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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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And now he hath gotten the Notion of Light in his head, how strangely doth he plead for Immediate Revelations and Illuminations in such Seraphical terms as must needs transport his Reader. Well then, we are all in the Light as well as he. GOD is an Immense Light, and then, Hell it self dwells in His Light, and Devils must needs be full of Immediate Inspirations: and 'tis a Contradiction for a Quaker to tell us that we are in the dark for we live and move and have our being as much in the Light as he. But all this is Burlesque; a good distinction would cure him, were he capable of receiving it. Distinguish between Divine Light & natural, and their different way of Communicating themselves. The Sun is a natural Light, & ••••minates all the things that it shines upon: the Divine light, is the Infinite Omniscience & Wisdom of God; but though in Him it be infinite, yet He derives of it to the Creature, not naturally but voluntarily, not to all alike, Job. 35. 10. And He chooseth what Medium •e sees meet to communicate it by.
And now he hath gotten the Notion of Light in his head, how strangely doth he plead for Immediate Revelations and Illuminations in such Seraphical terms as must needs transport his Reader. Well then, we are all in the Light as well as he. GOD is an Immense Light, and then, Hell it self dwells in His Light, and Devils must needs be full of Immediate Inspirations: and 'tis a Contradiction for a Quaker to tell us that we are in the dark for we live and move and have our being as much in the Light as he. But all this is Burlesque; a good distinction would cure him, were he capable of receiving it. Distinguish between Divine Light & natural, and their different way of Communicating themselves. The Sun is a natural Light, & ••••minates all the things that it shines upon: the Divine light, is the Infinite Omniscience & Wisdom of God; but though in Him it be infinite, yet He derives of it to the Creature, not naturally but voluntarily, not to all alike, Job. 35. 10. And He chuseth what Medium •e sees meet to communicate it by.