A85315:117
Stablishing against shaking
Stablishing against shaking: or, A discovery of the Prince of Darkness (scarcely) transformed into an angel of light, powerfully now working in the deluded people called, Quakers: with a sober answer to their railings against ministers for receiving maintenance from their people. Being the substance of one sermon preached Feb. 17. 1655. at Shalford in Essex. / By Giles Firmin (pastor of the church there) upon occasion of the Quakers troubling those parts.Stablishing against shaking: or, A discovery of the Prince of Darknesse (scarcely) transformed into an angel of light, powerfully now working in the deluded people called, Quakers: with a sober answer to their railings against ministers for receiving maintenance from their people. Being the substance of one sermon preached Feb. 17. 1655. at Shalford in Essex. / By Giles Firmin (pastour of the church there) upon occasion of the Quakers troubling those parts.
London: printed by J.G. for Nathanael Webb, 1656
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Honour is but the expressing of the inward respect we bear to persons, by outward signs, speeches, and gestures; without the outward signification of it thus, no man can tell who is honoured: and as is the custom of the Nation, so we express this, whether by uncovering the head, bowing the body, &c. But the Quakers deny this. Let a Master be in a house, with ten other boys, the servant comes in, he stirs not his hat to his Master, no more than to the boys; his language to his Master is, Thou man; to the boy, Thou boy: what honour hath the Master above the Boys?
Honour is but the expressing of the inward respect we bear to persons, by outward signes, speeches, and gestures; without the outward signification of it thus, no man can tell who is honoured: and as is the custome of the Nation, so we expresse this, whether by uncovering the head, bowing the body, &c. But the Quakers deny this. Let a Master be in a house, with ten other boyes, the servant comes in, he stirres not his hat to his Master, no more than to the boyes; his language to his Master is, Thou man; to the boy, Thou boy: what honour hath the Master above the Boyes?
I. N. against F. Harris, pag. 6. Did ever any Saints use any other language but Thee and Thou, to God or man?
Yes that they did, better Saints than the Quakers are, though they say they are perfect.