A23636:266
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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2. That When our carnal weapons were gone, we found no spiritual ones: We suppose it is now evident that he was mistaken, if the Word of God be the sword of the Spirit, as it is called, Eph. 6.17.
3. He vaunts that We have no courage to appear in the open field, but lurk in our dens where the honest Quakers have no occasion to hear us: but we say, it is their own fault; for our preaching is open, and our doors shut out none but those that will not come.
3. He vaunts that We have no courage to appear in the open field, but lurk in our dens where the honest Quakers have no occasion to heare us: but we say, it is their own fault; for our preaching is open, and our doors shut out none but those that will not come.
4. He calls us Beasts of prey, and Nightbirds, that creep out only in the dark; but this charge is very impertinent and contradictory; it was in his Language night with us, when our Liberties were taken away, and then (if at all) we refused to come out, and then G. K. comes daringly; he then is the Forrest-beast, by his own doom.