A23636:217
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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Introduction › Reflections on Cap. 9th of the Visible Church.
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Reflections on Cap. 9th of the Visible Church.
We have already seen what little Reason there is to indulge the Doctrine of Immediate Revelation: Allow but a Quaker this Engine, and he will do wonders with it: beat down the foundations of many generations, un-Church all Christendom, make the Scriptur• to intend just contrary to what it speaks; & who shall question him, if he tells us he sees all this in the Light, & hath it immediately revealed? G. K. hath hitherto discharged this against the fundamental Articles of Salvation; endeavouring to set GOD against Himself, and sham us out of our faith: Nor hath he don• yet, but will a fresh essay ⟨p. 128⟩to remove all that is visible of Christianity […] the world, and if he can blow up Churches, take away Sacraments, and wrest our Sabbath out of our hands, what would Beelzebub himself have desired more? But the Church is built upon a Rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
We have already seen what little Reason there is to indulge the Doctrine of Immedia•e Revelation: Allow but a Quaker this Engine, and he will do wonders with it: beat down the foundations of many generations, un-Church all Christendom, make the Scriptur• to intend just contrary to what it speaks; & who shall question him, if he tells us he sees all this in the Light, & hath it immediately revealed? G. K. hath hitherto discharged this against the fundamental Articles of Salvation; endeavouring to set GOD agains• Himself, and shamm us out of our faith: Nor hath he don• yet, but will a fresh essay ⟨p. 128⟩to remove all that is visible of Christianity 〈…〉 the world, and if he can blow up Churches, take away Sacraments, and wrest our Sabbat out of our hands, what would Beelzebub himself have desired more? But the Church is built upon a Rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.