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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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Sect. 3. This Paragraph might have past, had it not been for his perverse Interpretation of it, in which the spends his Second Chapter, where we shall have it out, if our patience can but wait a little.
Sect. 4. We were afraid, when we saw him so liberal of his Concessions, that he would soon repent of it; we have him therefore here trying to get something of it back again; but stay, Friend, and be more frugal of your Largesses henceforward: Well, he hath given the Scripture leave (in a good humour) to be so far a […] at least, that No Doctrine that cannot be demonstrated and by it, lays us under any Obligation ⟨p. 9⟩to believe it: and so we are satisfied that it is no mortal sin to with-hold our Credit from any of their New-Revelations, that are neither Scripture, nor Scripture-Consequence, which, in Chapt. 2nd. he pleads for.
Sect. 4. We were afraid, when we saw him so liberal of his Concessions, that he would soon repent of it; we have him therefore here trying to get something of it back again; but stay, Friend, and be more frugal of your Largesses henceforward: Well, he hath given the Scripture leave (in a good humour) to be so far a 〈…〉 at least, that No Doctrine that cannot be demonstrated and by it, layes us under any Obligation ⟨p. 9⟩to believe it: and so we are satisfied that it is no mortal sin to with-hold our Credit from any of their New-Revelations, that are neither Scripture, nor Scripture-Consequence, which, in Chapt. 2nd. he pleads for.
G. K. had a mind to wheedle some into a Compliance with his Opinions who had been taught to entertain a good Respect for the Scripture; For which reason he would insinuate, that the honest Quakers are not the men that they have been represented to be, nor are they such Enemies to the written Word, as they are reported; but why then doth he not correct his friend Lucas, who hath told us, That any Quaker, if he has a mind to it, (as they are arrogant enough) may make as good himself; and they challenge us to tell them what one Scripture hath Light in it; and many like Blasphemies not to be named.