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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 3: Undeniable Reasons against Malignant Enmity to serious Godliness.
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9. Do you not in your daily hypocritical devotions condemn your selves by your own tongues? Do you not pray that the rest of your lives may be Pure and Holy? And at the same time hate Purity and Holiness? Do you not pray that Gods will may be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven? And can we have a higher, purer pattern? Do you know any that doth Gods will better than it's done in Heaven? Or is it not damnable hypocrisy to pray for that which you hate, and hate all men that desire and endeavour it? When you say or hear all the ten Commandments, you pray, [Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law:] And do you hate men for endeavouring to keep it? If you come to the Lords Table, you confess your sins, and bind your selves in Covenant to forsake them, and to live a holy life, and you take the Sacrament upon it; And the Liturgy warneth you to take heed that you dissemble not, nor be hinderers of Gods holy word, lest the Devil enter into you as he did into Judas, and fill you with all unrighteousness. And if you hate or oppose that holy obedience to ⟨p. 74⟩God which you profess, after all this, what must be the portion of such hypocrites? And in your Creed you profess to believe in God, the Father, Son and Holy-Ghost, and to hold a Holy Catholic Church, and the Communion of Saints; And yet do you hate Saints that obey the Father, Son and Holy-Ghost, and hate their Communion?
9. Do you not in your daily hypocritical devotions condemn your selves by your own tongues? Do you not pray that the rest of your lives may be Pure and Holy? And at the same time hate Purity and Holiness? Do you not pray that Gods will may be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven? And can we have a higher, purer pattern? Do you know any that doth Gods will better than it's done in Heaven? Or is it not damnable hypocrisy to pray for that which you hate, and hate all men that desire and endeavour it? When you say or hear all the ten Commandments, you pray, [Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law:] And do you hate men for endeavouring to keep it? If you come to the Lords Table, you confess your sins, and bind your selves in Covenant to forsake them, and to live a holy life, and you take the Sacrament upon it; And the Liturgy warneth you to take heed that you dissemble not, nor be hinderers of Gods holy word, lest the Devil enter into you as he did into Judas, and fill you with all unrighteousness. And if you hate or oppose that holy obedience to ⟨p. 74⟩