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Some remarks on a late sermon, preached at Boston in New England, by George…
Some remarks on a late sermon, preached at Boston in New England, by George Keith M.A. Showing that his pretended good rules in divinity, are not built on the foundation of the apostles & prophets. / By Increase Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]Some remarks on a late sermon, preached at Boston in New England, by George Keith M.A. Shewing that his pretended good rules in divinity, are not built on the foundation of the apostles & prophets. / By Increase Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Boston: printed for Nicholas Boone near the old meeting house, 1702
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Some REMARKS On a late Sermon Preached at Boston in New England.
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Which sayings (says he) I revoke, disannul and condemn as erroneous and false. And then he adds, That the Authority of Bishops and other Ministers of the Church consists in the Dispensation and Ministration of the Word, and not in making Laws and Decrees besides Gods Word. T•e Reader m•y see Dr. Smiths Recantation more largely recited in Mr. Nath Tailors Defence of the Diss•n••s against Dr. Sherlock. p. 21.22.23▪ Mr. K would do wel• if he would follow Dr. Smiths example in some further Retractations of his errors.
Which sayings (says he) I revoke, disanu• and condemn as erroneous and false. And then he adds, That the Authority of Bishops and other Ministers of the Church consists in the Disp•nsation and Ministration of the Word, and not in making Laws and Decrees besides Gods Word. T•e Reader m•y see Dr. Smiths Recantation more largely recited in Mr. Nath Taylors Defence of the Diss•n••s against Dr. Sherlock. p. 21.22.23▪ Mr. K would do wel• if he would follow Dr. Smiths example in some further Retractations of his errors.
Sect. 3. The Second Canon which Mr. K. would impose upon us, says that, Whatever Church holds the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion, and has the Word of God duly Preached, and the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper duly administered, such a Church is a true Church of Christ and to separate from such a Church in External Communion, & in External Acts of Worship, is a Sin, the which Sin is the Sin of Schism. It is evident by these words that he has not attained unto the true notion of Schism. According to him, Schism consists in a Separation from a true Church in external acts of Worship; but according to Scripture, men may be guilty of Schism, and yet hold External Communion with that Church where they have made a Schism. Corab made a Schism in the Church of Israel,