A85315:158
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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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?
Fifthly, I wonder Paul should so forget himself, to sin so fearfully in swearing as he did: yea, and an Angel also: Isa. 65.16. relates to the times after Christ.
Fifthly, I wonder Paul should so forget himself, to sinne so fearfully in swearing as he did: yea, and an Angel also: Isa. 65.16. relates to the times after Christ.
Conclusion. Hence then it follows, the Quakers Light is the Light of Satan, not of Christ.
Conclusion. Hence then it followes, the Quakers Light is the Light of Satan, not of Christ.