A85315:236
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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If he will fetch his strength from the 13. v. a perfect man, &c. ⟨p. 40⟩and that perfect man, to be meant of every singular believer, to what I have said before about perfection, I add, we acknowledge there are thousands (through mercy) of perfect men, in England, as perfect is opposed to children tossed to and fro in ver. 14. saints who stand so unmovable, and firm, that all the winds of Quakers and other Heretics doctrines cannot shake them here upon earth.
If he will fetch his strength from the 13. v. a perfect man, &c. ⟨p. 40⟩and that perfect man, to be meant of every singular believer, to what I have said before about perfection, I adde, we acknowledge there are thousands (through mercy) of perfect men, in England, as perfect is opposed to children tossed to and fro in ver. 14. saints who stand so unmovable, and firme, that all the windes of Quakers and other Hereticks doctrines cannot shake them here upon earth.
But by the former words, Till we all come or meet &c. he seems to speak of the whole mystical body, which shall be a perfect man, when they meet All in the unity &c. and of the knowledge of the Son of God: But I do not believe any man hath that perfect knowledge of him, in this life, which they shall have.
But by the former words, Till we all come or meet &c. he seems to speak of the whole mysticall body, which shall be a perfect man, when they meet All in the unity &c. and of the knowledge of the Son of God: But I doe not believe any man hath that perfect knowledge of him, in this life, which they shall have.