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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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But what more disconsonant from, or what more contradictory to Scripture, then to teach, that throughout all the time of the Gospel-dispensation, there is no need of the ministry of man? we appeal to the examples of the Apostles, Evangelists, Ordinary Office-labourers in the word & doctrine, and Gospel-churches recorded in sacred writ; as also to the institution of the Gospel-ministry, by Pastors and Teachers, for the calling of the Elect amongst all Nations, for the perfecting of the saints, until we come unto a perfect man; i.e. until the perfection, of the Mystical body of Christ.
But what more disconsonant from, or what more contradictory to Scripture, then to teach, that throughout all the time of the Gospel-dispensation, there is no need of the ministry of man? wee appeal to the examples of the Apistles, Evangelists, Ordinary Office-labourers in the word & doctrine, and Gospel-churches recorded in sacred writt; as also to the institution of the Gospel-ministry, by Pastors and Teachers, for the calling of the Elect amongst all Nations, for the perfecting of the saints, untill we come unto a perfect man; i.e. untill the perfection, of the Mystical body of Christ.
Jer: 31. 31,—34. We have an illustrious comparison, between the external Covenant of Grace, made with the National Israel, in the time of Moses: and the internal Covenant of Grace, made ⟨p. 15⟩with the elect Israel, in the time of the Gospel. As also, the second covenant (other respect of its preeminence omitted, not so nextly pertinent to the present discussion) preferred before the first, upon the account of the betterness of the discriminating promise.
Jer: 31. 31,—34. We have an illustrious comparison, between the external Covenant of Grace, made with the National Israel, in the time of Moses: and the internal Covenant of Grace, made ⟨p. 15⟩with the elect Israel, in the time of the Gospel. As also, the second covenant (other respect of its preheminence omitted, not so nextly pertinent to the present discussion) preferred before the first, upon the account of the betterness of the discriminating promise.