A23636:15
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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We cannot be faithful, if we do not warn you against (at least) the Teaching, Talking, Busy and more Bigoted Quakers, which infest you, as a Sort of men, who invite you to give up at once, your whole Religion, and to Embark your souls no more on that Bottom, which all the Saints have hitherto been saved upon. If you shall think it convenient for you, to part with your Pastors because the Wolves bark at them, We do assure you, that most of us could have l•ved much more easily and pleasantly, and provided more comfortably for our Families, if we had applied ourselves to other Callings ⟨image 5⟩than that of the Ministry; It is our Grief •nd Care for You that will make us cry after •ou, Entreat us not to leave you, for our •od must be your God.
We cannot be faithful, if we do not warn you against (at least) the Teaching, Talking, Busie and more Bigotted Quakers, which infest you, as a Sort of men, who invite you to give up at once, your whole Religion, and to Embarque your souls no more on that Bottom, which all the Saints have hitherto been saved upon. If you shall think it convenient for you, to part with your Pastors because the Wolves bark at them, We do assure you, that most of us could have l•ved much more easily and pleasantly, and provided more comfortably for our Families, if we had applyed ourselves to other Callings ⟨image 5⟩than that of the Ministry; It is our Grief •nd Care for You that will make us cry after •ou, Intreat us not to leave you, for our •od must be your God.
But how can you think of parting with an infinite and Eternal GOD, and having a eated Soul blasphemously placed in His throne? How can you think of parting ith a precious Bible, as a Dead Letter, nd having Silent Postures of your own, in e Room thereof? How can you think of parting with an Inestimable REDEEMER, r a dim Light within you, which may prove darkness it self; and then, How great is that darkness! How can you endure to see the hole Gospel, which your souls have hitherto ved upon, all evaporated into Dispensations allegories, and mere mystical Notions? Bapsm and the Supper of the Lord Jesus, of […] Advantage to your Faith, your Love, your oy? Can you with any patience behold the glorious Doctrines of Election, and Justification, and Perseverance, depraved with Opinions that make Man to be All, and Grace […] have small or no share in the matters of alvation?