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A89735	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 ...	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1659 (1659)	Wing N1318; ESTC W12678	48,692	60

The exemplary justification of Abraham by faith is written in the old Testament for our sakes Rom 4.23 24. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe in him that raysed up Jesus our Lord from the dead The examples of the old Testament are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor 10.11 Not now to labour further in the proof hereof by an induction of particulars the usefulness of the old Testament to those that live under the New we haue asserted once for all and that concerning all that part of Sacred writt Rom 15.4 For whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scripture might have hope John 5.39 The Jewes in the time of Christ are Commanded to search the Scripture which necessarily proceeds of the Scriptures of the old Testament the new as then not being extant After the time of Christ we hear the Testimony of the new Testament concernning the profitableness of the Old 2 Tim 3.16 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good workes Understand this as spoken of the holy Scriptures known by Timothy of a child which must necessarily be the Old Testament CHAP. 2. Of the Signal Nature of the Quakers and other false Teachers arising and prevailing among the people of God AS the Soveraigne Lord and onely wise God is both the disposer and interpreter So hath he given unto his servants to be discerners of the times The Scriptures held forth many occurrents of providence Significative of the state of religion of the respective condition of the profession thereof as also of Gods more remarkable administration unto his people whether with relation unto his Predictions permissive or comminatory or both Hence we read of signes of the times Mat 16.3 Of good times in the place cited Of evill times Mat 24.33 This trueth the Psalmist mentions as of acknowledg'd notable moment in Israel Psal 74.9 We see not our signes The not discerning herof as it is a matter of blame but how is it ye discern not this time Luke 12.56 So in the discerning thereof is a matter of praise And the Children of Issachar which were men which had understanding of the time to know what Jsrael ought to do The heads of them were two hundred and all their brethren were at their Commandement 1. Chron. 12.32 Consortative unto the good awing unto the bad was that seasonable word of an Ancient who when terror had surprised the hearts of thousands by reason of that fearfull earth-quake which in Julians time threw up the very foundation of the temple then about to be reedified by the Apostate-Emperour told them that this amazing strange accident to them was but the accomplishment of that prophecie Verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down Full of presence of Spirit in a time of Calamity was that speech where with Lupus a B●shop is reported to have greeted the enemy Attilas then depopulating laying wast his countrey I rejoyce saith he that you are come safe whom I judge to be the scourge of the Lord of my God sent to chastise his people The good man howsoever others hearts might faile under their fears both of present ●●●e of everlasting burnings looking at the King of the Hunnes not as a weapon of destruction according to his own desire but as a rod of correction in the hand of God and choosing affliction rather then iniquity gathers meat out of the eater False Teachers and false Prophets are signal i. e they are signes that the time is come when God will inflict vindicative spiritual-justice upon the non-receivers of the Trueth in the love of it They are executioners of spiritual justice punishing the non-reception of the trueth with deception by their lyes They are instrumental executioners of Justice to punish the non-reception of the trueth dispensed by the Ministers of Christ with deception by and reception of a ly disseminated by the ministers of Satan This solemn and by reason to the iniquity of the times both awfull and seasonable trueth the Reader is desired the rather to attend the proof of A●a● besides other sinners laden with the guilt of the escape of a blasphemous Syrian rejects the trueth in the mouth of Micaiah the Lords Prophet diswading him from going against Ramoth-Gilead This God visited by giving him up to believe a ly in the mouth of the false Prophets commissioned to perswade him to go to Ramoth-Gilead unto his destruction 1 Kings 22.19 -23. I am come in my Fathers name and ye receive me not if another shall come in his own name him ye will receive John 5.43 The awfull trueth contained in this text will be the better seen by resolving it into four propositions 1. Christ came unto sinners i. e. tendered himself to them according to the Covenant of grace and that according to the appointment of the Father an external unparallelled mercy But last of all he sent unto them his Son saying surely they will reverence my Son 2. They received not the Son though sent unto them in the Fathers name As the Gospell is the great command so the rejection of the Gospel is the great sin If I had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sinn but now they have no cloak for their sin John 15.22 3. Upon the rejecting of the Doctrine of the great Teacher there are teachers supposed to come in their own name A famine of the word of trueth is a sore judgment Amos 8.11 But these teachers are worse then no teachers Accursed ominous 4. That those who received not Christ comming in his Fathers name will receive teachers comming in their own name No better Teacher no such teacher no other teacher then he was whom they refused Scarce any if any worse teachers then those whom they received T is not so ready to say whether their unbelief or belief was more dreadfull Wofull is their condition when the teacher is accursed Gal. 1.9 and the hearer bewitched Gal. 3.1 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they shall believe a ly that they all might be damned who believed not the trueth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes 2.11 12. See here the non receivers of the trueth in the love of it punished both with a penal and effectual mission of deceivers That this tremendous dispensation may have the deeper impression upon our hearts we find the Vindictive hand of God upon the contempt of the Gospel mentioned thrice in one chapter and that also sometime as a forerunner of the

destruction of a nation Mat 24.5 For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ False teachers shall come and lest any should think their comming notwithstanding happily they shall not prevail it is added and shall deceive many Again verse 11. Many false prophets shall arise Forget not again what followeth and shall deceive many So verse 24. For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes wonders in so much that if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect. Hereunto if with some learned interpreters we understand by the end mentioned Mat 24. that famous period destruction of the Nation of the Jewes we may not unaptly annex that of the Apostle 1 John 2.18 in the judgment of some as attesting unto Mat 24.3 6 33 34 Namely that these grand-deceivers were fore-runners of the then ensuing misery of that nation Little children it is the last time as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time The summ is that the doctrines of Devils audaciously disseminated by numerous false teachers pretending themselves to be immediately sent of God are SIGNAL or are signes of evill times in four respects i. e. They signifie four things 1. Greater light then Ordinary foregoing 2. The non-reception of that light by many in the love of it 3. The Judicial giving up of many non-recivers of the Trueth in the love of it to believe their lyes 4. Sometimes at least also a National Calamity impending when the prementioned iniquities are in Conjunction with other crying sinns without Repentance Sinning against the Gospel is very sinfull The Gospel is a constitution or effect tempered of the Grace of God and the blood of Christ ingredients neither of which are to be found in the Law So much as the Gospel excelleth the Law so much is sinning against the Gospel aggravated compared with sinning against the Law Sinning against the Gospel is yet heightned by circumstances that it is given to us after the transgression of the Law Given to some transgressors and not unto others Of them to whom it is given dispensed with greater light to some then to others What Nation gloryed in these priviledges above our own our selves being witnesses From the kind of sinning If the non-reception of the trueth in the love of it exposeth unto this vindictive deception according to what dreadfull degree shall they be counted obnoxious who persevere in scandals under the light Count it pleasure to riot in the day time yea fear not to commit that abomination in Israel of turning the grace of God into wantonness From the doctrine of free grace drawing a licence to sin to take their fill of lust and that without the guilt of sin without the conscience of sin yea with a pretended conscience of obedience In a word to feast the old man unto the highest with the blood of Jesus and compleat the mystery of iniquity by the mystery of the Gospel As the non-reception of the trueth of the Gospel is a fearfull sin so the fruit thereof is a fearfull evill Their unbelief is fearfull their belief is fearfull Vnbelief of the trueth is iniquity Belief of a ly is both iniquity folly The trueth they unbelieve is a trueth of the greatest wisdom The ly which they believe is an object of the greatest vanity To believe the trueth is a great mercy 1 Cor. 7.25 At one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithfull To believe a destructively is a great judgment 2 Thes 2.11 12. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a ly that they all might be damned who believed not the truth Not to believe Christ is to make him an Impostor remarkable is divine justice that the issue of such unbelief should be the believing of Impostors So legible is divine justice in that they who forsake the way of salvation should choose the way of damnation that the folly of that wisdom may be manifest whose wisdom is to disacknowledg the Wisdom of God and that the glory of that wisdom may be ever adored the contempt wherof delivereth the contemners unto such finall folly These lying Spirits with other like Pests howsoever inconsiderable despicable looked at as in themselves yet if looked at as messengers of Divine wrath witnesses of guilt and impenitence instruments of penalty and commissionated to do effectual execution they are now represented under a formidable aspect and become objects of great terrour God can plague Egypt with lice and make locusts wormes grashoppers a matter of horror unto Judah though there remained but wounded men amongst the Caldeans yet should they rise up every man in his tent burne this Citty with fire Alas t is sin that armes justice and disarmes the sinner When there is a concurrence of delinquency and authority the meanness of the executioner aggravates not extenuates the anguish of the malefactor What more formidable then a penall and vindictive-permission of a delusion-destructive Upon Gods willing the permission of sin sin falleth out infallibly Upon this antecedent Adam when all mankind was conteined in that one man yet in innocency is deceived sinneth away not only the Image of God from his posterity but also sinneth mankind into the guilt of eternal death The woman which thou gavest to be with me gave mee of the tree and I did eat Upon a permission penal-corrective Peter falleth as shamefully before the temptation of a poor maid as he engaged confidently No merveil then if upon a permission penal-vindictive foregoing we read and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him i. e. the Beast whose names are not written in the book of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world And that Christ warneth us of the perill thereof as such which threatens to deceive if it were possible the very Elect. The strength of false prophecy lay not in the argument of the speaker but in the affection of the hearer My people love to have it so Jer. 5.32 The conjunction of a Judicial dispensation with a pleasing error an itching ear presents a sufficient reason why men otherwise rational are intoxicated with doctrines most irreligious irrational Why the success of false teachers at times hath been such as hath exceeded their own expectation Hence was the ground of that old saying of the Monk insulting over the peoples credulity Si mundus vult decipi decipiatur If the world will be deceived let it be deceived When the Duke of Saxony affected with Muncer's crying out under the severity of his tortures said unto him truely Muncer you indure at present but think also upon the ruine of so many poor people which at this day by occasion of your seduction are slain He answered after a laughing manner they would so have it Whether it were more wickedly done