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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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And how much he vilifies the Word of God by comparing it only to the Cup which revealeth the wine, and the Spirit to the Wine in the Cup, is plain, David had another Opinion of the word, Ps. 19.7 &c. and Christ giveth it another Encomium, Joh. 6.63.
And how much he vilisies the Word of God by comparing it only to the Cup which revealeth the wine, and the Spirit to the Wine in the Cup, is plaine, David had another Opinion of the word, Ps. 19.7 &c. and Christ giveth it another Encomium, Joh. 6.63.
Sect. 8. He introduceth an Hypothesis, If they say, &c. but who of us ever said so? make a Castle in the Air, and then discharge pot-Guns at it: but we do say, that all this makes nothing for his New Revelations, although it affords glad Tidings to the souls of God's Children.
Had he any Fore-head left him, he would never have here affirmed, that we preach altogether an absent Christ; we always professed our selves to believe, That Christ is really and properly present with His people in His Ordinances and Application of Himself to them, only we say, He is so spiritually & not corporally, and it is strange that such pretenders to spirit, should deny a Reality and Property to it.
Had he any Fore-head left him, he would never have here affirmed, that we preach altogether an absent Christ; we alwayes professed our selves to believe, That Christ is really and properly present with His people in His Ordinances and Application of Himself to them, only we say, He is so spiritually & not corporally, and it is strange that such pretenders to spirit, should deny a Reality and Property to it.