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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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Section, 132. As for the two first Paragraphs of this Chapter, we will take them as fa•• as they will go; though the word Outward hath a Reserve in it, and intimates That God hath one Rule to direct His people by Outwardly, and another Inwardly; or as if God taught us one thing by His Word, and another by His Spirit; we shall have Occasion afterwards to discourse how perniciously this undermines the Christian Faith; and why he hath not made Practices as well as Doctrines liable to this left might well be enquired. However there will be occasion to rub up his ⟨p. 8⟩memory, with his own Concessions, when we find that he has forgotten himself (for a quaker's spirit is not of a perfect Reminiscence) and mean while let him try how he can reconcile himself to his Friends, who have directly (as might be instanced abundantly) rejected the Scriptures with Scorn. Smith tells us, It is the greatest Error in the world, and the ground of all Errors, to say the Scriptures are a Rule to Christians; and many Expressions of the same import. But he will salve all with the nice Distinction of an outward and an inward Rule.
Section, 132. As for the two first Paragraphs of this Chapter, we will take them as fa•• as they will go; though the word Outward hath a Reserve in it, and intimates That God hath one Rule to direct His people by Outwardly, and another Inwardly; or as if God taught us one thing by His Word, and another by His Spirit; we shall have Occasion afterwards to discourse how perniciously this undermines the Christian Faith; and why he hath not made Practices as well as Doctrines liable to this left might well be enquired. However there will be occasion to rubb up his ⟨p. 8⟩memory, with his own Concessions, when we find that he has forgoten himself (for a quaker's spirit is not of a perfect Reminiscence) and mean while let him try how he can reconcile himself to his Friends, who have directly (as might be instanced abundantly) rejected the Scriptures with Scorn. Smith tells us, It is the greatest Error in the world, and the ground of all Errors, to say the Scriptures are a Rule to Christians; and many Expressions of the same import. But he will salve all with the nice Distinction of an outward and an inward Rule.