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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SECT. VI, Of the Quakers aspiring to an Equa∣lity with God.
THis in effect is prov'd alrea∣dy. But more expresly, and in very terms.
G. Fox's Adversary (Gr. Myst. p. 282.) yields to him, tho' very un∣reasonably, that we may be Perfect as God, in Quality, but not in Equality. Against this G. Fox Disputes, and endeavours to prove that they (the Quakers) are Perfect as God, not on∣ly in Quality, but in Equality; for Christ (says he) makes no Distinction in his words, but saith, Be ye Perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is—And, as he is, so are we, and that which
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is Perfect as he is Perfect, is in E∣quality with the same. And in his Saul's Errand,* 1.1 &c. p. 8. he saith, He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the Dead, is Equal with God.
He Acuses Chri∣stopher Wade,* 1.2 because he deny'd Equality with the Father, and says, All that have the Son and the Holy Ghost, have that which is E∣qual in Power and Glory with the Fa∣ther; and this all the Quakers say they have.