A85315:52
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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2. Is your offence at Tithes?
First, it is well known if the Magistrate (who is to do what in him lieth, that the people under him may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, 1 Tim. 2.2. why else should the people pray that they might do so; and to this end takes care that according to Gods Institution, Ministers be provided who may teach the people all godliness & honesty, he in the mean time a Nursing Father to them, Isa. 49. see that they may have an honourable maintenance according to the word: I say if the Magistrate) could find a better way for the maintenance of the Ministry every way, you shall see how easily Ministers will part with Tithes. But now we take them as that which the Supreme power of the Nation for many years have allotted to us.
First, it is well known if the Magistrate (who is to doe what in him lieth, that the people under him may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty, 1 Tim. 2.2. why else should the people pray that they might doe so; and to this end takes care that according to Gods Institution, Ministers be provided who may teach the people all godliness & honesty, he in the mean time a Nursing Father to them, Isa. 49. see that they may have an honourable maintenance according to the word: I say if the Magistrate) could finde a better way for the maintenance of the Ministery every way, you shall see how easily Ministers will part with Tithes. But now we take them as that which the Supreme power of the Nation for many yeares have allotted to us.