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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.
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.
For the making good the first & maine article of the charge; the clearenes 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 onely: to demonstrate, 1 The nature and necessity of order: 2 That in their opposing the Magistrats, as now established in Christian estate: they oppose civill order.
3. That the visible-political-Churches Church-Officers Church-worship & administrations, are Gospel-institutions, appointed by Christ, to continue to the end of the world.
3. That the visible-politicall-Churches Church-Officers Church-worship & administrations, are Gospel-institutions, appointed by Christ, to continue to the end of the world.
Order is a divine disposal, of superior & inferior relations, in humane or Christian societies, distributing to each one respectively, what is due thereunto. There was Order directive in Innocency, order both directive and coactive, is necessary in mans fallen estate. Order is Gods way of lapsed mans well-doing, & well-being. It is the form of societies, Forms are essential without which things cannot be.