A85315:28
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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True Teachers must plead hard for their peoples ears, and it is well if they can with entreaties prevail: it was so then, and to be sure we find it so now.
True Teachers must plead hard for their peoples eares, and it is well if they can with intreaties prevaile: it was so then, and to be sure we finde it so now.
2. He answers what they objected against him:
1. They object, that he was rude in speech, ver. 6. He did not lard his Sermons, nor Epistles with Athenian eloquence, nor flourish with gallant strains of wit: yet surely not so rude as they made him, he could speak so well that (Act. 14. ver. 12.) the heathens took him to be Mercurius, one of their gods. Well, he answers, am I so rude, but examine me in my knowledge, consider me in all things that are requisite to an Apostle, and so if I have not manifested my self in all things to be a true one.
The same we say to these Quakers, and all others, if by their knowledge, and all things else requisite to Ministers or Apostles, [if there be any more to come, for they tell us they are sent out with an Apostolical spirit] they can manifest themselves to us to be Ministers, or Apostles, we will listen to them; but by all we can find in their Books, they scarce appear to be rational men.