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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.
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Answ. We have no promise of any such ministry in our times. The last days Acts 2.17. are by some fenced, as relating to the last days of the Jews immediately preceding the dreadful & famous destruction of that Nation. (According to them) called the great & terrible day of the Lord. Thus James chapt. 5.3. speaking of ⟨p. 35⟩the wealthy Jews saith, that they have treasured up their wealth as fire against the last days i. e. against those times of destruction when their wealth should but do them a mischief, marking them out as prizes & preys for the enemy. But this interpretation is left to free disquisition.
Answ. We have no promise of any such ministry in our times. The last dayes Acts 2.17. are by some senced, as relating to the last dayes of the Jewes immediately preceding the dreadfull & famous destruction of that Nation. (According to them) called the great & terrible day of the Lord. Thus James chapt. 5.3. speaking of ⟨p. 35⟩the wealthy Jewes saith, that they have treasured up their wealth as fire against the last dayes i. e. against those times of destruction when their wealth should but do them a mischief, marking them out as prizes & preyes for the enemy. But this interpretation is left to free disquisition.
The Apostles seem not so to have expected any succession of Apostles. Hence in their life time, they appointed Elders in every Church, Acts 14.23. And left behind them, a prescribed form, as a directory of the Churches, concerning persons to be called by man into the Ministry successively, in the ages to come. 1 Tim: 3 Titus 1.