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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.
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. John 9.32. 3. For the whole course of time. Mat. 13.39, 40, 49. 4. For the Universe, or frame of Creation it •el•, which is the Subject of time: that duration being an inseparable adjunct thereof. Thus it is rendered worlds. Heb. 1.2 & 11.3. importing in born the visible world. The world 2 Co•: 4 4. speaking of this world as contrad•stinct from the world to come For there are two worlds: this world John 12.31. and that world Luke 20.35. This present world. 2 Tim: 4.10 and the world to come Ephe: 1.21. This is the subject of the duration of time, that of the duration of Eviternity. Of the premised expositions the reader may soon perceive both from the subject matter spoken of and the collation of other Scriptures, that the third acception only agreeth with the text presented unto consideration, and that this acception fully agree to therewith.