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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 [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]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 [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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On the same blind and perverse notion it is that he chargeth us with plainly confessing that we have no Assurance, or Infallible Knowledge that we have the Spirit of God, or any of that Grace which is the operation of the Holy Ghost. For, First the Charge is false, and all the world knows that we stand to maintain Infallible Assurance, against both Papists and Quakers and who ever deny it. And 2ly. We are satisfied this may be had without Immediate Revelation: A man may have ⟨p. 48⟩the perception of such Operations in hi• which by Scripture Rules he may be able […] judge of, that they are of the Spirit of God he himself aiding them in this Examen: a•• for what other end were all these Rules given but to help us herein? Rom. 8. 3. H••. 12. 14. 1. Joh. 3. 14. and many others.
On the same blind and perverse notion it is that he chargeth us with plainly confessing that we have no Assurance, or Infallible Knowledge that we have the Spirit of God, or any of that Grace which is the operation of the Holy Ghost. For, First the Charge is false, and all the world knows that we stand to maintain Infallible Assurance, against both Papists and Quakers and who ever deny it. And 2ly. We are satisfied this may be had without Immediate Revelation: A man may have ⟨p. 48⟩the perception of such Operations in hi• which by Scripture Rules he may be able 〈…〉 judge of, that they are of the Spirit of God he himself aiding them in this Examen: a•• for what other end were all these Rules given but to help us herein? Rom. 8. 3. H••. 12. 14. 1. Joh. 3. 14. and many others.