A85315:145
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 Quakers Light teach men to forsake the Scriptures, and set up a spirit in man which shall not be examined by the Scriptures: Hence I conclude the Quakers Light is the Light of Satan, &c.
The Quakers divide the Spirit from the Scriptures.
Argum: 4 Major. That Light which maketh the Scripture to cross it self, and that in things known by the Light of Nature, that Light is the light of Satan, not of Christ. Minor. […] such is the Quakers Light. Ergo.
Argum: 4 Major. That Light which maketh the Scripture to crosse it selfe, and that in things known by the Light of Nature, that Light is the light of Satan, not of Christ. Minor. 〈…〉 such is the Quakers Light. Ergo.
Major. The Major is clear: For if the same infallible spirit gave out all the parts of the Scripture, then to have one Scripture plainly and truly to contradict another, and that in things known by the Light of Nature, would argue high imperfection in the Spirit of God: which is blasphemy to impute unto him.