A23636:190
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. 5. 'Tis a great mistake in him to say, that Faith is one hand to receive Christ, & Love is another; the Office of Love is another and quite different thing: by faith we receive Christ, by Love we serve him, or testify our Thankfulness in our Obedience to Him, Joh. 14.15. and it is by Faith tha• we derive from Christ all that virtue which nourisheth the graces of Love, whereby we may serve Him, Gal. 5.6. And whereas he here applies the putting on of Christ to Justification, we that esteem Justification and Sanctification two things, reckon it to Sanctification, and that according to Scripture; fo• what else is the Righteousness and true Holiness by which it is interpreted, Eph. 4.22▪ 23, 24.
Sect. 5. 'Tis a great mistake in him to say, that Faith is one hand to receive Christ, & Love is another; the Office of Love is another and quite different thing: by faith we receive Christ, by Love we serve him, or testifie our Thankfulness in our Obedience to Him, Joh. 14.15. and it is by Faith tha• we derive from Christ all that virtue which nourisheth the graces of Love, whereby we may serve Him, Gal. 5.6. And whereas he here applies the putting on of Christ to Justification, we that esteem Justification and Sanctification two things, reckon it to Sanctification, and that according to Scripture; fo• what else is the Righteousness and true Holiness by which it is interpreted, Eph. 4.22▪ 23, 24.