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The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so…
The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entitled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entituled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.
London : s.n., 1668
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3. You are Children of the Devil; and the works of your Father you do, and will do; you are his more close and subtle agents, that in a seeming more refined way, do all you can to enlarge the bounds of his Kingdom; and like Satan when the Sons and Daughters of God assemble themselves to worship their Father, some of you will appear amongst them to disturb them; I wonder how you can have the face to pretend Religion, when it is so apparent that you are more than ordinarily acted by the Devil to oppose it.
4. You are Serpents and a generation of Vipers, full of deadly poison, poison in the head, the poison of damnable errors, from whence poison doth drop forth at your lips and into your pens; you are Serpents putting forth your stings where ever you come, hissing at all those who are not of your brood: If our Saviour were on Earth to preach to you as he did to the Pharisees, he would with as great reason thus stile you, as he did them.
4. You are Serpents and a generation of Vipers, full of deadly poyson, poyson in the head, the poyson of damnable errours, from whence poyson doth drop forth at your lipps and into your pens; you are Serpents putting forth your stings where ever you come, hissing at all those who are not of your brood: If our Saviour were on Earth to preach to you as he did to the Pharisees, he would with as great reason thus stile you, as he did them.
Que: II. Do you know where you are?