The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A…

The Serpent's head is poisonous, but thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, his malignity is both antidated & antidoted. I will put enmity between thee & the woman, between thy seed & her seed. It shall bruise thy Head. Gen: 3.15. The Saviour of his people hath smitten Satan long ago in his intellectuals. His plots are foreseen, and the remedy hath prevented the disease. To Christ belongs the prerogative of being the only Politician. Now a complete Polity exhibiteth means sufficient, as to the sufficiency of means, for the defence of the Law, and of all those that are loyal subjects thereunto. Would the Patient but regularly attend the prescript, there is no stratagem can infest the Churches, in reference whereunto we may not still boldly say; yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time, It shall be said of Jacob, & of Israel, what hath God wrought? Num. 23.33 mine eye affects my heart. Lam. 3.51. A due sight of the Spirit of error & heresy, is a great help to affect a Christian Spirit therewith. Monsters in nature are eye sores. The face of death, that King of Terrors, the living man by instinct turneth his face from. An unusual shape, a Satanical phantasm, a ghost, or apparition affrights the disciples. The vision of sin unto a spiritual eye, is an object of much more abhorrence then the former. But the face of heresy is of a more horrid aspect, then all the forenamed, put together: as arguing some signal enlargement of the power of darkness, as being in a high degree diabolical, prodigious, & portentous. Heretical doctrine is not only a sin, but profession of a doctrine which is both all sin, & a way of sin. The speaking of lies against the Lord and his trueth, destructive to the souls of men, and all this in the name of the Lord. Heretical doctrine consists in the blaspheming of the trueth as it is in Jesus, as a lie, and publishing of a lie in the place thereof. The first born of Satan, ⟨p. 47⟩not a little aggravated in respect of its propagation by apostates, viz. those tongues which formerly bare testimony to the trueth, now bent against it, and for opposite errors. Thine own nation & the chief Priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done.

The Serpent's head is poysonous, but thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, his malignity is both antidated & antidoted. I will put enmity between thee & the woman, between thy seed & her seed. It shall bruise thy Head. Gen: 3.15. The Saviour of his people hath smitten Satan long agoe in his intellectuals. His plots are foreseen, and the remedy hath prevented the disease. To Christ belongs the prerogative of being the only Politician. Now a compleat Polity exhibiteth meanes sufficient, as to the sufficiency of meanes, for the defence of the Law, and of all those that are loyal subjects thereunto. Would the Patient but regularly attend the prescript, there is no stratagem can infest the Churches, in reference whereunto wee may not still boldly say; yet there is hope in Israel cōcerning this thing. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time, It shall be said of Jacob, & of Israel, what hath God wrought? Num. 23.33 mine eye affects my heart.