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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
Chapter 4: The Conclusion of the Narrative, with an Answer unto W. Pen's Postscript and Cavils aga…
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CHAP. IV. The Conclusion of the Narrative, with an Answer unto W. Pen's Postscript and Cavils against T. V's Sermon.
TO conclude the Narrative of our meeting with the Quakers in Spittle-yard; when I saw I could get no answer to the Arguments I had urged for the proof of the Trinity, and the day was now worn away, I thought it would be but lost time, and imposing ⟨p. 21⟩upon the Auditory, to hold them longer there in discourse with such rambling Disputants, (who expressed cunning in nothing more than in putting by the thrusts and dints of Arguments with diverting speeches, which if they had received the force of with direct reply, their weakness would quickly have appeared to the people, by their falling down before them) therefore calling for silence, I did shut up the Discourse with prayer; and here W. P. puts forth the sting of the serpent, and discovereth the profaneness of his spirit, in terming my prayers strangely affected Whines; What more opprobrious terms would the Dam-me Blades of the times, or the most wicked Scoffers of God and Godliness have used? and whether I falsely accused them for Blasphemers unto God, let the Hearers of their Discourse, and the Readers of his Pamphlet, with the Answer, judge. That there was stigmatizing the Quakers with the name of Blasphemers, is owned and proved; the other of Impudent Villain, as also that there should be striking, I am confident is a falsehood, for I never either saw it, or heard any complain of it; and it is well known that in all our meetings there is peace, and if there were any rudeness it was when the Quakers came amongst us. I am sure it was very rude in them to stay and make such a bawling amongst the people after a dismiss was required, & when those which could have answered (I cannot say stilled) them, were retired. W. P. tells the Reader, that T. V. came palely down stairs. I fear W. P. hath some defect in his eye-sight, and indeed if the eyes of his body were no clearer than the eyes of his mind, he might easily mistake; T. V. had more reason to blush to hear the hideous Blasphemies which were vented by them; surely he had no reason to look pale through fear of any big Arguments which they had used against