A85315:287
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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The sum of his answer is this, that all those who deny the light of Christ, and the infallible spirit (in their sense this must be taken, else we do say, some truth is in this) have nothing but the spirit of delusions: but then adds, without the infallible spirit there is no promise nor word, but what is stolen from others, or out of a book, and had thou had no book thou had no voice nor promise. Here is brave stuff: the promises then in the Bible, are little worth; if I. N. can find any promises out of this book, let him take them for me.
The summe of his answer is this, that all those who deny the light of Christ, and the infallible spirit (in their sense this must be taken, else we do say, some truth is in this) have nothing but the spirit of delusions: but then adds, without the infallible spirit there is no promise nor word, but what is stolen from others, or out of a booke, and had thou had no booke thou had no voice nor promise. Here is brave stuffe: the promises then in the Bible, are little worth; if I. N. can finde any promises out of this book, let him take them for me.
Thus Parnell and Naylor call the Ministers, Magicians.
Thus Parnel and Naylor call the Ministers, Magicians.
Let the Quakers tell us what is faith, according as the Lord Christ declares it in his Word, (not their infallible Spirit without the Word) tell us what it is to walk holily, as the holy men in Scripture have done, and see if there be not many hundreds that answer that faith and holiness.
Let the Quakers tell us what is faith, according as the Lord Christ declares it in his Word, (not their infallible Spirit without the Word) tell us what it is to walk holily, as the holy men in Scripture have done, and see if there be not many hundreds that answer that faith and holinesse.