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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47766.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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3. All you that speak and not from the Mouth of the Lord, are False Prophets. G. Fox's Answer to the Westmorland Pet. p. 5. 1653.

They are Conjurers and Di∣viners, and their Preaching is from Conjuration that is not spo∣ken from the mouth of the Lord. George Fox's Saul's Er∣rand, &c. p. 7. 1654.

Now the Advantage which these Quo∣tations do afford, is, to shew from the words of this Great Prophet, that unless all that he has said of his own, and all the Quakers Infallibility; of their Sinless Perfection, Equal with God, not only in Quality, but in Equality; of their Immediate Revelation in the same Degree as the Prophets and Apostles; of their Souls

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being of one Substance, and Person with God; if all this, and a great deal more which is shewn in the follow∣ing Sections be not from the Mouth of the Lord, then, by G. Fox's own Confession, he was a False Pro∣phet and a Diviner. But all that knew him, or have taken the pains but to read three lines of his Works, will free him from being a Conjurer.

If all the Black-Mouth'd and Hellish Venom mention'd Sect. V. was not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord, then were all these Qua∣kers, Conjurers, by G. Fox's Rule.

If all the Lying Prophecies men∣tion'd Sect. X. of Solomon Eccles, the Glover's Prophets, &c. were not from the Mouth of the Lord, then were these Conjurers instead of Pro∣phets.

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If all the False and Foolish mi∣racles which G. Fox tells of himself, in his Journal, Printed 1694. which exceed the Foppery of a Popish Le∣gend, if all these were not from God, then was he, and those who re∣commended that Journal, all Con∣jurers.

If G. Whitehead cannot, by some better Miracles than these, vouch that the Curse and Prophecy above-told, which he sent to G. Keith, came from the Mouth of the Lord, then is G. Whitehead to be esteem'd no better than a Conjurer. Et sic de Caeteris—

In short, if the Quakers cannot prove all their Books and Preachings (many of which none of sense a∣mong themselves can deny to be thick larded with gross Ignorance,

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and much nonsense) if all and e∣very scrap and tittle of these be not from the Mouth of the Lord, then, by Sentence of G. Fox himself, all is Conjuration.

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