1699 QUAKERS 1ed Anguis Flagellatus Foxonian Joseph Wyeth George Whitehead

1699 1^ed Anguis Flagellatus Foxonian QUAKERS Joseph Wyeth George Whitehead

“Corruptions in the Church are better amended, by living in the Communion of the Church; and there-by exhorting, admonishing, and shewing good example to reclaim. Thus the snake.”

― Joseph Wyeth, A Switch for the Snake

Joseph Wyeth was a controversial 17^th-century Quaker writer. One of his most contentious works was ‘Anguis Flagellatus or a Switch for the Snake’ which was a reply to Charles Leslie’s ‘Snake in the Grass’. Leslie wrote one of the earliest attacks on Quakerism and it provoked many replies. Wyeth’s ‘Switch’ inspired more anti-Quaker responses including organized opposition to Quaker groups in Maryland. This first edition includes a supplement added by George Whitehead, a renowned Quaker preacher.

According to Brown and Bartlett,

“This volume relates to the controversy with William Penn, and the other Foxonian Quakers”

Item number: #1538

Price: $750

WYETH, Joseph

Anguis flagellatus: or, A switch for the snake. : being an answer to the third and last edition of The snake in the grass : wherein that author’s injustice and falshood, both in quotation and story, are discover’d and obviated : and the truth doctrinally deliver’d by us, stated and maintained in opposition to his mesrepresentation and perversion

London, : Printed and sold by T. Sowle, in WHite-Hart-Court in Gracious-street, and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-street, 1699. First edition.

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages: [20], 548p
  • Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ 1 B-2M⁸ 2N².
• References: Wing W 3757; Brown & Bartlett, Bibliotheca Americana 1581;
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Language: English
• Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)

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