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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. 5. This Paragraph is but Nausea his ••cta, asserting, but neither expounding not proving, that all men have had more or less, and all sufficient means of salvation: sure it will be some great thing, which has so much preparation made to introduce it.
Sect. 6. Here he begins with a good Confession, viz. that, Never any were saved but by Jesus of Nazareth; but he seldom spake Truth without a design, and hath frequently some Error in a readiness to graft upon it. He knows it would be asked him, how any could be saved by Christ, who never heard of him? and how shall they hear without the Gospel? He therefore anticipates it, and answers with Railing instead of Reason: only he puts in a Quibble, and thinks he hath tied a knot upon us that is indissoluble: We plead for the Salvation of Infants by Christ; and why may not he with as good reason, plead for that of the […]? The parallel looks but odd; viz. If Infants may be saved by the working of the Spirit in them, wi•• may not the Gentiles he so by giving […] light in them? We might only say, they are not causes equally ⟨p. 92⟩powerful. But let us a little commora•• here? Observe then: 1. That we de•• not the power of God to save without outward means; but to argue merely fro• His power to His Will, without His own Revelation, is to give laws to the Almighty. 2. That the Infants of Believers are under t•• visible means of Grace, viz. the Covenant & Baptism, and so are not the Heathen Isa. 63. 19. 3. That Christ hath assure us that some Infants are saved, Mat. 19. 14. 2. Sam. 12. 23