A23636:187
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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Sect. 2. He saith, They are only the sanctified that are justified; if he intends that ⟨p. 104⟩whom God doth justify, He doth also sanctify, it is a great truth; but if he puts Sanctification (which is a Concomitant) to be a cause of Justification, yea, the material cause, (as his following Discourse evidently insinuates) it is a deceit: and here he mistaketh when he saith, That we are the seed of Christ by Sanctification: which is only a benefit which Christ bestows on His seed, and not a cause of their being so. And when he tells us, That Christ bestows Adoption only on His brethren, it is as much as if he had said that Christ only Adopts the Adopted.
Sect. 2. He saith, They are only the sanctified that are justified; if he intends that ⟨p. 104⟩whom God doth justifie, He doth also sanctifie, it is a great truth; but if he puts Sanctification (which is a Concomitant) to be a cause of Justification, yea, the material cause, (as his following Discourse evidently insinuates) it is a deceit: and here he mistaketh when he saith, That we are the seed of Christ by Sanctification: which is only a benefit which Christ bestowes on His seed, and not a cause of their being so. And when he tells us, That Christ bestowes Adoption only on His brethren, it is as much as if he had said that Christ only Adopts the Adopted.
Sect. 3. Here he falls into down-right Popery, confounding those two great benefits of Justification and Sanctification, which (tho' inseparable) are to be distinguished. All Protestant Writers of Controversies against papists, have abundantly Confuted this mistake, only he will force us in the Sequel to make some brief Remarks on this matter.