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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 3 › Their Opposition to Civil Order, is thus evinced.
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.
But their doctrine denieth Obedience unto the order of Magistracy, in its due subject.
Therefore their doctrine denieth the order of Magistracy i. e. Civil order.
Therefore their doctrine denyeth the order of Magistracy i. e. Civil order.
That they deny obedience unto the order of Magistracy, in its due subject: witness both their scripts, & behaviour, wherein they deny obedience unto all Christian Magistrates, who are not of their ⟨p. 32⟩own mind. Their pernicious principles herein, (from the execution of which the good hand of God hath hitherto restrained them) are notoriously palpable in the practise of Stork & Mancer, their Predecessors. About 1521. Nicholas Stork, a ring-leader amongst a company of mutinous, and seditious persons, pretended to immediate visions: and thereupon, preached; that there should come a new world, wherein should dwell Righteousness: therefore they ought to exterminate all the wicked, withal the Princes & unbelieving Magistrates from the earth. They (faith the Author) called all those unbelievers, which were not of their faith & faction. In Alstad, a Town in the Earldom of Mansfield, one of the 4. Estates in upper Saxony, Thomas Mancer enrols the names of them, which were entered into league with him, and by solemn Oath promised assistance to dispatch the wicked Prince, & to substitute new ones.
That they deny obedience unto the order of Magistracy, in its due subject: witness both their scripts, & behaviour, wherin they deny obedience unto all Christian Magistrates, who are not of their ⟨p. 32⟩