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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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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 A•titrinitarians: ended in the establishment of the doctrine of the Trinity.
Trueth cleared after us questioning becometh out of question. Nothing more approved, then that which is approved upon tryal. The invading of that great and mysterious trueth, by A•titrinitarians: ended in the establishment of the doctrine of the Trinity.
The faith concerning the Person of Christ, was advantaged by its conflict with Arianism. The doctrine of free grace, hath been triumphantly confirmed, by its contests with Arminianism. The point of Church-government much more understood by reason of its ⟨p. 28⟩man fold controversies, with Antagonists.
The faith concerning the Person of Christ, was advantaged by its conflict with Arrianism. The doctrine of free grace, hath been triumphantly confirmed, by its contests with Arminianism. The point of Church-governmen• much more understood by reason of its ⟨p. 28⟩man fold controversies, with Antagonists.
The light thus vindicated, and illustrated by polemical labours, cannot be hid: but by the open profession of the assertors sh•neth forth unto the world. Witness the Apostle's Creed, (so called) with other ecclesiastical Creeds, whether proper, viz: such as were set forth by single persons: or particular, viz: such as were set forth by this or that Church: or general, viz: such as were published by general Councils: namely the Nicene, Ephesine, and Chalcedon, penned partly for the better exposition of the Apostle's, and partly that men might the better know how to avoid the heresies of those days. Witness the acts of orthodox Counsels, down all along since these ancient times. Witness the Harmony of confessions of the reformed churches, throughout the chief protestant states: in the Century last foregoing (concerning which Century, as it cannot be denied, that no one for many hundred years together so abounded with errors: so must it also be acknowledged, that no one, throughout so long a tract of time, abounded more with confessions of the trueth), and all those worthy labours, performed with a spirit as zealous for,