N00027:91
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.
The sum is according to this last interpretation the word until is taken extensively not exclusively.
The summe is according to this last interpretation the word untill is taken extensively not exclusively.
So far then, is this text from disobliging believes, from their attendance upon the Scriptures: as that, it is a most solemn & serious incentive, as of all others to whom the sacred Canon shall be revealed: so also, of believers in particular, not only to attend upon the word of prophecy, or the Scripture: but so to take heed thereunto, as that their attention, through the co-operation of the Spirit, may be effectual: and that so long as their hearts are dark places, i. e. during their present state of imperfection: until Christ the bright morning-star appear in their souls; according to the fullness of the Spirit of grace, and the noon-day-light of the perfection of glory.
So farr then, is this text from disobliging believes, from their attendance upon the Scriptures: as that, it is a most solemn & serious incentive, as of all others to whom the sacred Canon shall be revealed: so also, of believers in particular, not only to attend upon the word of prophecie, or the Scripture: but so to take heed thereunto, as that their attention, through the co-operation of the Spirit, may be effectual: and that so long as their hearts are dark places, i. e. during their present state of imperfection: untill Christ the bright morning-starr appear in their soules; according to the fulness of the Spirit of grace, and the noon-day-light of the perfection of glory.
The heterodoxy & error of such, who from the text alleged, infer the old Testament to be unnecessary unto those that live under the Gospel: is argued thus.