A85315:156
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object: But where there is strife they are without, p. 12.
Ans. 1. It were well for you if you were within. 2. There may be difference between those who are in Christ, and yet the difference so fairly carried as no sinful strife, but an Oath will put an end to it. 3. But may a Magistrate give an Oath to those who are without? surely no: if that be true, must not swear at all. How then shall strife be ended? 4. We know the Quakers are not so perfect, but strife will be among them.
Ans. 1. It were well for you if you were within. 2. There may be difference between those who are in Christ, and yet the difference so fairly carried as no sinfull strife, but an Oath will put an end to it. 3. But may a Magistrate give an Oath to those who are without? surely no: if that be true, must not swear at all. How then shall strife be ended? 4. We know the Quakers are not so perfect, but strife will be among them.
Fourthly, The Quakers bid men be guided by their Consciences the Light of God within: but that Light within, doth lead men to swear in great cases, to put an end to strife: we find it so among the Heathen, Abimelech &c. both before and after Christ. The Light of Nature teacheth this, why then do you oppose it?
Fourthly, The Quakers bid men be guided by their Consciences the Light of God within: but that Light within, doth lead men to swear in great cases, to put an end to strife: we finde it so among the Heathen, Abimelech &c. both before and after Christ. The Light of Nature teacheth this, why then doe you oppose it?