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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. 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.
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.
He here arraigns the Assembly for that in Confess. cap. 26. sect. 3. they say, that the Communion of saints with Christ doth not in any wise make them partakers of the substance of His God-head; and endeavours to prove the contrary to be true. But observe, the Assembly in this Article oppose the Swenkfieldian Doctrine, that a believer is Godded with God, and Christed with Christ: and this is the thing that G. K. is here to prove, or he does nothing. That we are made partakers of the divine nature, that we have near and intimate Communion wish God and Christ; that we receive grace out of Christs fullness, and that God is our portion, we believe.
He here arraigns the Assembly for that in Confess. cap. 26. sect. 3. they say, that the Communion of saints with Christ doth not in any wise make them partakers of the substance of His God-head; and endeavours to prove the contrary to be true. But observe, the Assembly in this Artitle oppose the Swenkfieldian Doctrine, that a beleever is Godded with God, and Christed with Christ: and this is the thing that G. K. is here to prove, or he does nothing. That we are made partakers of the divine nature, that we have near and intimate Communion wish God and Christ; that we receive grace out of Christs fulness, and that God is our portion, we beleeve.