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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.
The right Stating of the Controversy between ⟨p. 22⟩us, will abbreviate and facilitate our work, in animadverting on this tedious and insignificant Chapter. In order to that, these three Terms, Inspiration, Revelation & New, must be rightly understood. Words are used to express our minds by, & are to be taken in the sense commonly used among men; and when any are used equivocally, such as use them must have Liberty to interpret their own meaning.
The right Stating of the Controversie between ⟨p. 22⟩us, will abreviate and facilitate our work, in animadverting on this tedious and i•significant Chapter. In order to that, these three Terms, Inspiration, Revelation & New, must be rightly understood. Words are used to express our minds by, & are to be taken in the sense commonly used among men; and when any are used aequivocally, such as use them must have Liberty to interpret their own meaning.
As to the Word [Inspiration] it is vulgarly understood (in Divinity) to intimate an Inward, extraordinary Discovery of the mind of God, made by the Holy Ghost in the hearts of His servants; so, 2. Tim. 3. 16. and so we difference it from those ordinary and mediate ways in which we come to this acquaintance. [Revelation] is applicable indeed to any way in which a thing is made known to us which we knew not before: and so the word may be (as sometimes in Scripture) applied to any Discovery which is made to us of the Will of God. But this word hath also attained a particular Appropriation to such a Knowledge of Divine Truths, as would never have been attained by the best Improvement of natural light or reason, without the Manifestation of the Spirit: and this is either Immediate or Mediate, ⟨p. 23⟩