A85315:222
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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3. Must not the wicked pray because they sin, and so it is abominable? then they must not plough neither, for that also is sin. Prov. 21.4. but all sin is abominable to God: what then, must not the wicked plough? I hope then the Quakers will keep their families.
3. Must not the wicked pray because they sin, and so it is abominable? then they must not plow neither, for that also is sinne. Prov. 21.4. but all sin is abominable to God: what then, must not the wicked plow? I hope then the Quakers will keep their families.
4. Was Peter no Apostle, was not Simon Magus wicked? read Acts 8.22. The Apostle lames, 5 Chap. 13. Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. But suppose a wicked man (though I love Charity well, yet I believe there might be one or two among those Tribes he writes to) what must he do? Surely, Any will reach him. If he may pray when afflicted, why not at at other times: observe the Epistle, and you will find there were some wicked among them.
4. Was Peter no Apostle, was not Simon Magus wicked? read Acts 8.22. The Apostle lames, 5 Chap. 13. Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. But suppose a wicked man (though I love Charity well, yet I believe there might be one or two among those Tribes he writes to) what must he doe? Surely, Any will reach him. If he may pray when afflicted, why not at at other times: observe the Epistle, and you will finde there were some wicked among them.