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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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and those that follow▪ it is a word that we are to be the Learners and Doers of, it is a Law of Liberty that we are to be looking into, which cannot be applied, to Christ: no, not by any tolerable Cata•esis.
There are Three things, which we will here not only assert, but also give Scripture proof for. 1. That Christ is not the Light of nature in all men. Is it the light in men that was born of a Virgin, hanged on a tree, ••ried in a grave, all which he else-where confesseth of Christ? Besides the Apostle expressly saith, that men in their natural estate are without Christ, Eph. 2. 12. and that except men be in the faith, Christ is not in ••em. 2. Cor. 13. 5. and he tells us that All have not faith, 2. Thes. 3. 2. 2. That the Light of Nature left in fallen man, is not sufficient to point him out the way to Happiness; had not they the Light of Nature of whom it is said, Deut. 29. 4. that the Lord ⟨p. 100⟩has not given them eyes to see to that day? & they to whom Christ gave that warning, Luc. 11. 35? Doth not the Apostle describe the natural estate by this, Eph. 5. 8. and what sales he, 1. Cor. 2. 14.? but we have him confessing this amply in p. 120. That man in his state of integrity had Light sufficient to have guided him to felicity, we believe; but all the Light of nature in fallen man, will not objectively reveal the truths necessary to be known in order to salvation. It had never told men of Christ, and the Satisfaction that is made to the Law by his Righteousness. 3. That God hath not any way imparted such a light universally to all men; which the forecited Scriptures do prove. Besides if this Light be connate with men, what needed G. K. to make such a splutter about Immediate Revelations? and if it be only by Revelations, where will he find evidence that God hath so revealed Himself to all?