A23636:159
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 Cap. 6. of Christ's dying for all, &c.
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Reflections on Cap. 6. of Christ's dying for all, &c.
In this Chapter he proceeds more particularly to urge and maintain the Doctrine of Universal Redemption, and we might dismiss him for his Answer to the writings of the Anti-Remonstrants, but because many may not be advantaged with those discourses, we shall make a few brief Remarks upon his Absurdities.
In this Chapter he proceeds more particularly to urge and maintain the Doctrine of Ʋniversal Redemption, and we might dismiss him for his Answer to the writitings of the Anti-Remonstrants, but because many may not be advantaged with those discourses, we shall make a few brief Remarks upon his Absurdities.
Sect. 1. His first and main plea is from the words of Scripture, which express it in Universal terms, viz, All, all men, every man, the world, the whole world: (as for that of the Body, Eph. 5.23. Paul himself there interprets it of the Church, and its strange that the World and the Church should be of equal extent) some of ours (whom he calls the Adversaries of Truth) have answered, (though it is not our whole Answer) that by All, is not meant all particulars, (i. e. Individuals) but some of all sorts, all the Elect. His Reply is, that the word [All] must needs be as full and universal with respect to Christ's death and the benefit of it, as it is with respect to Adam's Fall: and who denies it? But it is not so in his sense, except he will plead ⟨p. 85⟩for universal Salvation, as well as Redemption, else the benefit is not parallel to the damage; and so he indeed seems to plead, by Citing