A23636:78
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.
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As for the Comparison by which he doth illustrate (or rather scandalize) our Doctrine, as if we acknowledged No other sight of the Truth, but as one that sees England in a map, but never saw the land, or one that hears and reads of meat, but never saw and tasted it: it is altogether alien: we believe with the Apostle, that all our sight here is in a glass, ⟨p. 33⟩and that darkly or enigmatically, 1. Cor. 13.12. and that we walk by faith, and not by sight. 2. Cor. 5.7. and yet we believe that here is a spiritual feeling, & tasting, and satisfaction in all this, Heb. 11.1. we are not therefore concerned in this piece of Raillery, with which his 22nd page is stuffed; only we observe his spirit, like that of the primitive Persecutors, who clothed Christians in skins of beasts, and then worried them.
As for the Comparison by which he doth illustrate (or rather scandalize) our Doctrine, as if we acknowledged No other sight of the Truth, but as one that sees England in a map, but never saw the land, or one that heares and reads of meat, but never saw and tasted it: it is altogether aliene: we believe with the Apostle, that all our sight here is in a glass, ⟨p. 33⟩and that darkly or aenigmatically, 1. Cor. 13.12. and that we walk by faith, and not by sight. 2. Cor. 5.7. and yet we believe that here is a spiritual feeling, & tasting, and satisfaction in all this, Heb. 11.1. we are not therefore concerned in this peice of Raillery, with which his 22nd page is stuff'd; only we observe his spirit, like that of the primitive Persecutors, who clothed Christians in skins of beasts, and then worried them.