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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 concerning sincere professors of the trueth: Teachers of false doctrine are unto them, as so many tempters or triers. For the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart, & with all your soul. Deut. 13.3. Temptations of an high nature, trying to the utmost, if it were possible as we said before, to deceive the very Elect. Trials greater then those of persecution, exile, spoiling of goods &c: Witness the sad apostasy of too many, in this present assault of heterodoxy, who quitted themselves with reputation before men in the fore-named sufferings. The same temptation managed under the notion of a Prophet, and as the word of God prevailed: which proposed by King Jeroboam, with the proffer of half his house super-added, was rejected: 1 King. 13.19, 8. Yet the demonstration of their love to the Trueth is sweeter then the probation thereof is bitter.
As concerning sincere professors of the trueth: Teachers of false doctrine are unto them, as so many tempters or tryars. For the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart, & with all your soul. Deut. 13.3. Temptations of an high nature, trying to the utmost, if it were possible as we said before, to deceive the very Elect. Tryalls greater then those of persecution, exile, spoyling of goods &c: Witness the sad apostacy of too many, in this present assault of hetrodoxie, who quitted themselves with reputation before men in the fore-named sufferings. The same temptation managed under the notion of a Prophet, and as the word of God prevailed: which proposed by King Jeroboam, with the proffer of half his house super-added, was rejected: 1 King. 13.19, 8. Yet the demonstration of their love to the Trueth is sweeter then the probation therof is bitter.
Furthermore false Prophets, do not only prove our sincerity between God and our selves: but also;