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A67845	A snake in the grass, caught and crusht, or, A third and last epistle to a now furious deacon in the Church of England, the Reverend Mr. George Keith with some remarks on my former epistles to him, especially that against plunging in baptism / by Trepidantium Malleus.	Trepidantium Malleus.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing Y87; ESTC R25218	11,121	25

Luke 1.6 And they were hath Perfect walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blamelesly 1. Why good Mr. Keith were Zachary and Elizabeth commended for walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of Men No the Pharisees were severely Censur'd for this by our Lord and so the Churches by Paul With an in vain do you worship me And I am afraid of you I hope Sir you have not lost your Senses if you were so weak to think we had lost ours 2. Can you charge any of us against whom you most set your sellf at that time with not walking in the Commandments and Ordinances of God Your Work lay then not with the Quakers Zachary observ'd Circumcision Sacrifices c. Not washing of Hands Philacteries We observe Baptism and Lord Supper not Cross nor Surplice No wonder I over-heard a Clergy-man say in the Church your Sermon was nothing to the Text. Was it not a lovely sight to hear you declaring against Schism who soon lept from Turners Hall after the Sacrament receiv'd to a publick Church To tell us you were only as a Catechist there or that the Bishop gave his Consent is poor thin Sophistry what is his Lordship such a Plenipotentiary as if all Power were given to him in Heaven and in Earth That he can make Schism no Schism and Lay-mens Preaching lawful without Ordination You were pleas'd to tell us That there were no lawful Sacraments where was no lawful Administrator That no Man was a lawful Administrator but one Ordain'd by a Bishop c. That all other Churches wanted what was integral Episcopacy I thank you that on my Letter to you you were pleased to leave this out in the Printed Sermon Dared you thus to fly in the Faces of the Reformed Churches Holland Geneva and now blessed be Cod Scotland and other Churches who own Presbytery and that by Divine Right For those Protestant Churches that have Bishops they only preside in Synods and out of them are as other Men no Spiritual Courts c. Such an Episcopacy and Bishop Vsher's Episcopacy many Presbyterians would yield to You know Bp. Jewel Bp. Davenant and others Even Mr. Hooker himself in his Eccles Pol. as well as honest Bishop Crofts in his Naked Truth abhorr'd your Notions These never thought Episcopacy of Divine Right nor doubted the validity of Presbyterian Ordinations beyond Sea You cannot be ignorant That when two Scottish Ministers were made Bps. in the Reign of James the 1st when one objected their not having Episcopal Ordination how sharply he was reproved by a Prelate and others for his Objection Laud that Semi-Protestant talkt as you do he and you have but little Thanks from your own for such bold Assertinns If you are a Laudensian already Sir what will you be next A Cardinal's Cap was offer'd him I hope God will keep you from the Temptation When one talkt before the present Bishop of London at your rate he gravely and wisely said He was ●ot there to judge Christian Churches These wilde Notions I have consider'd in my two fore-named Books and there I refer and if you think it convenient to Reply Answer me there as well as here It was not long since you told the Anabaptists they were in the right about the Subject and Form of Baptism Some are pleas'd to say I Cured you of these Errors Then Independency was the best Government but for Presbytery I confess you never had a good Word then and why because they were not pure enough in admission to the Lord's Table Yet gave a jump to Episcopacy I thought you would as soon turn to the Church of Rome You are now gotten among pure Communicants The Church was lately in the Wilderness and you had found in the Revelations she would not come out these Thirty Years Well seeing the Mountain will not come to Mahomet Mahomet will go to the Mountain Seeing the Church will not come out of the Wilderness to you you are gone to her in the Wilderness so it is to get her Blessing too whilst you live You then told your Friends Baptism was an Ordinance of Christ but there was not an Administrator upon Earth To be plain I wish That as you have long left the Quakers for talking of a Christ within not of a Christ without you have not run among them that talk of a Christ without not of a Christ within I was not a little surpriz'd looking lately into your Quakerism no Popery A Book done with all imaginable Subtilty to find you assert Perfection in the Quakers Sense and Phrases and with Robert Barclay on 1 John 1.8 to distinguish aliud est peccare aliud peccatum habere And what I found in your Immediate Revelation you may imagin Are you not changed in Principles Had W. C. harped on these things I had never written my Reprimand Whoever heard you 1. Hearty in the Confession of sin to this Day 2 Sigh or shed one Tear for deluding Thousrnds of Souls to Quakerism Deism as you now call it How come you to have so many good Words for the Papist in the Sermon I heard I am inform'd you are desir'd to tell us where as you say Mr. Baxter said The Sign of the Cross was no more than the putting of a Thread about a Man's Fingers to put him in mind of what he wou'd remember 1. Women and Children more do thus then Wise Men. 2. I remember no such Words of his tho' I have read so many of his Books But he declared often he could not conform here In his Life written with his own Hand he call'd it p. 199 a Hemane Sacrament a Transient Image Are not your Studies fill'd not only with Calvin's Work but Mr. Pool's Synopsis the Works Of Dr. Owen and other great Dissenters as well as our Studies with some of your Bishops Works When where and how got Bp. ●tillingfleet Bp. Tillotson and other Bishops and Clergy-men their Learning That you talk at such an idle rate as if the Cabalistical Notions were still working in your Head or Transmigration of Souls That all our Souls were in Adam's Head as Legions of Divels in one Man Are you ●u●ed ●ere Was it proper to tell us at Turner's Hall That you believed M. Penn and the Quakers would find Mercy with God notwithstanding their Errors and yet offer to prove they owned not one Article of the Christian Faith and yet that Faith in a outward Crucified Christ was necessary to Salvation These are Mysteries I cannot fathom nor any Man else 2. Is it proper to tell us what Refreshment you find at Common-Prayer Once in Quakerism I knew a Man that would say all Drinks were sweet to him strong or small fresh or dead One said he found great Refreshment when he saw the King's Head cut off 3. Was it proper to tell us of your Conversion and Change of Heart before a Quaker and when so No Sir deceive not your self you were no Convert when you