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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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What he saith, (p. 8•.) That All have an Opportunity or Possibility to be converted and become the Children of God, is ambiguous; is the word Possibility be exegetical of the former, viz. Opportunity, it is Nonsense, for these two are Disparates, if he intends them disjunctively, we deny not a possibility, for all Mankind are salvable; but for an Opportunity we renounce that, for where the means of Salvation are not, there is no opportunity. But what is all this to the purpose? or what doth it make against the Reprobation of Infants? We must be led a wild-goose chase if we follow him in all his absurd Digressions.
What he saith, (p. 8•.) That All have an Opportunity or Possibility to be converted and become the Children of God, is ambiguous; is the word Possibility be exegetical of the former, viz. Opportunity, it is Nonsense, for these two are Dispartes, if he intends them disjunctively, we deny not a possibility, for all Mankind are salvable; but for an Opportunity we renounce that, for where the meanes of Salvation are not, there is no opportunity. But what is all this to the purpose? or what doth it make against the Reprobation of Infants? We must be led a wild-goose chase if we follow him in all his absurd Digressions.
As for the Contempt which in the same page he casts upon Federal Holiness, it argues his ignorance; and as little as he counts the Interest of Children in the visible Covenant worth, we shall not cease to bless God that ours stand so related: and when he grants an Holiness, i. e. a capacity of holiness, in time to come, in some (not all) of our children, we believe if we had talked so wildly, nonsensically, and Self-contradictorily; we should have heard of him. To call a Possibility of Holiness, Holiness, is scarce sense, and to acknowledge a capacity of Holiness but in some, and yet but one page before, to lead a possibility of Conversion in all, would have been a Contradicting himself, if it had •ot been G. K.
As for the Contempt which in the same page he casts upon Foederal Holiness, it argues his ignorance; and as little as he counts the Interest of Children in the visible Covenant worth, we shall not cease to bless God that ours stand so related: and when he grants an Holiness, i. e. a capacity of holiness, in time to come, in some (not all) of our children, we believe if we had talked so wildly, nonsensically, and Self-contradictorily; we should have heard of him. To call a Possibility of Holiness, Holiness, is scarce sense, and to acknowledge a capacity of Holiness but in some, and yet but one page before, to lead a possibility of Conversion in all, would have been a Contradicting himself, if it had ot been G. K.