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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

may be an heretick who is neither dogmatist schismatick or seditious neither teaching his errours as truthes nor causing irregular separation from Church-Cōmunion nor sowing seeds of discord or mutiny in the Common-wealth By Quiet heresy or heresy alone understand heresy although uttered and not retracted yet without endeavour either directly or indirectly tending to induce others to receive their errours As also without disturbance of publick order either ecclesiastical or Civil This divers godly-learned do not only exempt from the number of Capitals but also seeme Cautious if not silent concerning subjecting it to any Corporal punishment By Heresy Turbulent understand heresy both uncured and incorrigible i. e. in Coniunction either with Teaching lyes in the name of the Lord. Or with disturbance of publick-order whether Ecclesiastical or Civil This is not only heretical but also pestilential and here is a season wherein it is the duety of the Civil-Magistrate to put forth his Coercive power as the matter shall require in the defence of Religion Order Church common-wealth So farr is our doctrine from asserting subiection of the Conscience to the Coercive power of the Magistrate as that we look at it as irrational to extend his power unto the error of Conscience as such We subiect not the bare proposal owning of heresie if cured as obnoxious unto Civil authority We affirm not that it belongs to the Magistrate to inflict any punishment for quiet heresie We affirm not quiet heresie to fall within the necessary obiect of Magistratical Cognisance but leave it unto free disquisition We know that it belongeth not unto the Magistrate to compel any man to be a believer nor to punish any for not being a believer But we believe it belongs to him in case to punish a Blasphemer or turbulent hereticks who seeth not a wide difference between these Wee through grace abhorre prejudicing the liberty of Conscience in the least measure and account such report of us to be a slander And through the same grace Wee both dread and beare witness against liberty of heresy liberty to Blaspheme the Blessed Trinity the Person and Office of Christ the holy-Scripture the tabernacle of God and those that dwell in heaven Howsoever fallaciously transformed into mis-represented under the plausible vizard of liberty of conscience falsly so called We say Religion is to be perswaded with Scripture-reasons not Civil weapons with Arguments not with punishments But Blasphemies immediate and heresies carried on with an high hand and persisted in are to be suppressed with weapons punishments where reasons arguments cannot prevail We distinguish between Heresie Quiet and alone Turbulent i. e. Incorigible accompanied with soliciting the people to apostacy from the Faith of Christ to defection from the Churches to Sedition in the Common-wealth And that after due meanes of conviction and Authoritative Prohibition We subject not any to Civil or Corporal punishment for heresie if quiet and alone We do not inflict any Church-censure in case of heresie without doctrinal conviction on the Churches part and contumacy on the delinquents part foregoing In case of Heresie incorrigible in conjunction with endeavours to seduce others thereunto and tending to the disturbing of Publick-order we accknowledg it to be the pious wisdom of the Magistrate to proceed gradually and where gentler meanes may rationally be looked at as effectual there to abstain from the use of any severer remedie And according to this method hath been the gradual proceeding of the Magistrate here with those hitherto incorrigible Quakers who from England have unreasonably and insolently obtruded themselves upon us 1. Instructing them 2. Restraining them untill an opportunity of their returne 3. Publishing a law to warne and prohibite both them and all others of their sect from cōming into this Iurisdiction otherwise to expect the house of Correction And in case they returned yet again then to loose one of their eares c. At last upon experience of their bold contempt of these inferior restraints that after their being sent away againe again they continue to returne yet again and again to the seducing of diverse the disturbance vexation hazard of the whole Colonie The Court finding the Law passed to be an insufficient fence against these persons proceeded to a Sentence of Banishment Their restraint before the Law published was but restraint in the Prison until an opportunity of shipping them away They who after the Law was published would that notwithstanding break in upon us from England or other forraign parts by Rode-Island after their correction received and discharging their daes might return again to the Island if they pleased The wolfe which ventures over the wide Sea our of a ravening desire to prey upon the sheep when landed discovered taken hath no cause to complain though for the security of the flock he be penned up with that door opening unto the fold fast shut but having another door purposely left open whereby he may depart at his pleasure either returning from whence he came or otherwise quitting the place Their Sentence of Banishment as Circumstanced by an Impartial and equal eye may be looked upon as an Act which the court was forced unto Se defendend in defence of Religion themselves the Churche and this poor State and People from Ruine which the principles of confusion daylie and studiously disseminated by them threatned to bring all unto if not seasonably prevented Exile from a wildernes from a place of exile though voluntarie from a place confinement whereunto would indeed justly be counted exile is an easie exile Object If it be the trueth of God which is pleaded for it is below the trueth to stand in need of the defence of man God can defend the cause of Religion without his help Answ Whether this obiection savour more of Inchantment then an argument i. e. whether it be looked upon as a meer argument or doth not rather give cause to call to mind the witchcraft practised sometimes upon the Galatians is with the Reader whose senses are excercised in discerning good evill to consider That a malefactor especially such who chooseth sin rather then suffering pleadeth for impunity why should it seem strange But to attempt the representing of the application of the remedy of iniquity as iniquity Antichristianism persecution is indeed a device and that as empty of reason as full of transgression A piece of the sophistry of the Prince of darkness to charm that sword into a perpetual scabbard by a sallacie the dexterous vigorous use wherof puts away the evill committed from and for the time to come prevents the committing of evill in Israel But Christians especially Church-members should not be ignorant of his devices 2 Cor 2.11 The Jewes acted with a spirit of mockery hardned their hearts desperatly by putting the tryal of Christ upon a false discovery Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the Cross that we may see and believe Mark 15.32