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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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Upon the place of execution he showed no remorse, but professed that it was the will of God revealed to him from heaven.
Upon the place of execution he shewed no remorse, but professed that it was the will of God revealed to him from heaven.
Coppi••s a Flanders man, Quintinus a Taylor of Picardy, Claudius Persevatus, & Pocquius a Priest, who continued still to say Mass: in Holland, Brabant, and other parts of the Low-countries and in France, seduced above four thousand in Calvin's time. All the murders, whoredoms, & villainies (saith M. Rutherford) practised by Muncer, John Becold, David George, & Swenckfield, they fathered on the Spirit without the Scripture, or on such an allegoric sense as their unclean spirit expounded the word by: so as a man knows not when they sin, when they serve God.
Coppi••s a Flanders man, Quintinus a Taylor of Picardie, Claudius Persevatus, & Pocquius a Priest, who conitnued still to say Mass: in Holland, Brabant, and other parts of the Low-countrys and in France, seduced above four thousand in Calvin's time. All the murders, whoredomes, & villainies (saith M. Rutherford) practised by Muncer, John Becold, David George, & Swenckfield, they fathered on the Spirit without the Scripture, or on such an allegorick sense as their unclean spirit expounded the word by: so as a man knows not when they sin, when they serve God.
I shall take off my pen from transcribing any more of these examples, many whereof are at hand. What further troubles were caused by these factious spirits in Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Silesia, Westphalia, Friesland, Holland, and Brabant, in France. I leave the studious Reader to inform himself from the histories of those times.