A23636:141
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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But this hath been but a Digression from the matter in hand, Viz. the Universal Decree, and now he will glance at it again: endeavouring to enervate our plea from Act. 2.23. (where he joins us again with Ranters) by a distinction between Delivering & Slaying; but we so distinguish too, and yet that God only exposed Christ to them, is not the whole meaning of the Text; for it certifies us that this was done according to an eternal purpose of God, who had appointed in that way to bring about mans Redemption, using them as Instruments (tho wickedly abusing their free will) in these sufferings of Christ, by which we were Redeemed. Compare ⟨p. 73⟩Chapt. 4. Vers. 27, 28. and it will clearly appear, that God hath certainly decreed all things from Eternity, which come to pass in time, to him that shall consider.
But this hath been but a Digression from the matter in hand, Viz. the Universal Decree, and now he will glance at it agen: endeavouring to enervate our plea from Act. 2.23. (where he joins us agen with Ranters) by a distinction between Delivering & Slaying; but we so distinguish too, and yet that God only exposed Christ to them, is not the whole meaning of the Text; for it certifies us that this was done according to an eternal purpose of God, who had appointed in that way to bring about mans Redemption, using them as Instruments (tho wickedly abusing their free will) in these sufferings of Christ, by which we were Redeemed. Compare ⟨p. 73⟩Chapt. 4. Vers. 27, 28. and it will clearly appear, that God hath certainly decreed all things from Eternity, which come to pass in time, to him that shall consider.