N00406:137
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 what he seems to insinuate, p. 62. viz. That the Word of God hath no more of God i• […] than a glass window hath of the Sun, is in […] wise to be admitted: Its true, we are said to see in a glass, 1. Cor. 13. 12. which comprehends the Scripture, but then it is not Perspective glass, but a Looking-glass that i• alluded to: and it is certain, that God hath imprinted the image of His preceptive will there: and the Scripture is adapted to discover much of God to us by its own light, else all the Encomiums given to it Psal. 19. 119. Prov. 6. 23. and else-where, are Hyperbolical.
And what he seems to insinuate, p. 62. viz. That the Word of God hath no more of God i• 〈…〉 than a glass window hath of the Sun, is in 〈…〉 wise to be admitted: Its true, we are said to see in a glass, 1. Cor. 13. 12. which comprehends the Scripture, but then it is not Perspective glass, but a Looking-glass that i• alluded to: and it is certain, that God hath imprinted the image of His preceptive will there: and the Scripture is adapted to discover much of God to us by its own light, else all the Encomiums given to it Psal. 19. 119. Prov. 6. 23. and else-where, are Hyperbolical.
Sect. 3. The Blasphemy charged upon us for Calling (as he saith) the light of God […] ⟨p. 67⟩His people, […] stinking vapour from hell; will light upon their side, who call the poor imperfect light of nature, God & Christ, as they have done in many of their books: but more of this afterwards.