John Brown of Wamphray on Satan’s diverse efforts to corrupt the gospel

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... But his main work now seemeth to be, to bring in another Gospel, (and yet there is not another) or rather an Antievangelic and Antichristian delusory dream, overturning at, once the whole Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and for this end he employeth the Quakers, one the one hand, Men of desperate and antievangelic principles, the very sink of all abominations, old and late (as I shall show, if the Lord will continue health and strength, in an examination of their doctrine and principles, lately emitted by one Robert Barclay) and on the other hand, Men (or Moralists if you will call them so) pleading for and crying up an antievangelic holiness, a mere shadow without substance or reality; and that in place of Christ himself[.]

And in order to the carrying on of this desperate design, The old dragon is employing men of seeming different principles and ways, whom, though their faces seem to look to contrary airths, yet he holdeth notwithstanding fast tied by their tails (as Samson’s foxes were) that thereby, if the Lord permit it, he may, by the fire of enmity to the pure Gospel of the grace of God, burning in their tails, cause a conflagration of that Truth, wherein lieth all our hope: ...

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