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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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Sect. 10. One blow more at the Minister to make sure work. These are Eye-sores Quakers and all Heretics▪ if they were out of the way, who discover all their abuse detect all their Fallacies & deceits, and establish people in the Truth; what might the not do? If then they cannot persuade the• to lay down their Preaching, they will try they can persuade the people that they […] ⟨p. 59⟩them no Maintenance, and if they can starve them out, the business is done.
Sect. 10. One blow more at the Minister to make sure work. These are Eye-sores Quakers and all Hereticks▪ if they were out of the way, who discover all their abuse detoct all their Fallacies & deceits, and establish people in the Truth; what might the not do? If then they cannot perswade the• to lay down their Preaching, they will try they can perswade the people that they 〈…〉 ⟨p. 59⟩them no Maintenance, and if they can starve them out, the business is done.
His first proof that Ministers can require no Maintenance but what is voluntary and of Charity, is from 1. Cor. 9. 14. It would make any man of Reason out of Love with the Quakers Spirit, if it interprets Scripture so Diametrically opposite to the Letter; his Argument must needs run thus; If God hath positively ordained that Ministers of the Gospel shall have maintenance, then the people may choose whether they will maintain them or no: and it is observable, that the Apostle proveth this from the Ordinances of the Old Pestament, relating to the Ministers of the Tabernacle, concerning whom we find, that God not only ordained that they should be maintained, but what they should have. And whereas he infers from hence, that they must only have necessary Maintenance, and that but if they are poor, just to relieve them and no more; it plainly contradicts the Apostle's Argument; for he pleads from the Care of God for the maintenance of the Old Testament Worship, and argues from the lesser to the greater: Now what Provision God made for the Priests & Levites, is to be conjectured by what is recorded in the Levitical Law. For, (as judicious men have computed,