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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.
In answer hereunto, two things are to be cleared, First▪ that the sense of the text pretended: is notoriously false. Secondly what is the sense of the place.
In answer hereunto, two things are to be cleared, First▪ that the sence of the text pretended: is notoriously false. Secondly what is the sence of the place.
Were the sense pretended sound, then righteousness should be by the law, notwithstanding sin; contrary to. Rom. 8. 3. For the light which is in every man that is born into the world▪ is not Gospel-light. The Gospel being the secret of God, a mystery unknown ⟨p. 12⟩to Angels, & Adam himself in the time of innocency. […] know the th•ags of the spirit of God 1 Cor: 2. 14. Natural is to be construed in opposition to spiritual: and denoteth a man, as following the dictate of reason only, or the light of nature, whence it is manifest, that the light of nature, as such▪ and the light of the spirit, are contra-distinct; the one to the other. The light of nature, remaining in Adams posterity, since the lapse: is so little, as that it is not to be mentioned the same day, with what was in Adam, before the fall. The light of nature, consists in common principles imprinted upon the reasonable soul; by nature: inclining man, to assent unto some natural, and manifest truths upon the representation of them; without waiting for any proof; that is, as it were by instinct, without argument, Viz: th•• it is impossible for the same thing, at once, for to be, & not to be: that the whole, is greater than the part. That a man, is bound, not to do to others, what he would not have done unto himself.