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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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In fine, he confesseth (p. 32.) That the Quakers degrees are so low that they are not in the state of Perfection, but they may by humane frailty in some measure or way, more or less (tread softly) decline or depart from the pure infallible teachings of the spirit; and then we hope this kind of spirit is not superior to that which spake infallibly in the Scripture; and from which we are assured that the Prophets, and Apostles in their Dictating or Writing the Scripture, did not decline in any measure or way more or less.
When he infers from hence, that their Doctrine is to be tried by the Scripture; and their spirit by the Spirit of Truth: We would ask him what Difference he here puts between Doctrine and Spirit; and let him (if he can) show how their spirit is to be tried but by ⟨p. 39⟩their Doctrine, or what Spirit they can be tried by which will carry Conviction, but only that which breathes in the Scriptures: and it would be a great stroke he would drive, if he could reconcile our being led infallibly by the Spirit, to our being mean while in the same things left to mistakes; which is the very sense of his Words.
When he infers from hence, that their Doctrine is to be tryed by the Scripture; and their spirit by the Spirit of Truth: We would ask him what Difference he here puts between Doctrine and Spirit; and let him (if he can) shew how their spirit is to be tried but by ⟨p. 39⟩their Doctrine, or what Spirit they can be tryed by which will carry Conviction, but only that which breathes in the Scriptures: and it would be a great stroke he would drive, if he could reconcile our being led infallibly by the Spirit, to our being mean while in the same things left to mistakes; which is the very sense of his Words.