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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23636	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, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Allen, James, 1632-1710.	1690 (1690)	Wing A1029; ESTC W19401	72,664	176

Cavil also against Rev. 1.10 hath been full● answered by the fore-cited Authours and h● seems himself to grant the cause for he tel● us p. 193. It is commendable in Christian to set apart the first day of the week for rest fro● Employments and to help the mind in its spiritual exercises now they must set this da● apart rather than any other either becaus● the day it self hath some Betterness in it o● because Christ hath put an Excellency upo● it the former cannot be proved the la●ter can be only by His sanctifying of it to 〈◊〉 a Day of Rest Nor is the Changing of the Seventh Da● which was the Jewish Sabbath into the Fir● which was the Christian to put the first d● of the week in the Room of Christ for not 〈◊〉 say that it is hard to prove that the Seven●● Day was meerly a Jewish Type of Chri● for it was appointed before there was a● Revelation of Christ or occasion for Hi● viz. in Innocency but if it were yet t● Sabbath it self was not so but a time a●pointed by Divine positive precept for t● performing of natural and instituted Dut● to God in and is therefore of a natural a● perpetual consideration cannot cease to necessary till such duties cease or men can do them without taking time to do them in And is he not run quite out of breath when he tells us that Exod. 20.8 9. saith nothing of one day in seven but only of a seventh day we thought that had been one day of seven but suppose him to mean that it lest it not arbitrary but fixed it we may in part grant it viz. that it fixed it to the Seventh day which God saw meet to appoint but that it necessitated it to the last of the Seven so that God could not alter it to the first of the seven there is no need to conclude and the Scripture will prove the contrary because He did afterwards change it And whereas he so often pleads that The Sabbath is Christ and nothing else he poorly proves it from Heb. 4.9.10 it is there said that Christ entred into His rest and doth that mean that he entred into Himself his As●erting that in the New-Testament there is no ●utward day is nonsence what inward day did he ever hear of He thinks the words ●utward and inward may be applied to every ●hing but he must run up the folly a lit●le further we cannot prove saith he ●hat the fourth Command enjoined the Jews ●o keep an outward seventh day we know ●hat it was a Seventh day it is expresly so said and if he can find out an inward one it will be a rare invention we are sure that it was a day to be celebrated from the Evening to the Evening Nor is his allusion to the tenth Command of any strength that that only enjoins inward duty not outward is a grand mistake every Command of the Decalogue respects the actions as well as the heart and so do the fourth tenth Reflections on his Call He hath now done with his Doctrinal part and shutts up all with a thing which he stiles A Call a warning to the people of Bosston in New-England to Repent c. in which by his language he arrogates to himself as much as any of the Prophets of old had of an immediate Mission from God We shall not trouble our selves with the reviling Language he here useth Jesus Christ will call him to account for that ere long but only endeavour to make it evident by his own manner of expressing himself that he is no true Prophet 1. The true prophets do not use to ly especially in delivering their Messages and that he doth egregiously there hath been more than once observed in his book and what doth he less when he here tells us that God hath enlightned us all to turn from darkness to light c. 2. True prophets do not use to Slander and how often he hath done so by us we have seen throughout the pamphlet here also p. 200. in saying that We profess to own Christ without but do not own him within an horrid abuse 3. Prophets are not wont to rail and revile and that he doth as if he had been educated to it particularly p. 198. and all this he chargeth upon strangers whom he had no knowledge of 4. Prophets use not to deliver false Doctrine Heresy such is his whole Pamphlet stuff'd withal in particular that of the Light-within which he here chargeth us for Blaspheming p. 198. 5. Prophets use not to speak Nonsense and that he is notoriously guilty of and a Specimen of it he gives in the warning it self which he tells us he had in the Light p. 201. where he chargeth us for calling our duties tells us not what we call them though possiby he could not tell for we call them dirt dung nothing .. 6. Prophets don't use to call men to repent of their holding the Truth as it is in JESVS and his Call is nothing else 7. Prophets are wont to shew some Proof of their Call but he hath shown none he tells us indeed that it is by Immediate Revelation but withal hath told us that if it cannot be proved by Scripture we are not bound to believe him and so we dismiss him only wishing him at leisure to read Jer. 23.31 32. Ezek. 13.6 10. An Appendix VVE had now done with him but that he hath printed at the End of his Call the Copies of three Letters two of his and one of ours nor needs much to be said to these As to his first Letter all the Reflexion we shall here make is that he tells us in it that the false Doctrines which he chargeth upon us were such as he was assured by the Spirit of God that we taught them and that they were false Now the Spirit of God assures none of a Ly and that in matter of Fact But we have before intimated that the 12th Article in his Charge is none of ours but the contrary by which it appears that G. K's Spirit teacheth him to ly What we have to say in Justification of our Answer to him will be seen in our Animadversions on his reply 1. he tells us We called his letter a blasphemous heretical paper and give no satisfactory reason for so doing We had then no opportunity but we hope we have now done it to the Satisfaction of the sober 2. That When our carnal weapons were gone we found no spiritual ones We suppose it is now evident that he was mistaken if the Word of God be the sword of the Spirit as it is called Eph. 6.17 3. He vaunts that We have no courage to appear in the open field but lurk in our dens where the honest Quakers have no occasion to heare us but we say it is their own fault for our preaching is open and our doors shut out none but those that will not