A85315:249
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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This they avoid, by denying with greatest abhorrency that any of the Ministers are such, or the Churches.
Priests igno: p. 2. Wood•d p. 16. but especially Parnell twice in his Fr•fast, tells us of the Church in God, 1 Thess. 1.1. and Parnell saith he owns that Church, and amongst his Queries to the Priests, he would have them tell him what Church that is.
Priests igno: p. 2. Wood•d p. 16. but especially Parnel twice in his Fr•fast, tells us of the Church in God, 1 Thess. 1.1. and Parnel saith he ownes that Church, and amongst his Queries to the Priests, he would have them tell him what Church that is.
I wish Parnell had set down the interpretation from his infallible spirit, I believe we should have found a blasphemous one. But let us examine the Text, this Church of the Thessalon. which was in God, ch. 5. ver. 12, 13. had Rulers over them, and they were to esteem them highly, &c. But Parnell, you deny all Church Officers, so do all your sect; then you are not in God, as this Church was.
I wish Parnel had set down the interpretation from his infallible spirit, I believe we should have found a blasphemous one. But let us examine the Text, this Church of the Thessalon. which was in God, ch. 5. ver. 12, 13. had Rulers over them, and they were to esteem them highly, &c. But Parnel, you deny all Church Officers, so doe all your sect; then you are not in God, as this Church was.