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The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession…
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pennsylvania, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pensilvania, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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Introduction › Reflections on Chapt. 4th. of Ministerial Gifts &c.
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What tho' he laboured with his hands, not to make the Gospel a Charge? yet we find 1. ⟨p. 61⟩Cor. 9. that he there so states the case, that no other should suffer because of his Example: proving that it was his due, if he should require it, that he did it for a peculiar Reason. Nay we find that though he took no wages of the Churches of Achaia, yet he did else where. 2. Cor. 11.8, 9, 10. Nor for all his railing (will the Ministers in New-England be ever Charged with oppressing the people: and what though Paul and others extraordinarily gifted. in the new planting of the Gospel, and in times of Persecution sometimes laboured, and in part maintained themselves; must they therefore who must industriously use the means to help them in their work, who live in times and places of the peaceable Settlement of the Gospel, and among those that profess it, do so too? If they then did it voluntarily, always asserting their own liberty to do otherwise, must we do it of Constraint?
What tho' he laboured with his hands, not to make the Gospel a Charge? yet we find 1. ⟨p. 61⟩Cor. 9. that he there so states the case, that no other should suffer because of his Example: proving that it was his due, if he should require it, that he did it for a peculiar Reason. Nay we find that though he took no wages of the Churches of Achaia, yet he did else where. 2. Cor. 11.8, 9, 10. Nor for all his railing (will the Ministers in New-England be ever Charged with oppressing the people: and what though Paul and others extraordinarily gifted. in the new planting of the Gospel, and in times of Persecution sometimes laboured, and in part maintained themselves; must they therefore who must industriously use the meanes to help them in their work, who live in times and places of the peaceable Settlement of the Gospel, and among those that profess it, do so too? If they then did it voluntarily, alwaies asserting their own liberty to do otherwise, must we do it of Constraint?