A23636:213
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. When therefore he cites Rom. 3.18. to prove that Perfection, because they are free from sin, it will not do; that is to be understood of freedom from the dominion of it, see v. 14. And his Application of Ezek. 36.25. & Jer. 33.33. is confused, for want of distinguishing of what it there referred to Justification, and what to Sanctification; That Justification is perfect we acknowledge, (tho he before denied it.) that Sanctification is imperfect, we plead (tho he saith it is perfect): Now the making them clean from all ⟨p. 124⟩their filthiness, belongs to Justification: putting the Spirit in them: giving them an heart of flesh, &c. belongs to Sanctification, and this confirms them in perseverance; for they shall not depart, but doth not wholly deliver them from sin.
His plea for perfection from Matth. 11.29. because Christ's yoke is easy, and from 1, Joh 5.3. the commands not being grievous, is too far fetched; we are to distinguish between Legal and Evangelical Obedience: the Gospel hath abated of the Law, and provided strength for us to obey Evangelically, and made the command grateful to our new nature; and Christ's grace is sufficient for what he intends by it; but what is that to the Power of exact performing the law in its latitude?
His plea for perfection from Matth. 11.29. because Christ's yoke is easy, and from 1, Joh 5.3. the commands not being grievous, is too far fetch't; we are to distinguish between Legal and Evangelical Obedience: the Gospel hath abated of the Law, and provided strength for us to obey Evangelically, and made the command grateful to our new nature; and Christ's grace is sufficient for what he intends by it; but what is that to the Power of exact performing the law in its latitude?