A23636:278
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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3. We knew (partly because he was a Quaker, partly by the reports of his managing himself elsewhere, partly by his first Article of his Charges) that there would be no holding of him to any Law or Rule of Disputation, but he would bring all to his Revelations, and therefore the whole must needs issue in a tumultuous Brangle.
3. We knew (partly because he was a Quaker, partly by the reports of his managing himself elsewhere, partly by his first Article of his Charges) that there would be no holding of him to any Law or Rule of Disputation, but he would bring all to his Revelations, and therefore the whole must needs issue in a tumuluous Brangle.
4. Because he had declared himself at once in opposition to almost all the Fundamental Articles of Religion, which had been maimed for almost seventeen hundred years, by the Church of Christ; and in Defence of which so many thousands had laid down their lives; and who but Men Distracted, would expose these to be publicly debated, •s so many disputable Points in Religion upon ⟨image 88⟩the Challenge of a fearful Apostate? And we suppose here is enough to satisfy any that are intelligent.
4. Because he had declared himself at once in opposition to almost all the Fundamental Articles of Religion, which had been mained for almost seventeen hundred years, by the Church of Christ; and in Defense of which so many thousands had laid down their lives; and who but Men Distracted, would expose these to be publickly debated, •s so many disputable Points in Religion upon ⟨image 88⟩the Challenge of a fearful Apostate? And we suppose here is enough to satisfie any that are intelligent.