A23636:167
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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He mistakes the meaning of the word Reprobates, 2. Cor. 13.5. endeavouring to prove that Christ is in all but Reprobates, and they are such as are given up to final impenitency; whenas the word there used, intends not Reprobation in our sense, but only that all Unbelievers, are at present unapproved by God, and in a state of Perdition.
He mistakes the meaning of the word Reprobates, 2. Cor. 13.5. endeavouring to prove that Christ is in all but Reprobates, and they are such as are given up to final impenitency; whenas the word there used, intends not Reprobation in our sense, but only that all Ʋnbeleevers, are at present unapproved by God, and in a state of Perditon.
Sect. 4. A further proof of this universal grace, is, that Christ both commanded that His Gospel be preached to all nations; and he tell• us that so it shall before the end of the world: this is no proof of what it is brought for: the many generations past have no advantage by that, being ended and gone before that time comes: that therefore all mankind shall be accountable for not obeying it, because once in the end of the world it shall be revealed to them that are then living, is a slender way of reasoning; but his Salvo is, that though not outwardly at the present, yet inwardly to be ⟨p. 91⟩sure it is preached to all: but how this is, he hath not satisfied us in the premises, what he may do in the sequel we must wait for.
Sect. 4. A further proof of this universal grace, is, that Christ both commanded that His Gospel be preached to all nations; and he tell• us that so it shall before the end of the world: this is no proof of what it is brought for: the many generations past have no advantage by that, being ended and gone before that time comes: that therefore all mankind shall be accountable for not obeying it, because once in the end of the world it shall be reveal'd to them that are then living, is a slender way of reasoning; but his Salvo is, that though not outwardly at the present, yet iwardly to be