THe Reader may observe, that R. F. answereth nothing to this Section, wherein, having shewed how they cry out against all that teach, Sin is not perfectly mortified in this life, to be upholders of the Devils kingdom: I asked, Were Paul, John, and the Apostles, upholders of the Devils king∣dom? And, doth the Scripture uphold the Devils kingdom, when it positively asserteth there is sin in every good man while he is doing good? according to that Eccles. 7. 20.* 1.1 There is not a just man upon earth that doth good, and sinneth not. A Scripture that stands as an impregnable fort un-assaulted by the enemy, and impossible ever to be taken or battered down, although this generation of Perfectists (rank and file the same with them spoken of Prov. 30. 12.) should night and day lay siege to it, and shoot all their Gra∣nado's against it. The new gloss * 1.2 of Tho. Lawson is but a flash of gun-powder without bullet, it will not batter; 'Tis true (saith he) there is not a just man upon earth, &c. for all that dwell on earth worship the beast, Rev. 13. 8. but John saw 144000. redeemed from the earth: whereas the material earth is understood by Solomon, the mystical earth is meant by John▪ set in opposition to the mystical heaven, or the true Church, ver. 6. men redeemed from earthly ways of wor∣ship, perfectly justified before God, sincere in their sanctifi∣cation and reformation, and growing up, indeed, unto perfect holiness in Gods fear; yet not one of them (except in Gods account) without their inherent failings, adherent blemishes, and conflicts from their in-dwelling concupiscence, or un∣regenerate part.
The reviler rebuked: or, A re-inforcement of the charge against the Quakers, (so called) for their contradictions to the Scriptures of God, and to their own scriblings,: which Richard Farnworth attempted to answer in his pretended Vindication of the Scriptures; but is farther discovered, with his fellow-contradictors and revilers, and their doctrine, to be anti-Scriptural, anti-Christian, and anti-spiritual. By John Stalham, a servant of the great bishop and shepherd of souls, appointed to watch his little flock at Terling in Essex.
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- The reviler rebuked: or, A re-inforcement of the charge against the Quakers, (so called) for their contradictions to the Scriptures of God, and to their own scriblings,: which Richard Farnworth attempted to answer in his pretended Vindication of the Scriptures; but is farther discovered, with his fellow-contradictors and revilers, and their doctrine, to be anti-Scriptural, anti-Christian, and anti-spiritual. By John Stalham, a servant of the great bishop and shepherd of souls, appointed to watch his little flock at Terling in Essex.
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- Stalham, John, d. 1681.
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"The reviler rebuked: or, A re-inforcement of the charge against the Quakers, (so called) for their contradictions to the Scriptures of God, and to their own scriblings,: which Richard Farnworth attempted to answer in his pretended Vindication of the Scriptures; but is farther discovered, with his fellow-contradictors and revilers, and their doctrine, to be anti-Scriptural, anti-Christian, and anti-spiritual. By John Stalham, a servant of the great bishop and shepherd of souls, appointed to watch his little flock at Terling in Essex." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93770.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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* 1.1
Eccles. 7. 20.
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* 1.2
Lip of truth opened, p. 18.