Book stiled Satan dis-rob'd from his Disguise of Light With this additional

Spirit and so opposite to Infallibility is none of Christ's consequently no Christian. And he does but follow his own fallible Spirit being prompted on by the Father of Lies in what he writes against us consequently of no Credit therein so like one of those false Prophets that follow their own Spirits and see nothing But then severely to aggravate the Matter against us poor Madmen in his esteem he 'll needs have it That the height of our Self-advancement is to be equal even to God to be one Person Substance and Soul with God And he does not think that any Human Government can be secure of Men in whose Power it is to screw themselves up to such blasphemous heights of Enthusiasm p. 169 170. We Answer 'T is better to be mad Men and Fools than to be screwed up by the Father of Lies to such a height of Malice and Outrage as this insulting and railing Rabshekah appears to be puft up in When did ever the Quakers so advance themselves to be one Person Substance Soul with God and equal even to God We positively deny the Charge and the Words themselves but only as we are united or joined to the Lord we are one Spirit and give this Person leave to secure such Persons in Bedlam if he can find any among us that he can plainly prove to hold the same as he charges And therefore his insinuating such presumptuous Blasphemies against the Quakers in general to render them so highly obnoxious and the Government insecure of them this is highly and deadly malicious and he might as well have taken one Step further to have shewn his Teeth and have told the Government what he would have done with the Quakers how he would have them dealt with to be secure of them whether he would have them closely Confin'd Hang'd or Banish'd for take our Word his Charge is very high against them and implies no small Reflection upon the Civil Government for so kindly suffering and indulging such extreamly pernicious mad Folks as he has over and over rendred the Quakers which serves but to evince the Folly of his own Fury and Madness against a peaceable innocent People P. 153. Sect. 11. To his ridiculing Womens Preaching and Womens Meetings c. 1. We do not institute Womens Preachings as he saith but leave them free to the Gift and Call of God 2. Neither hath he proved that they are universally and perpetually forbidden to speak in the Church by that 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. The Apostle Paul did not intend to make void God's Promise of the pouring out of his Spirit upon Sons and Daughters to prophesie Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 17 18. No he allowed Women to Pray or Prophesie when so divinely indued and inspired thereunto 1 Cor. 11. 5 13. 3. Our Scoffer tells us of the Prelacy of Womens Meetings which he calls an Invention never heard of in the World till G. F. cobled it out As for the Term Prelacy 't is his own given in his Scorn and Ignorance As for our Womens Meetings what has the Scorner against them or their Services more than his own Ignorance and Scorn We know Them and their Help and Service to be truly Christian and Charitable consequently to be of the Lord their Intent and Service being to be helpful in their Places for promoting true Christian Charity and Religion in Life and Practice and particularly with regard to Fatherless and Widows among us that they may not be neglected but Visited and Ministred unto in their Afflictions for their necessary Relief and Comfort And these Meetings are very expedient and convenient for Intelligence among them of such Objects of Charity and Compassion There were Deaconesses as well as Deacons in the Primitive Christian Churches 4. This Church-man has no reason to deride or contemn our Women's Meetings we charge not his Church with our Poor tho' we help to Relieve the Poor of his Church both Parish-poor and Beggars to his and their Shame be it spoken who blindly ridicules our Christian Care and Charitable Methods in this Matter In Sect. 12. concerning the Light within That the Light which lightneth every Man coming into the World being the divine Word the Son of God is not natural Reason or Conscience but above both and enlightneth both is true because divine and universally in every Man and therefore we do not by Virtue of this Light advance our selves above all Mankind nor damn all but our selves as is falsly suggested against us p. 171. But as we are turned and converted from Darkness unto this Light the Lord hath advanced us above what we our selves were in our natural and unconverted State and above all others who yet remain in that state To the Question Whether a Man can sin while he follows this Light p. 172. Answ. No nor in his truly following it And that he cannot leave the Light without knowing it or being followed with Judgment and Conviction thereof by the Light is true also Whence it does not follow that there can be no Sin of Ignorance as is wrongfully inferred p. 173. For there are Sins of Ignorance before Conviction and Conversion whilst Men walk in Darkness being ignorant of the Light that shines in it and their Minds estranged from it but after convicted or Conversion in measure if they backslide in Heart and leave the Light they cannot be left altogether ignorant of their backsliding because they shall be left without Excuse who either through their impenitent hard Hearts treasure up Wrath to themselves or backslide in Heart or wilfully sin until judicially hardned after they have received the knowledge of the Truth 1. Because of God's universal Call and Visitation by his Light and Free Grace in Christ to Sinners 2. Because of his swiftly pursuing the Wicked and all them that forsake him by his Spirit of Judgment For these and other Causes they are all inexcusable before him and the Light will pursue them even to Hell as it did the rich Man when in Hell he lift up his Eyes Luke 16. 23 28. To what our Opposer objects from these Scriptures Luke 23. 34. John 16. 2. 2 Thess. 2. 11. Mat. 6. 23. Acts 3. 17. 1 Cor. 2. 8. thence inferring against the Infallibility of the Light within and saying There can be no such Mistake as our Saviour supposes Mat. 6. 23. If the Light within be infallible and that every Man has it and that no Man can leave it without knowing of it p. 174. To all which we Answer That some Men's Ignorance of their Master's Will others wrong Thoughts others being given up to strong Delusion to believe a Lie others greatly mistaking Darkness for Light and then how great is that Darkness of theirs These can be no Proofs against the Infallibility of the Light it self nor of the Light within being fallible but of their own Transgression Disobedience and Rebellion against the Light Who know not the ways of the Light because they abide

saying That Blood is not in Being this Advocate will have it that he only gives way to this supposition of the Quakers by way of Concession not as his own Opinion p. 16. 'T is a wonder the Man 's not ashamed to use such a slim come off and false cover for him when 't was a real Confession and not forced from him as a meer Concession for Argument sake why should he compare it then to a price lost And another Baptist Thomas Brown confess'd that the Blood that was shed is not in Being it sunk into the ground Light and Life p. 66. The occasion of my Questioning them so much about this matter was because they seem'd to place the great stress of Man's Salvation upon the outward Blood of Christ and the act of shedding of it as if it were the present agent operating in them Purging sprinkling their Consciences Sanctifying and Justifying without making the Spirit the Operator or Efficient thereof whereas both Sanctification washing and cleansing from Sin Regeneration Justification and so Salvation are more principally ascribed to the Spirit the Grace the Word of God yea to Christ himself than to the act of shedding that Blood or to that Blood it self yet I never opposed that as being a part of the Sacrifice of Christ offered for Sinners in order to a Pacification Attonement and Reconciliation And farther to his comparison between the Baptists declaring the Blood shed on the Cross not in being and the Agonies and Passions of Christ upon the Cross as not now in being I do not therefore dissolve all the merits of his Sufferings or Death to our Justification thereby I do not so Argue as implyed against me that because his Passion was Temporal and Finite therefore not Meritorious for the Merits or disserving on Christ's part is placed upon his Obedience in humbling himself to Death even to the Death of the Cross wherefore God hath highly exalted him c. Phil. 2. 8 9. whose Exaltation and Dominion is for our Salvation if we submit to him as our Leader Commander and King But my distinction for Argument is this Tho' that Blood and Sacrifice were offered as a price in order to Man's Redemption it is the Power and Spirit of Christ that inwardly operates and quickens the Soul to God purifies and sanctifies the Conscience and so effectually saves us from Sin and Pollution The Price is already paid but the Work is yet undone in many we value the Price but must not neglect the Work of our Redemption and Salvation in us for Christ's Sacrifice will not save justifie or acquit any in a State of impenitency or unbelief they must know the work of his Grace and Good Spirit in their hearts unto Repentance and Obedience of Faith in Christ or else they perish in their impenitency and wilful unbelief whereby they make both the Cross and blood of Christ of none effect unto them Except a Man be regenerate and born again he cannot see nor enter into the Kingdom of God And I conceive I am not to be blamed much less ranked among Ranters as G. K. has Narr p. 25. for ascribing the saving work of sprinkling the Conscience sanctifying and justifying principally to the inward Grace and Spirit more than to the Blood shed upon the Cross. I say again I see no necessity of directing Men to the Type for the Antitype to Jerusalem or the Temple p. 17. either for Jesus Christ or his Blood there but that such direction is contrary to what the Righteousness of Faith saith Ro. 10. 6 7 8. compared with Deut. 30. 11 12 13 14 15. Tho' we also Preach Christ as he was Crucified and Dyed at Jerusalem and raised from the Dead and I do not say that 's contrary to Ro. 10. as G. K. wrongs me several times over Narr p. 26 27. But to direct Men either to go to the material Temple at Jerusalem or to look to Jerusalem for Jesus Christ the Antitype of that Temple c. This I deem'd contrardictory to Ro. 10. above quoted but they are to turn and look to the Word of Faith nigh in the Heart where they may Livingly find feel and know Christ in Spirit and Power even in the Power of his Resurrection so as to be enabled both to confess with the Mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in the Heart that God raised him up from the Dead And this word of Faith and of God is confessed unto by G. K. himself to be the Object and Foundation of true Faith and that this is Christ in them and that from the same Scriptures I quoted Deut. 30. 12 13. Ro. 10. 5 6 7 8 9. As more fully appears in his immediate revelation p. 3. p. 64 65. Print 1668. Therefore 't is not to destroy nor allegorize away the Object of Faith to direct People to Christ as the word of Faith nigh in the Heart as the Object thereof nor is it Antichristian Doctrin as G. K. has unjustly accused me in this Point Narr p. 27. contrary to his former confessions And suppose any one in deep distress for want of Christ to free and save him from Sin should earnestly enquire where shall I find him Whither will you direct me to find Christ And one should answer I direct thee to Jerusalem to the material Temple to the Type for Christ the Antitype and should again say I direct thee to Christ as above the Clouds and not to Christ as the Light within and then call the Light within an uncertain Guide as the Baptist did whom I answered in this Case How would this answer the distressed Soul Or agree with the Testimony of Moses or of Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ in Deut. 30. 11 12 13 14. and Rom. 10. 6 7 8 9. As for what the Righteousness of Faith saith I should rather answer the Question according to the Testimony of Moses and the Apostle Whither shall I be directed to go to find Christ Answer Say not in thine Heart who shall Ascend into Heaven that is to bring Christ down from above Or who shall Descend into the Deep that is to bring Christ again from the Dead But what saith it The Word is nigh thee even in thy Mouth and in thine Heart that is the Word of Faith which we Preach And this Word of Faith will bring thee to know the great benefit and fruit of Christ's Death at Jerusalem for thee and the power of his Resurrection that thou mayest thereby be enabled livingly to confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine Heart that God hath raised him from the Dead so as thou mayest be saved by him But I yet say to preach Christ as a remote outward Christ only in opposition to his Light and Word of Faith within as in the Heart is to keep People in unbelief remote from the true Faith and Knowledge of Christ either as without us or within us which opposition ought not to be to