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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, teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston. Who was appointed thereunto by the order of the General Court. ; [Four lines from Revelation]
printed by Samuel Green, 1659
Chapter 3 › Their Opposition to Civil Order, is thus evinced.
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Therefore their doctrine denieth the order of Magistracy i.e. Civil order.
Therefore their doctrine denyeth the order of Magistracy i.e. Civil order.
That they deny obedience unto the order of Magistracy, in its due subject: witness both their scripts, & behaviour, wherein they deny obedience unto all Christian Magistrates, who are not of their ⟨p. 32⟩own mind. Their pernicious principles herein, (from the execution of which the good hand of God hath hitherto restrained them) are notoriously palpable in the practise of Stork & […], their Predecessors. About 1521. […] Stork, a ring-leader amongst a company of mutinous, and seditious persons, pretended to immediate visions: and thereupon, preached; that there should come a new world, wherein should •••ell Righteousness: therefore they ought to exterminate all the wicked, with all the Princes & unbelieving Magistrates from the earth. They saith the Author) called all these unbelievers, which were not of their aith & faction. In A• stad, a Town in the E••••edome of M••ns••e•d, one of the 4 Pstates•n upper Saxony, T•om•s Man•, enrols the name• of the••, which were entered into league with him, and by solemn Oath promised assistance ••d pitch the wicked Princes, & to substitute new ones. They ([…]) generally [Greek or Hebrew] Superior: wicked.