A85315:275
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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But here we have a pack, mightily insulting over the Ministers ⟨p. 47⟩because they do not assume to themselves the infallible Spirit, in that notion which the Quakers boast they have it, and yet cannot speak rationally. Let us hear a little.
But here we have a pack, mightily insulting over the Ministers ⟨p. 47⟩because they doe not assume to themselves the infallible Spirit, in that notion which the Quakers boast they have it, and yet cannot speak rationally. Let us hear a little.
Qua: gl•: of God, p 3, 4. there they undertake to answer the arguments the Apostle brings, 1 Cor. 9.9, 10, 11, &c. to prove the maintenance of Ministers: They that preach on the Gospel must live upon the Gospel. This scripture shames you, and shows your Gospel will not maintain you, but you seek to Magistrate s•• and the Ministers of the Gospel are ashamed of such a pack of teachers. This is his answer, so, He that thresheth, thresheth in hope: Oh how have they threshed in hope all this while, and got forth no corn, but are fain to seek to the Magistrates for me•nes and food. So, Thou shalt not muzzle the month of the Ox: Oh you shameless teachers, your mouths must be muzzled, have been treading all this while, and no corn trodden out to feed you, but are fain to seek to the Magistrates. Do not these men speak gallantly? Is not here evidence of the infallible Spirit? But if these Quakers would have spoken like men, thus ye should have said: True, those who preach the Gospel, those who thresh, those who tread out, &c. that is, those who do perform the work of the Lords Ministers, in teaching, Jabouring faithfully, they may challenge maintenance by these Scriptures. But you do not thresh, labour, &c. in the Lords work. Therefore you cannot claim maintenance from these Scriptures; now you had spoken rationally, and there had been matter of shame indeed that we should have called for corn, and not wrought: but now you have cast all the shame upon the people, that we preaching, labouring, threshing, &c. are denied our corn, our maintenance, and are forced to go to the Magistrates our nursing fathers,