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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 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, ⟨p. 27⟩Hearing, &c with His Influence, opening the ••es of their minds, and giving them a spiri•ual Illumination; and if that be all he would •ave, he might have let us alone.
But when he comes to interpret himself, •e pleads for the Immediate & extraordinary •ay of Revelation of these things, such as •he Apostles had, whose understandings Christ •pened at once, to understand the Scriptures, without ordinary helps, and upon whom the Holy Ghost came in cloven tongues, &c. which •s far another thing, and of which the Quakers can make no proof.