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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
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.
The Jews acted with a spirit of mockery, hardened their hearts desperately, by putting the trial of Christ upon a false discovery, Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the Cross, that we may see and believe. Mark 15. 32.
The Jewes acted with a spirit of mockery, hardned their hearts desperatly, by putting the tryal of Christ upon a false discovery, Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the Cross, that we may see and believe. Mark 15. 32.
The question is not concerning God's Power, but concerning his Will. God can preserve his Truth immediately without any external means but his pleasure is ordinarily to do it mediately. Hence he surrounded the Ark according to divine Institution, with a double sense, both Ecclesiastical and Civil. God can also save man immediately, from evils committed against the second Table, but he ordinarily effects it by the help of the magistrate. The injury done unto the trueth, hurteth man whose welfare depends upon the embracing of it. It hurts not God, nor the Trueth in it self, but only in the estimation of man. As Satan is permitted to raise up men to be offenders, so Christ raiseth up men to be defenders thereof: to manifest that through Grace, the Trueth hath even amongst men as great lovers, as it hath haters.
The question is not concerning God's Power, but concerning his Will. God can preserve his Truth immediatly without any external meanes but his pleasure is ordinarily to doe it mediately. Hence he surrounded the Arke according to divine Institution, with a double sence, both Ecclesiastical and Civil. God can also save man immediately, from evils committed against the second Table, but hee ordinarily effects it by the helpe of the magistrate. The injurie done unto the trueth, hurteth man whose welfare depends upon the imbracing of it. It hurts not God, nor the Trueth in it self, but only in the estimation of man. As Satan is permitted to raise up men to be offendors, so Christ raiseth up men to be defenders thereof: to manifest that through Grace, the Trueth hath even amongst men as great lovers, as it hath haters.