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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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Sect. 5. Now he draws his Conclusion▪ Therefore the Scripture doth not contain all th• Word or Words of God: whereas we though• that if he had concluded from the premises he should have said, Therefore it doth, because all these are nothing but Scripture, o• there expressly or consequentially. He bring• in Act. 12.24. The word grow & multiplie• to prove his Assertion; but we might ask him, whether he intends its multiplying by new Inspirations or Revelations, or by multiplied Efficacy? Did not he himself resolve us, that there was no new Doctrine? and thence we infer that there was no new Word, in the sense we are disputing.
Sect. 5. Now he draws his Conclusion▪ Therefore the Scripture doth not contain all th• Word or Words of God: whereas we though• that if he had concluded from the premises he should have said, Therefore it doth, because all these are nothing but Scripture, o• ther expresly or consequentially. He bring• in Act. 12.24. The word grow & multiplie• to prove his Assertion; but we might ask him, whether he intends its multiplying by new Inspirations or Revelations, or by multiplied Efficacy? Did not he himself resolve us, that there was no new Doctrine? and thence we infer that there was no new Word, in the sence we are disputing.
Sect. 6. What have we here? Christ & His Apostles expounded the scriptures by Inspiration, & yet taught no new Doctrine. Sure he forgets himself, was not the whole frame of the Gospel Dispensation a New Model? And hence there were new Institutions; see