N00406:222
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 have already seen what little Reason there is to indulge the Doctrine of Immediate Revelation: Allow but a Quaker this Engine, and he will do wonders with it: beat down the foundations of many generations, un•• Church all Christendom, make the Scripture to intend just contrary to what it speaks; & who shall question him, if he tells us he sees all this in the Light, & hath it immediately revealed? G. K. hath hitherto discharged this against the fundamental Articles of Salvation; endeavouring to set GOD against Himself, and sham us out of our faith: Nor hath he done yet, but will a fresh essay ⟨p. 128⟩to remove all that is visible of Christianity in the world, and if he can blow up Churches, take away Sacraments, and wrest our Sabbath out of our hands, what would Beelzebub himself have desired more? But the Church is built upon a Rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
We have already seen what little Reason there is to indulge the Doctrine of Immediate Revelation: Allow but a Quaker this Engine, and he will do wonders with it: beat down the foundations of many generations, un•• Church all Christendom, make the Scripture to intend just contrary to what it speaks; & who shall question him, if he tells us he sees all this in the Light, & hath it immediately revealed? G. K. hath hitherto discharged this against the fundamental Articles of Salvation; endeavouring to set GOD against Himself, and shamm us out of our faith: Nor hath he done yet, but will a fresh essay ⟨p. 128⟩to remove all that is visible of Christianity in the world, and if he can blow up Churches, take away Sacraments, and wrest our Sabbath out of our hands, what would Beelzebub himself have desired more? But the Church is built upon a Rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Sect. 1. His first Essay is against the Church considered as visible: and here he cavils at the description of the visible Church given by the Assembly; Viz. That it consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true Religion, together with their Children: insinuating that we hold that nothing of grace, or of the power of godliness is requisite to constitute a member of our visible Church: but this is all Railing, not understanding what we mean by Visible, nor what by Profession.