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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.
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.
12. Doth it never affright you to find the Devils nature in you, as hating the Divine or holy nature which is in faithful Godly men? And to think how openly you serve the Devil, and do his work? No man that ⟨p. 75⟩believeth there are Devils can doubt, but that the hatred of God, as holy, and the hatred of his holy Word, and Work, and Servants, is the Devils malignity, and the opposing of them his work. If he were to write you his Commandments, they would be contrary to Gods, and the chief of them should be, [Thou shalt not Love God, nor serve him with all thy Heart, and Soul, and Might, nor Love those that do so; but hate, deride, oppose and persecute them. And is it honourable openly to serve the Devil? Christ tells such men, Joh. 8. That the Devil is their Father, because they have his nature, and that his work they do, for he was from the beginning a Liar, and a Malignant Murderer, and turned man from obeying God. And can you think that he loveth you, or that his Service against God is better than Gods; or his reward better?
12. Doth it never affright you to find the Devils nature in you, as hating the Divine or holy nature which is in faithful Godly men? And to think how openly you serve the Devil, and do his work? No man that ⟨p. 75⟩believeth there are Devils can doubt, but that the hatred of God, as holy, and the hatred of his holy Word, and Work, and Servants, is the Devils malignity, and the opposing of them his work. If he were to write you his Commandments, they would be contrary to Gods, and the chief of them should be, [Thou shalt not Love God, nor serve him with all thy Heart, and Soul, and Might, nor Love those that do so; but hate, deride, oppose and persecute them. And is it honourable openly to serve the Devil? Christ tells such men, Ioh. 8. That the Devil is their Father, because they have his nature, and that his work they do, for he was from the beginning a Lyar, and a Malignant Murderer, and turned man from obeying God. And can you think that he loveth you, or that his Service against God is better than Gods; or his reward better?