A23636:268
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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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.
5. He boasts of his great Conquest in his book, and yet (like an Hypocrite) would arrogate nothing to himself, no, he is but like the Barley cake which tumbled into the host of the Midianites, only his Conquest is not like to hold the parallel, for we suppose we have ⟨p. 150⟩[…] ⟨p. 151⟩[…] ⟨p. 152⟩made his Cake appear to be Dough.
5. He boasts of his great Conquest in his book, and yet (like an Hypocrite) would arrogate nothing to himself, no, he is but like the Barly cake which tumbled into the host of the Midianites, only his Conquest is not like to hold the parallel, for we suppose we have ⟨p. 150⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 151⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 152⟩made his Cake appear to be Dough.