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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.
All the strengthening-Physical-power, whereby we are enabled to obey the Rule, is from the Spirit, but the Moral-obliging-power is from the Scripture it self or Command as denoting the will of God signified thereby. Surely they are under a Rule, who have not the Spirit. Since the Canon of the Scripture is closed, so far is the Spirit from being a Rule of life that to us it is not the Spirit, but as it moves agreeably to the written word: Hereby we are taught to discern between the Spirit of trueth and the Spirit of error.
All the strengthning-Physical-power, whereby we are enabled to obey the Rule, is from the Spirit, but the Moral-obliging-power is from the Scripture it self or Cōmand as denoting the will of God signifyed thereby. Surely they are under a Rule, who have not the Spirit. Since the Canon of the Scripture is closed, so farr is the Spirit from being a Rule of life that to us it is not the Spirit, but as it moves agreeably to the written word: Hereby we are taught to discerne between the Spirit of trueth and the Spirit of error.
Object. 2 The words of the Scripture are to be taken simply, without interpretation or consideration, of what is signified by them.
Object. 2 The words of the Scripture are to be taken simply, without interpretation or consideration, of what is signifyed by them.
Answ. This Objection exposeth Scripture to the imputation of non-sence: which cannot be without at least the reflection of blasphemy interpretative, upon the author. It was wont to be said Scripture lieth not in the Sound, but in the Sense. They are not the inky characters; without the mind of the author, that can constitute Scripture. But taking the mind of the objection more favourably, as proceeding only against any other sense, or interpretation to be given of Scripture, then according to the sound of the words in a proper or (according to some) in a literal sense. yet it unscriptures a considerable part of the Scripture unto us, & becometh a fruitful womb of confusion, error, and absurdity, should it stand in force. The example, those words [that they may be one as we are one.