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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 Cap. 2. of New Revelations and Inspirations.
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Sect. 1. His first charge here is upon the Assemblies Confession, in the very first Article; and truly, If men lay the first stone wrong, the whole Fabric must be weakened thereby. That which he allegeth against them, is, they are admirably blind in their bringing in particular Citations of Scripture; and we may retort, that he is admirably base in perverting their sense, and design in Citing of them. They had asserted several things in this paragraph, for proof whereof they directed to the Scriptures printed in the Margin, which he perversely reflects upon, as brought only to prove that one Assertion (which is not totidem verbis made by them) That all new Revelation is ceased. They had said that God had pleased to commit His declared and revealed will of things which concern man's salvation, wholly to Writing; for which they allege, Prov. 2.19, 20, 21. and do not ⟨p. 25⟩these Texts assure us, that God has written His Word to us, and that this Word tells us what God saith, yea, and to speak otherwise is an evidence that men have no saving light in them? Which, by the way, tells us what to judge of the Quakers light; and one would think this is to purpose, and hath something of proof in it, and to the same purport are Luc. 1.2, 3, 4. Rom. 15.4. Mat. 4.4. & 7.10. They had again told us, That God had made Scriptures necessary; and for the Evidence, direct us to, 2. Tim. 3.15, and can Impudence deny the Inference from that Text? Finally they tell us, That the Scripture being thus given to be a Rule for Faith and Manners, and being completely sufficient to its ends, The former ways of Gods revealing Himself are ceased, for which they cite, Heb. 1.1, 2. 2. Pet 1.19. which one would think, if joined with the former, especially 2. Tim. 3.15, 16, 17