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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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4. As to his next instance referring to our Enquiring and discovering what is the mind of God in our Carriage under His Hand, and in the management of our weighty Affairs; when he hath said all he can, the Word of God, or the Scripture, is that which must ultimately resolve us, That, to know What is Duty, depends on Divine Revelation, we are Agreed: That God did sometimes reveal His Will extraordinarily to His Servants of Old, we deny not, but that the Word of God in Scripture is that which to us in Gospel Times, since the Canon was perfected, Answers all the other ways of Revelation is an Article of our Creed, and we think we have Scripture-warrant for it, 2. Pet. 1. 19. &c. As to the Case of Marriage, which he talks of, & instanceth in the ⟨p. 16⟩carriage of Abraham's servant, it is quite alien to his purpose: for who ever asserted that God's providence is bound to follow Scripture Rules, being supreme & arbitrary? But still in our serving of this Providence, and knowing how to use it to His glory, and particularly to know what is the mind and will of God to us in this Providence, we have no other Rule to inform our selves by, but the Scriptures; and tho' the Spirit must reveal it, yet this is the thing Revealed.
4. As to his next instance referring to our Enquiring and discovering what is the mind of God in our Carriage under His Hand, and in the management of our weighty Affairs; when he hath said all he can, the Word of God, or the Scripture, is that which must ultimately resolve us, That, to know What is Duty, depends on Divine Revelation, we are Agreed: That God did sometimes reveal His Will extraordinarily to His Servants of Old, we deny not, but that the Word of God in Scripture is that which to us in Gospel Times, since the Canon was perfected, Answers all the other wayes of Revelation is an Article of our Creed, and we think we have Scripture-warrant for it, 2. Pet. 1. 19. &c. As to the Case of Marriage, which he talks of, & instanceth in the ⟨p. 16⟩carriage of Abraham's servant, it is quite aliene to his purpose: for who ever asserted that God's providence is bound to follow Scripture Rules, being supream & arbitrary? But still in our serving of this Providence, and knowing how to use it to His glory, and particularly to know what is the mind and will of God to us in this Providence, we have no other Rule to inform our selves by, but the Scriptures; and tho' the Spirit must reveal it, yet this is the thing Revealed.