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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 sum is; that the doctrines of Devils audaciously disseminated by numerous false teachers, pretending themselves to be ⟨p. 24⟩immediately sent of God, are SIGNAL, or are signs of evil times, in four respects, i. e. They signify four things 1. Greater light then Ordinary foregoing. 2. The non-reception of that light by many, in the love of it. 3. The Judicial giving up of many non-recivers of the Trueth in the love of it to believe their lies. 4. Sometimes at least, also a National Calamity impending: when the prementioned iniquities, are in Conjunction with other crying sins without Repentance.
The summ is; that the doctrines of Devils audaciously disseminated by numerous false teachers, pretending themselves to be ⟨p. 24⟩immediately sent of God, are SIGNAL, or are signes of evill times, in four respects, i. e. They signifie four things 1. Greater light then Ordinary foregoing. 2. The non-reception of that light by many, in the love of it. 3. The Judicial giving up of many non-recivers of the Trueth in the love of it to believe their lyes. 4. Sometimes at least, also a National Calamity impending: when the prementioned iniquities, are in Conjunction with other crying sinns without Repentance.
Sinning against the Gospel, is very sinful. The Gospel is a constitution or effect tempered of the Grace of God, and the blood of Christ ingredients, neither of which are to be found in the Law. So much as the Gospel excelleth the Law, so much is sinning against the Gospel aggravated compared with sinning against the Law Sinning against the Gospel is yet heightened by circumstances: that it is given to us after the transgression of the Law. Given to some transgressors, and not unto others. Of them to whom it is given, dispensed with greater light to some, then to others. What Nation gloried in these privileges above our own, our selves being witnesses? From the kind of sinning; If the non-reception of the trueth in the love of it, exposeth unto this vindictive deception, according to what dreadful degree shall they be counted obnoxious, who persevere in scandals under the light?