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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.
1A Scripture consequence; is a Trueth evidently & necessarily arising out of a proposition, held forth therein in express terms; So that: if the doctrine contained in the proposition held forth in express terms be true, then is the doctrine contained therein by ⟨p. 10⟩consequence, also true. Those truths are Scripture-truths, which are contained or held forth in the Scriptures: though not in express terms, yet by just & evident consequence. Exod. 3. 6 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, & the God of Jacob. Hence Mat: 22. 29,30. Christ proves the Resurrection by consequence the sum whereof is, as if he had said, that which God spake to Moses in the Bush, inferreth the whole persons of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, to be in everlasting covenant with him, and that they shall be blessed: therefore there shall be a Resurrection. For how can the body be glorified, except it rise again? and so far were the hearers from objecting against this kind of argumentation as that they highly approved of it. One of the Scribes, having heard their reasoning, perceived that he had answered them well. Mark 12. 28. Then certain of the Scribes, answering said, Master thou hast answered well. Luke 20. 39. The multitude were astonished at his doctrine. Mat: 22. 42. And no man was able to answer him, neither durst any man (from that time forth) ask him any more questions verse 46. Out of