1. I mean their last yearly Meeting in Grace-Church-street, London, in Whitsun-week, 1695.
In this their General Assem∣bly they formally Excommunicated George Keith hereafter mention'd.
The snake in the grass: or, Satan transform'd into an angel of light. Discovering the deep and unsuspected subtilty which is couched under the pretended simplicity of many of the principal leaders of those people call'd Quakers.
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- The snake in the grass: or, Satan transform'd into an angel of light. Discovering the deep and unsuspected subtilty which is couched under the pretended simplicity of many of the principal leaders of those people call'd Quakers.
- Author
- Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.
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- London :: printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun at the west end of St. Paul's,
- 1696.
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- Quakers -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Society of Friends -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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Page iv
Of which he has given us a full Ac∣count in Print, Entituled, The Pre∣tended Yearly Meeting of the Quakers, their Nameless Bull of Excommunication gi∣ven forth against G. Keith, &c. And in another Treatise, which bears this Title, The True Copy of a Paper given in to the Yearly Meeting of the People called Quakers— the 15th day of the 3d Month, 1695. with a Brief Narrative of the most material Passages of Discourse betwixt George Whitehead, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, &c. Together with a short List of some of the Vile and Gross Errors of George Whitehead, Iohn White∣head, William Penn, &c.
Page v
Both these are Printed for R. Levis, 1695. and the Bull of Excommu∣nication is inserted Verbatim, in the first of these Accounts.
As to the Justice or Injustice of the said Bull, I refer the Reader to these two short Treatises above-mention∣ed.
But the use I have to make of it, is to shew the Authority which their Church or Meetings do assume over the Light within Particular Persons; which was the great Pre∣tence upon which the Quakers first set up, and decry'd all Church-Authority as Carnal and Anti-Christian. That is (as they have done the Power of the Sword) till it come into their own Hands.* 1.1
Page vi
This Grace-Church-street Ex∣communication may be added to the Proceedings against G. Keith in Pensilvania, to the Barbadoes Judg∣ment, and other Instances of their Church-Authority over Particular Persons, which are mention'd at the end of Sect. X. from p. 118.
But there is another thing of a more astonishing Nature. You will see Sect. IX. of the Antient Pretence of the Quakers to Immediate Revelation, in the same Degree that the Prophets and Apostles had. And, as a Conse∣quence of this, it is shewn Sect. X. how they have aspir'd to Infallibility, and that not only of their Church (as they call it) but in each of their Particu∣lar Persons. And Hence they have taken upon them to pronounce Prophe∣cies,
Page vii
and Curses (as all their Prophe∣cies, that I have met with, are) in the same Stile with the Holy Prophets, Thus saith the Lord. This is from the Mouth of the Lord, &c. Several of which Pro∣phecies thus solemnly Denounced, have prov'd Errant Lyes, as is shewn from Remarkable Instances.
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* 1.1
See Sect. II. p. 14.