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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. 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.
Sect. 9. What little Reason he hath to charge us with Nonsense, will be seen in what ⟨p. 35⟩hath been already said at the beginning of this Chapter: to which we refer the Reader. But how comes G. K. by so much modesty as to grant, That there is both ordinary and extraordinary Revelation, and that theirs is but ordinary and pretends not an equality to that of the Apostles, either in degree or variety? Some Quakers have been otherwise persuaded; else had their Lucas never said, If thou hast a mind to a Scripture, thou mayest write as good an one thy self. But if he mean no other Revelation but what Christ did