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Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an…
Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an holy and heavenly state of heart and life : lamented, described, detected, and unanswerably [sic] proved to be the devilish nature, and the militia of the devil against God and Christ and the church and kingdoms, and the surest sign of a state of damnation / by Richard Baxter, or, Gildas Salvianus ...Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an holy and heavenly state of heart and life : lamented, described, detected, and unananswerably [sic] proved to be the devilish nature, and the militia of the devil against God and Christ and the church and kingdoms, and the surest sign of a state of damnation / by Richard Baxter, or, Gildas Salvianus ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Chapter 2: Whom I mean by Godly Persons, and whom by Malignant Enemies to Godliness.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I often hear some say that Kings and States do all receive their Authority from the Body of the Nation who are the chief seat of it. So Hooker, so Laud, and indeed as aforesaid, so Heathen, Papist and Protestant Politics ordinarily hold: I call not all these malignants, though I am fully satisfied, 1. That God is the Instituter of Magistracy in genere. 2. And that he hath so far specified it as to determine of its unchangeable Essentials (that they shall as his Officers promote obedience to the ten Commandments.) 3. And that he never gave this governing power to the people. 4. But that all that the people do is, 1. To specify it as to the number of persons (a Monarchy, Aristocracy or, mixed of these and some Democracy.) 2. To limit it by determining of the Degrees of ⟨p. 51⟩power, about Property and Liberty, and all things which Gods Law hath left undetermined, and mutable. 3. And to determine of the persons and Families that shall receive the immutable power from God and the mutable from men.
I often hear some say that Kings and States do all receive their Authority from the Body of the Nation who are the chief seat of it. So Hooker, so Laud, and indeed as aforesaid, so Heathen, Papist and Protestant Politicks ordinarily hold: I call not all these malignants, though I am fully satisfied, 1. That God is the Instituter of Magistracy in genere. 2. And that he hath so far specified it as to determine of its unchangeable Essentials (that they shall as his Officers promote obedience to the ten Commandments.) 3. And that he never gave this governing power to the people. 4. But that all that the people do is, 1. To specify it as to the number of persons (a Monarchy, Aristocracy or, mixt of these and some Democracy.) 2. To limit it by determining of the Degrees of ⟨p. 51⟩power, about Property and Liberty, and all things which Gods Law hath left undetermined, and mutable. 3. And to determine of the persons and Families that shall receive the immutable power from God and the mutable from men.