A85315:184
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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Conscientia est regula regulata, non regula regulans
This Argument differs from the third.
Argum: 6 Major. That Light which destroyeth the Institutions of Christ, is the Light of Satan, not of Christ. Minor. But the Quakers light destroy the Institutions of Christ, [his Ordinances:] Ergo, it is the light of Satan, not of Christ.
Major. The Major is clear, for then Christ must oppose himself, if he hath left Ordinances wherein people shall attend upon God, till the end of the world, and now have a light to destroy them, Christ hath changed his mind. 1 Cor 11.26. In the Lords Supper we show the Lords death till he come. Christ is not come yet: Christ bid them eat and drink in remembrance of him: his words at the Institution of the Lords Supper. What were the Apostles only to remember him, or the Corinthians, and those first Churches? Must not all Churches till he comes so remember him? Mat. 28.19, 20. Teach and Baptize, I am with you to the end of the world. What do you limit this teaching and baptizing, to the Apostles? They are dead many hundred years since, yet the end of the world is not come; how then can these words be fulfilled, but in the ordinary Officers, who succeed the Apostles, is the rule of Christ,