A85315:66
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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So much for the Ministers maintenance, which because my Chapter gave me so fit an occasion, I have first answered.
The third part of the Chapter, contains a description of these false teachers, and adversaries to Paul: 1. He calls them false-Apostles. 2. Deceitful Workers. 3. They transform themselves, &c. like stage-players, they personate the Apostles of Christ.
The third part of the Chapter, contains a description of these false teachers, and adversaries to Paul: 1. He calls them false-Apostles. 2. Deceitfull Workers. 3. They transforme themselves, &c. like stage-players, they personate the Apostles of Christ.
But how can this be? (say the admirers of these false teachers) we cannot believe it. The Apostle answers, yes this may very easily be, and proves it à major. Do not wonder at this, for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light, which are the words of my Text, and but the antecedent part of the Enthymeme, the consequent part is in the 15 verse: Satan is, ergo his Ministers, &c. Parnell several times in his Book (he entitles, the Watcher:) calls Logic, filthy Logic: & pag: 30. ⟨p. 12⟩tells us what Logic is: Logic is only to make a false word true. That is thy masters Logic indeed Parnell, Satan's, but the true Logic we own, (for to give you a definition of Logic is in vain) is that whereby the Lights of your master Satan, are by the help of the Scripture, discovered to be false. But why doth thy mouth call that filthy, which the pure Spirit of God useth? In these words he useth both parts of Logic, Invention and Disposition. We use no Logic but such as God himself hath made.