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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.
Reflections on Cap. 8. of Perseverance, &c.Reflections on Cap. 8. of Perseverence, &c.
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.
As to his particular Reflections on the forecited Texts, they are scarce worth minding. What he observes on Jam. 3. 2. is a mistake of what they brought it to prove, and i• doth prove against him, the Imperfection of any in this life. For that in Ezek. 7. 20. his observation, that the word is in the future, makes against him, intimating that they can do no other as long as they live; and his […] it for the […], is precarious, his applying it to the times of the Law, which made […], is fond; for they had the Gospel as well as we, and were perfect in an Evangelical sense, Gen. 6. 9. Joh. 1. […] ⟨p. 123⟩Psal. 37. 37. For that in Gen. 6. 5. when […] saith it only speaks of that generation of ••en so degenerate, he errs; it shows the natural state of man by the Fall, and we have as Parallel after that generation was gone, Gen. 8. 21. Nor was Noah, so perfect, but that he was afterwards drunken. For that •om. 3. 9. &c. we grant it expresseth the natural state of men as they are (not only) generally, (but universally) under the Law; & it was brought by the Assembly for that purpose: nor is it any Contradiction to say, Righteous men sin: we must distinguish between such as are righteous legally, and them that are so evangelically; and between such as are free from the Dominion, and them that ••re free from the Presence of sin.
As to his particular Reflections on the forecited Texts, they are scarce worth minding. What he observes on Jam. 3. 2. is a mistake of what they brought it to prove, and i doth prove against him, the Imperfection of any in this life. For that in