A23636:24
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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He had so much Pride and Gall to crowd into the Title, that he is fain to borrow a Room in the left-hand page, to put in a few Scripture Citations, maliciously abused and misapplied, which, whether they belong to our Churches and Ministry let the Day declare: we are not to stand or fall at the menacing Predictions of an Enthusiast.
He had so much Pride and Gall to crowd into the Title, that he is fain to borrow a Room in the left-hand page, to put in a few Scr•pture Citations, maliciously abused and misapplied, which, whether they belong to our Churches and Ministry let the Day declare: we are not to stand or fall at the menacing Praedictions of an Enthusiast.
He directs his Epistle to us, giving his word for it (so far as it will go) that the book was written in good will to us; and if to slander and calumniate with bitterest Invectives, may pass for a Demonstration, he hath proved his Love to be Extraordinary: and truly it is as much as we expect from one of his humour.
There is little observable here, but what will be met with in the Treatise, and once to Answer such paltry stuff is enough, if not to much: It may therefore be passed over with two or three Remarks.
There is little observable here, but what will be met with in the Treatise, and once to Answer such paltry stuffe is enough, if not to much: It may therefore be passed over with two or three Remarks.