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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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Some REMARKS On a late Sermon Preached at Boston in New England.
By George Keith. M. A.
Sect. 1. There is of late com• forth a Sermon Preached by George Keith, M.A. Which I am importuned by some who are scandalized by that Discourse to Animadver• upon. The Author instead of keeping to his Text, or to the Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets, has obtruded upon us notions of his own, which he calls Good Rules in Divinity: but every one of them, if not taken with grains of Salt, are unsavoury Divinity. This Writer has not long since been famous for corrupting many in the Fundamentals of Religion, in which he has seen and renounced his errors, and is on that account worthy of commendation▪ Nevertheless, it seems by the Publication of his present pretended Sentiments, he aims a• gaining a Reputation by Endeavours to seduce ⟨p. 2⟩m•n from the Truth in matters relating to that Order of the Gospel, which is of Divine Institution. I think there is no great fear that such weak reasonings as he has offered, will gain many Prose••es among those who are so well instructed and enlightened in the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles, as the People in New England (through Grace) generally are. Nor has he sad any ting but what is rambebis […], said by others, and has been Answered more than twenty times. Yet inasmuch as many amongst us have not those Books in which his Good Rules in Divinity are abundantly conued, and discovered to be false ones, and since if nothing should be replied to him, some of his py will be apt to say that his Allegations are unanswerable. We shall therefore make some few Remarks upon them.