A89735:174
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.
Object: [Greek or Hebrew], which in our translation we read world; signifieth an Age, and according to this version, the text alleged, speaks not of the continuance of Baptism unto the end of the world, but unto the finishing of the age, viz: of that ministration, or of the Apostles age.
Object: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which in our translation we read world; signifieth an Age, and according to this version, the text alledged, speaks not of the continuance of Baptism unto the end of the world, but unto the finishing of the age, viz: of that ministration, or of the Apostles age.
Answ. The trueth of the premises already evicted, concludes this evasion a falsity.
Hence it would follow, that the instant of John's death, the last survivor of the Apostles, & the instant of the dissolution of Church order, was the same. But that John did not thus understand Christ yea that Christ did not thus understand himself, witness besides his silence of any such notion in his Epistles to the other Churches, his writing expressly to the Church of Thyatira, that it was the precept of the Son of God concerning that Church, that they should hold fast the doctrine they had received, part whereof was church-estate not till John's death, but till Christ's Coming. Rev. 2.25. Namely to Judgment. If the words be understood by any, of his special coming to them, by their personal deaths, the like also being to be understood concerning others, it effectually makes void this objection. Add hereunto that John by that formidable Anathema chap: 22.18, 19. secureth the obligatory observance of all the words of the Revelation, wherein is mention of Political church-estate, as also of the rest of the sacred Canon according to the judgment of the best orthodox interpreters, until the second coming of Christ.