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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. 8. But what needs more then? would he out-do Demonstration? Fain would he draw in Paul, I. Cor. 12. 4,5,6. to speak of the different degrees and modes of God's revealing Himself before Christ, under the Law and after Him under the Gospel. Though we are satisfied that Paul aims at another thing, Viz. the distribution of gifts in the days of the Gospel variously: yet, supposing the other, what is this to mens knowing of Christ where the Law was not: or to the Gentiles being illuminated with saving knowledge? and where does he find three Baptisms in Scripture, especially, such as that the First only reveals the Father, the Second, the Father and the Son, the third, the Three Persons? or had he this mystery by Revelation? if so, he might have kept it to himself, for he hath discharged us from believing him: and ⟨p. 97⟩wherein it serves to his purpose we see not, except it be to prove that man might under the first be saved without Christ; and that will contradict his own profession.
Sect. 8. But what needs more then? would he out-do Demonstration? Fain would he draw in Paul, I. Cor. 12. 4,5,6. to speak of the different degrees and modes of God's revealing Himself before Christ, under the Law and after Him under the Gospel. Though we are satisfyed that Paul aims at another thing, Viz. the distribution of gifts in the dayes of the Gospel variously: yet, supposing the other, what is this to mens knowing of Christ where the Law was not: or to the Gentiles being illuminated with saving knowledge? and where does he find three Baptisms in Scripture, especially, such as that the First only reveals the Father, the Second, the Father and the Son, the third, the Three Persons? or had he this mystery by Revelation? if so, he might have kept it to himself, for he hath discharged us from believing him: and ⟨p. 97⟩wherein it serves to his purpose we see not, except it be to prove that man might under the first be saved without Christ; and that will contradict his own profession.