A85315:196
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 worship then instituted was not taken away, because abused; but because the Ceremonial part was fulfilled.
Fourthly, The worship then instituted was not taken away, because abused; but because the Ceremoniall part was fulfilled.
Fifthly, Jesus Christ the Lord of the Church may institute what means of worship he pleaseth, his Apostles did converse with him forty days after his resurrection, Acts 1.3 speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: They had order what to do; but I hardly think the Quakers were there then with him, and heard that doctrine, they teach us.
Fiftly, Jesus Christ the Lord of the Church may institute what means of worship he pleaseth, his Apostles did converse with him fourty dayes after his resurrection, Acts 1.3 speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdome of God: They had order what to doe; but I hardly think the Quakers were there then with him, and heard that doctrine, they teach us.
Sixthly, Then the Spirit of God teach us to deny God that which he hath had since the world began, viz: External worship: for prayer, sacrifices, and the teaching of the family by the Father of the family, these parts of worship we find at the beginning: after that, more. But now God must have none at all; how shall we know there is a God in the world if we take away his worship?
Sixtly, Then the Spirit of God teach us to deny God that which he hath had since the world began, viz: Externall worship: for prayer, sacrifices, and the teaching of the family by the Father of the family, these parts of worship we finde at the beginning: after that, more. But now God must have none at all; how shall we know there is a God in the world if we take away his worship?