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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.
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I find some join with the Papists in accusing the Reformation as caused by Rebellions, in Germany, Geneva, France, Belgium, &c. And I find Bishop Jewel, Bilson, and other Bishops defending the French defence, and Dr. Peter Moulin of Canterbury in his answer to Philanax Anglicus, Contradicting their accusers, as false in Point of History.
I find some joyn with the Papists in accusing the Reformation as caused by Rebellions, in Germany, Geneva, France, Belgium, &c. And I find Bishop Iewel, Bilson, and other Bishops defending the French defence, and Dr. Peter Moulin of Canterbury in his answer to Philanax Anglicus, Contradicting their accusers, as false in Point of History.
Abundance of such Political Controversies are now lately agitated, some charging their adversaries with Rebellion, and some with Tyranny: Some saying, they are guilty of Treason against the King; and others, They are Traitors against the Kingdom: And too ordinarily damning one another; as if these matters were Articles of our Creed.
What a dismal difference is there now about those words in the Declaration in the Corporation Act; [There is no Obligation on me or any other person, from the Oath called the solemn League and Covenant: Some say there are none but Rebels will refuse it; And that if any obligation had been granted to things lawful or necessary some would have extended it to Rebellion or Schism. And therefore all Obligation is to be renounced. Others say, that National perjury is a forerunner of National Calamity or ruin; and that where Oaths bind not, there can be no Trust; and ⟨p. 54⟩no Trust, no Commerce: And they think as Dr. Sanderson, and Casuists, Papists and Protestants do, that though an Oath or Vow be unlawfully Imposed and Sinfully taken, and part of the matter of it be unlawful, and the Imposers and Takers are bound to repent, and no one is bound by it to the unlawful part, yet the taker is bound to that part of the matter which is lawful or necessary: And they take it to be lawful and necessary to Repent of sin, to oppose Profaneness, Schisms, Heresy and Popery, to defend the King, and therefore that it obligeth them to these.