A85315:130
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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Conclusion. Since then the Light of the Quakers do put out this Light of Nature, I conclude, their Light is the Light of Satan, not of Christ.
Conclusion. Since then the Light of the Quakers doe put out this Light of Nature, I conclude, their Light is the Light of Satan, not of Christ.
Argum: 3 Major. That Light which teacheth men to forsake the Scriptures, setting up a Spirit in man which shall not be examined by the Scriptures, is the Light•• Satan, not of Christ. Minor. But such is the Quakers Light, Ergo.
The Scriptures are left by God to be our Light and our Rule, 1Prov. 6.23. Psal. 119.105. The Prophets bid us go to them, Isa. 8.20. Christ bids us search them, Joh. 5.39. The men of ⟨p. 24⟩Berea. Act. 17.11. Tried Paul by these; for Paul to tell them of his infallible Spirit, and so they might believe him without searching the Scriptures, he had as good say nothing: those men were commended for this action. Apollos a mighty man in the Scriptures,