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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

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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythagoras By Trepidantium Malleus LONDON Printed for John Marshal at the Sign of the Bible in Grace-Church-Street 1700. A Third and Last Epistle to Mr. George Keith Reverend Sir WHEN Men Dethrone their Judgments and Reason and put their Humours and Passions in their Place no wonder if they run as a Coach and Horses that have lost their Guide or Charioteer here and there every where and no where Such cannot only castrate Authors but make Legions for Histories and like Pioneers of Rome call for Fire from Heaven but fetch it from Hell This you will grant some Bapts have lately done vulgarly Anabaptists They have employ'd a Socinian to Argue and a worse to Rave this Fire all the Water in which such are plung'd cannot quench But no wonder when D. Russel was not ashamed to put Blessed Calvin in such a Hue and Dress as if an incatnate Devil and put not only Castellio that rank Arminian that call'd Solomon's Canticles a prophane Book but Servetus himself that call'd the Trinity a Cerberus in such glorious Array as if a terrestrial Angel for this was he burnt not for being an Anabaptist Felix quem faciunt I am charg'd with a Notion never known before That Baptizo signifies not once to Plunge in all the New Testament tho so many Criticks say the contrary 1. These Criticks say with me and others the Word signifies other ways of washing too So Leigh who is instar omnium and cites for me Mat. 3.11 What say you to this Bapts now if you leave them in one thing why not I in another 2. Bernardus non videt omnia They were fallible Men. Rhegius the famous Man of France whose Life Clark in his blundering way hath written found out the right Construction of Ovid. Nam vos mutastis illas Tho so many Generations before mistook it M. Mead discover'd the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be the Doctrine not of Divels as we read but Mediators call'd by Hesiod and others Demons That the Genitive was not of the Efficient but Matter All now yield to this true Discovery tho' New I might name New Discoveries as in Philology Divinity so in Philosophy particularly the Ingenious Esquire Boyl 3. Yet this Discovery was not mine I gave another the Honour of it who since I find had it from other Authors before his time I confess I was the first Man that gave 'em the Name of Bapts which no doubt will continue The Blood of Beasts offer'd in Sacrifice and the Water of Purification was by Pouring or Sprinkling not by Plunging or Dipping John therefore that came in with his Baptism cannot be supposed to have any Baptism but what harmonized with the Jewish ones we find also not only in the Law but the Prophets glorious things mention'd of Gospel Times from this Practice Isa 2.15 So shall he Sprinkle many Nations Ezek. 36.25 Then will I Sprinke clean Water upon you and you shall be clean Look we farther when the Gospel was Planted and all fulfill'd how all is exprest Tim. 3.5 6. They were said to be saved by the washing of Regeneration how shed as Acts 2.17 Pouring of the Spirit proves all I am of his Mind who said Baptizing in Enon was so far from proving Plunging That it disproves it They therefore left Bathabara says he because the Waters were Deep and not so fit for Baptism and came to Enou for the Rivulets there were fit for Baptism but not Plunging Reverend Sir I am much importun'd to Write you a Third Epistle about your Sermons at Turners Hall and G. Church lately Printed but I long refus'd 1. Because I have often appear'd for you but I am Answer'd that matters not This is not ad Idem 2. Because I think I have done it already I find but little you have said about the Liturgy Ceremonies and Episcopacy but what I have Answer'd in my Apology in my Letters to Mr. Lasly and Friendly Epistle to you I pray look on all once again You approved then of what I did How came you so soon chang'd It would be an Abuse clapt on my Readers to deceive them of their Time and Money to transcribe what they know I then wrote 3. Because I think some things in the Sermons are too triflng and unfit for an Answer as your Gloss on these Words He that breaketh one of the least of these Commandments shall be called the least in the Kingdom of God So the Rushing of many Waters and other Places brought for your Confusions in your Liturgy To Cite for Episcopacy Psalm 45.16 Isaiah 60.17 Is such playing with God I dare not do it with Mr. Keith somewhat like the Exposition you gave of that Text. The dead cannot praise thee Those that be dead in Sin in your Loyal Sermon Printed five Years since I was Sir your Herrer in G Church in the Afternoon when I came there I saw the Reader with his Spectacles on his Nose and both with Eyes close to the Book thus reading Prayers to his God No Eyes nor Hands lift up to Heaven in any praying Posture but both as nail'd to the Book for fear of not reading right as if the Poor Man had not lost only the Power of Godliness but the uery Form of it too Many Ignorant Prophane Men in Prayer that never send their Hearts to Heaven send their Eyes and Hands ●twards it Mr. Keath let you and I talk privately for it would not be safe to ask you openly whether you can believe That the great God the Blessed Jesus the Holy Spirit ●ever sent qualify'd Men for their Work for unqualify'd ones run before they are sent to read other Mens Prayers to God Were it not for some Penal Laws yet in force against Dissenters I should go near to say That for such a one to read other Mens Prayers to God is not only as Scandalous but ten times more so than to read other Mens Sermons to the People When the Apostle tells the Church the Gifts God gave Men Tongues Interpretation of Tongues Prophesying Interpretations c. Never mention'd he the poor poor pittiful poor Gift of Reading When the Jewish Church was in its Swadling-Clouts and fed with Milk taught by many Ceremonies God made every one of them himself not they yet then there were no Forms no Liturgies for the Priests to read or People to hear when they came together As weak as they were they were not so weak Who dares now impose under the Gospel-Dispensation when the Church is become a Man and much more as of the Grace so of the Gifts of the Spirit is now poured out You pleading up Conformity unhappily chose this Text the best to caution us against it

made so light of Sin c. And deluded so many Thousands and I am bold to say it without the breath of Charity if you were not converted since you never were cdnverted at all 4. Was it proper so much to value your self for your Catholick Charity and yet be so severe on a sudden on the best Reformed Churches Well Sir when you are a Bishop or a Beneficed-Man if Persecution came again I will never live in your Dioces nor in your Parish You tell us Timothy was a Bishop I pray how many thousands or Hundreds by the Year had my Lord Bishop Was Timothy's Dioces as large as the Bishop of Londons c. In Ephesus most of them were Pagans was he the Bishop of these too he Drank too little Wine and preached too often in season and out of season to be a Bishop These take Care of Mint and Cummin not of the weighty matters of the Law Sir if your Zeal for your new gawdy Spouse in all her Trinklets be such that there can be no Intimacy I pray you there may be no Enmity Preach Repentance Faith and Gospel Obedience and if it pleased you to decline such Frequent and sever lashing others the Quakers themselves as well as us in the Pulpit consider at your leasure whether it be not best Excuse my not following you at large not only for the reasons before named my Referring you to my Apology and first Frinedly Epistle to you but to be plain it would be a burden too heavy for my Shoulders to bear the Expence of all the Impresions of all my Books were I not of late more concise then once I may be larger in time perhaps you may hear from more then one you change often and yet Confident still Are the Dissenters indeed the Cause of the Prophaness of your Church by not complaining in the Spiritual Court They would be angry should we tell them why we do ii not what Man was ever Excommunicated for Drunkeness Whoredoms Swearing or other sinns in the two last Reigns or to this day tho under a good King Seek to win the Quakers by kindness and mention not their private Concerns in the Pulper which I ever hated to make a Place of Controversies and Contention I am brought to this work with very great difficulty I desired fitter and greater Men to appear They refus'd charging you with former Disputes against the Trinity c. and yet declareing you ever were sound in the Faith so that say they you are if this be true a Sound Quaker or unsound one if you will still The importunity of my Friends hath prevail'd with me to this Third and Last Epistle to you I pray you as a Wise Man give over your weak Pleas for your Ceremonies as that the Saints in the Revelations appeared in white Why have you not Crowns on your Heads and Palms in your Hands too If the Surplice makes you look like Saints above what do the Black Gowns under make you like So that if this Ceromony represents any thing It is the Hypocrite who is a Saint without and a Devil inside or such a Whited Wall as Paul named the High Priest o● whom he say'd God shall smite thee on the mouth L me ask you at parting some plain Questions How wicked a thing is it to excommundcate or swear to read a Writ of excommunication if occasion be against some of the best of Men for Toys and Trifles When the Fox was set to keep the Geese King Charles the Second a Papist to protect your Church you know what was done by Men that perhaps would smile to hear any talk seriously of Christ and the Life to come What if Anabapristry had gotten the Ascendant were in its Zenith were it unlawfull to withdraw or separate if it had the stamp of Authority If Presbytery were so Could Mr. Lashly and other Episcoparians comply what becomes of your Plea about the Jewish Church if not How odious was it to tell the World what Encouragement you had to come among Dissenters which to my certain knowledge was a mistake what London Noncon Ministers ever visited you my self excepted Tell me plainly and like a Man why not a Crosse in the brest at Prayer with those good C●ristians as you call them of the Roman Church as well as one in the Forehead in Baptism with our Ceremony-Mongers in your Church Why not holy-Holy-Water to signifie the Sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus as well as a Surplice or Sacrum Pallium to signifie Purity Or would you conform to these if the Law require them If you say No why not as well as to those you conform too If you say Yes what end is there of these Fooleris or vain additions to the Divine Law Is this to stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath set us free If you say as I hear you do a Surplice is no more than a Gown what Man should you go to your Table or a Place nor so sweet with it This would be accounted a Prophanation of the Holy Garment Dare you take Ignorant Scandalous Sponsers in Baptism to make them perfidious by a Humane Law Or to say over the Graves of the greatest Atheist Heretick or Debauch you hope he is gone to Heaven Did you ever read Acts 20.28 That you talk of Ephesus having a Diocesan Or know you no better an Evangelist but to make him a Prelate Answer what others and my self have said of these Matters Do you not with a Blush look on your late Ordination in a Chamber without one word of Prayer to God or Counsel to you But what was in the Service-Book The Bishops generally do their Work more solemnly and gravely Was it thought any thing good enough for you If Cross kneeling or other Ceremonies were lawful but not necessary as you all say How dare you impose them on us that think them sinful Read Rom. 14. Baptism shall not be administred if the Parents consent not to the Cross The Lords Supper shall not be administred to the best of Men all their days if they cannot kneel Answer this to God another Day if you can You impose on Christ as well as us to dedicate a Child by a Humane Superstitious Signe to him If a Book of Sports or any other wicked Paper were to be read would you not seek for a Distinction to bribe Conscience for Conscience may be so What will you do on the 30th of January c. In your Shop of false Hearts and Faces too A disjointed Fabrick Put Preferment in the other Scale Is it proper to Invite any Men into a dangerous Pest-House by telling them they may live there He that consorts with Pelicans cannot but smell of the Wilderness c. Was it not expedient bottoming you Bursiness on 1 Luke 6. To have consider'd the difference between the Jewish Church and Christian How far the first was National tho' I acknowledge I own it not to be so in that Sense