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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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Furthermore false Prophets, do not only prove our sincerity between God and our selves: but also;1 occasionally make it known unto others. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. The manifestation of their zeal for the Trueth, was evangelically provoked by the antiperistasis, or opposition of error. Error & heresy by accident conduce much, unto the furtherance of the trueth. Opposition occasions light. Light proceeds unto confession of the trueth. Confession is a divine means of conquest. Opposition begets disputation, that removes objections, and clears the trueth. Every article of religion triumphs upon a just inquisition. Nothing prejudiceth verity more then the hiding, and smothering of it, by falsehood & sophistry. The sight of the trueth is the confusion of the adversary.
Furthermore false Prophets, do not only prove our sincerity between God and our selves: but also;1 occasionally make it known unto others. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. The manifestation of their zeal for the Trueth, was evangellically provoked by the antiperistasis, or opposition of error. Error & heresie by accident conduce much, unto the furtherance of the trueth. Opposition occasions light. Light proceeds unto confession of the trueth. Confession is a divine meanes of conquest. Opposition begets disputation, that removes objections, and clears the trueth. Every article of religion triumphs upon a just inquisition. Nothing prejudiceth verity more then the hiding, and smothering of it, by falsehood & sophistry. The sight of the trueth is the confusion of the adversary.
- 11 Cor: 11.18.
Trueth cleared after us questioning becometh out of question. Nothing more approved, then that which is approved upon trial. The invading of that great and mysterious trueth, by Atitrinitarians: ended in the establishment of the doctrine of the Trinity.