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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
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CHAP: I
The Original of the Doctrine of the Quakers. With some of their principal Heterodoxies. A brief Demonstration of three distinct Persons, in the Divine Essence. Satisfaction to some Objections. And a Vindication of some Scriptures.
When that grand-Heretic Swenck settled, who in eighteen years had published fifty scripts, (such as they were) sometime troubled Luther. with his papers, which he sent unto him for an answer: his return was quick, saying to the messenger, the Devil was the author of them: the Lord rebuke thee O Satan! Quod-•ult-deus whilst he desired Augustine to publish a tract of all the heresies which infested the church in those days, discerned the undertaking to be too immense & great: this Calvin also perceiving being about to write against the Libertines, presently determined omitting the rest of their wild & endless heterodoxies) to address himself unto the enumeration, & refutation, of some of their principal, & portentous tenets. Luther's answer may seems too short: Augustine's task is acknowledged too long, Calvins example in this brief treatise I shall in part (God assisting) endeavour to follow.
WHen that grand-Heretick Swenck setld, who in eighteen yeares had published fifty scripts, (such as they were) sometime troubled Luther. with his papers, which he sent unto him for an answer: his returne was quick, saying to the messenger, the Deuil was the author of them: the Lord rebuke thee O Satan! Quod-ult-deus whilest he desired Augustine to publish a tract of al the heresies which infested the church in those dayes, discerned the undertaking to be too immense & great: this Calvin also perceiving being about to write against the Libertines, presently determined omitting the rest of their wild & endlesse heterodoxies) to addresse himselfe unto the enumeration, & refutation, of some of their principall, & portentous tenets. Luthers answer may seems too short: Augustines taske is acknowledged too long, Calvins example in this brief treatise I shall in part (God assisting) endeavour to follow.