A85315:40
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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Will the Quakers allow this Text to be Scripture? then let Him, be he or she what they will, high or low, 1master or servant, is he or she taught; catechized? then communicate in All, what All? this word will not be liked: yea all good things, fit to be communicated, or communicable. So 1 Tim. 5.17. one part of the honour Ministers must have is maintenance, the 18 ver. proves it: mark, it is honorarium, the maintenance of the Elders is not as the pay I give for a servants work, but it is honour, an honourable maintenance. The same Apostle saith, 2 Tim. 2 4. 2No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, &c. But how then shall he live? I shall add no more, God hath provided for us expressly in the New Testament; though the maintenance we have fall short abundantly of what the Priests had in the Old Test:
Will the Quakers allow this Text to be Scripture? then let Him, be he or she what they will, high or low, 1master or servant, is he or she taught; catechized? then communicate in All, what All? this word will not be liked: yea all good things, fit to be communicated, or communicable. So 1 Tim. 5.17. one part of the honour Ministers must have is maintenance, the 18 ver. proves it: marke, it is honorarium, the maintenance of the Elders is not as the pay I give for a servants worke, but it is honour, an honourable maintenance. The same Apostle saith, 2 Tim. 2 4. 2No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affaires of this life, &c. But how then shall he live? I shall adde no more, God hath provided for us expressly in the New Testament; though the maintenance we have fall short abundantly of what the Priests had in the Old Test: