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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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28. The Holy Ghost saith, 1 Cor. 6. That the Saints shall judge the world, and even the Angels, that is, the evil ones: Did you believe this, you would be afraid to hate and persecute them now.
29. Even Heathens are for much honouring and worshipping their Gods; yea many offer them too costly Sacrifice: What praises doth Julian give to the Sun, and what strictness of life doth he Command his Priests? What great contempt of the Body and the World, did the Platonists, the Stoics and the Cynics profess? And shall profest Christians hate those that are obedient to the true God yea to show that the War between Good and Evil goeth on in all the World; even among Heathens those that were for true virtue were despised and hated by the sensual.
29. Even Heathens are for much honouring and worshiping their Gods; yea many offer them too costly Sacrifice: What praises doth Iulian give to the Sun, and what strictness of life doth he Command his Priests? What great contempt of the Body and the World, did the Platonists, the Stoicks and the Cynicks profess? And shall profest Christians hate those that are obedient to the true God yea to shew that the War between Good and Evil goeth on in all the World; even among Heathens those that were for true virtue were despised and hated by the sensual.
30. And is it not a self-condemning thing ⟨p. 88⟩in those that accuse Gods Servants as making too much ado in obeying the Law of God, and yet make (as the Church of Rome doth) abundance more Laws or Canons of their own, and require precise obedience to them all? Yea will burn men at a Stake for breaking their Laws; Doth God make too much work in the Judgment of them that think it not enough without much more, as if Gods Law were too narrow and insufficient? Yea learn by the Church of England, whose Canons (5, 6, 7, 8.) ipso facto excommunicate them that do but affirm any thing to be repugnant to Gods word in their Liturgy, Ceremonies or Church Governing Offices: And can you think that obeying God deserveth hatred, when disobeying men deserveth excommunication? Learn of our late Laws, which account all the Ministers of England worthy to be cast out and silenced if they dare not take the imposed Declarations, Oaths and Subscriptions, and do what the Act of Uniformity imposeth; And do you think it worthy of reproach to be as strict in obeying Gods known Laws, as is required to the Act of Uniformity and the Canons?