A23636:172
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. 7. How perversely doth he here state the Question! viz. Whether any are or can be saved without the express knowledge of Christ crucified, is one question, and whether without all hearing of Christ outwardly preached, is another. We believe that God did not reveal Chris• so clearly at first, as afterwards; nor had they, all of them in former times, the same distinct Conceptions about Christ, which ac• now made clear in the Gospel: but we all believe, that they had so much knowledge o a Saviour, as led them to place their trust in Him for Salvation; and these Truths wer• extraordinarily revealed to some; and gradually too: But that All honest Gentiles who did by nature the things contained in the law, had an express knowledge & faith of Christ crucified (as he asserts) is not credible to us; and when he bids us to disprove it, he forgets ⟨p. 94⟩all laws of disputation; for Affirmanti• est probare; it sufficeth for us to deny it, & say there is no Scripture to prove it, till he produce it: the Spirit's working When & Where He will, is no evidence for it.
Sect. 7. How perversly doth he here state the Question! viz. Whether any are or can be saved without the express knowledge of Christ crucified, is one question, and whether without all hearing of Christ outwardly preached, is another. We believe that God did not reveal Chris• so clearly at first, as afterwards; nor had they, all of them in former times, the same distinct Conceptions about Christ, which ac• now made clear in the Gospel: but we all believe, that they had so much knowledge o a Saviour, as led them to place their trust in Him for Salvation; and these Truths wer• extraordinarily revealed to some; and gradually too: But that All honest Gentiles who did by nature the things contained in the law, had an express knowledge & faith of Christ crucified (as he asserts) is not credible to us; and when he bids us to disprove it, he forgets ⟨p. 94⟩all laws of disputation; for Affirmanti est probare; it sufficeth for us to deny it, & say there is no Scripture to prove it, till he produce it: the Spirit's working When & Where He will, is no evidence for it.