A23636:163
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 Cap. 6. of Christ's dying for all, &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.
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 ⟨p. 87⟩till they dye; but then they are none of those for whom Christ died, Joh. 6.37.
That he saith, Many are guilty of final Impenitency a considerable time before they dy; seems to be a Contradiction, though he saith it is none. We believe indeed that many are left of God to persist in impenitency ⟨p. 87⟩till they dye; but then they are none of those for whom Christ died, Joh. 6.37.
But we have him acknowledging, (pag. 96.) That He dyed not for all, with equal intention or degree of Love, and thereupon confessing, that they that are saved have more abundant cause to bless God for His abundant mercy than the other; though they have no reason to complain. We grant, the damned have no cause to complain, because they suffer justly: but we would fain know where he placeth the inequality, since (at the bottom of the same page) he tells us, That God giveth no greater measure of inward grace to one than to another. Oh! but he suits Providences eminently: And is this all the difference? We thought there had been different dispensations of grace clearly intimated in Rom. 11.7 and one would surmise that what G. K. saith (ibid.) that God draws, moves, inclines, persuades (and that is more than mere swasion) them to come, and when they fall infallibly reclaims them, &c. had been grace, and more than mere Suiting of Providences; especially, when he there also tells us, That He and not they made them to differ from others: and here against Scripture doth he bring that to prove his Assertion