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A44794	The heart of New-England hardned through wickednes in answer to a book, entituled the Heart of New-England rent, published by John Norton appointed thereunto by the General Court. The doctrine of the Quakers uindicated [sic], his ignorance manifested, and his lying doctrines brought to light and judged with the word of truth, and truth cleared from his aspersions and slanders. By him that waits to see the throne of righteousness exalted above all deceit. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3166; ESTC R223647	32,471	42

so all thy Interpretations are false and thine is the private Interpretation and not from that sure word of prophesie which the Prophets and believers took heed unto and through which they interpreted things truely according to the mind of God As for the story of false Teachers arising and prevailing among People and what the signal nature is and thou sayest they are sent as scourges and as judgements to them who have not received the Truth in the love of it and thou brings a Scripture I came in my Fathers Name and ye received me not John 5. but if another shall come in his own Name him you will receive It s manifest that thou comes not in his name nor in Christs Name and if not so in thy own name thou comes by the appointment of the General Court at Boston and so there will few believe thy fabulous stories which are not worth rehearsal which will cast a mist before the eyes of them who cannot see through thy deceit and the sum is thou sayest of all that the Doctrines of Devils audatiously deseminated pretending themselves to be sent of God are signal signs of evil times The Doctrine of Devils hath long been seminated audaciously by numerous false teachers and false Prophets as Christ foretold in Mat. 23. and 24. which John saw come 1 John 18. little Children it is the last times ye have heard that Antichrists should come and even now there are many and they have Ruled long in most parts of the Earth that John said the whole World wondred after the Beast and this hath been a sad time these 13. or 14. hundred years wherein the true Church the Woman cloathed with the Sun hath been in the wilderness in a solitary place exiled because of the Beasts power and the Dragons Power and the false Prophets Miracles and because of the Doctrines of Devils has made it a sad time and an evil time such as thou hast taught viz. that the light which every man is lightned with is grosse darkness and worse then grosse darkness and that Christ left Political Officers and that the Lords Supper is a visible Political Church Ordinance and that Baptism is a visible Political Church Ordinance and that it is blasphemy to hold perfection of degrees in this life and that none can be cleansed from sin while upon Earth these and the like Doctrines of Devils hath been sown which thou now audatiously Seminates by the appointment of the General Court at Boston but the time drawes near an end the night is far spent and the day is at hand when the Beast shall be taken alive and the old Dragon laid hold on and the Mother of Harlots burned with fire and the false Prophets which have wroughts miracles before the Beast and has cryed as thou cryest him up in New England who is able to make War with him who hath shed the blood of the Saints of the most high God which will lie as a stain upon your Political Church as thou calls it which will not easily be washed away the time of your mirth in Sodom and Egypt is near an end though you strengthen one another and make merry yet wo will come when all these before mentioned goes down alive into the pit together and when the Sea is dried up that your traffique will not go off then alas shall be the note of her Merchants who have traded with her Sorceries and witchcrafts and have made People drunk that they have reeled and staggered and have been all like a Sea unstable and have not known the Rock of Ages upon whom all that do believe a●● established Thou sayes the Gospel is a constitution or effect tempered of the Grace of God and of the blood of Christ Answ. The Gospel thou knowes not but builds with thy untempered morter and unseasoned words and what is the Gospel an effect of it is not onely an effect of an operation but it is that which operates and is the Power of God which will confound all this mudd and all these muddy traditions which you mix with the Scriptures and calls them Gospel And now thou comes to the distructiveness of the Doctrine of the Quakers to Religion the Churches of Christ and Christian States because thou sayst i● appears in this from the nature of the object they single out to fight against as the Trinity Christ the Script●re Order both Civil and Ecclesiastical as instituted in 〈◊〉 Gospel As to tho●e Principles I have answered before in part but dost thou 〈◊〉 of civil order in your state or in your Political Church as thou calls it is that to be counted a civil State who destroyes the Creatures Gods workmanship and destroyes mens Estates and sells their free-born Children as bond-slaves dost thou Judge that these Rules well according to the appointment of God who is a terror to them that do well and an encourager of violence and cruelty as your late actions hath sufficiently evinced and as for the order of your Political Church we have heard of it that you are as a company of wild Beares rending and tearing and stops gloves and napkins and binds keys over their mouthes that they may not speak the Word of Truth amongst you contrary to Primitive order and as for the Doctrine of the Quakers many who knowes it better then thee knowes it to he distructive to nothing but to the Doctrine of Antichrist and such ungodly Doctrines as thou hast laid down in this Book as that that light which Christ hath enlightned every one withall is grosse darkness and worse then grosse darkness and that the Supper of the Lord is a visible Political Ordinance and such black doctrines as these our Doctrines are distructive unto And further thou goes on and tells the work against order is policy against policy the pollicy of Hell against the pollicy of Heaven It seems your order stands in pollicy both in your Church and State and in craft fraud and deceit and thou Judges that Heaven stands in policy to but he that sits in Heaven laughes you to scorn with all your deceit and pollicy And now thou comes to thy proof and saith that Doctrine that denyes obedience to Magistracy in his due Subject in effect denyes the order of Magistracy but their Doctrine denyes obedience to Magistracy in its due Subject therefore their Doctrine denyes the order of Magistracy Answ. The Major and Minor is both false for we own Magistracy in its due subject which stands in the Power of God and in the higher Power and that which leads into order and out of confusion and distruction and thou must not think to fasten Stork and Muncer upon us for thy proof what as they did stands upon their account and not upon ours and that mischievous spirit of thine is that which presseth on the Magistrate to abuse his Power and to intrude into those things which belongs not to him to keep up your confused Babel which thou

THE HEART OF New-England HARDNED THROUGH WICKEDNES In Answer to a Book Entituled the Heart of New-England Rent Published by John Norton appointed thereunto by the General Court The Doctrine of the Quakers Uindicated his Arguments made void his Ignorance manifested and his lying doctrines brought to light and Judged with the Word of Truth and Truth cleared from his Aspersions and slanders By him that waits to see the Throne of Righteousness Exalted above all Deceit FRANCIS HOWGILL And the rest of the men which were not kil'd by the plagues repented not of the works of their hands neither repented they of their Murders nor sorceries nor worshippings of Devils Revel. 9. 20 21. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. NOw when the Lord of life and glory is appearing in his Power as in the days of old and his goodness mercy and truth as in the years past and the riches of his Grace Salvation which he maketh to flow forth and spring forth from the great deep now when he is manifesting his light from his holy habitation his saving health from his dwelling place that the sons of men might be partakers thereof and praise him who liveth for ever and ever who is the Author of Eternal Salvation unto them that believe the pit of darkness hath also opened its mouth and out of it many unclean spirits doth arise and foggs and mists of darkness Ignorance and Error is also arisen out of it to hinder the light from shining and to darken the Air that the Son of Righteousness might not be beheld and would dam up the way that the springs of life might not refresh the City of God and his tender plants that so the Prince of darkness and the King of the bottomless pit might not lose his Dominion for this end hath he mustred up and is mustring up all his men of War with their several weapons and all the Engines of wickedness to resist the Lamb of God who is risen to make War in Righteousness that so the Kingdom of darkness might still be established and the Subjects thereof live at ease and peace in Egypt and Sodom where Christ and the witnesses are flain I say for this end hath he sent out his men of War to resist the work of the Lord which is to destroy the Devils work one of his Champions more stout then his fellows is come out with his weapons of War which are most of them borrowed and not his own and the City in which he hath encompassed himself is a refuge of lies but however he appears with the face of Authority and subscribes himself John Norton Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New England who was appointed thereunto by the order of the General Court his Book he calls The heart of New England Rent at the blasphemies of the present Generation or a brief tract concerning the Doctrine of the Quakers shewing the destructive nature thereof to Religion Churches and State Now whether John Norton was appointed of the General Court to be Minister of Boston or he was appointed by the General Court to tell lies how the heart of New England is Rent whether he intends should be believed the Reader may judge for his words may be understood of both however John Norton hath manifested his Master that it was not Christ who appointed him to be Minister at Boston but the General Court that appointed him neither was it Christ nor his Spirit that set him to work to publish lies to the World that the heart of New England was Rent but the General Court neither was it Christ nor the General Assembly that ordered him to write this Book which he calls a Tract concerning the Doctrine of the Quakers but the General Court they have ordered thee to tell lies and thou hast received thy Commission and acts it and shewes it to the World and the sign thereof is by the appointment of the General Court before we go any further men of understanding will Judge whose Minister whose Souldier whose Warrier John Norton is and at whose appointment and Commandment he Ministers and Wars and hath cleared himself to be no Souldier of Christ no Minister of Christ but appointed to Minister and to War at the appointment of the General Court and so what will be brought forth by him in his Tract as he calls it afterwards as to Minister Grace to the hearers and Readers the Reader may Judge seeing that he is a Minister by the will of Man and his work is appointed by the General Court and doth John Norton believe that People will receive his Testimony as that the heart of New England is broken and Rent when as the blood-thirsty cruelty and Barbarous actions and inhumane acts of cruelty and the noisome smell and a bad example have you given to the World and the Laws and appointments and orders of that General Court of Boston and New England stinkes in the Nostrils of all sober People which is sounded through the World and your State is as it was with Israel when blindness hapened unto them through their unbelief the effect of it manifested their Apostacy the Judges then judged for rewards the Priests Preached for hire and Prophets devived for mony and the People loved to have it so in their unbelief and then ●id the Rulers grind the faces of the Poor and chop them in pieces as flesh for the Caldron even as you have done banished some from their Habitations some from their Wives and Children and some you have seized upon their Lands taken away their goods by the Appointment and Order of your Courts by which thou art made a Minister and appointed to tell these lyes and to utter forth deceit to cover your wickedness and to strengthen the Devils Kingdom and the subjects thereof against Christ and his Kingdom who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them who came not to lay burdens but to take off burdens who came not to destroy the Poor and Needy but to relieve the Oppressed And have not your General Courts done all this and much more which they may see and behold with confusion of face And when they have whipt them and scourged them fined them and imprisoned them ceized upon their Lands taken away their goods wasted their Estates banished them upon pain of death and when nothing hath remained of all their Estates have ordered their Children to be sold for Bond-slaves and this by the appointment of your General Court and for no other cause but because they would not put off their Hats to their Equals or come to your publick Assemblies Oh! un-heard-of and unparallel'd wickedness the name of your General Court and the Appointments and Ordinances thereof will be crowned with infamy and reproach from Generation to Generation but this is com'd to pass that your hypocrisie might be made manifest and your skirts uncovered that your shame might appear