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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Your 23. Qu. is, [Whether do you own trembling and quaking ⟨p. 24⟩which the Scripture witnesseth?] Ans. I own the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, and think him blessed that feareth always, and that he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief; But I think that the great Quaking that was in the Army of the Philistines was no virtue or blessing to them, nor any sign of God among them, 1 Sam. 14. 15. And I think that Perfect love costeth out fear, and that those shakings and quakings that come not from the humble sense of sin or Judgement, or the like, but in violent motions of the body affectedly, are either Papistical tricks of deceit, or effects of Fantastical conceit, or the motions of the great deceiver within you. I read of it as one of Gods curses, that [The Lord should give them a trembling heart,] Deut. 28. 65. And I am of opinion that the curse is fallen upon you which is written, Psa. 69. 23. [Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.] Gods Kingdom is Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the holy Ghost.
Your 23. Qu. is, [Whether do you own trembling and quaking ⟨p. 24⟩which the Scripture witnesseth?] Ans. I own the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisedom, and think him blessed that feareth alwaies, and that he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief; But I think that the great Quaking that was in the Army of the Philistines was no vertue or blessing to them, nor any sign of God among them, 1 Sam. 14. 15. And I think that Perfect love costeth out fear, and that those shakings and quakings that come not from the humble sence of sin or Judgement, or the like, but in violent motions of the body affectedly, are either Papisticall tricks of deceit, or effects of Phantastical conceit, or the motions of the great deceiver within you. I read of it as one of Gods curses, that [The Lord should give them a trembling heart,]