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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 4: CHAP: 4. Of the Remedy against Heretical doctrines, and in particular, against the doct…
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It remaineth that all orders & persons amongst us respectively, Sanctify God according unto the prescript of Scripture, and that at such a time: in the regular exercise whereof, we may secure our selves of a greater blessing then the adversary threatens trouble. Unto former trials of our love unto the trueth, by leaving of our country, kindred, and Fathers house, and by the sufferings of this wilderness: God in his wisdom, now addeth this of trying us by false doctrine. That this divine fatal season, appointed for the revealing of the thoughts of many hearts, through the judicial discovery of not a few (who have had a name that they lived) by their defection to heresy may amongst the rest of the Saints, be also (through Grace) New-Englands manifestation to be approved. That the evil example of the Apostasy, of formerly fellow-professors, may (as sometimes the like did with the Apostles. John 6.) bring forth so much the more zealous & luculent a confession of the Trueth. As the enmity of opposers increaseth, so the testimony of the witnesses increaseth. Though the Beast blasphemeth, the witnesses overcome. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome him, because greater is h•e that is in you, then he that is in the world. 1 John 4.4. The Apostasy of Adam ends in the confession of Adam. The apostasy of both reprobate, Angels & men, ends in the confession of the Elect.
It remaineth that all orders & persons amongst us respectively, Sanctifie God according unto the prescript of Scripture, and that at such a time: in the regular excercise whereof, wee may secure our selves of a greater blessing then the adversary threatens trouble. Ʋnto former trials of our love unto the trueth, by leaving of our countrey, kinred, and Fathers house, and by the sufferings of this wilderness: God in his wisdome, now addeth this of trying us by false doctrine. That this divine fatal season, appointed for the revealing of the thoughts of many hearts, through the judicial discovery of not a few (who have had a name that they lived) by their defection to heresie may amongst the rest of the Saints, be also (through Grace) New-Englands manifestation to be approved. That the evill example of the Apostacie, of formerly fellow-professors, may (as sometimes the like did with the Apostles. John 6