13. And the Quakers cannot re∣fuse thus to Condemn these Scanda∣lous Prophets and Teachers of theirs, even by their own Discipline: For
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 5, 2024.
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Page cxcvii
in their Yearly Meeting, 1675. they made a Decree, That the Churches Testimony and Judg∣ment against Scandalous Walkers; and the Repentance and Con∣demnation of the Parties Restor'd shou'd be Recorded in a Distinct Book, to be Produced or Publish∣ed for that end.
Now, if they think Blasphe∣mers and Traytors, and False-Prophets to be Scandalous Walkers, they are oblig'd here, by their own Rule (and their Practise, in other Cases) to cause them to sign Instruments of Condemnation against themselves, and to Record these in their Publick Register, together with their Chur∣ches Testimony and Judgment against them, to be Produced and Published for that end, to vindi∣cate
Page cxcviii
their Church from the Scan∣dal.
But if they refuse (as I am afraid they will) to Execute this Discipline upon those False-Prophets herein De∣tected, and many others whom they know, upon all their Blasphemers and Traytors (upon their Persons, if alive, and their Works, if they are dead) if they refuse this, it is plain, that they think not such to be Scandalous Walkers; but that they justifie them, and their Principles: Tho' (as in this their Answer to Bugg) they wou'd, for their Temporal Ease and Advantage, and to blind the Eyes of the World, Cover and Cut and Shufle and Hide themselves. Let this therefore be the Touch-Stone to prove them: Let them Produce and Publish such their Condemnation
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of Fox, Burrough, &c. for their False Prophecies, and Trayterous Abetting of Oliver and the Rump, and that In the Name, and From the Mouth of the Lord, adding Blasphemy to Rebellion. Let them either Convict Bugg of False Quotation in those Barbarous Pas∣sages he has produc'd out of several of their Books, in this his Impeach∣ment, or let such Persons be Censur'd by them, and their Books Disown'd.
But if they will do none of these things, then let them lie under the Im∣peachment and the Condemnation laid against them; and it must, in that Case, and for that Reason, be laid up∣on their Church, as their avowed Doctrine and Principle; and not only as the Failing of Particular Per∣sons.