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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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Introduction › Reflections on Chap. 1. of the Holy Scriptures.
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1. The Reason is Because (and if every thing that men put Because to, may stand for a Reason, his is a good one) there are many things wherein God doth reveal of His Counsel to His children, which are not in the Scripture, either expressly or consequentially, altogether Necessary for their peace and Comfort. i. e. Either some new Duties which were not contained (no not consequentially) in the Scriptures; or some new Promises, which the Word of God refers not to; and New Duties, & new Promises make a new Gospel, against which we are awfully cautioned; Gal. •1.8. If there be new Duties, they must contain a new Doctrine not revealed by the Scripture; but he gives no encouragement to believe any such; Sect. 2. If new promises, they must refer to Purgatory; for the Scripture hath given all that belong to Time and Eternity, The life that now is, and that which ⟨p. 10⟩[…] ⟨p. 11⟩[…] ⟨p. 12⟩is to come; 1. Tim. 4.8. And if he mean only that there are New Providences which contribute to their peace and Comfort; as it is nothing to the purpose, so he should have done well to have imparted a little of his Light to us, to teach us how to extract this grace and comfort, without making use of the Scriptures to that end.
1. The Reason is Because (and if every thing that men put Because to, may stand for a Reason, his is a good one) there are many things wherein God doth reveal of His Counsel to His children, which are not in the Scripture, either expresly or consequentially, altogether Necessary for their peace and Comfort. i. e. Either some new Duties which were not conteined (no not consequentially) in the Scriptures; or some new Promises, which the Word of God referrs not to; and New Duties, & new Promises make a new Gospel, against which we are awfully cautioned; Gal. •1.8. If there be new Duties, they must contain a new Doctrine not revealed by the Scripture; but he gives no encouragement to believe any such; Sect. 2. If new promises, they must refer to Purgatory; for the Scripture hath given all that belong to Time and Eternity, The life that now is, and that which