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A47759	Satan dis-rob'd from his disguise of light, or, The Quakers last shift to cover their monstrous heresies, laid fully open in a reply to Thomas Ellwood's answer (published the end of last month) to George Keith's Narrative of the proceedings at Turners-Hall, June 11, 1696, which also may serve for a reply (as to the main points of doctrine) to Geo. Whitehead's Answer to The snake in the grass, to be published the end of next month, if this prevent it not / by the author of The snake in the grass.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1697 (1697)	Wing L1149A; ESTC R2123	80,446	76

my business is not now with him I wou'd not lessen the sufferings of the Quakers let them have their due weight but I wou'd not have them Aggravated beyond the Truth And it is here worth Notice That the first difference betwixt Mr. Pennyman before mentioned and the Quakers was the False Returns of their Collections from the several Countreys in England of the sufferings of the Friends And Entring them tho Prov'd to be False in their General Register of sufferings at London For this they to quiet Mr. Pennyman and others who Exclaim'd against this as a great deceit made a shew as if they wou'd turn off the Clerk of this Register one Ellis Hook But he was supported by G. Fox and continu'd and no Rectification of their Register cou'd be obtain'd being design'd for the service of Truth Which some think can be Propagated by Lyes 2. Croesius makes tho Quakers and their Orignal much more Considerable than they deserv'd The Fame of them might grow Bigger in other Countreys But here where their Rise was they are better known Take a truer Account of them from one not the meanest among themselves Isaac Penington Famous in their Congregation and a Man of Renown in his Considerations concerning Israel p. 3. he tells that They were for the most part mean as to the outward young Countrey Lads of no deep understanding or ready Expression but very fit to be depised every where by the wisdom of Man How Ridiculous says he was their manner of coming forth and appearance to the Fye of Man About what Poor Trivial Circumstances Habits Gestures and things did they seem to lay great weight and make great matters of ●●oment How far did they seem from being acquainted with the Mysteries and Depths of Religion But their chief Preaching was Repentance and about a Light within and of turning to that Not mattering to Answer or satisfy the Reasoning Part of Man but singly minding the Reaching to and Raising of that the Light within to which their Testimony was c. Here is not a word of the outward Christ Nay he Compares and Prefers this Light within to Christ This which he says was so Contemptible to the world which appear'd to fall so much short of the Dispensation of the Law of Moses to the Jews much more of the Dispensation by Christ and his Apostles Who wou'd have looked for the Lord Have Says he And yet this hath the Lord Chosen to Gather his People and to appear to the World in This plainly gives that the Preferance to the Dispensations of Moses or of Christ But the Reader must know that this whole Treatise is left out in the New Edition of Isaac Penington's Works Re-Printed in a Large Polio 1681. With Glorious Testimonies from G. Fox G. Whitehead and the Corona of their Chiefs to the Memory of Isaac as one of their greatest Ornaments And tho all he wrote was from the Mouth of the Lord Or else by G. Fox's Rule he was a Conjurer yet did the Friends take upon them to Clip and Pair and Rectify it to suit with their Convenience As they have serv'd all the Rest of their Prophets whose works they have Re-Printed Leaving out whole Baskets full of Hideous Blasphemys and Treasons All given forth In the Name of the Lord God Eternal And some of them with Imprecations and Curses wherein they are very Liberal to those who shall add to them or take from them Tho if they were The word of God as they Blasphemonsly Pretend that Imprecation were Imply'd and the Curse Rev. XXII 19. Several Instances of this sort are given in The Snake in the Grass Where 2 Par. p. 42 43. there is Letter Inserted of G. Fox's to Oliver Cromwell in which he says speaking of himself My Kingdom is not of this World And I am moved of God said he To give this forth from him whom the World calls George Fox who is THE SON OF GOD. Instead of which in his Journal p. 137. Where this Letter is Recited he only says I set my Name to it And leaves out My Kingdom is not of this World So the Editors or Composers thought fit For whoever wrote it in his Name it was Printed and Gelded after his Death And yet there is Blasphemy and Nonsense enough left in it to exceed any other Legend that ever yet appear'd And as the Works of the great Fox himself of Burrough of Fisher of Smith of Howgil and all their Great and Lesser Prophets so must Isaac Penington's too pass 〈◊〉 the Fire of the Quakers Index Expurgatorius to leave several Scandals 〈◊〉 them tho all given forth In the Name of the Lord Particularly 〈◊〉 Treatise now mentioned For it gives too true an Account of the 〈◊〉 the Quakers and their Sottish Ignorance Preferring their Light 〈◊〉 to the Dispensation not onely of Moses but of Christ c. 〈◊〉 ●●●ngton's Design in setting out the Rise of Quakerism thus from 〈◊〉 Countrey Lads who were not only Grossly Ignorant of the Misteries 〈◊〉 Depth of Religion but who wanted Common sense as well as Learning or Expression and therefore durst not Attempt the Reasoning Part of Mankind 〈◊〉 expresses it but those onely who were as Ignorant and Besotted as themselves J. P's Design in this was to turn it as an Argument that they were s●nt from God because of the great Success they had from such Contemptible Beginnings And won'd make it Parallel to the Progress of the Gospel in the hands of the Apostles who were Fisher-men of no Education or Learning It is tree they were so But Christ to shew his Almighty Power gave them that Learning by the Miraculous and Visible Descent of the Holy Ghost which others attain by long study and Pains He endowed them at an instant with the gift of Languages which they knew not before to enable them to Convert Forraign Nations And gave them such Wisdom as their Adversaries were not able to withstand They were Ready at all times to Render a Reason of the Faith which they Preached 1 Pet. III. 15. But the Quakers matter not to Answer or satisfy the Reasoning Part of Man They Began in their Ignorance And their Ignorance continues with them still Of which it is not the least Part● that they see it not But dare compare themselves to the Holy and Inspired Prophets and Apostles of the Lord. Some of them went to Convert the Pope trusting that the Spirit wou'd give them utterance as to the Apostles But when they came there they cou'd speak nothing but English nor understood his Latin or Italian and so they Parted And as to their Progress in these miserably divided Kingdoms it onely shews the fatal Consequences of forf●●ting the Church which was thrown down before they set up and how far God may Permit Delusions for our Sins to spread Of which Mahomet is a much greater Instance than the Quakers But it may teach us this withal That if a Blind Ignorant Zeal can

which he calls His Second Coming This is the Meaning of those Questions above quoted Is it visible to the Carnal Eye And when was that Coming to be Is it now to be looked for outwardly c. By which it is plain that they mean That their is no visible Coming of Christ to be Now looked for outwardly I have told above what they mean by a Glorify'd or Heavenly Body not any thing either Visible or Intelligible But if they would consider that Christ's Glorify'd Body was visible to St. Paul at his Conversion as to other of His Apostles at His Trans-Figuration upon the Mount they would not find such Difficulties in apprehending that He may be Visible at the Last Day even to outward Eyes when they shall be strengthned much more than those of the Apostles upon Earth Then shall the Jews with their outward Eyes look upon Him whom they Pierced according to the Literal Prophesie Zech. xii 10. And St. Barnabas in his Cathol Epist chap. vii says That His Body tho' Glorify'd shall then be so Like what it was upon Earth that they shall be amazed at the Likeness And he says That this Likeness was Prefigur'd in the Likeness of the Two Goats the Scape-Goat and the other offer'd in Sacrifice Lev. xvi II. T. E. has another Pleasant come off p. 161. He says that G. W. oppos'd W. Burnet only as to the Opinion of the Millennium or Thousand Years Reign of Christ upon Earth and that this was the Third Coming of Christ which G. W. Denys Whereas neither in Burnet nor G. W's Book is there one Word of Millennium or any thing like it But their Dispute was only concerning the Last Judgment So that this must pass among the rest of T. E's Supposes to help him out at a Dead Lift. III. But if T. E. must Down he is Resolv'd to Fall in Good Company For p. 162. he makes St. Paul as Fallible as Himself He supposes that Saint Paul did Expect the Day of Judgment to come in his time from 1 Thess iv 17. We which are alive shall be caught up in the Clouds c. G. Keith says That the Apostle's using the word We there we that Remain is an Enallage Personae putting We for They like that of James Therewith Bless we God and therewith Curse we Men James iii. 9. But says T. E. Though he delivers it Positively and like a Dictator yet I see not why he must needs be believed Why might not the Apostle speak in the first Person We as supposing that Great and Extraordinary Appearance of Christ was so near at hand that it might Probably fall out in his time Why might he not I 'll tell you Why Mr. Ellwood Because it did not fall out in his Life time And if He thought it might then it will follow that He was mistaken and consequently that what He wrote was not Truth and so not only the Authority of this Epistle but of All His Epistles and of all the Rest of the New Testament will fall to the Ground for did not He write by the same Spirit as the other Pen-Men of the New Testament And you cannot think to come off by such a Text as 1 Cor. vii 6. I speak this by Permission and not of Commandment For concerning the other Text he says Expresly 1 Thess iv 15. This we say unto you by the Word of the Lord And if he was mistaken in this then was He Guilty of Great Blasphemy to speak a Lye In the Name of Lord And we cannot Believe one Word of this or any thing else that he either said or wrote I Expect now that T. E. should tell me That he only made a Quere of this and put a Perhaps to it 1st This was a very Reverend Suppose to throw dovvn the vvhole Scriptures all at once But 2dly T. E. go's further than a Suppose for he aftervvards Positively Asserts it and endeavours to Prove it thus For as the Apostles says he accounted the Times they Lived in the Last Days or Last Times so they thought the End of the World was not far off What else made Paul when he had told the Corinthians That the things he had Related were written for our Admonition add Upon whom the Ends of the World are come 1 Cor. xi 11. Why else did Peter say The End of All things is at Hand 1 Pet. iv 7. And now I am come to vindicate the Apostles against T. E. He strikes Home Therefore let him know That by the Later Times and the Last Times was Understood The Last Dispensation which was to be Given to the World viz. That of the Gospel or the Messias Which Time was usually called by the Jews the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Age that was to come or the Last Age. But now as to Saint Paul who seems homest Charged He has as foreseeing such misconstruction of his Words or some having so misconstrued them fully Clear'd himself and the other Apostles in a following Epistle to the Thessalonians 2 Thess ii 2. Now I beseech you Brethren says he with Great Earnestness by the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our Gathering together unto Him That ye be not soon shaken in Mind or be troubled neither by Spirit nor by Word nor by Letter as from us as that the Day of Christ is at Hand Let no man Deceive you by any means for that Day shall not come except there come a Falling away first c. But T. E. will not Believe him or else he must not believe G. W. who says in a Book he and others wrote Anno 1659. called A Brief Discovery of the Dangerous Principles of John Horne c. p. 9. And as for that 1 Thess iv 15. concerning the Coming of our Lord from Heaven which these Men aforesaid would blindly put Afar off The Saints who then were Alive Remained unto it so their Conversation was in Heaven i. e. a Heaven within them for they did not say their Conversation was at a Distance off above the Clouds from whence you ●ook for a Christ And thence Concludes That your Faith which is not Grounded in Christ's Appearing In you is to be turned up by the Roots In the Title Page This Book is said to be wrote By the Truth which is in George Whitehead John Whitehead and George Fox the Younger I will not Detain the Reader with Applications These things are so gross as not to be made Plainer III. The next Quotation is p. 164 G. W's words before mentioned Dost thou look for Christ's coming again to appear outwardly in a Bodily Existence if thou dost thou mayst look until thy Eyes Drop out before thou wilt see such an appearance of him And here T. E. crys out of Fraud and Falseness in G. Keith for leaving out these Words as the Son of Mary Dost thou look for Christ as the Son of Mary to appear c. which mean no more than Christ in His true Human

Nature and the same Body which He took of the Blessed Virgin in opposition to the Quaker Notion of understanding Christ's Coming only of the Inward and Invisible Appearance or Manifestation of Christ in the Heart And T. E's objecting against this of Christ's coming as the Son of Mary do's further Confirm us that these Quakers do not mean his coming in His true Human and Outward Body T. E. Objects too that these words to save thee are not Repeated in this Second Quotation of G. W's Words Which has been spoke to before and so I dismiss this head as I do likewise a long Contest which lasts as far as p. 177. Concerning some Letrers and other Papers in MS. which G. Keith Produced full of the Heretical Delusions before mentioned And which T. E. Confesses and Denies as if he were Mumbling of Thistles and Interlards with Billings-Gate against G. Keith With which I do not meddle And having Proofs sufficient out of their Printed Books I will not trouble the Reader with Examining of their Manuscripts IV. T. E. Comes to defend himself p. 177. And a Quotation of his own which G. Keith cited Viz. In comparing the Books of Friends to the Books of them called the Greek and Latin Fathers he G K. has not done as a Friend and Brother but as an Enemy in supposing Friends Books to have been Written by no better Guidance nor clearer sight than theirs who Lived and Wrote in those Dark times T. E. is very Angry that the Auditors at Turners-Hall shouted at this Quotation And well they might To see the most Ignorant and Heretical of all the Sects that ever were in Christendom thus to set up themselves above the Primitive Fathers of the Church and to Prefer their own Writings who cou'd not rightly spell their own Mother Tongue Illiteral Mechanicks to the Great Atbanasius Basilius the two Gregories Naziansen and Nysen Cyril Ambrose Epiphanius Chrisostom Hierom Augustin Hilarius c. All of whom T. E. Instances by Name p. 178. As Inferior to the Quakers and ascends Higher to the Second Century and p. 179. Names Cyprian Tertullian and Origen None of these were to be Compar'd with George Fox and his Disciples These were Dark Times to the Year 1650 when the New Light of the Quakers Arose in our Hemesphere When the Church being Pull'd down the Vilest and most Monstrous and Numerous Spawn of Multifarious Sects that ever the Bottomless Pit spew'd forth at once were with a Thousand other Devils let loose amongst us A just Punishment for our Schism and Rebellion And we are yet left to War with the Tayle of this Hydra which is Gathering New Life and if it shou'd for our sins Prevail our Last S●●●e wou'd be worst than the First Who can refrain from Indignation To see such a Conceited Senseless most Ignorant and Blasphemous Crew Destitute of Comon Modesty or ●hame wipe their Mouths and Gravely set up themselves above all the Glorious Lights of the Church Confessors and Martyrs ever since the Apostles whom they Damn as Apostates See Snake in the Grass 2. Part Sect iv As their Execrable Father G. Fox said in his Great Mystery p. 89. That the Quakers Have a Spirit given them beyond all the Fore-fathers since the days of the Apostles in the Apostacy T. E. Quotes scraps out of Perkins Jurieu and Dalley to shew Errors in the Fathers who did not pretend to Infallibility Tho these Modern Authors have made much too Bold with them There are Spots in the Sun But this must not Eclipse their Light and Glorious Gifts they had from God whereby they supported His Gospel with Irresistible Learning Piety and Constancy even to the Death God chargeth His Angels with Folly and suffer'd Imperfections in His Apostles Peter Deserved to be Blamed and even Barnabas was carry'd away with his Dissimulation Gal. 2.11.13 There were great Failings in Noah in Lot in Moses in Samson in David in Solomon And the Quakers who while in the sink of Heresy and Corruption ●oast of a Sinless Perfection may set themselves above all these by the same Rule But what is so Extravagant that they dare not that they have not done William Shewen a Great Quaker Writer and Preacher and Highly Extoll'd by them at his solemn Funeral about two years ago in his Treatise concerning Thoughts and Imaginations Printed 1685. p. 25. Sets up a Quaker as Meeker than Moses Stronger than Samson Wiser than Solomon And more Patient than Job Harmless and Innocent as He Christ was If the Reader be Astonished at this he will see more p. 37. Where the Quakers pretend to be come even beyond the Outward Christ or Jesus They can come to God now without Him And worship Him no more Not to Jesus says he on the Margent that you may take the more Notice of it The Son of Abraham David and Mary Saint or Angel but to God the Father all Worship Honour and Glory is to be Given thro' Jesus Christ i. e. Thro' the Inward Christ or Light within But to Worship the outward Jesus the Son of Mary he Ranks with the Worship of Saints and Angels And his Ascension and Sitting at the Right Hand of God W. Shewen will not have it understood of the outward Jesus but onely of this Inward Christ p. 38. Who when he is thus known to perform all these Offices in his People he is then by such known to sit down at the Right Hand of God He is then also known to Surrender up the Kingdom to the Father And in the Margin he puts this Note Viz. This is the Ascending of Christ up where he was before he Descended Turning all this to the Inward Christ or their Light within Perform'd within them where they have an Inward Ascension an Inward Right Hand of God an Inward Kingdom an Inward Delivering of it up c. And denying any thing of this to be Perform'd Outwardly or to belong to the outward Jesus Now T. E. is desired to shew any such Errors as these and the Denyal of these Four great Essentials of Christianity which is Ch●●ged and Proved against him and his Partners and is the Subject of our present Discourse 1. Faith in Christ as he Outwardly suffer'd at Jerusalem to our Salvation 2. Justification by his Blood outwardly shed 3. The Resurrection of the Dead 4. The Future Judgment He is desir'd to shew any such Errors as these in those Fathers whom he so much despises No. If any had Published such Doctrines as these in those which he calls Dark Times they had been spew'd out of the Church with the utmost Abhorrence Many were cast out for much less Errors than these Nor ought such Errors to be Tolerated in any Christian Nation And it is an horrible Scandal that such shou'd be suffered to pass under the Name of Protestant It is enough to make that Name odious to all other Christians From the Place last Quoted to p. 197. There is nothing

the words are obscure Nor do I well understand the meaning of Christ's entring within his own Flesh which is the Vail and then within himself which is the Holy of Holies It seems to bear this meaning that as the High Priest having enter'd through the Vail left it behind him so that Christ hath left his Body behind him having passed through it into the Holy of Holies Which G. Keith says one Robert Young a Preacher among the Quakers in Pensilvania Did assert and brought these very words of W. P. to Confirm it Which T. E. p. 215. Does not deny but says there ought to be some other Voucher besides G. Keith However this Sense of the words is agreeable to the General tendency of that Book which is to Depreciate the Outward in Comparison of the Inward Christ or Light within otherwise there cou'd have been no difference betwixt W. P. and J. Faldo who did not deny either the Divinity of Christ or the Inward Influence of his Blessed Spirit in our Hearts Yet T. E. gives this Excuse for these words of W. P. That they were given as a Reason among others why the Body of Christ which was Nailed to the Cross simply consider'd by it self and Abstractedly from that Divine Life and Power which dwelt in it shou'd not be called the Christ This makes the matter look much worse against W. P. than any thing G. Keith hath said For it is certain that J. Faldo never said any such thing as that the Body of Christ simply consider'd by it self which T. E. has put as here in a different Character to shew that he laid the stress upon that Limitation and Abstractedly from the Divinity of Christ was the Christ No Christian cou'd say or think any such thing And therefore it was against something else which W. P. disputed against something wherein J. Faldo opposed him which was in asserting the outward Body of Christ against the Quakers Notion of turning it all into an Allegory of the Light within And as Robert Young a fellow Preacher of W. P's understood his words above Quoted they were intended that Christ had Passed through or got within the Vail i. e. of his Body and so left it behind him when he wont beyond it into the Holy of Holies If this was not W. P's meaning let him clear himself from this Defence of T. E's which will not admit of any other Construction to be put upon it XII G. Keith Quotes W. P's Truth Exalted Reprinted An. 1671. p. 13 14. But T. E. throws it off p. 216. in this slight fashion That neither deserves nor needs any other Answer here than a bare denyal This made me suspect something and to look into the place where W. P. is describing the Quakers Christ as he calls it which he does at great length several Pages together and from Top to Bottom not one word of the outward Christ but applying the most express Prophesies of him to that Christ or Light within the Heart Vnto us says he p. 13. The most Afflicted Despised and Forsaken by all the Families of the Earth is a Child Born unto us a Son is Given we call him Wonderful Councellor the Mighty God the Everlasting Father c. and p. 14. This is the Second Adam the Quickning Spirit The Law writ in the Heart and Spirit put in the Inward Parts This is the Quakers Christ And p. 15. This Vniversal Light is God 's beloved Son hear ye him XII Page 217. T. E. to save W. P. from having Sworn by saying As sure as the Lord Liveth and yet Condemning that Form As the Lord Iaveth for a direct Oath confesses this Latter to be an Oath but not the Former This is very Nice But if T. E. the Doctor subtilis of the Quakers had not Inform'd our understandings any Dull Reader wou'd have been apt to think that the Former had rather been the Greater Oath as being more Positive but cou'd never have seen how it cou'd have been not onely less but no Oath at all because it is the very words of the Latter and every word of it onely adding as sure as to it But what was the occasion of W. P's using of these words They were the severe Sanction of a Prophecy which in his Book call'd Reason against Railing p. 180. he gave forth against Tho. Hicks a Baptist Preacher his opponent in these words So sure as the Lord Laveth And I testify to thee from God's Living Spirit if thou desist not and come not to deep Repentance the Lord will make thee an Example of his fury and thy Head shall not go down to the Grave in Peace To this says T. E. p. 218. That he Tho. Hicks Desisted is certain and that he did not come to Repentance I suppose G. Keith will not adventure to say This is in Justification of W. P's Prophecy as if it had been thus Fulfilled or solved First By Tho. Hicks's having Desisted i. e. From opposing the Quakers Which T. E. says is Certain Secondly By his Repenting for it which he says onely that he has Heard And W. P's Prophecy being Conditional and these Conditions of it thus Perform'd it saves his Prophecy from being a False one But First as to T. Hicks's DESISTING to oppose the Quakers after this which T. E. will not have us to Doubt because He even He himself says It is certain Whereas the Contrary is most certain And I can give a most certain Demonstration of it For T. Hicks did not Desist but after all this he Printed an Answer to this very Book of W. P's wherein this Prophecy is and at the end of his Post Script he takes notice of this same Prophecy and says That if W. P. were his Judge be believ'd that he wou'd make good his Prophecy and my Head says T. H. Should not have gone to the Grave in Peace This Book of T. Hicks's is Intituled The Quakers Appeal Answered And Printed 1674. Well but T. E. may say that he Desisted when he had Done Most likely i. e. He did not continue Writing to the last moment of his Life But did his Head go down to the Grave in Peace Yes And was he not made an Example of God's Fury Did he dye in Despair At least so as to be an Example Which must be Publick and Notorious to those about him when he Dyed otherwise it was no Example No. There was nothing at all Extraordinary in his Death But to all Appearance he Dyed in Peace and with Comfort And gave not the least Sign of Repentance for the opposition which he had made against the Quakers And here I cannot refrain to say one word to Mr. Penn That he wou'd seriously Reflect upon the Dreadful Blasphemy of giving forth Lies in The Name of the Lord Nay tho any thing of his Prophecy had befallen T. Hicks yet it had been no less Blasphemous and a False Prophecy in W. P. if it was not Positively Reveal'd to him