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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

due time And he is now the object of the Faith of all true Christians not only as born of the Virgin c. but also as known and witnessed in his Inward and Spiritual Appearance in Man to bruise the Serpent's Head Power and Strength which has had Dominion and Rule in Man To this sense our Saviour himself does also explain the Spiritual Nature of the Seed the Word of God Luke 8.11 Ibid. p. 143. The Snake brings from Christian Quaker another Argument to the purpose foregoing which is this One Outward thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another nor is it the way of Scripture so to Teach us c. To which the Snake says All the outward Sacrifices under the Law were Types or Figures of the Sacrifice of Christ the Outward Christ upon the Cross c. The whole Legal Dispensation of the First Covenant was a Figure of Christ and of that Dispensation of the New Covenant Grace and Truth which came by him But that it was not only a Type or Figure of Christ upon the Cross I shall shew in several Instances The Serpent which Moses made Numb 21.9 Our Saviour declares John 3.14 that as that was lifted up in the Wilderness so must the Son of Man be lifted up And this in a sense may be understood to have respect to our Saviour's being lifted up on the Cross but not only that for our Saviour carries the Type further and shews that it did respect that Spiritual Obedience and Faith in him which gives Eternal Life For as the Sting of the Serpents in the Wilderness were cured by looking to the Brazen Serpent So by coming through Faith and Obedience to look to Christ the Sting of Sin and Death are taken away by him Wherefore he saith v. 20.21 For every one that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his deeds should be reproved But he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God In like manner the Apostle 1 Cor. 5.7 Christ our passover is crucified for us may have respect to Paschal Land as Type and to Christ crucified as typified but not altogether that for he carries it further and shews that whereas vers 1. It was reported there was Fornication among them And vers 6. That they gloried in what was not good He adviseth them to purge out the old Leaven and from the advantages of Power from Christ received he presseth them to keep the Feast not with old Leaven neither with the Leaven of Malice and Wickedness but with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth The same Apostle to the Colossians 11.16 17. Let no Man therefore judge you in Meat or in Drink or in respect of an Holy-Day or of the New Moon or of the Sabbath Day which are a Shaddow of things to come but the Body is of Christ And that they were Shadows of the Spiritual Appearance of Christ whose Dispensation to Mankind was introduced by his outward Appearance the Apostle to the Hebrews shews chap. 9. that the Service which stood in Meats and Drinks and divers Washing and carnal Ordinances did not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience but was a Figure of good things to come even the purging the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God by the spotless Offering of the Blood of Christ through the Eternal Spirit Thus the benefit of that Offering cannot be witnessed by Man but through the inward Operation of the Eternal Spirit whereby the Conscience can be purged from Dead Works And thus the Scripture plainly teaches That the Types and Shadows of the Law and the Ministry of it are the Figure of the Covenant promised Jer. 31.33 which is also plentifully shewn by the Apostle to the Hebrews throughout that admirable Epistle And agreeable herewith is W. P. in the place last quoted by the Snake for those words of his One Outward thing cannot be the proper Figure or Representation of another c. had relation to his foregoing words which the Snake hath cut off and are these As Abraham Outward and Natural was the Great Father of the Iews outward and natural whose Seed God promised to bless with Earthly Blessings as Canaan c. And that they were figurative of the one Seed Christ and such as he should beget into a lively hope through the Power of his Spiritual Resurrection c. Thus W. P. And as the Snake cannot deny that Abraham was figurative of Christ and that to his Seed as they continued in his Faith the Oath of God was to them in that outward Covenant So it must of necessity follow that this Great Father of the Jews Outward and Natural doth not herein otherwise Typify Christ than as Christ is the Spiritual Father of all the Nations of them that are saved through Faith and Obedience in and to his Spirit in their Hearts Ibid. p. 143. They can upon a pinch subscribe the whole Creed and yet not mean one word of it of God or Christ at all that is of any God or Christ without Men. Reader is not this a fair mark of what kind that great Charity and real kindness must be which in p. 23. foregoing he pretends to have for the Generality of us Or is it not rather a mark of that Flaming Charity which himself declares to have for the Church But Charity and Truth are at an equal distance from him who can thus notoriously belie us by charging such Dissimulation on us as is his own practice That we can subscribe not upon a pinch but heartily and readily all the Testimonies of Holy Writ and the Articles of Faith therein contained is True but that we do not mean one of them Testimonies of God or Christ without Men is as great a falshood as the Devil can utter And if Preaching if Writing if constant Profession in Words together with Practice agreeable from a People can be a sufficient evidence that they do so own and mean I defy the Snake with all his Confederacy to give better and greater evidence that they acknowledge any of the Truths therein contain'd The Snake next repeats a Quotation from Saul's Errand p. 8. which is answered before in p. 59. and another from the Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. which is also answered p. 204. foregoing and therefore need not be here repeated Ibid. p. 145. The Snake speaking of W. Smith's Primmer says Here is an Admirable Cue given to Young Children to prevent their ever receiving the least tincture of Christianity that if they should at any time hear of a Christ in Heaven they might immediately stop their Ears and believe all who spoke of it to be false Ministers That this Snake is a false Accuser and has not the least tincture of Christian Charity there needs little more trouble to prove than barely to give truly which the Snake has not but curtail'd those Questions

distinguish what he has taken as above in a different Character Pref. p. 7. of Great Mystery First The Lord brought us by his Power and Wisdom and the Word by which all Things were made to know and understand and see perfectly that God had given to us every one of us in particular a Light from himself shining in our Hearts and Consciences which Light Christ his Son the Saviour of the World had lighted every Man and all Mankind withal which Light in us we found sufficient to reprove us and convince us of every evil Deed Word and Thought and by it in us we come to know Good from Evil Right from Wrong and whatsoever is of God and according to him from what is of the Devil and what is contrary to God in Motion Word and Work And this Light gave us to discern between Truth and Error between every False and Right Way and it perfectly discovered to us the true state of all things And we thereby came to know Man what he was in his Creation before Transgression and how he was deceived and overcome by the Devil and his estate in Transgression and in Disobedience And how he is drove and banished from the presence of the Lord and the Sorrow and Anguish which he is in and to undergo And also by the Light in us we perfectly came to know the way of Restauration and the means to be restored and the state of Man being come out of Transgression and restored These things to us were revealed by the Light within us which Christ had given us and Lightned us withal What Man was before Transgression and what he is in Transgression and what he is being redeemed out of Transgression and also the Light which shined in every one of us as to it our Minds became turned and our Hearts inclined the perfect estate of the Church we came to know Her estate before the Apostles days and in the Apostles days and since the days of the Apostles And her present state we found to be as a Woman who had once been clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her Feet who brought forth him that was to rule the Nations but She was fled into the Wilderness and there sitting desolate in her place that was prepared of God for such a season which season in the very end thereof when the time of her sojourning was towards a full end then were we brought forth If any have an Ear they may hear So that all these things concerning Man and concerning the Times and Seasons and the changing and renewing of Times and all things that pertain to Salvation Redemption and Eternal Life needful for Man to know ALL THIS WAS discover'd revealed and made known to us by the Light that was in us which Christ had lighted us withal Thus E. B. The Snake's next Quotation is from E. B's Works p. 862. and his quotation is thus Every true Member of the Church hath certainty and infallibility of Judgment and discerning who are out of the Truth and in the way of Error and are Hereticks In this as in the last he hath abusively mangled E. B's words which are these Every true Member of the true Church hath its particular Measure of the Infallible Spirit of Christ whereby he is certainly persuaded of the way of Truth in which he walks and knows and believes the Infallibility of the Truth he professes and is certain and secure of the way of his Peace and Assurance in God which he hath received and believed and hath also certainty and infallibility of Judgment and discerning who are out of the Truth and in the way of Error and are Hereticks Such are infallibly known and discerned by the Spirit of God in the true Church of Christ. See here Reader the great perversion of words sound as can be deliver'd and which I dare the Snake to deny if he can for if he does he must of necessity thro' away all that Enthusiasm to which he says the Church in her Offices does pretend Ibid. p. 34. Quoted from E. B's Works p. 861 862. So both the Law-makers and the Judges of the Law must be infallible in Knowledge and Judgment in this case of Heresie otherwise the Law made for that purpose and the Judgment given by that Law are both false and unjust and not according to God and his Truth but are to be justly Judged and Condemn'd of the Lord God in his day and season This the Snake says dissolves our Laws Damns the Law-makers and infers necessarily the Quakers Opinion of their own Infallibility To this Charge let the Snake himself answer whether or no his refusing Swearing Obedience to the Present Government dissolves the Law which requires it of him Damns the Makers of that Law and does infer an Opinion of his own Infallibility Ibid. p. 35. Quoted from E. B's Works p. 198. where I have look'd for the words quoted by the Snake but find no such if he be mistaken in the page when that is rectified it may be answered Ibid. p. 35. Quoted from Great Mystery p. 107. Thou sayst that the Holiest Man is not able to give an Infallible Character of another Man Hast thou not in this discovered thy self to be no Minister of Christ or of the Spirit who cannot give an Infallible Character of another Man how canst thou minister to his Condition How canst thou see them that be turned from the Darkness and that be in the Darkness and distinguish the one from the other and an Holy Man from an Vnholy Man that canst not give an Infallible Character of any Man's Estate Ibid. p. 36. Quoted from Great Mystery p. 94. Have you given your selves a Name of a Church of Christ and is there not a Spirit of Discerning among you have you not manifested there that you are Harlotted from the Church of Christ the Apostles were of and how can you minister or teach People if ye do not discern their estates how they stand before God how can you commend your selves to every Man's Conscience in God's sight How can ye present the Souls of Men to God and see not their states how they are in his Sight How came ye to have fellowship in the Spirit How can you or any minister to the state and condition that people be in and see where they are and doth not see how they stand in God's sight From these two long Quotations he draws two Inferences or Conclusions which I will briefly repeat and then reply to them Here the Quakers have excluded all from the Church of Christ from having any fellowship in the Spirit who have not this Infallible Spirit of Discerning every Man's Heart Secodly It is evident they did not discern Keith and Bugg whom for many years they own'd as true Quakers thought them principal Pillars whom now they vilifie as Apostates Therefore by their own Argument all the Quakers are Harlotted from the Church of Christ have no fellowship in the

Stranger when I was in Prison with these words Thy Name shall be no more James Naylor but Jesus This I judge to be written from the Imaginations and a Fear stroke me when I first saw it and so I put it in my Pocket close not intending any should see it which they finding on me spread it abroad which the simplicity of my Heart never occasioned So this I deny also that the Name of Christ Jesus is received instead of James Naylor or after the Flesh for the Name is to the Seed to all Generations and he that hath the Son hath the Name which is Life and Power the Salvation and the Unction into the which Name all the Children of Light are Baptized So the Name of Christ I confess before Men but not according to Men which Name to me hath been a Strong Tower in the Night and in the Day And this is the Name of Christ Jesus which I confess the Son and the Lamb in the Seed where he speaks in Male or Female but who hath not this in himself hath not Life neither can have by Idolizing my Person or the Person of any Flesh but in whom the Heir is born and hath spoken or doth speak there he must not be denied the Mouth to spake by who is Head over all and in all his own God blessed for ever And all those Ranting Wild Spirits which then gathered about me in that time of Darkness and all their Wild Actions and Wicked Words against the Honour of God and his pure Spirit and People I deny the Spirit the Power and the Works thereof and as far as I gave advantage through want of Judgment for that Evil Spirit in any to arise I take shame to my self justly having formerly had Power over that Spirit in Judgment and Discerning where-ever it was which Darkness came over me through want of Watchfulness and Obedience to the Pure Eye of God and diligently minding the Reproof of Life which condemns the Adulterous Spirit So the Adversary got advantage who ceases not to seek to devour and being taken Captive from the True Light walked in the Night where none can work as a wandring Bird fit for the prey And if the Lord of all my Mercies had not rescued me I had perished for I was as one appointed to Death and Destruction and there was none could deliver me And this I confess that God may be justified in his Judgment and magnified in his Mercies without end who did not forsake his Captive in the Night even when his Spirit was daily provoked and grieved but hath brought me forth to give Glory to his Name for ever And it is in my Heart to confess to God and before Men my Folly and Offence in that day Yet was there many things formed against me in that day to take away my Life and bring Scandal upon the Truth of which I am not Guilty at all as that accusation as if I had committed Adultery with some of those Women who came with us from Exeter Prison and also those who were with me at Bristol the Night before I suffered there of both which Accusations I am clear before God who kept me at that day both in Thought and Deed as to all Women as a little Child God is my Record and this I mention in Particular hearing of some who still cease not to reproach therewith God's Truth and People that the Mouth of Enmity might be shut from evil speaking though this touch not my Conscience And that Report as though I had raised Dorkas Erbury from the Dead carnally this I deny also and condemn that Testimony to be out of the Truth tho' that Power that quickens the Dead I deny not which is the Word of Eternal Life And this I give forth that it may go as far as the Offence against the Spirit of Truth hath gone abroad that all Burthens may be taken off with the Truth and the Truth cleared thereby and the True Light and all that walk therein and the Deeds of Darkness be condemned and that all that are in Darkness may not Act in the Night but stay upon God who walks in the Light who with the Workers of Iniquity hath not fellowship which had I done when first Darkness came upon me and not been led by others I had not run against the Rock to be broken which so long had born me and of whom I had so largely drank and of which I now drink in measure to whom be the glory of all and to him must every Tongue confess as Judge and Saviour God over all blessed for ever And this further is given me to say to every particular Person to whom this Writing shall come Whatever is thy Condition walk in the Light which lets thee see it there is thy Counsel and thy strength to be received to stay thee and recover thee Art thou tempted to Sin Abide in that which lets thee see it that there thou mayst come to feed on the Right Body not on the Temptation for if thou mind the Temptation it will overcome thee but in the Light is Salvation Or having Sinned art thou tempted to despair or to destroy thy self mind not the Temptation for it's Death that Sin hath brought forth feed not on it nor mind it least thou eat Condemnation for that 's the Wrong Body The Body of Christ is felt in the Light in which is Life from Death Grace and Truth to Feed on which will overcome for thee being followed but if thou follow the Temptation Fear and Condemnation will swallow thee up If there appear to thee Voices Visions and Revelations feed not thereon but abide in the Light and feel the Body of Christ and there wilt thou receive Faith and Power to judge of every appearance and Spirit the Good to hold fast and obey and the False to resist Art thou in Darkness mind it not for if thou do it will fill thee more but stand still and Act not and wait in patience till Light arise out of Darkness to lead thee Art thou wounded in Conscience feed not there but abide in the Light which leads to the Grace and Truth which teaches to deny and put off the Weight and removes the Cause and brings Saving Health to Light Yea this I say to thee in the Name of Jesus Christ that tho' thou has made thy Grave as deep as the nethermost Hell or were thy Afflictions as great as Job's and thy Darkness as the Depths of the Sea yet if thou wilt not run to vain helps as I have done but stay upon the Lord till he give thee sight by his word which commands Light to shine out of Darkness from thence will he bring thee forth thy Eye shall guide thee and thou shalt praise his Name as I do this day glory for evermore and this word is nigh thee which must give thee Light tho' Darkness Comprehends it not And hast thou Gifts Revelations Knowledge Wisdom or

are these Light and Life c. p. 59. I do not make S. E's Expression therein especially as construed by our Adversaries an Article of our Faith And G. W. for himself does there declare He did own the Blood shed to be more than the Blood of another Saint Thus saith not only G. W. but thus also say the Quakers who at all times since a People have readily declared their true and scriptural Sense of it But with respect to S. E's words having first inform'd my Reader that no Quaker did ever approve much less justifie them and therefore surely not make them an Article of our Faith either of which if the Snake can prove he is required to do it I say having first acquainted my Reader thus much it will not I hope be expounded a defending of them words of S. E's if I do briefly shew that had this Snake had in himself any of that great Charity for others which he says p. 10. is more apt to have a good opinion of others than of our selves and which he makes one of the Marks of Divine Enthusiasm or Inspiration He would have looked to see whether S. E's words would not have born Sano sensu some honest and innocent Construction and accordingly have judged rather than put a bad Construction on words which if not safely exprest were however so intended That S. E. did so safely and scripturally intend them is I think plain in that he declares He had no light esteem of the Blood of Christ it self as it was made by Christ a part of that blessed Offering for Man and that what he spake of that part of the Blood which was let out by the Spear and which is that the Snake now makes his advantage of was with respect to the Soldiers Act and the time of doing it which was after his Death So that I think it may in truth appear That that upon which Solomon Eccles did ground the difference he put between the Blood of Christ in one respect and in another was that in the one it was a voluntary Offering of Christ himself in and by the Eternal Spirit before his Death In the other it was the forcible act of a Soldier after he was Dead and the Sacrifice compleated And this with much more our Friend Tho. Ellwood had heretofore said Truth Defended p. 111 112. in reply to G. Keith upon the same Charge and which the Snake might have reply'd to if he could before he had renew'd it Ibid. p. 140. They have evaded the most express Texts for Christ's Humanity even that Gen. 3.15 his being the Seed of the Woman They allegorize that too into a Spiritual Sense quite away from the Letter and to mean nothing else in the World but their Light within We have not evaded any Text of Scripture for Christ's Humanity therefore not that of Gen. 3.15 wherein he is testified of as The Seed of the Woman Nor have we allegoriz'd it into a Spiritual Sense beyond the Authority of express Texts of Scripture much less quite away from the Letter but as we now do so we always since a People have owned that it did mean something more than the manifestation of the Spirit or Light of Christ in Man But the Snake for Proof of this Charge makes a Quotation from W. P's part of The Christi●n Quaker p. 97 98. The Serpent says he is a Spirit Now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something that is Internal and the Snake has left out Spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpent's Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one And consequently the Seed of the Promise is an Holy and Spiritual the Snake has left out Principle of Light and Life and Power the Snake has left out that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpent's Head And because the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ as testify the Scriptures the Seed is one and the Seed is Christ and which the Snake has cut off as not to his purpose and Christ God over all blessed for ever We do conclude and that most truly that Christ was and is the Divine Word of Light and Life that was in the beginning with God and was and is God over all blessed for ever Thus W. P. From which the Snake says p. 140. His consequence is that the promised Seed was not any Person but a Principle Which consequence is falsly drawn by the Snake from W. Penn's words the consequence of them being more truly that the Promised Seed was not only that but also a Principle of Light Life and Power which I shall now further shew as it is also declared by T. E. Truth Defended p. 113 114. that The Scope and design of W. P. in those words was to prove against his Opponents that the Son of God who in the fulness of time took upon him a Body of Flesh in which he suffered on the Cross was and was properly called Christ before he appeared in that outward Body which his Opponents denied not owning Christ as Christ to have any existence before that Body which was Born of the Virgin but confining Christ to that Body And because all acknowledge the Promised Seed to be Christ W. P. used that as a Medium to prove that Christ was before that outward Appearance Now this affirming Christ to be the Seed and that Seed to be Inward and Spiritual is not a denial of Christ having a bodily existence without us for he may have and hath a bodily existence without us and yet may be and is spiritually within us 'T is true he denied that that Body which Christ had from the Virgin Strictly considered as such was the Seed and he gave divers reasons for it And which are mentioned from p. 94. to p. 99. of his Christian Quaker From the consequence which the Snake hath falsly drawn from W. P's words viz. That the Seed is not a Person but a Principle He goes on p. 141. fighting against the Bugbear which himself hath conjured up and declares it to be A Supposition of so pernicious a nature that it Vn-christians any who holds it For the Faith of Christians is built upon that Man Jesus Christ as The Seed Promised to bruise the Serpent's Head His Supposition so far as respecting us the Quakers and W. P. in particular is false For we believe the Manhood of Christ gloriously united with the Godhead to be the Seed Promised Gen. 3.15 and also that that Seed being of a Divine and Spiritual Nature did inwardly work against the Serpent and did bruise his Head and break his Strength and Power in some measure in the Holy Men and Women in all Generations T. E. Truth Defended p. 114. and by this their inward experience of his Spirit and Power he was the object of their Faith to be made manifest in God's

a good degree in the Antidote and now more fully since he has so much alter'd and magnified his Structure i. e. the Snake therefore the Reader may not now securely depend upon the Quotations he has produced as he would have him if he should think he may securely depend upon them he is very insecure and will be deceived and greatly Err in depending upon such an inveterate Adversary's false partial and unjust Quotations as many of them are proved to be upon a more full Examination and Detection And if his Quotations is in Effect the whole Cause as he saith then his Cause is fallacious rotten and nought 't is of no value or credit If his Quotations in divers principal Matters and Charges against us be found false partial and unjust as they are what 's become of his whole Cause whose Cause is it to belie slander defame and foully misrepresent others but the Devils Cause which in the Snake in the Grass is strennously prosecuted against us And so insulting and slighting he is of G. W's Answer casting his Contempt and Scorn upon both him and it that a Body would think 't were below his Highness Learning and Parts to take so much notice of them as he seems to intend He tells us G. Whitehead's Answer consists of bitter Railing and Threatning of very poor and guilty Excuses for some things that are objected against them and a total Silence or Forgetfulness of the most Material Points wherein they were accus'd of calling this a severe Persecution against them of Pleading not Guilty to the Charge without disproving any part of the Evidence p. 361 362. To Detect the Falshoods herein contain'd I must refer the Impartial Reader to my said Antidote however invalid and impertinent he renders my Answer therein How well consistent is he with himself in this his declared Intention viz. When I have leisure to consider this Answer of the Quakers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 step by step I suppose he means which for their Good I do intend I hope by it to put an end to my Pains in this Controversie But if the Answer be so Insignificant very Poor and without disproving any part of his Evidence what need of his further leisure so particularly to consider it or pains in the Controversie But if my Answer require such deep and exact Consideration 't is an Indication that it is of some weight and validity and that it does not consist of such Railing Threats or Evasions as 't is render'd he must have leisure farther to study the Points in Controversie and not to shift them off with false partial and curtail'd Quotations nor with his using Railery as he has confessed If he makes Replication he should write more cautiously than to accumulate Lies against us which he appears very prone to In short quoth he It was intended i. e. G. W's Answer purely to have it to say That there was an Answer to such a Book meaning to the Snake in the Grass and that is enough with the Quakers who are not permitted to read the Books that are written against them and receive as Gospel whatever their Rabbies Dictate This is Ridiculous and False as all that know us will own 1. As if our Answer were no Answer at all but only intended to have it to say there was an Answer 2. And that this so saying though no Truth in 't is enough with the Quakers Thus credulous he unjustly renders the Quakers 3. That they are not permitted to read the Books that are written against them is such a notorious known Lie that Thousands of the Quakers can testifie against it besides many think themselves obliged to understand what our Adversaries write against us whether any new Matter or only what 's old obsolete rusty nasty Stuff that has been long since thorowly Examined and Answered like such Stuff as Bugg and the Snake have frequently reiterated to spit and vomit abroad their Venom Rancour and Deadly Malice against the People of God in derision term'd Quakers And how can we the said People reasonably suppose that such inveterate Adversaries can in such their Pains against us to reproach us design any such Christian Duty towards us as to contribute their Pains to open our Eyes and save us from destruction both of Soul and Body p. 351. as this bitter Adversary saith for himself supposing us under Delusion and Blindness by our Infallible Guides as he often derides them Or with what Conscience can this Envious Adversary say That he has 〈◊〉 other Design or sincerely say so before God 〈◊〉 our Good and Salvation When he has publickly defam'd and reproach'd us as Blasphemers against God Christ and Holy Scriptures Enemies to Government deluded bewitched possessed with the Devil as if we were not fit to live upon Earth or under any Civil Government then demurely to tell us I will venture their Displeasure rather than fail in my Christian Duty towards them to contribute my Pains to open their Eyes and save them c. Oh Snake thou hast shewn thy Venom thou hast been long hissing at us we 'll not believe this thy now Fawning and Hypocritical Pretences whose Treatment of us like as if Rude Persons should smite us on the Face and gather all the Dirt they can out of Kennels and throw on our Faces Eyes and Clothes and then tell us Oh! we love you what we do unto you and all this Pains we bestow upon you it is all in Christian Duty to you to open your Eyes and save you from Destruction both of Soul and Body we have no other Design than your Good and Salvation And to make us believe they are Sincere herein Presumptuously so tell us before God And now that the Reader may not take the Man's Supplement wholly upon Trust he pretends here to give him a Specimen of the Truth of what he says behold what special Specimens he gives against G. W. viz. p. 351. I. First then he wholly passes by what one would think a Material Objection against them of the manifest Possessions of many of them and some of their chief Preachers by the Devil which was in the beginning of the Preface But he i. e. G. W. says nothing to this nor reckons it as any of the Mistakes Abuses or Calumnies in the Snake for having made a Catalogue of these as he endeavours to prove them he begins at Page 93. of the Preface and so goes on whereby we may reasonably suppose he found none such in what went before To which I reply This his Specimen is as false as his material Objection and Charge Of Manifest Possessions by the Devil For 1. 'T is false that I wholly pass by and said nothing to the same in my Answer 2. That I did not reckon it any of the Mistakes Abuses or Calumnies in the Snake c. For though I made a Catalogue of some of the great Mistakes Abuses and Calumnies in the Snake It was but of some of