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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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31. Even the Church of Rome applaudeth great Rigour and Strictness of life, in such as will obey the Pope; And they have allowed Orders of Friars whose rules tie them to great abstinence, to much praying, and some ⟨p. 89⟩to much Preaching, so that Religion is all their calling. And shall the strict obeying of Gods known Laws render men odious among professed Protestants? Yea the Papists honour the very Bones and Relics of their dead Saints? And you your selves keep holy days for many Saints: And will you at the same time hate and hurt those that endeavour to imitate them? Will you imitate those Pharisees whom Christ pronounceth Woe against, who at once honoured the dead Prophets with building them Monuments or Tombs, and murdered the living that succeeded them?
31. Even the Church of Rome applaudeth great Rigor and Strictness of life, in such as will obey the Pope; And they have allowed Orders of Fryars whose rules tye them to great abstinence, to much praying, and some ⟨p. 89⟩to much Preaching, so that Religion is all their calling. And shall the strict obeying of Gods known Laws render men odious among professed Protestants? Yea the Papists honour the very Bones and Relicks of their dead Saints? And you your selves keep holy days for many Saints: And will you at the same time hate and hurt those that endeavour to imitate them? Will you imitate those Pharisees whom Christ pronounceth Woe against, who at once honoured the dead Prophets with building them Monuments or Tombs, and murdered the living that succeeded them?
32. You can never come to Heaven, or be saved from Hell your selves, without serious Holiness, Justice and Sobriety: And will you hate that without which you cannot be saved?