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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.
This objection renders the motion of Christ retrograde, viz: first forwards, from the da•ker dispensation of the law, unto a more clear dispensation of the Gospel: and then backwards again unto a dispensation more dark, then that of the Law, wherein the people of God (may we credit the objecter) are for 1500 years left without a Rule, without Order, without Seals, without any sent by Office, to preach unto them, or any Church-Ordinance.
This objection renders the motion of Christ retrograde, viz: first forwards, from the da•ker d•spensation of the law, unto a more cleare dispensation of the Gospel: and then backwards again unto a d•spensation more dark, then that of the Law, wherein the people of God (may we credit the objecter) are for 1500 yeares left without a Rule, without Order, without Seales, without any sent by Office, to preach unto them, or any Church-Ordinance.
That the English translation is apt, and renders not only a true sense of the word, but also its proper sense in this place, appeareth from a particular indiction of its various acceptions in the New Testament. [Greek or Hebrew] according to its proper notation, signifieth such a duration as is without an end for EVER. Hence in reference unto duration, it is used in diverse notions. 1. For everlasting. John 12.34. & 6.51. & 4.14. & 14.16. 2 Pet. 2.17. The objecter reading the word in these and many other texts [the Age of a man] must therewithal a firm that the residence of the Holy Ghost, the state of grace, heaven and hell shall continue but the age of a man. 2. It is used also for a duration that is long viz: for all the tract of time, from its beginning, until such a Term then spoken of.