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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.
John. 1.9. That was the true light, which lighteneth every man, that cometh into the world. Hence they affirm that in every man Collectively, i. e. in all men, not one excepted; there is a light, which being followed is an infallible guide: & that this light within us, & not the Scripture, or written word, is the Rule of life.
Iohn. 1.9. That was the true light, which lighteneth every man, that commeth into the world. Hence they affirme that in every man Collectively, i. e. in all men, not one excepted; there is a light, which being followed is an infallible guide: & that this light within us, & not the Scripture, or written word, is the Rule of life.
In answer hereunto, two things are to be cleared, First, that the sense of the text pretended: is notoriously false. Secondly what is the sense of the place.
In answer hereunto, two things are to be cleared, First, that the sence of the text pretended: is notoriously false. Secondly what is the sence of the place.
Were the sense pretended sound, then righteousness should be by the law, not with standing sin; contrary to. Rom. 8.3. For the light which is in every man that is born into the world, is not Gospel-light. The Gospel being the secret of God, a mystery unknown ⟨p. 12⟩to Angels, & Adam himself in the time of innocency. The natural man cannot know the things of the spirit of God 1 Cor: 2.14. Natural is to be construed in opposition to spiritual: and denoteth a man, as following the dictate of reason only, or the light of nature, whence it is manifest, that the light of nature, as such: and the light of the spirit, are contra-distinct; the one to the other. The light of nature, remaining in Adams posterity, since the lapse: is so little, as that it is not to be mentioned the same day, with what was in Adam, before the fall. The light of nature, consists in common principles imprinted upon the reasonable soul, by nature: inclining man, to assent unto some natural, and manifest truths upon the representation of them; without waiting for any proof; that is, as it were by instinct, without argument. Viz: that it is impossible for the same things, at once, for to be, & not to be: that the whole, is greater then the part. That a man is bound, not to do to others, what he would not have done unto himself.