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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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37. While you are angry at them that say few are saved, or that none but Saints ⟨p. 92⟩or serious godly obedient men are saved, you would sink all the World into utter despair, and make none or next none to be saved. One part of the haters of godliness believe no life to come; And these would have all men despair. For if there be none, there is none to be hoped for: and they that think men die but as Dogs & Swine do, must be expected to live like Dogs & Swine. The other part of you, labour by all means to make themselves and others believe that the profession of more godliness than worldly carnal men have, is but hypocrisy, and that such are at the heart as bad as others: And if this be so, what is the consequence, but that none are saved? For unless you will give God the lie, or be saved in spite of him, you must believe that none are saved that are not sanctified by the Spirit of Christ, and live not after the Spirit, mortifying the flesh, Joh. 3 3, 5. Heb. 12. 14. Rom. 8. 6, 7. 8, 9, 13. 2 Cor. 5. 17. And that no man can be saved that loveth the world more than God and Heaven, and fleshly pleasure more than holiness. And therefore if there be none such, then none are saved. Hypocrisy will not save men: God tells us that Drunkards, Fornicators, Covetous, Thieves, Extortioners, Revilers, Effeminate, Idolaters, cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Eph. 5. 5. And if any man love the world (best) the love of the Father ⟨p. 93⟩is not in him, 1 Joh. 2. 5. And if all that pretend to be better are hypocrites, than none at all are saved.
37. While you are angry at them that say few are saved, or that none but Saints