A23636:133
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Introduction › Reflections on Chapt. 5. Of God, His Decrees &c.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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. and else-where, are Hyperbolical.
Sect. 3. The Blasphemy charged upon us for Calling (as he saith) the light of God in ⟨p. 67⟩His people, a stinking vapour from hell; will light upon their side, who call the poor imperfect light of nature, God & Christ, as they have done in many of their books: but more of this afterwards.
He here arraigns the Assembly for that in Confess. cap. 26. sect. 3. they say, that the Communion of saints with Christ doth not in any wise make them partakers of the substance of His God-head; and endeavours to prove the contrary to be true. But observe, the Assembly in this Article oppose the Swenkfieldian Doctrine, that a believer is Godded with God, and Christed with Christ: and this is the thing that G. K. is here to prove, or he does nothing. That we are made partakers of the divine nature, that we have near and intimate Communion with God and Christ; that we receive grace out of Christs fullness, and that God is our portion, we believe.
He here arraigns the Assembly for that in Confess. cap. 26. sect. 3. they say, that the Communion of saints with Christ doth not in any wise make them partakers of the substance of His God-head; and endeavours to prove the contrary to be true. But observe, the Assembly in this Artitle oppose the Swenkfieldian Doctrine, that a beleever is Godded with God, and Christed with Christ: and this is the thing that G. K. is here to prove, or he does nothing. That we are made partakers of the divine nature, that we have near and intimate Communion with God and Christ; that we receive grace out of Christs fulness, and that God is our portion, we beleeve.