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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. The LORD did never upbraid any Church-Officer for taking tithes or maintenance who did his work; nor ever thought the worse of for that: nay, how often he blames the people for not bringing in the tithes, Mal. 3.8, 9, 10. and other Texts. The Lord did ever beteem his Ministers honourable wages Whence you do but wickedly to upbraid us with those Texts, unless you could prove us to be no workers. I doubt not but Christ in glory doth take himself to be faithfully preached by the Ministers of England, (I will not say every one) why then not maintained?
5. The LORD did never upbraid any Church-Officer for taking tithes or maintenance who did his worke; nor ever thought the worse of for that: nay, how often he blames the people for not bringing in the tithes, Mal. 3.8, 9, 10. and other Texts. The Lord did ever beteame his Ministers honourable wages Whence you doe but wickedly to upbraid us with those Texts, unlesse you could prove us to be no workers. I doubt not but Christ in glory doth take himself to be faithfully preached by the Ministers of England, (I will not say every one) why then not maintained?
6. But observe these Quakers how they provide for themselves by Scripture. Naylor: Saluta: &c. p. 37. 38. he speaks against the Magistrates because they imprison some of their Sect, calling themselves Pilgrims, and tells them, that God foreseeing their doings, hath commanded all that own him to entertain strangers, and made a Law for it, which you have made a Law against, and quotes Levit. 19.34. Heb. 13.2. Observe how they have provided for themselves, when they wander up and down, to mislead souls, and trouble the Churches; yet you must entertain them: they have two Scriptures for it. But Naylor;