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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. 5. Of God, His Decrees &c.
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We thought he would soar till he grew giddy, his brains turned, and so speaks Nonsense; ⟨p. 66⟩and let it come out; Light, he tells us, is immediate though it comes thro' a Medium; i. e. its immediate, though it be mediate: but let that pass Whereas he cites Plato (who is with him little inferior to Moses) to prove that It is man's Infelicity to converse with Images of things; we accept not the Testimony; for Man was made to Converse with the Images of things, and shall so Converse for ever in his perfect state of glory; this being the nature of his understanding, to receive the Knowledge of things by taking in the Images.
We thought he would soar till he grew giddy, his brains turn'd, and so speaks Nonsense; ⟨p. 66⟩and let it come out; Light, he tells us, is immediate though it comes thro' a Medium; i. e. its immediate, though it be mediate: but let that pass Whereas he cites Plato (who is with him little inferiour to Moses) to prove that It is man's Infelitity to converse with Images of things; we accept not the Testimony; for Man was made to Converse with the Images of things, and shall so Converse for ever in his perfect state of glory; this being the nature of his understanding, to receive the Knowledge of things by taking in the Images.
And what he seems to insinuate, p. 62. viz. That the Word of God hath no more of God in it than a glass window hath of the Sun, is in no wise to be admitted: Its true, we are said to see in a glass, 1. Cor. 13.12. which comprehends the Scripture, but then it is not a Perspective glass, but a Looking-glass that is alluded to: and it is certain, that God hath imprinted the image of His preceptive will there: and the Scripture is adapted to discover much of God to us by its own light, else all the Encomiums given to it Psal. 19.119. Prov. 6.23