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Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which…
Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. : In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold heresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism; and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. : With just reflections upon the extreme ignorance and wickedness, of George Keith, who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness. / Written by Cotton Mather. ; A character of the ring-leaders among the Quakers. ; [Four lines from Timothy]Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. : In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold haeresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism; and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. : With just reflections upon the extream ignorance and wickedness, of George Keith, who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness. / Written by Cotton Mather. ; A character of the ring-leaders among the Quakers. ; [Four lines from Timothy]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
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.
XII. Assert, That a Saint of God can not finally or totally fall away from the Grace of God.
Let them Read (if they can do it) 1 John 3.9. Whosoever is born of God, His Seed remaineth in him. Ask them, whether the Seed of God, be not the Grace of God, Received ⟨p. 80⟩in Regeneration? If this can be utterly lost, ask them, How it Remaineth? Ask them, whether those that are Converted, are not also Justified? Let them know, That you think, They are; because Paul thought so, in Rom. 8.30. whom be called, them He also justified. Bu• then let them tell you, whether they that are once pardoned, are not ever so? or, turn them to Jer. 31▪ 34. I will forgive their Iniquity, and remember their sin no more. But, if once men fall into an Unconverted, they must then fall into an Unjustified State again. If you have leisure for it, make them feel the force of such Texts, as that, in John 10.28. Neither shall any pluck them out of my Hand. Ask them, whether they that are plucked out of a state of Grace, are not plucked out of our Lords Hand? And that in 1 Joh. 2.19. They went out from us but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. Ask them, whether it be not now past all doubt that none who really are among the Renewed, and Gracious People of God, can wholly go out from that Number? Recommend unto their Consideration, the precious, Heart-melting, Mediatory Prayer of our Lord Jesus, in