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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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his Thanking of God therefore that he baptized so few, was not because the Ordinance it self was not Authentic, and honourable, but because as there was no necessity ordinarily for him to do it personally, so it eventually prevented occasion of their naming themselves from Paul: this Reason he gives 1. Cor. 1. 14. if G. K.'s pretended reason had any weight, he had broken his Commission in baptizing of any.
his Thanking of God therefore that he baptized so few, was not because the Ordinance it self was not Authentick, and honourable, but because as there was no necessity ordinarily for him to do it personally, so it eventually prevented occasion of their naming themselves from Paul: this Reason he gives 1. Cor. 1. 14. if G. K.'s pretended reason had any weight, he had broken his Commission in baptizing of any.
Somebody owes him thanks for his Charity, that allows Babes and children their Images, &c. provided they are cordially zealous for spiritual Baptism; and he grants there are some few such (only Christ is little beholden to him for making a sacred Institution of His a George-on-horseback to invite children to their books) but for us, we are not thus obliged, for we are not so much as babes, but mere Hypocrites, and Formalists: did he ever read, 1. Cor. 4. 8. and Rom. 14. 10. we have always professed our zeal for the inward Baptism, & our whole Ministry is a witness to it, only we are for both Baptism with water and the Holy Ghost, and the Quakers pretend to be only for the latter; and which is most agreeable to the mind of Christ, let the Scripture determine: and indeed they ⟨p. 143⟩thus take away the very means appointed by Christ for enjoying that other.