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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.
Reflections on his Title-Page and Epistle.
In his Title he talks high and looks big, and would hold the world in hand that he had at once routed, broken & disbanded all the Orthodox Churches in Christendom, and proved that they had neither Doctrine, Ministry, Worship, Constitution, Government, Sacraments, nor Sabbaths, but what are Surreptitious, and not belonging to the true Church of Christ: and truly if men would be dared out of their Religion, he hath bid as fair for it as any we know, but how far they fall ⟨p. 4⟩before his [in-words] acknowledged Test, is yet to be Tried: And be it known to all men, That we are not yet sensible of the wounds that […] hath given, any further than as the Name of GOD is blasphemously, abused by him, and drawn in to patronize his filthy dreams. When we read his Inscription, Benhad•d seems to be risen again, who sent that confident Threatening, 1. King. 20. 10. and the Answer of the King of Israel is enough. ver. 11.
In his Title he talks high and looks big, and would hold the world in hand that he had at once routed, broken & disbanded all the Orthodox Churches in Christendome, and proved that they had neither Doctrine, Ministry, Worship, Constitution, Government, Sacraments, nor Sabbaths, but what are Surreptitious, and not belonging to the true Church of Christ: and truly if men would be dared out of their Religion, he hath bid as fair for it as any we know, but how farr they fall ⟨p. 4⟩before his [in-words] acknowledged Test, is yet to be Tried: And be it known to all men, That we are not yet sensible of the wounds that 〈…〉 hath given, any further than as the Name of GOD is blasphemously, abused by him, and drawn in to patronize his filthy dreams. When we read his Inscription, Benhad•d seems to be risen agen, who sent that confident Threatning,