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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. 2. And pray what do we assert, but what he seems plumply to grant here viz. That the rule to try all doctrines is completely contained in the Scriptures: only the business is, that this must in no wise prove the ceasing of new revelations, or inspirations, or prophesying. Let it for the present suffice to say, that he who goes about to confound terms which are used for distinction, has some cheating trick to impose upon us: it hath therefore been the guise of Heretics in all ages; but possibly he will interpret himself more fully in the next.
Sect. 2. And pray what do we assert, but what he seems plumply to grant here viz. That the rule to try all doctrines is compleatly contained in the Scriptures: only the business is, that this must in no wise prove the ceasing of new revelations, or inspirations, or prophecying. Let it for the present suffice to say, that he who goes about to confound terms which are used for distinction, has some cheating trick to impose upon us: it hath therefore been the guise of Haereticks in all ages; but possibly he will interpret himself more fully in the next.
Sect 3. Here therefore he furnisheth us with a Distinction, which if he will give security that he will stand by, & make it appear that he intends no more, we will try for an accommodation. We have already told the world, that we deny not new Revelations, subjective and mediate, i. e. that the Spirit of God blesseth the Use of means, Reading, ⟨p. 27⟩Hearing, &c with His Influence, opening the ••es of their minds, and giving them a spiritual Illumination; and if that be all he would •ave, he might have let us alone.
Sect 3. Here therefore he furnisheth us with a Distinction, which if he will give security that he will stand by, & make it appear that he intends no more, we will try for an accommodation. We have already told the world, that we deny not new Revelations, subjective and mediate, i. e. that the Spirit of God blesseth the Use of means, Reading,