N00027:170
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.
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.
This objection renders the motion of Christ retrograde, viz: first forwards, from the […] dispensation of the law, unto a more create dispensation of the Gospel: and then backwards again unto a d•p••ation more dark, then that of the Law, wherein the people of God (nay we credit the objecter) are for 1500 years […], without […], without any sent by Office, to […] unto them, or any Church-Ordinance.
This objection renders the motion of Christ retrograde, viz: first f••wards, from the 〈…〉 dispensation of the law, unto a more create dispensation of the Gospel: and then backwards again unto a d•p••ation more dark, then that of the Law, wherein the people of God (nay we credit the objecter) are for 1500 yeares 〈…〉, without 〈…〉, without any sent by Office, to 〈…〉 unto them, or any Church-Ordinance.
That the English translation is apt, and render not only a true […] of the word […] also its proper•e••e in this place, appeareth from a […] and action […] various acceptions in the New […]. […] according to its proper notation, signifieth such a duration as is without an […]. Hence in reference unto duration, […] diverse notions. 1. For […] 12. 34. & 6. 51. & 4. 14. & 14. 16. 2 Pet 2. 17. The objected reading the word in these and many other texts [the Age of a man] must therewithal affirm that the residence of the […], the state of grace heaven and […] shall continue but the age of […]. 2. It is used also for a duration ha• is long viz. for […] the tract of time, from its beginning, until such a Te•• then spoken of. […] 9 32. 3. For […] of time.