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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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7. Yea their virtue, piety and innocency shall be all called Hypocrisy; and when they cannot accuse their actions, they will accuse their hearts and secret thoughts, and judge them as if they had a Casement into their breasts.
7. Yea their virtue, piety and innocency shall be all called Hypocrisie; and when they cannot accuse their actions, they will accuse their hearts and secret thoughts, and judge them as if they had a Casement into their breasts.
8. Yea if their innocency cannot be so stained, they will hate them so much the more, because they cannot tread down their reputation.
9. They will search after, and aggravate all the failings of Religious people, and turn them into crimes.
10. If any one of them, or an Hypocrite, that's like them, be guilty of any notable fall, they will persuade men that all the rest of their lives is like that crime; yea and that all that profess much seriousness in Godliness, are as bad as they; that all the rest of the life of Noah, Lot, David, Solomon, &c. were as bad as the criminal part; and that all the Servants of Christ are Peter's, or Judas's.