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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We cannot be faithful, if we do not warn you against (at least) the Teaching, Talking, Bu•ie and more Bigoted Quakers, which infest you, as a Sort of men, who invite you to give up at once, your whole Religion, and to Embark your souls •o more on that Bottom, which all the Saints have hitherto been saved upon. If you shall think it convenient for you, to part with your Pastors because the Wolves bark at them, We do assure you, that most of us could have lived much more easily and pleasantly, and provided more comfortably for our Families, if we had applied ourselves to other Callings ⟨image ?⟩than that of the Ministry; It is our Grief and Care for You that will make us cry after you, Entreat us not to leave you, for our God must be your God.
We cannot be faithful, if we do not warn you against (at least) the Teaching, Talking, Bu•ie and more Bigotted Quakers, which infest you, as a Sort of men, who invite you to give up at once, your whole Religion, and to Embarque your souls •o more on that Bottom, which all the Saints have hitherto been saved upon. If you shall think it convenient for you, to part with your Pastors because the Wolves bark at them, We do assure you, that most of us could have lived much more easily and pleasantly, and provided more comfortably for our Families, if we had applyed ourselves to other Callings ⟨image ?⟩than that of the Ministry; It is our Grief and Care for You that will make us cry after you, Intreat us not to leave you, for our God must be your God.
But how can you think of parting with an Infinite and Eternal GOD, and having a created Soul blasphemously placed in His Throne? How can you think of parting with a precious Bible, as a Dead Letter, and having Silent Postures of your own, in the Room thereof? How can you think of parting with an Inestimable REDEEMER, for […] dim Light within you, which may prove Darkness it self; and then, How great is that Darkness! How can you endure to see the whole Gospel, which your souls have hitherto lived upon, all evaporated into Dispensations Allegories, and mere mystical Notions? Baptism and the Supper of the Lord Jesus, of no Advantage to your Faith, your Love, your Joy? Can you with any patience behold the glorious Doctrines of Election, and Justification, and Perseverance, depraved with Opinions, that make Man to be All, and Grace to have small or no share in the matters of Salvation?