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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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6. He thinks we were afraid of exposing our people, and wonders that we have wrought no more on them all this while: and might we not lawfully have a cautions Fear? Ought not the Shepherd to be aware when the Wolf comes to his flock? Nor did we ever pretend to make our people savingly holy, any further than as God blessed our endeavours.
7. He wonders we doubted his design; but we knew he was a Quaker.
8. He tells us that he came not of his own will, but by a necessity from the Lord: but gives no demonstration.
9. He Wrote this treatise of the will of the Lord: and little reason to boast of that: It was of God (doubtless) to leave him in the hands of satan to be thus acted: If we say we have written this Answer in the will of the Lord, we can give a better account of His approving will in it, because written in defence of the Truth of Christ which he has perverted, & the Name of Christ which he hath blasphemed, this moved us to reply upon him, and this is of God.