A23636:193
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. 8. Whereas he saith, that when Paul speaks of Justification by faith, he useth the word faith by a Synecdoche; it is gratis dictum, we have only his word for it; and how ⟨p. 108⟩much the word of one guilty of so much Heresy and Blasphemy is worth on this account, let any judge. We grant that the word Faith is sometimes used for the Gospel-Doctrine, but when the Scripture mentions it as the instrument of justification, it is never so intended, and it belongs to him to prove it if he can.
Sect. 8. Whereas he saith, that when Paul speakes of Justification by faith, he useth the word faith by a Synechdoche; it is gratis dictum, we have only his word for it; and how ⟨p. 108⟩much the word of one guilty of so much Heresy and Blasphemy is worth on this account, let any judge. We grant that the word Faith is sometimes used for the Gospel-Doctrine, but when the Scripture mentions it as the instrument of justification, it is never so intended, and it belongs to him to prove it if he can.
Sect. 9. We understand not the meaning of his Rant in this Section about a Christ divided; a Christ without and a Christ within, a Christ in heaven and a Christ in the heart; we believe that there is but One Christ, and that He is in Heaven as to His humane nature, infinite as to His Divine Nature, and that by His Virtue, Influence, and Grace, He dwells in the hearts of all His people, and that they live upon Him by Faith.
Sect. 10. None of us ever doubted that Faith hath true Assurance in it, and infallible too: he therefore abuseth us in saying that we deny that faith hath assurance in the being & nature of it: only he must give us leave (or we will take it) to distinguish between the Assurance of the Object, & of the Subject […] by the Assurance of the Object, we understand the full Security which a believer is put into of enjoying eternal life, in the very instant of believing: this Assurance we say,