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The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A…
The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A brief tractate, concerning the doctrine of the Quakers, demonstrating the destructive nature thereof, to religion, the churches, and the state, with consideration of the remedy against it. : Occasional satisfaction to objections, and confirmation of the contrary trueth. / By John Norton ...
Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green, 1659
Chapter 2: Of the Signal Nature of the Quakers, and other false Teachers, arising, and prevailing…
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The not discerning hereof, as it is a matter of blame: but how is it ye discern not this time? Luke. 12.56. So in the discerning thereof, is a matter of praise. And the Children of Issachar which were men which had understanding of the time, to know what Israel ought to do: The heads, of them were two hundred, and all their brethren were at their Commandment 1. Chron. 12.32. Consortative unto the good, & awing unto the bad, was that seasonable word of an Ancient, who when terror had surprised the hearts of thousands by reason of that fearful earth-quake, which in Julians time threw up the very foundation of the temple, then about to be reedified by the Apostate-Emperor; told them, that this amazing & strange accident to them was but the accomplishment of that prophecy. Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here, one ⟨p. 22⟩stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. Full of presence of Spirit in a time of Calamity, was that speech, where with Lupus a Bishop is reported to have greeted the enemy Attilas, then depopulating & laying wast his country: I rejoice (saith he) that you are come safe, whom I judge to be the scourge of the Lord, & of my God, sent to chastise his people. The good man; howsoever others hearts might fail under their fears both of present •••e, & of everlasting burnings: looking at the King of the Huns, not as a weapon of destruction, according to his own desire; but as a rod of correction, in the hand of God: and choosing affliction, rather then iniquity, gathers meat out of the eater.
The not discerning herof, as it is a matter of blame: but how is it ye discern not this time? Luke. 12.56. So in the discerning thereof, is a matter of praise. And the Children of Issachar which were men which had understanding of the time, to know what Jsrael ought to do: The heads, of them were two hundred, and all their brethren were at their Commandement 1. Chron. 12.32. Consortative unto the good, & awing unto the bad, was that seasonable word of an Ancient, who when terror had surprised the hearts of thousands by reason of that fearfull earth-quake, which in Julians time threw up the very foundation of the temple, then about to be reedified by the Apostate-Emperour; told them, that this amazing & strange accident to them was but the accomplishment of that prophecie. Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here, one