A23636:162
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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Sect. 2. Whereas Christ, Joh. 17.9. makes a Difference between His Redeemed and the world, and saith, I pray not for the world, he would persuade us, that world is there meant of final Impenitents, or such as have finally rejected the means of Grace, and with whom the Spirit hath ceased to strive. But not to call over what hath been already offered. Viz. That all have not the means of Grace, and therefore cannot resist them; it is plain that he excludes only the damned from Christ's prayer: and hence he infers that Christ died only for their sins past: Well then, He died for those sins, and prayed for those men: he then owns His death and prayer to be lost, and His Redemption void. Did Christ dye to condemn men, or to save 'em? see Joh. 3.17. why then are they not saved for whom He came to dye? Was He not able to draw them to Him or to save them that come, to the uttermost?
Sect. 2. Whereas Christ, Joh. 17.9. makes a Difference between His Redeemed and the world, and saith, I pray not for the world, he would perswade us, that world is there meant of final Impenitents, or such as have finally rejected the meanes of Grace, and with whom the Spirit hath ceased to strive. But not to call over what hath been already offered. Viz. That all have not the meanes of Grace, and therefore cannot resist them; it is plain that he excludes only the damned from Christ's prayer: and hence he inferrs that Christ died only for their sins past: Well then, He died for those sins, and prayed for those men: he then owns His death and prayer to be lost, and His Redemption void. Did Christ dye to condemn men, or to save 'em? see Joh. 3.17. why then are they not saved for whom He came to dye? Was He not able to draw them to Him or to save them that come, to the uttermost?
That he saith, Many are guilty of final Impenitency a considerable time before they die; seems to be a Contradiction, though he saith it is none. We believe indeed that many are left of God to persist in impenitency