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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
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.
It concerneth N.-E. always to remember, that Originally they are a Plantation Religious, not a plantation of Trade. The profession of the purity of doctrine, worship & discipline, is written upon her forehead. A spot of this vast Jeshimon, converted into Corn-fields Orchards, streets inhabited, and a place of Merchandise, cannot denominate New-England. All these notwithstanding, if she fall away from her profession, call her Ichabod, the Glory is departed. In such case, what was said of Samnium, sometime a famous City in Italy, viz that they could not find Samnium in Samnium: will be verified concerning these Churches, viz: that N.-E. is not to be found in N.-E. God forbid, that after N.-E. hath now shined twenty years and more, like a light upon an Hill, it should at last go out in the snuff of Morellianism,
It concerneth N.-E. alwayes to remember, that Originally they are a Plantation Religious, not a plantation of Trade. The profession of the purity of doctrine, worship & discipline, is written upon her forehead. A spot of this vast Jeshimon, converted into Corn-fields Orchards, streets inhabited, and a place of Merchandize, cannot denominate New-England. All these notwithstanding, if shee fall away from her profession, call her Ichabod, the Glory is departed. In such case, what was said of Samnium, sometime a famous Citty in Italy, viz that they could not find Samnium in Samnium: will be verified concerning these Churches, viz: that N.-E. is not to be found in N.-E. God forbid, that after N.-E. hath now shined twenty years and more, like a light upon an Hill, it should at last go out in the snuff of Morellianism,
The converting of these and the like meditations, into so many Nails & Goads is not the least part of the scope of this poor Script: but the work of that one Shepherd: in the effectual looking unto whom for wisdom & faithfulness in such a season: the welfare of his few •heep in this wilderness, doth in a great degree depend. That wheresoever the Trueth lieth, in the points now controverted, between the godly-Orthodox of the Presbyterian, and Congregational way, which the day will declare: We may yet when we shall lie in dust, le•ve this report to posterity, that as we renounced the pollutions under Episcopacy on the one hand. So we kept far from the Tents of Morellianism, Scepticism, and confusion on the other hand. And also, that having given in our Testimony, against the Heterodoxies. Heresies, and Blasphemies of this Generation. We both lived and dyed. in the FAITH and ORDER of the Gospel.