A23636:191
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. 6. In this Paragraph he gives up th• whole Cause, if he speaks sincerely; if not let him answer it to his Judge.
Sect. 6. In this Paragraph he gives up th• whole Cause, if he speakes sincerely; if not let him answer it to his Judge.
Sect. 7. That because Pardon of Sin is […] part of Justification: therefore Repentance […] a necessary instrument to obtain it, has no Consequence in it. Repentance being an inseparable ⟨p. 107⟩Concomitant of Faith, and influenced by it, Act. 5.31.11.18. & elsewhere. Only let it be observed that we separate not Repentance from Justification, but deny it to have any causal Influence into it. His proof from Tit. 3.5. is impertinent; we never denied Sanctification to be necessary to Salvation. But we suppose there is more requisite to Salvation than there is to Justification; not only must we be adjudged to the Inheritance, but we must be made meet or suitable for that happy state, Col. 1.12. and that is by Sanctification, Hebr. 12.14. this therefore is one of the Gospel Conditions of Salvation, but not of Justification. When he saith that Paul in saying that men are not justified by the works of the Law, only excludes the legal performances in which the Jews rested, who had not faith in Christ, he labours of a double mistake; for, both, all the Jews did not rest in them, but some had faith in Christ, and yet they did these works, and were not justified by them; and Paul renounceth his own works both before & after believing, distinctly,