A23636:180
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. 10. That from the Law written in mens hearts, he goes about to prove that man has such a sufficient light, is weak, for the Apostle speaks plain, in Rom. 2.14. (which we are turned to) of the law given to man at the first, which is become weak through the flesh, and cannot give life; Rom. 8.3. Gal. 3.21. And his pleading from our Concession, ⟨p. 101⟩That it is sufficient to make them inexcusable, that it is therefore sufficient to make them excusable that frame their lives to it, follows not. The fall of man hath left him without strength to obey it. Rom. 5.6. The Light of Nature discovers to man that Duty which he doth not, and, by reason of Sin, cannot do; which leaves him inexcusable, Ro• 1.18, 19, 20. but it is Christ only that can take off guilt, and remove Condemnation; and the light of nature neither discovers His person, nor the way how to get pardon by Him.
His arguing (pag. 121.) That Because for mens not glorifying God, He gave them up to a reprobate mind, therefore they were not Reprobates from the beginning, hath no face of a reason in it; for, besides that (if we should take the word Reprobate in Rom. 1.28. in such a sense) a man may be reprobated before he be left up to make the open discoveries of it: the meaning of that place is, that God left them to a mind that chose dross rather than Silver, preferred wickedness before Holiness, and so was a mind disapproved of God.