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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	abraham_n	believe_v	impute_v	7,639	5	9.9008	5	false

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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

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