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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.
Star-light, cannot make it, otherwise then night. The light of nature since the fall, compared with the light of the image of God, before the fall, hath not the proportion of Star-light, to the bright Sun-light at noon-day. This indeed is but darkness. But, if compared with the light of the Gospel, it is worse then gross darkness. Ye were darkness Eph. 5. 8. Alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them Ephe. 4. 18. Behold all ye that kindle a fire, that compass your selves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled, this shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall by down in sorrow Isaiah. 50. 11. —Quantâ sub nocte, •acebat nostra dies?— Concerning the sense of the place: distinguish 1 Of he light, where by we are enlightened. 2. Of the light enlightening. 3. Of every man.
Star-light, cannot make it, otherwise then night. The light of nature since the fall, compared with the light of the image of God, before the fall, hath not the proportion of Star-light, to the bright Sun-light at noon-day. This indeed is but darkness. But, if compared with the light of the Gospell, it is worse then gross darkness. Yee were darkness Eph. 5. 8. Alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them Ephe. 4. 18. Behold all ye that kindle a fire, that compass your selves about with sparkes: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye have kindled, this shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall by down in sorrow Isaiah. 50. 11. —Quantâ sub nocte, •acebat nostra dies?— Concerning the sense of the place: distinguish 1 Of he light, where by we are enlightned. 2. Of the light enlightning. 3. Of every man.