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