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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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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.
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 awfull 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 unparallelled 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 Gospell is the great command; so the rejection of the Gospel, is the great sin.
If I had not come, and spoken unto them they, had not had sin: but ⟨p. 23⟩now they have no cloak for their sin. John 15.22. 3. Upon the rejecting of the Doctrine of the great Teacher, there are teachers supposed to come in their own name. A famine of the word of trueth is a sore judgment. Amos 8.11. But these teachers, are worse then no teachers. Accursed & ominous. 4. That those who received not Christ, coming in his Fathers name, will receive teachers coming in their own name. No better Teacher, no such teacher, no other teacher, then he was whom they refused.