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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. 5. But if the Sabbath may but be ca•hier'd, the other Ordinances will fall. Here then, his first cavil is against the first day of •he week, but if he decries any outward Sabbath at all (as he calls it) the First day •eeds no more Vindication than any other: •ouching the Change of the Sabbath, such as •cknowledge the Sabbath to be moral & perpetual ⟨p. 146⟩by divine precept, may find it made goo• by many, Sheppard, Owen and others. Hi• Cavil also against Rev. 1.10 hath been full• answered by the fore-cited Authors, and h• seems himself to grant the cause, for he tel• us (p. 193.) It is commendable in Christian to set apart the first day of the week for rest fro• Employments and to help the mind in its spiritual exercises: now, they must set this da• apart rather than any other, either because the day it self hath some Betterness in it, o• because Christ hath put an Excellency upon it; the former cannot be proved, the la• ter can be only by His sanctifying of it to […] a Day of Rest.
Sect. 5. But if the Sabbath may but be ca•hier'd, the other Ordinances will fall. Here then, his first cavil is against the first day of •he week, but if he decries any outward Sab•ath at all (as he calls it) the First day •eeds no more Vindication than any other: •ouching the Change of the Sabbath, such as cknowledge the Sabbath to be moral & perpetual