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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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This solemn, and by reason to the iniquity of the times) both awful, and seasonable trueth: the Reader is desired the rather to attend the proof of. A•a• besides other sinners, laden with the guilt of the escape of a blasphemous Syrian; rejects the trueth in the mouth of Micaiah, the Lords Prophet, dissuading him from going against Ramoth-Gilead: This; God visited, by giving him up to believe a lie in the mouth of the false Prophets; commissioned to persuade him, to go to Ramoth-Gilead, unto his destruction.
This solemn, and by reason to the iniquity of the times) both awfull, and seasonable trueth: the Reader is desired the rather to attend the proof of. A•a• besides other sinners, laden with the guilt of the escape of a blasphemous Syrian; rejects the trueth in the mouth of Micaiah, the Lords Prophet, diswading him from going against Ramoth-Gilead: This; God visited, by giving him up to believe a ly in the mouth of the false Prophets; commissioned to perswade him, to go to Ramoth-Gilead, unto his destruction.
1 Kings 22.19,-23.
I am come in my Fathers name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. John 5.43. The awful trueth contained in this text, will be the better seen, by resolving it into four propositions. 1. Christ came unto sinners i. e. tendered himself to them, according to the Covenant of grace and that according to the appointment of the Father: an external unparalleled mercy. But last of all he sent unto them his Son: saying, surely they will reverence my Son. 2. They received not the Son, though sent unto them in the Fathers name. As the Gospel is the great command; so the rejection of the Gospel, is the great sin.