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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
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.
Chap. IV. Objections and false Accusations answered.
BUT I know that as Christ and his Apostles were not hated, nor killed without pretended cause and reason, nor the Martyrs murdered without accusation; so none will now justify the scorning or persecuting an innocent person, or a Saint as such, but they will first make them odious, ⟨p. 100⟩and seem worthy of all that is done against them. They will say, It is not godly men, but wicked Hypocrites that we hate and prosecute; a false and odious sort of persons, who are unruly, and set up their own wit and will against the Laws and Governors of the several Kingdoms where they live: They are the very worst of men.
BUT I know that as Christ and his Apostles were not hated, nor killed without pretended cause and reason, nor the Martyrs murdered without accusation; so none will now justifie the scorning or persecuting an innocent person, or a Saint as such, but they will first make them odious, ⟨p. 100⟩and seem worthy of all that is done against them. They will say, It is not godly men, but wicked Hypocrites that we hate and prosecute; a false and odious sort of persons, who are unruly, and set up their own wit and will against the Laws and Governours of the several Kingdoms where they live: They are the very worst of men.