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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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That this tremendous dispensation, may have the deeper impression upon our hearts: we find the Vindictive hand of God upon the contempt of the Gospel, mentioned thrice in one chapter: and that also, sometime as a forerunner of the destruction of a nation. Mat: 24.5. For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ. False teachers shall come, and lest any should think their coming notwithstanding, happily they shall not prevail: it is added, and shall deceive many. Again, verse 11. Many false prophets shall arise. Forget not again what followeth, and shall deceive many. So verse 24. For there shall arise false Christs, and false Prophets, and shall show great signs & wonders: in so much; that if it were possible, they should deceive the very Elect. Hereunto (if with some learned interpreters, we understand by the end mentioned Mat: 24. that famous period & destruction of the Nation of the Jews) we may not unaptly annex that of the Apostle 1 John 2.18. in the judgment of some as attesting unto Mat: 24.3, 6, 33, 34 Namely that these grand-deceivers were fore-runners of the then ensuing misery of that nation. Little children, it is the last time, & as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now there are many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.
That this tremendous dispensation, may have the deeper impression upon our hearts: we find the Vindictive hand of God upon the contempt of the Gospel, mentioned thrice in one chapter: and that also, sometime as a forerunner of the destruction of a nation. Mat: 24.5. For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ. False teachers shall come, and lest any should think their comming notwithstanding, happily they shall not prevail: it is added, and shall deceive many. Again, verse 11. Many false prophets shall arise. Forget not again what followeth, and shall deceive many. So verse 24. For there shall arise false Christs, and false Prophets, and shall shew great signes & wonders: in so much; that if it were possible, they should deceive the very Elect. Hereunto (if with some learned interpreters, we understand by the end mentioned Mat: 24. that famous period & destruction of the Nation of the Jewes) we may not unaptly annex that of the Apostle 1 John 2.18. in the judgment of some as attesting unto Mat: 24.3, 6, 33, 34 Namely that these grand-deceivers were fore-runners of the then ensuing misery of that nation. Little children, it is the last time, & as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now there are many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.