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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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Sect. 4. He makes The work of conversion wrought by the Spirit in the hearts of God's Elect, to be the true gathering of a visible Church (for of that he must speak or he is distracted) and let any man of sense judge, whether this be any gathering of a visible Church at ⟨p. 134⟩all; or whether this makes a man so much as a visible Christian; it being a thing secret, and that which no man knows but he in whom it is wrought. As for his Banter here about new-made things, it is but a second Disgorging of the vomit, which he hath licked up after he had once before spewed it, in p. 36. where he is animadverted upon, & once is too much.
Sect. 5. Here he again confounds the mystical invisible Church, which the visible, and gives the encomiums proper to the one, unadvisedly to the other: which mistake led him to draw that blasphemous Inference (p. 172.) that the Religion which we profess is not the Religion of Jesus Christ, and that in the foundation it self which is Jesus Christ: hence we do (without any breach of charity) infer that G. K. bids the world to take notice that he utterly renounceth the religion we profess, even in the very foundation of it, which is JESUS CHRIST, and of which he himself (if we are not misinformed) once made no mean profession in the University of Aberdeen; and say if Julian the Apostate did worse!
Sect. 5. Here he agen confounds the mystical invisible Church, which the visible, and gives the encomiums proper to the one, unadvisedly to the other: which mistake led him to draw that blasphemous Inference (p. 172.) that the Religion which we profess is not the Religion of Jesus Christ, and that in the foundation it self which is Jesus Christ: hence we do (without any breach of charity) infer that G. K. bids the world to take notice that he utterly renounceth the religion we profess, even in the very foundation of it, which is JESUS CHRIST, and of which he himself (if we are not misinform'd) once made no mean profession in the University of Aberdeen; and say if Julian the Apostate did worse!