A23636:182
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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Reflections on Chapt. 7. of Justification.
The Doctrine of Justification is one principal pillar of our Faith, we cannot forego one clause of it without greatest hazard: let him not then think to wheedle us out of it, his attempts so to do must be detected & defeated.
The Doctrine of Justification is one principal pillar of our Faith, we cannot forego one clause of it without greatest hazzard: let him not then think to wheadle us out of it, his attempts so to do must be detected & defeated.
Sect. 1. When he saith, God doth not justify men in their Ungodliness, but from it, would be true, if he had not perverted it afterwards. To justify a man is to uphold and defend him in such a way, and to say to the wicked, thou art righteous; this is far from God. But to justify a man from his ungodliness, may admit of a double Interpretation, if it intend that He absolves a man from his ungodliness by a gracious act of pardon & acquittance, it is true: but if it intend a taking away of his sin from him by cleansing him from his filthiness and purging the corruption of it out of him, (as he after interprets himself) this is no Justification at all, but belongs to Sanctification.
Sect. 1. When he saith, God doth not justifie men in their Ʋngodliness, but from it, would be true, if he had not perverted it afterwards. To justifie a man is to uphold and defend him in such a way, and to say to the wicked, thou art righteous; this is far from God. But to justifie a man from his ungodliness, may admit of a double Interpretation, if it intend that He absolves a man from his ungodliness by a gracious act of pardon & acquittance, it is true: but if it intend a taking away of his sin from him by cleansing him from his filthiness and purging the corruption of it out of him, (as he after interprets himself) this is no Justification at all, but belongs to Sanctification.