A85315:301
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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5. As after those Prophets under the Old Testament whom God raised up, no man dared to assume to himself that Name and Office (I know there were those who were called Prophets in the N. Test. but they differed from the Old) or dared to be a Pen-man: so after the Apostles whom Christ himself chose, fitted, and authorized to be his Pen-men in the New Testament, let none dare to be so devilish to assume that Office, or Name unto themselves.
5. As after those Prophets under the Old Testament whom God raised up, no man dared to assume to himselfe that Name and Office (I know there were those who were called Prophets in the N. Test. but they differed from the Old) or dared to be a Pen-man: so after the Apostles whom Christ himselfe chose, fitted, and authorized to be his Pen-men in the New Testament, let none dare to be so devilish to assume that Office, or Name unto themselves.
6. The Testator is dead, who then shall make any other Testament? or what need is there of any other, than what himself hath made?
6. The Testatour is dead, who then shall make any other Testament? or what need is there of any other, than what himself hath made?
For the infallible Spirit the Quakers so much prate of, abusing the Ministers because they do not boast of it, (and Mason in particular, pag: 15. abuseth Mr. Scortrith, and bid his people take heed of him) I shall speak a few words. Mason adds this, Take this along with you too, The Spirit of Truth is the infallible Spirit. But George Scortrith confesses he hath not the Infallible: Therefore George Scortrith preaches from the Spirit of Error.