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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.
The word [Commandment] relates generally to all contained in this Epistle, & prescribed unto Timothy to be observed. Whence Beza readeth it, p•eception rather then Precept. This is part of that Depositum, that great thing deposited: which the holy Apostle, so frequently & affectionately calleth upon his dear Timothy to see unto. Yea; and sometime forbeareth not, as with a severe ⟨p. 33⟩and most vehement adjuration, to charge bin with the custody of, 1 Tim: 5.13, 14, 20. I give thee charge in the sight of God. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy charge.
The word [Commandment] relates generally to all conteined in this Epistle, & prescribed unto Timothy to be observed. Whence Beza readeth it, p•eception rather then Precept. This is part of that Depositum, that great thing deposited: which the holy Apostle, so frequently & affectionately calleth up•n his dear Timothy to see unto. Yea; and sometime forbeareth not, as with a severe ⟨p. 33⟩and most vehement adjuration, to charge bin with the custody of, 1 Tim: 5.13, 14, 20. I give thee charge in the sight of God. O Timothie, keep that which is committed to thy charge.
Either God since the institution of the Ceremonial worship & Polity of Israel by Moses, hath changed the Rule of Political Church-estate more then once: or he hath left his people without any Rule, as concerning Political church-estate: or else, the Political church-estate instituted in the Gospel, is to continue to the end of the world.
Either God since the institutiō of the Ceremonial worship & Polity of Israel by Moses, hath changed the Rule of Political Church-estate more then once: or he hath left his people without any Rule, as concerning Political church-estate: or else, the Political church-estate instituted in the Gospel, is to continue to the end of the world.