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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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Sect. 6. That which Mr. • calls his fifth Rule needs Explication. It is not a found assertion, That what things soever were allowed under the Old Testament that were neither any part of the Ceremonial Law, ••r of the Jewish Polity peculiar to that Nation, are allowed and practised lawfully under the New Testament. Divers things were allowed to the Jews that Christians cannot lawfully practise. Polygamy and Divorcements were customary with them, but the New-Testament does not permit such things, Mat. 19 8, 9. Some Rites which were used by them as they were Asiati•••• and not merely as Jews, do not oblige European Christians to an Imitation. It was usual with them when they entered into their Synagogues, to put off their Shoes, Eccles. 5.1. And to pray with their Hats on. None can think that Christian Nations whose Civil Customs are differing, should in that follow the Jewish mode. 1 Cor. 11 4. Dr. Lightfoot has observed that some Christians would pray with their faces covered, in which he says, they were guilty of a Jewish Superstition. Two things we may affirm in opposition to Mr. Keiths Rule.
Sect. 6. That which Mr. • calls his fifth Rule needs Explication. It is not a found assertion, That what things soever were allowed under the Old Testament that were neither any part of the Ceremonial Law, ••r of the Jewish Polity peculiar to that Nation, are allowed and practised lawfully under the New Testament. Divers things were allowed to the Jews that Christians cannot lawfully practise. Polygamy and Divorcements were customary with them, but the New-Testament does not permit such things, Mat. 19 8, 9. Some Rites which were used by them as they were Asiati•••• and not meerly as Jews, do not oblige European Christians to an Imitation. It was usual with them when they entred into their Synagogues, to put off their Shoes,