A23636:228
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. 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!
Sect. 6. He contradicts himself here in the same Paragraph; at the beginning he saith, that Christ is but one both in heaven. and in us; ⟨p. 135⟩and before the end he tells us, that by the Spirit the man is joined both to Christ in him, & to Christ in Heaven: and if two Unions, then two Christs.
Sect. 7 Now he afresh sets upon us for our Qualifications required in our Ministry; but it hath been already canvassed in cap. 4. Only towards the latter end of this Section, he tells us of Two spirits that guide men on earth, the Spirit of God, and of the devil, & he gives three Criteria of men's being guided by the latter; Viz. he is fallible, false, & continually given to Errors, by which he clearly detects himself to be under the devil's leading; for he hath before acknowledged himself to be falliBle; and we have proved him to be false, and continually leading into Error.