A85315:171
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.
What miserable blind Consciences do we find where people have lived under the revelation of Christ! I am confident many know not the essentials to salvation.
What miserable blind Consciences doe we find where people have lived under the revelation of Christ! I am confident many know not the essentials to salvation.
The meaning then is:
1 If we speak of the Light of Reason, Understanding, so Christ lighteth every one who cometh into the world.
2. Or if we speak of Saving light, As many, or every one who hath that saving Light, it is Christ who enlighteneth him.
2. Or if we speak of Saving light, As many, or every one who hath that saving Light, it is Christ who illightneth him.