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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 meddle not with the Roman opinion that it is the Henrician Heresy to say that Kings have a power of investing Bishops, and disobeying the Popes Excommunication; and of such as Cardinal Perron that dare not question or deny the power of the Pope and Councils to Excommunicate and depose Kings, because then they must condemn approved General Councils, which are their religion itself, and (saith he) must grant that the Pope is Antichrist, and the Church erroneous that hath so long used this.
I name all these Political Controversies, 1. To tell you that it is not factious and passionate enmity to each other on such accounts, which I mean by enmity to Religion.
2. And to remember men, that if in so many and great points of Politics and Government, ⟨p. 55⟩the Learned and Christian World, have so great difference, what reason is there that we should Damn or Excommunicate, or hate each other about a hard opinion in Religion, or a Ceremony.
2. And to remember men, that if in so many and great points of Politicks and Government, ⟨p. 55⟩the Learned and Christian World, have so great difference, what reason is there that we should Damn or Excommunicate, or hate each other about a hard opinion in Religion, or a Ceremony.