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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.
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.
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. Mat. 13. 39,• 49. 4. For the Universe of frame of Creation it •ell, watch is the Subject of time: that duration being an […] adjunct thereof. Thus it is rendered world• Her 1. 2. […] 11 3. importing in born the visible world. The world 2 Cor. 4 4 speaking of this world as contra••n […] from the world to come For there are two worlds. this world Joh. 12. 31. and the world Luke 20 3•. This […] world 2 sin: 4 10 and the world to co• Ephe: 1. 21. This is the subject on the duration of time, that o• the duration of Eviternity, O the premised expositions the reader may soon perceive both from the subject matter spoken of, and the collation of o•ner, Scriptures, that the third acception only agreeth with the text pretented unto consideration, and that […] acception fully agreeth therewith.