A23636:61
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Introduction › Reflections on Cap. 2. of New Revelations and Inspirations.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In this Chapter the Dispute is, Whether new divine Revelations & Inspirations of the Spirit of God he now ceased? He undertakes the Negative against us: but indeed the whole is nothing else but mere Legerdemain.
In this Chapter the Dispute is, Whether new divine Revelations & Inspirations of the Spirit of God he now ceased? He undertakes the Negative against us: but indeed the whole is nothing else but meer Legerdemain.
The right Stating of the Controversy between ⟨p. 22⟩us, will abbreviate and facilitate ou• work, in animadverting on this tedious and insignificant Chapter. In order to that, thes• three Terms, Inspiration, Revelation & New, must be rightly understood. Words are used to express our minds by, & are to be taken in the sense commonly used among men; and when any are used equivocally, such as use them must have Liberty to interpret their own meaning.
The right Stating of the Controversie between ⟨p. 22⟩us, will abreviate and facilitate ou• work, in animadverting on this tedious and insignificant Chapter. In order to that, thes• three Terms, Inspiration, Revelation & New, must be rightly understood. Words are used to express our minds by, & are to be taken in the sense commonly used among men; and when any are used aequivocally, such as use them must have Liberty to interpret their own meaning.