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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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When the Duke of Saxony affected with Muncer's crying out under the severity of his tortures, said unto him, truly Muncer you endure at present, but think also upon the ruin of so many poor people, which at this day by occasion of your seduction, are slain. He answered after a laughing manner, they would so have it. Whether it were more wickedly done in Muncer that thus mocked, or it more justly befell the miserable people thus to be mocked, the reader may consider. Paraeus laments whilst he reports of a Papist glorying over his country-men, that if the Pope should so Command the Germans under pretence of the redemption of their souls, they would eat hay & grass like Cattle. woe, be to Ahab when both God, the lying prophets, and himself, conspire spectively the same deception, unto his destruction.
When the Duke of Saxony affected with Muncer's crying out under the severity of his tortures, said unto him, truely Muncer you indure at present, but think also upon the ruine of so many poor people, which at this day by occasion of your seduction, are slain. He answered after a laughing manner, they would so have it. Whether it were more wickedly done in Muncer that thus mocked, or it more justly befell the miserable people thus to be mocked, the reader may consider. Paraeus laments whilest he reports of a Papist glorying over his countrey-men, that if the Pope should so Command the Germans under pretence of the redemption of their souls, they would eat hay & grass like Cattel. wo, be to Ahab when both God, the lying prophets, and himself, conspirer spectively the same deception, unto his destruction.
Though the being of heresies be a great evil, yet heresies must be: as serving the counsel of God unto divine uses. In respect of the world: in respect of the professors of the truth, both hypocritical, & sincere: In respect of the world. Ma. 18.7. woe be to the world because of offences. Open enemies of the trueth rejoice in them, harden their hearts in impenitence by them: whereby these vessels of wrath, fill up their measure, and fit themselves for their just, & greater condemnation.
Though the being of heresies be a great evill, yet heresies must be: as serving the counsell of God unto divine uses. In respect of the world: in respect of the professors of the truth, both hypocriticall, & sincere: In respect of the world. Ma. 18.7. woe be to the world because of offences. Open enemies of the trueth rejoyce in them, harden their hearts in impenitence by them: whereby these vessels of wrath, fill up their measure, and fit themselves for their just, & greater condemnation.