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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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As the non-reception of the trueth of the Gospel, is a fearful sin, so the fruit thereof is a fearful evil. Their unbelief is fearful: their belief is fearful. Unbelief of the trueth is iniquity: Belief of a lie, is both iniquity & folly. The trueth they unbelieve, is a trueth of the greatest wisdom. The lie which they believe is an object of the greatest vanity. To believe the trueth, is a great mercy. 1 Cor. 7.25. At one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. To believe a destructively, is a great judgment. 2 Thes. ⟨p. 25⟩2.11, 12. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned, who believed not the truth. Not to believe Christ is to make him an Impostor: remarkable is divine justice, that the issue of such unbelief, should be the believing of Impostors. So legible is divine justice, in that they who forsake the way of salvation, should choose the way of damnation: that the folly of that wisdom may be manifest, whose wisdom is to disacknowledge the Wisdom of God; and that the glory of that wisdom may be ever adored, the contempt whereof, delivereth the contemners unto such final folly.
As the non-reception of the trueth of the Gospel, is a fearfull sin, so the fruit thereof is a fearfull evill. Their unbelief is fearfull: their belief is fearfull. Ʋnbelief of the trueth is iniquity: Belief of a ly, is both iniquity & folly. The trueth they unbelieve, is a trueth of the greatest wisdom. The ly which they believe is an object of the greatest vanity. To believe the trueth, is a great mercy. 1 Cor. 7.25. At one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithfull. To believe a destructively, is a great judgment. 2 Thes. ⟨p. 25⟩2.11, 12