The Snake in the Grass Further Discovered, Glossary
A KEY TO THE QUAKERS Uſurped, and (to moſt) Unintelligible PHRASES.
THere is not any thing in the Quakers Method of delu ding, which doth more tend to the inſnaring of unwary Souls, than their aſſerting their Falſe, Antichriſtian, and Anti-Scriptural Tenets, under Scripture-words and Phraſes, and in thoſe very terms wherein are expreſſed the Truths of God; while in the mean time, they mean nothing leſs than their true import, and what people (who are not well acquainted with their Tenets) ſuppoſe them to mean. By this Artifice they beget a good Opinion of themſelves, and Errours with too many, and by degrees ſo vitiate their Principles, that in a ſhort time they are prepared to imbrace the groſſeſt Errours bare-faced.
I ſhall therefore (as a work of no ſmall uſe to ſuch who are attempted by them, or who have a Call or opportunity to deal with them for their convincing or confuting, or the ſecuring others who are in danger by them) give you a true and candid account of their ſenſe and meaning of a multitude of Scripture and Religious Phraſes, which they utter and apply to their falſhoods; and alſo of their newcoyn'd Words and Phraſes, which are more peculiar to their Sect and Notions. I diſpoſe them Alphabetically, for their more eaſie finding on any occaſion.
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Above. NOt in locality, but excellency: ſo Chriſt and Heaven (they ſay) are above, i. e. excellent; and may therefore be nothing but what is within them.
The Anointing. The Light within, Chriſt, the Spirit eſſentially.
Aſſembling. Meeting in Spirit.
Aſſurance. What they feel in themſelves (not what they believe from the Scripture) the inward witneſs, viz. experience, teachings of the light within.
B.
Babylon. All the Ordinances, Worſhip, Faith, Obedience, that have any thing of a form, or viſible in them; or that are gathered from the written Word, or pretended to be ſo.
Baptiſm. Not any thing by Water; but the Spirit, i. e. the Quakers Spirit, to an obedience and devotedneſs to the light within, and inſpirations and immediate teachings.
Blaſphemy. To ſpeak againſt the light within every man to be Chriſt and God, and what they hold it to be.
Blind. Not to acknowledge the light within to be Chriſt; not to know him by immediate imſpiration.
The Blood of Chriſt. The Life of Chriſt, i. e. the power of the light in them.
The Spiritual Blood, which they ſay came down from Heaven, and was part of a Spiritual Body which Chriſt brought with him from thence, which dwelt for a while in the Man Jeſus, who died at Jeruſalem.
Salvation, purifying, reconciling by the Blood of Chriſt. Not by the Blood of Chriſt ſhed on the Croſs, but by the Blood of the Spiritual Body of fleſh, blood, and bones, which they ſay Chriſt deſcended in; which is in every Quaker as really as in the Man that was the Son of Mary: and ſo Salvation is by no other blood but what is in themſelves.
The Body of Chriſt. Not that which was crucified without the Gates of Jeruſalem in Judea; but the ſpiritual Body aforeſaid, which they ſay took up its Habitation, and Tabernacled in the Body of Jeſus the Son of Mary; and ſo the Body of Chriſt is as much in them, as it was in him.
Bondage. Not only our ſelves in bondage to ſin, but the light within, the ſeed of God, or Chriſt, being in bondage under the diſobedience of men.
Born again, Regeneration. Perfect obedience to the light within, as Chriſt and God.
Comprehending Brain. A large underſtanding, or a deſire of Knowledge by the uſe of the Rational Faculty.
C.
Call. The motions of the Light Chriſt in the Conſcience.
Chriſt. Not the Man Chriſt Jeſus the Son of Mary, which the Godhead aſſumed and united to its ſelf in one perſon: but the light within every man, a Chriſt that had nothing of Adams Nature, whoſe Body (now in being) was not created, or had a beginning in time, which was never viſible to the bodily eye.
Not in any reſpect diſtinct from God the Father, and God the Holy Ghoſt.
Chriſt in the Saints. Not Chriſt without them, an Object of the faith and love within them; but his very Being, his Divinity, his Soul, and his Body conſiſting of ſpiritual Fleſh, Blood, and Bones; not his Image and Likneſs, but the ſelf-ſame in his Being and Eſſence.
Chriſts coming. In the Spirit, or his ſpiritual coming into his people, i. e. no other but the prevailing motions of the light within, or by inſpiration.
The Command in Spirit. By immediate inſpiration and motion.
Comprehenſion, Fleſhly Comprehenſions. That Opinion or Belief which is grounded on a rational demonſtration, though from the written Word of God.
Carnal. All things of a Religious concern, which we are not enlightned about, and moved to by immediate inſpiration; yea, whatever hath a form, or is viſible to the bodily eye.
Fleſhly Conceivings. Thoſe Opinions or expreſſions, whoſe beginning and birth are in the humane faculties, very great weakneſs, if not ſin and unbelief, contrary to the aſſured and undoubted dictates of the Infallible Light and Spirit within them.
Condemnation. The reproofs and ſentencings of the light in the Conſcience.
Converſion. A full obedience to the light in the Conſcience: a total freedom from the prevailing of any ſin; ſuch a ſtate as the Diſciples of Chriſt had not attained when Chriſt was crucified, nor Paul when he wrote the Epiſtle to the Romans.
Crucifying of Chriſt. Not that crucifying on the Croſs of Wood, but a crucifying within us, by diſobedience to the light in our Conſciences.
A ſtrange merit and purchaſe of Salvation, and way of pacifying the wrath of God for ſin.
D
Damnation. Being condemned within by the light in the Conſcience, and the terrour and affliction ariſing from thence; but nothing of a pain of ſenſe after the body is dead, and turned to duſt.
Darkneſs. Not acknowledging the light in every man to be Chriſt, and being guided by its immediate teachings, as the only and all-ſufficient Rule.
Death of Chriſt. The light within not obeyed.
The dead Body. The Body living in ſin.
Diſciples of Chriſt. No other but thoſe who ſubmit to the light within, and follow only its dictates.
E
Election. Chriſt the ſeed; not the perſons of men and women.
Vulturous-Eye. The underſtanding faculty pierc…ng into, and earneſtly ſeeking after Divine Knowledge.
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Faith. A believing in the light within.
Righteouſneſs of Faith. Thoſe acts of Obedience performed by themſelves in their own bodies, conformable to the dictates of the light within… and in the Faith of its being Chriſt and the Rule.
Teaching or doing falſly. When not from the immediate motions and teachings of the light within; though what is taught, be in its ſelf true; and what is done, be in its ſelf good.
Falſe Prophets. All that are called by men, however qualified otherwiſe; all that teach from or out of the Scriptures, and not from immediate inſpiration as the Prophets and Apoſtles, by whom the Scriptures were penned.
Falſe Witneſſes. All who ſpeak not from inſpiration, and inward meerly divine motions, and experience not what they affirm in themſelves.
Fleſh. Whatever is not from the light within originally and immediately.
Wiſdom of the fleſh. All Wiſdom attained by induſtry.
Denying Chriſt come in the fleſh. Denying Chriſt come in the Fleſh of Joſeph, John, Sarah, or any other who are Quakers.
Chriſt come in the fleſh. Come in their Fleſh.
The Fleſh of Chriſt. The Spiritual Fleſh that deſcended from Heaven; not the Fleſh that lay buried in the Sepulchre after death.
The Fold of Chriſt. Chriſt himſelf.
Following Chriſt. Obedience to the light within.
The Friends Friends. All profeſſed Quakers.
The will of the Fleſh. All that is choſen by man, though he be thereto diſpoſed by the will of God revealed in the Scripture.
G
Preaching for Gain. Receiving any thing as the reward of preaching the Goſpel.
State of Glory. The State of Peace and Joy, reſulting from the witneſs of the light within in this life.
GOD. Father, Son, and Holy Ghoſt, without diſtinction, the light within every … the ſpirit of the Quakers, every one of them, the ſoul, the ſeed, and much … that he is not.
Foundation of God. The light within, and the inſpirations and motions of it.
The Goſpel. Chriſt the light within, not the written Word, or the ſenſe of it, as a Narrative of the good will of God to men in Chriſt.
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Handled the Word of Life. Not as the Apoſtles, who handled the Body of Chriſt; but feeling by a ſpiritual ſenſation the motions of the light within, or the Chriſt within them.
Hearing the Goſpel, or Word. Liſtening to, and obeying the light within.
Heaven. Not the place where the Man Chriſt is above or beyond the viſible Skies, but the happineſs they have within them.
I could never yet hear, or read them mention any other Heaven to be enjoyed by them as diſtinct perſons, but what they have within them in this world.
Hell. The preſent torment and loſs within.
Preaching for Hire, Hirelings. To have proviſion for the o…tward man, as a maintenance or reward for preaching, though no bargain be made, yea though ſuch who receive it would preach, i… they had never a peny reward in this world from thoſe they preach to.
Holineſs. Obedience to the light within, and that without any failing.
The womans Huſband at home. Chriſt the light in the conſcience.
I
Idolatry. Often for worſhipping the Man Chriſt Jeſus, who is at the right hand of God, above or beyond the Stars and viſible Heavens; taking the examples of the Saints and Churches in the Scripture recorded, and doing likewiſe.
JESƲS. The light within, the Word in the beginning, not the Son of Mary, who was made or created.
The Imaginations. All concluſions (how demonſtrable ſoever) which accord not with their Tenets, or are not by immediate inſpiration.
Inchantments, Bewitchings. A being perſwaded and eſtabliſhed by Reaſon and Scripture, but eſpecially, if humane Art… or Sciences have any hand in it.
Infidels. All that obey not, or do not place their Salvation in the light within.
Workers of Iniquity All that live not without ſinning againſt God.
The Judgment, day of Judgment. Sin being judged in the Conſcience by the light within in this life.
Juſtification. Chriſt the light within obeyed.
K
Kingdom of God. The Rule and Government of the light within, and the peace and joy ariſing from thence.
Carnal knowledge. All knowledge but what comes by the immediate inſpiration of the light within.
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The Law. Chriſt, the light within, the Law written in the heart.
Leadings in Spirit. The motions of the light within, immediate inſpirations and teachings.
The life. Chriſt the light within.
The life of Chriſt. The prevalency of the light within.
Eternal life. Being taken into God.
Saved by the Life of Chriſt. A being ſaved by the prevalency of the light in the conſcience.
The Letter. The dead Letter. The Letter that killeth. The Scriptures, or written Word.
A Lye. Lying. What is ſpoken (though true in it ſelf, if) not from immediate teaching, or the light within.
The Light within. Chriſt, God, Father, Son, Spirit, the ſeed of Abraham and David, according to the fleſh; Jeſus, the only Saviour; the Law, the Teſtimony, the Goſpel, the Prophets, the Advocate, Righteouſneſs, Sanctification, Juſtification; the only Rule, Guide, Teacher, Judge; the Way, the only way to the Father; the Truth, the Life, the Power of God, the Eternal God, God Almighty, that which pardons and conquers ſin; the Judgment, the Lamb of God that is ſlain from the beginning, the Word in the beginning, the Creator of all things, the end of all Books, Laws, and abundance more than can be crowded into many Pages.
The Luſt. All deſires that accord not to the light within, and proceed not from thence.
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The Man Chriſt. The ſpiritual Body of Fleſh, Blood and Bones, which they ſay deſcended from Heaven, and dwelt in the Body of the Son of Mary, and doth alſo now in every Quaker.
Ceaſe from man, do not hear man. What the Faculties of Man have any hand in, either by inventing, working, or expreſſing; all that comes not purely from the light within.
Meaſure of God, of Chriſt, of the Spirit. That degree of the power and inſpirations of the light within.
Something more or leſs of the very being and Eſſence of God the Father, Son, Spirit.
Meditate. Not pondering or exerciſing the judgment and underſtanding on holy and divine Objects, but a ſtilneſs and emptineſs of all thoughts, attending for the immediate impulſes, ſuggeſtions, inſpirations, and motions of the light within.
They put to their meanings. Expounding, or giving the ſenſe of the Scripture, however true in its ſelf, if not by immediate meer Divine Revelation.
In the Meekneſs. In the light within Chriſt, which is meekneſs in the abſtract; and between whom and their ſpirits there is no diſtinction.
Miniſters of the Everlaſting Goſpel. Both men and women Miniſters among the Quakers, who declare from immediate inſpiration, not from the Letter of the Scripture.
Miniſters of Antichriſt, Babylon, Idol-Shepherds. All ſuch who have a mediate Call from man, or preach from the Letter of the Scripture.
Miniſtration of the Spirit. The immediate teachings and motions of the Spirit, excluſive of all forms in worſhip, the will (though ſanctified) in chuſing, and all premeditation and acting by the preſcription of the written Word.
Miracles. Sometimes Miracles in Spirit, inviſible to bodily ſenſes, or humane underſtanding.
The Star of the Morning, the Morning of the firſt day. Chriſt the light within.
Moved by the Holy Ghoſt. An inward immediate impulſe of the light and power within.
From the Mouth of God. Immediate teachings from the light within, excluding all other.
Myſteries of the Kingdom. Myſteries of God. Such things as the faculties of man have no power to underſtand or expreſs, no not from or by the Scripture; ſuch things as are only ſenſ…ted in the experience. An allegorizing the Scripture.
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Natural man. Every man that is not a Quaker.
The Natural man. Every thing in man which is diſtinct from God, or the light within.
The New man. Chriſt the light within, conſidered eſſentially.
They did by Nature the things contained in the Law By the new Nature, which is Chriſt the light, contained in the Law within the heart, which is alſo Chriſt the light.
O
Obedience of Chriſt. What is done by men, by the power, life and ſtrength of the light within them.
Obedience in Spirit. Wrought by immediate impulſes of the Spirit.
The Kingdome of God cometh not with obſervation. The light within, and its prevalencie (which they call, and that only the Kingdom▪ of God▪) is not obtained any way by the ſtudy or conſideration of the Scripture, or any thing without us.
Obſervers of times. Such as keep any certain days as ſeparated to holy uſe, as the Lords-day; or ſuch as propoſe an hour or two to be ſpent in the Worſhip and Ordinances of God, or any time with limitation.
Chriſt the Offering. The light within.
Offering… up of▪ Chriſt. The light within diſobeyed, or conteſting with the luſts (yea) or the right reaſon of men.
Officers of the Church. Inviſible Officers and Overſeers, who do all their work in Spirit.
Gods Off-ſpring. A part and meaſure of the very being of God, continuing to be in a degree as good and divine as God himſelf.
The Souls and Spirits (at leaſt) of the Quakers, which they ſay came out of God.
The Old man. All that is diſobedient, or not conformable to their light within.
One-neſs with God, Chriſt, Spirit. Not relative, nor by love, or faith, or Myſtical Memberſhip, but ſuch an oneneſs as leaves no room for diſtinction between God, Chriſt, the Spirit, and ſuch whom they ſay are one with Chriſt.
Openings of Life. Springings of Life. Sudden workings to action, or impreſſions on the mind and affections, proceeding from within, of their own accord and motion.
Overcome by the Blood of the Lamb, and the Word of his Teſtimony. All amounts but to an obedience to the light within (which Smith ſaith was the Lamb of God whom John bid the Jews behold) and the force of the light and life within, which with them is the blood, i. e. the life of the Lamb.
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Put Chriſt to pain. Reſiſting the motions of the light within.
The painted Whore. Not only the Papals with their irreligious Pomp, but all the good words, thoughts and actions of any ſort of men, who derive them not from the immediate teachings and motions of the light within; yea, all forms of Worſhip, according with the Precepts and Examples of the Scripture; and they are with them the moſt painted, who come neareſt to the Scripture as a Rule.
The People of God. They, and none but they who profeſs the light within every man to be Chriſt, the only Saviour and Teacher, and give up themſelves to its conduct as ſuch.
Perfect Perfection. Not that which is ſincere, or a perfection of parts, or ſanctification throughout in part; but a being without ſin in the leaſt remains or ſtains of it.
Perſecution. Not only a penalty or hurt inflicted on their Bodies or Eſtates, but alſo a ſpeaking or writing againſt their Principles in the moſt purely rational and Scriptural Authority.
The ſeed in Priſon, and Captivity, and Bondage. The light within not obeyed as Chriſt and God.
Pictures and Images. Not only thoſe Images and Pictures that to the bodily eye repreſent Chriſt, or God, or the Saints, and are adored with Religious Worſhip; but all Worſhip, Opinions, Actions, Words, that are in imitation of the Examples, and in obedience to the Precepts contained in the Scripture.
Men-pleaſ…rs. They who comply with men, though in things not only lawful, but alſo to edification.
Pollutions of the world. Not only things in themſelves ſinful, as drunkenneſs, ſwearing, lying, &c. but alſo whatever Cuſtoms they diſlike and decline; as Cuffs, Ribands, putting off the Hat, ſigns of reſpect, &c. which they ſay are from the Devil: All recreations, as Bowling, Ringing, though uſed ſeaſonably and moderately.
The Power of God. The Light within, the Chriſt within.
Praying in Spirit. Secretly or inwardly (not with the voice) by the immediate impulſes of the light and power within, without the exerciſe of ſo much as the conceptions of man.
Prayer. Chriſt the light within is ſometimes by them ſo called.
The preſence of the Lord. The powerful influences and impreſſions of the light within, either to terrour, or peace and joy.
The pride of Man. A not ſubmitting to their light; and eſpecially receiving tokens of reſpect, and wearing Ribands, Cuffs and Lace.
The Prieſts. A word of ſcorn put on all indifferently, who are ſeparated to the work of the Goſpel-Miniſtry by men, or that receive maintenance for their work.
The Worlds Profeſſors. All that are not Quakers.
Formal hypocritical Profeſſors. All that walk in the Ordinances of Chriſt, commanded or preſcribed in the Scripture, or in the order of the Goſpel.
Spirit of Prophecy. Immediate impulſes and inſpirations.
Falſe Prophets. All that act not by immediate Revelation.
Prophecying falſly. How true ſoever in it ſelf, if not from their ſpirit.
Publicans and Sinners. All that are not Quakers.
Walking in the pure. Walking after the dictates of the light within.
Purifying the heart by the Bloud of Chriſt. Acting and being diſpoſed according to inward motions, by the light and life of the Chriſt within them.
Q
Quenching the Spirit. Reſiſting the motions of the Light within.
Quickned in the Life. Stirred up by the power within.
R
Raiſed to life. Converſion to Quakeriſm.
Ravening brain. Studying and following after Divine Knowledge, or the knowledge of divine things.
Inwardly ravening from the Spirit. A recourſe to the Scripture, or any thing elſe (except their ſpirit) for ſight and underſtanding in the things of God.
Carnal reaſonings, Reaſonings of the Fleſh. All uſe of the underſtanding and judgment of man, for ſearching and finding out truths about Divine and Spiritual things.
Received from the Lord. By immediate Revelation.
Reconciliation. Giving up themſelves to the light within.
The Word of Reconciliation. Chriſt the light within.
The Lords Redeemed. Thoſe who are conformed to the light within.
Redemption. A being reduced into the ſtate of Adam in Innocency; not what was wrought by Chriſt in the Fleſh 1600 years ſince.
The Redeemer. Not that Jeſus Chriſt who is aſcended above and beyond the Stars, but the light and power within every man, as ſuch.
Refreſhings in Spirit. Something they are pleaſed with they know not why, and come by they know not how: As the Quakers who were refreſhed at the Dutch-womans declaring, while they underſtood not a word ſhe ſpake.
The New man. CHRIST.
The reſt of the people of God. A quiet and peace within, (though from a blind deluded conſcience.)
The Reſurrection of Life. Obedience to the light in this world.
Reſurrection of the Body. Reſurrection of the light within, to a dominion in the man: for with them the Body is Chriſt, and Chriſt is the light within. Alſo the Body (which was a ſervant to ſin) being acted by the light and power within.
Revelations. Not Scripture-Revelations, but what come by immediate inſpiration to them.
Righteous ones. Such as are without ſin.
Righte…uſneſs of Chriſt. That which is wrought by the power and conduct of their Chriſt the light within.
The Root of Jeſſe. The Light within.
The Royal Seed. Chriſt and every Quaker.
They who run, and not ſent. All that teach the Goſpel from the Scripture, and not by Immediate Inſpiration.
Reprobation. Sin.
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The Sabbath. Every day, the preſent Reſt and Heaven of the Quakers.
The Sacrifice of Chriſt. The light within obeying, or they obeying in the light within.
Having Salt in themſelves. Having Chriſt in themſelves.
The Salt of the Earth. Chriſt the light within.
Salvation. Converſion to the obedience of the light within.
Sanctification. All one with Juſtification, all one with Chriſt, obedience to the light.
Building on the Sand. Making the Scripture a Rule of Faith and Life.
The Saviour. The light within every man.
According to the Scriptures. By immediate inſpiration, as the Prophets and Apoſtles received the mind of God.
The Seed. The light within, or the Chriſt eſſentially within; the Eternal Word, that which was in the beginning with God.
The Seed of Abraham according to the Fleſh. The Eternal Word, Chriſt as God.
Self-righteouſneſs. All that is not from the immediate motions within.
Shadows. All Forms and external worſhip.
The Scriptures, which Pen ſaith, are as the ſhadow of the true Rule, viz. living touches.
Idol-Shepherds. The Miniſters who have a mediate Call, or teach out of the Scripture.
Shut out of the Scriptures. Cannot underſtand them, have nothing to do with them.
Signs and Miracles in Spirit. No body can tell what.
All fleſh muſt be ſilent. Nothing muſt be ſaid but what comes by immediate revelation from the Spirit; for all elſe is the voice of man, and of the fleſh.
In the Simplicity. Without the uſe of humane underſtanding; or if you will, out of your wits.
To live in Sin, Sinners. Such as have any remains of ſin in them, or do at any time in any ſort commit ſin.
Sl…ying the Witneſ… Diſobeying the light within; but eſpecially a reſolved rejecting it as our only Rule, Teacher and Saviour.
Sons of God. Only the Quakers.
Soul. A part, or meaſure of God.
Speaking in the Spirit. By immediate Inſpiration.
Spirit of Antichriſt. That which leads to Forms, though Chriſt's and Goſpel-Forms. All that oppoſes the light within to be Chriſt.
Falſe Spirits. They that ground their Doctrine on the Scripture, or any mediate thing.
Spirit of Bondage. Being under the power of any ſin.
Spirit of God. The light within every man, God the Father, Son, Holy Ghoſt, without diſtinction.
Spirit of the World. Whatever is not conformable to the light within as Chriſt.
The Spiritual man. Chriſt, or Chriſt in every Quaker.
The Lord hath Spoken. What comes to them by immediate inſpiration.
The Lord hath not Spoken. Whatever is not by immediate inſpiration, though it be written in the Scripture.
A true Chriſtians State. Being taught by God immediately, not by the Letter.
The ſtatutes of God The Law in the heart, or within.
They ſteal my word, every one from his Neighbour. Teaching Doctrines as the Word of the Lord taken out of the Scripture.
Stoln words. All that we have out of the Scriptures, and not by immediate inſpiration to our ſelves.
In the Stilneſs. An unactive attending to the light within.
Standing in the Counſels of God. Conformity to the Teachings of the light within, and abiding therein.
Studying for Divine Knowledge (and what comes thereby) from the Scripture. Carnal toil, birth and wiſdom of the fleſh.
Scraping in the Scriptures.
The Woman in Subjection. Weakneſs muſt ſubject it ſelf to the man Chriſt.
The Supper of the Lord. Spiritual joy, or joy in the Spirit from the preſence and influence of the light within: all eating and drinking to God, and in remembrance of Chriſt.
Sword of the Spirit. Chriſt the light within.
What is declared by immediate inſpiration of the Spirit.
Synagogues of Satan. The Aſſemblies of any ſort of people for Divine Worſhip, who are not Quakers.
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Chriſt Tabernacling in the outward Veſſel. Chriſts dwelling for a little time in the body, born of the Virgin Mary: The like of every Quaker.
Taking away the Tables. All Forms and Books, as uſeleſs in the things of God.
Taught of God. Taught immediately from the light within.
Teachings of Men. All that is not immediately inſpired, though the ſenſe and words of the Scripture.
Ceaſe from man. From the Teaching by Man.
Outward Court of the Temple given to the Gentiles. All forms of Worſhip, all viſible Worſhip, being the Worſhip of Heathens, not of Chriſtians.
Teſtifie to the light in the Conſcience. Appealing or ſpeaking to Chriſt the light within.
Bearing Teſtimony to the light. Declaring for, and from the light within.
The Teſtimony, and the Teſtaments. Chriſt the Light and Law within.
Thanksgiving. Give thanks in Spirit, or inwardly.
Thieves and Robbers. All that are Teachers by a mediate Call.
All Miniſters but the Quakers.
All that walk by Scripture-light.
Traditions of men. The Scripture, or written Word.
Trading with the Scripture. Having maintenance for a Miniſtry: Miniſtring from the Scripture, or written Word.
The Birth, In Travel. The time of wreſtling betwixt convictions of the light within, and perfection.
Trembling and Quaking. The horrour and conſternation that they are under, from (as they ſay) the wrath of God, while the fleſh is judged, and they are in the hell of condemnation; (which is all the bell they hold that I can find) a…d this trembling and quaking (they ſay) is ſuch as Moſes and other Prophets were ſeized with at the appearance of God.
The Truth. No other but Chriſt the light within.
Speaking Truth, Truly. When it is ſpoken from immediate inſpiration and motion of the Spirit; but however true without theſe, it is falſly ſpoken.
Witneſſing to the Truth. Declaring, or ſuffering for the light within, and its dictates.
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The fleſh of the Vail. The Body wherein Chriſt dwelt and tabernacled, which for a while he took of the Virgin Mary; but at the death of that, left it no body knows where.
The Vail is over them. The belief of the Man Chriſt Jeſus, which was of our Nature to be the Chriſt, and now exiſting in Heaven, in that body of fleſh of our Nature, which he took of the Virgin Mary.
The Veſſel. The Body wherein for a while Chriſt dwelt: alſo our bodies.
Victory over the devil, ſin, fleſh world. Perfection in this life, reſulting from the travail of the light within.
In the Ʋnbelief. Not acknowledging the light within to be the only Teacher and Saviour, whatever the faith and life otherwiſe may be.
The Ʋncircumciſed and Ʋnclean. All that are not Quakers.
Ʋngodly. The ſame.
Ʋnlearned, and without Ʋnderſtanding. To be without the light within, its teachings and immediate Revelations.
The Voice of the Lord. The ſecret immediate lively touches and teachings within.
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Hirelings ſerving for Wages. Miniſters who receive maintenance, little leſs then Robbery, at leaſt very Jewiſh and Antichriſtian.
Wait on the light. Deſiſting from a ſearch after Truth by any external means, and paſſively attending to the motions and teachings within.
Watch to the light. To be ſo liſtning and attentive to the inward teachings, as not either to let ſlip any of its motions, or reject them.
Blind Watch-men. Thoſe Miniſters who ſee and warn by Scripture-light, and not their light within.
Watch to the Morning. To be diligent to obſerve and improve the firſt breakings forth of the power of the light within.
The Way. CHRIST.
The way of Truth. Thoſe into which they are led by the pure light within.
The Whore of Babylon. All forms of Worſhip, viſible Worſhip, all that is believed or practiced from the written Word.
Will of God. The Commands from within, from the light.
Will of Man, Will of the Fleſh. All that we chuſe by the direction of the underſtanding, or in which the humane faculties have any thing to do.
Will-worſhip. Whatever Worſhip is not from the motions of the light within.
Children of Wiſdom. The Quakers born to the light within.
We Witneſs. We experience, we ſpeak it from the teſtimony, and feeling of the light and motions within. And Pen ſaith, This is right witneſſing, to witneſs what they experience. But they that teſtifie what they believe from the Scriptures, and right rational demonſtrations, go by hear ſay and reports, but cannot witneſs it.
The Word. The Word of God. The Word of the Lord. No other but Chriſt the Eternal God.
The ſecrets of the Work of God. The inward power and motions, neither wrought nor perceived by, or with the uſe of the humane underſtanding and will.
Righteouſneſs of Works. Whatever man hath any hand in, or doth chuſe.
The World. All that are not Quakers.
Worſhip in Spirit. Not the Worſhip where the heart and will goes along with the outward appearance, but what is from the motions of the light within.
Wrath of God, Day of Wrath. The inward judgings and terrours by the Light Chriſt within, and that in this world.
The Writings when ſpoken diminiſhingly. The Scriptures or written Word.
I have the Witneſs of my Conſcience, that I have not in this Key in any meaſure abuſed or wronged the Quakers; but have declared what in their Writings and Verbal Converſe I have found to be true, and could have proved by particular inſtances, but for being too large. They who weigh what is written in the Body of the Book, may find ſatisfaction in the moſt, if not all of them.