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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

Lies and Slanders as ever we met withal But who or what has forced him to be such a Railer Not the Spirit of Christ not a Christian Spirit to be sure If he had apprehended us such mad Men and silly ridiculous Fools as he has represented us he should rather pity us than bend his Wits to rail and scoff at us Sn. p. 13. Intending chiefly to insist upon some of their more material and monstrous Heresies thus against the Quakers Re. This Charge looks big and seems to make a great Noise but as 't is levelled against us in general 't is as false as the rest As concerning the Government his Authority is as invalid which is he only refers us to the Quakers Vnmask'd printed 1691. What great Authority is this but one of F. Bugg's abusive Pamphlets which is fully answer'd and his Abuses detected over and over which this partial Adversary takes no notice of That some of these called Quakers were at first Common-wealth's Men or for a Common-wealth and afterward for a Monarchy when it pleased God by his over-ruling Power and Providence to cause such alterations We see no monstrous Heresie herein any more than was in Samuel See 1 Sam. 8. 5 6. ch 10. 1. That the Quakers are against their being concerned in Fighting and destroying Men's Lives as believing that 't is not in Christ's mediatory Kingdoms and yet grant that Wars and Fighting are a Judgment from God in the Kingdom of this World What Heresie or Fallibility is in this pray This is the true state of the Difference however aggravated and perverted by this Adversary and his Author Sn. Sect. 3. p. 17 18. Anno 1650 and 1654. Then it was that Rome was reaping a plentiful Harvest which they had long been sowing by setting up in that universal Toleration multitudes of various Sects on purpose to divide and so confound their only substantial Adversary the Church of England They dressed Enthusiasm in several Shapes and Forms of Presbyter Anabaptist Independent Quaker Muggleton and along c. which differ only in degrees Re. Here the Snake puts his Sting out against all Protestant-Dissenters and as greatly envying their Liberties makes a very ill Construction of their former Toleration And no doubt their present Liberty does as ill please him Ishmael like his Hand is against every Man and no sort of Dissenters how conscientious soever can escape his Blow or Push He makes Rome the Author Patron and Planter of them all both Presbyter Anabaptist Independent Quakers c. how plainly soever they have approved themselves Protestants averse to Popery and as Dissenting-Protestants are tolerated it appears how greatly he envies their Liberties and is displeased with the Government for granting the same Oh rare Son of the Church Will nothing satisfie this Incendiary but Persecution and Ruin to Dissenting-Protestants May not such his Work be very grateful to the Popish Interest What a cordial Friend then does he shew himself to the Protestants Sn. p. 19. This Doctrin of Enthusiasm came chiefly from the Church of Rome Labadee a Jesuit set it up in Holland and Robert Barclay the Quaker was tinctured in his younger Years in the Scotch Convent at Paris and John Vaughton was a Roman Catholick who is now a great Preacher among the Quakers in London and he adds in his Errata William Southby a Preacher now among them in Pensilvania Re. These this obscure Accuser brings as Instances to make good the Title of this Third Section which is That the Popish Emissaries first set up Quakerism in England which is an old lying Story and his Instances as impertinent And 1st We deny that any Jesuit set it up in Holland and are persuaded many of our Friends there can testifie the contrary 2. Whatever the Educations of the said R. B. and J. V. were in their Youth as to Religion they were none of the first Promoters of Quakerism as he calls it in England by many Years 3. And suppose the One was tinctured and the other was a Roman Catholick this makes for us that was not since they were Quakers but before they turned Quakers and then when they did they turned from Papists and Popery in Testimony against it and against human Traditions and Superstitions and for the Holy Spirit 's Teaching and Worship of God in Spirit and Truth Sn. p. 20. The Quaker-Infallibility was contrived on purpose to bring Men back to the Infallibility of the Church of Rome by these Steps First the Infallibility was placed by G. Fox and all the Primitive Quakers in every single Quaker Re. These are envious and false Aspersions to render us infamous obnoxious and offensive 1. We positively deny any such Contrivance Design or Purpose 2. We deny that G. F. and all the Primitive Quakers place Infallibility in a single Person like Papists or in every single Quaker without distinction but in the Spirit of Truth which assures us in Matters of Faith and Salvation The Man often sillily scoffs at the Quaker's Infallibility but does not truly state their Principle in that Case Sn. p. 38. in Sect 5. They i. e. the Quakers damn all the World to Hell all since the days of the Apostles but themselves Re. This is a great Untruth We damn none to Hell 't is Men's own Wickedness in hating the Light which carries them to Hell We believe there were many good Men and saved since the Apostles days Sn. p. 40. They pretend to a Perfection even equal with God Re. We pretend so of Christ not of our selves We desire we may always be kept truly Humble and in true Fear out of all Boasting and high Thoughts of our selves that Christ may be magnified in us Sn. p. 41 42. in Sect. 5. They give to themselves and to one another the most peculiar Titles of Christ as that of The Branch and the Star and the Son of God which are attributed to George Fox and which he takes to himself quoting New Rome Arraigned p. 33 34. and The Quakers Vnmask'd and New Rome Vnmask'd referring the Reader to those Books of F. Bugg 's which he has quoted upon the Margin as he saith p. 48. Re. These are F. Bugg's notorious refuted Lies which this Adversary is so shamefully credulous of We positively deny giving those peculiar Titles of Christ to our selves or to one another and Bugg has been charged therewith and cannot prove them G. Fox is not so much as mentioned in that Epistle of E. Burroughs out of which F. Bugg takes these Titles the Branch the Star c. which are peculiar to Christ. Sn. p. 51 53. Sect 6. That G. F.'s Great Mystery p. 282. endeavours to prove That the Quakers are perfect as God not only in quality but in equality from Christ's words Be ye perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect Re. These are not G. F.'s Words of the Quakers that they are so his Words are here perverted He refers to Christ's Words and the Apostles and