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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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3. And to tell the Popish Church, that if it were a good argument that there must be one Praetorian Court or Church, to oblige all the World by an universal determination in what sense to expound the Scripture, because it is abused to error by mens mistake, and there must be an end of Controversies; by the same reason there must be an universal Praetorian Court to expound all human Laws, and end the controversies of Lawyers; Yea and to master all mens Reason; for Scripture is no more commonly controverted and abused than Law is; And not half so much as Reason is, which is pleaded for almost all the falsehood and wickedness in the World.
3. And to tell the Popish Church, that if it were a good argument that there must be one Pretorian Court or Church, to oblige all the World by an universal determination in what sence to expound the Scripture, because it is abused to errour by mens mistake, and there must be an end of Controversies; by the same reason there must be an universal Pretorian Court to expound all human Laws, and end the controversies of Lawyers; Yea and to master all mens Reason; for Scripture is no more commonly controverted and abused than Law is; And not half so much as Reason is, which is pleaded for almost all the falshood and wickedness in the World.
§ 10. Moreover it is not personal feuds between Man and Man that I mean by Enmity to Godliness: No though any such be against an Innocent and Godly Man, where it is not for his Godliness, but some other difference.
§ 11. I will say more though some dislike it, it is not a Papist as such that I mean by a Malignant Enemy of Godliness; I know that Education, and Temptation, and want of hearing the confutation of their errors judiciously made, may cause Godly persons ⟨p. 56⟩