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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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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 1. Tim. 1.14,—16. And the grace of our ⟨p. 88⟩Lord was exceeding abundant with faith & love. We thought heretofore that Faith and Love had been graces: and that God's giving one more abundant grace than another, proves that one hath no more grace given him than another, is not very clear to us as yet. Nay, (p. 93.) he tells us, That God by His infallible persuasions of love and grace, prevails infallibly with the Elect; and is not the Effect of grace grace, yea more grace than where there is no such Effect?
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 cleerly intimated in