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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 chapt. 10. of the Sacraments &c.
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Sect. 1. That the word [Sacrament] is not to be found in the New-Testament, we grant: but it hath obtained to be a Word used in the Church, for many ages to express that by, which is evidently enough laid down in Scripture, nor doth he dispute us about the Lawfulness of using such words. ⟨p. 137⟩But when he saith, there is no word in Scripture to answer that word, except the word [Mystery,] we cannot go along with him; that the word [Mystery] is at all used in this sense, we suppose cannot be proved; but there are two other that are; and imply as much as we intend by a Sacrament, viz. a Sign and a Seal, which are both used of the Sacrament of Circumcision, Rom. 4.11. and by parity of Reason are applicable to the New-Testament-Sacraments: that Baptism is such a sign: is evident from, 1. Pet. 3.21. that the Lord's Supper is so too, see 1. Cor. 11.26. for how is the Lord's death showed forth in it, but by an instituted sign? And when the Church of Rome can show as good a plea for their other five, as we can for these two, we will then confess the injury we have done in denying them.
Sect. 1. That the word [Sacrament] is not to be found in the New-Testament, we grant: but it hath obtained to be a Word used in the Church, for many ages to express that by, which is evidently enough laid down in Scripture, nor doth he dispute us about the Lawfulness of using such words. ⟨p. 137⟩But when he saith, there is no word in Scripture to answer that word, except the word [Mystery,] we cannot go along with him; that the word [Mystery] is at all used in this sense, we suppose cannot be proved; but there are two other that are; and imply as much as we intend by a Sacrament, viz. a Sign and a Seal, which are both used of the Sacrament of Circumcision, Rom. 4.11. and by parity of Reason are applicable to the New-Testament-Sacrments: that Baptism is such a sign: is evident from,