A23636:28
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 tells us, It is the same spirit that gives to all Readers a right under standing of Scripture; but if so, why then have not all the same understanding of it, but Contradictory? Can it be the Spirit of God, who is always the same?
He tells us, It is the same spirit that gives to all Readers a right under standing of Scripture; but if so, why then have not all the same understanding of it, but Contradictory? Can it be the Spirit of God, who is alwaies the same?
He bids us to Believe in Christ, and join our minds to His divine Illumination, and He will anoint the eyes of our Understandings, & we shall have our eyes open to see &c. q. d. If we will see of ourselves, then He will give us Ability to see: this may be no Contradiction in a Quakers Logic.
He bids us to Believe in Christ, and joyn our minds to His divine Illumination, and He will anoint the eyes of our Ʋnderstandings, & we shall have our eyes open to see &c. q. d. If we will see of ourselves, then He will give us Ability to see: this may be no Contradiction in a Quakers Logick.
We have him also in a fit of Charity, (and we are beholden to him, for we shall not always find him in so good a mood) granting that some of us may be in some sense of the true Church; which how it should ⟨p. 6⟩be when we have neither Doctrine, Ministry, Worship, &c. of a true Church among us, let him see to that: But we have him afterwards, putting on his Spectacles, and then he retracts his Charity with a witness.
We have him also in a fit of Charity, (and we are beholden to him, for we shall not alwaies find him in so good a mood) granting that some of us may be in some sense of the true Church; which how it should