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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fundamentals in Religion are so denominated.
Principally, & properly: so; Christ is a foundation. Mat. 16.16
Doctrinally: so; the Scripture is a foundation in that it holds forth the doctrine of life. 1 Cor: 3.10, 11. Eph. 2.20.
Practically: so; Order is according to some, not ineptly said to be of the foundation: in that it is requisite, in the way of means for the preservation of what is fundamental.
Practically: so; Order is according to some, not ineptly said to be of the foundation: in that it is requisite, in the way of means for the preservation of what is fundamentall.
For the making good the first & main article of the charge; the clearness of the trueth, of the heads instanced in, as the four parts thereof (their fundamentality, with the contrariety of the doctrine-impleaded thereunto being manifest) is necessary. In order whereunto (the Trinity and Scripture being some-what spoken to above, and that of the Person of Christ in this place not calling for it) it remaineth only: to demonstrate, 1 The nature and necessity of order: 2 That in their opposing the Magistrates, as now established in Christian estate: they oppose civill order.