A23636:29
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 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 ⟨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 nibbling at the Doctrine of Perseverance, which we shall shortly find him beating down with Axes and Mauls, and there shall take him to task. Only It is worth the while to observe, what a notable (and no doubt inspired) Doctrine he recommended to us, viz. That the Quickening in a man, as it abides, it is impossible it should perish: To pass the Nonsense of it (which must be allowed a Quaker, or you undo him) let us note its profoundness, If Grace continue, it cannot be lost, a thing cannot be and not be at the same time; could Delphos have delivered a more mysterious Oracle?