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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.
1. Have you particular matter against them to make good this charge? Or is it only a general malicious Accusation?
2. Is it individual persons that you mean, by whom it's proved? or do you thus accuse whole companies of men? What if one said of Papists, Jews or Turks, They are Murderers, Adulterers, Perjured, &c. Do you think he were not an odious slanderer, to speak that of all or most, or the whole Party, which he can prove but by some few?
3. Do you know all the persons whom you accuse? And have you heard it proved? Or do you not say this of whole Congregations assembled to worship God, of whom you know not one of many? If this be so, it's inhumane calumny.
4. Have the particular persons been heard ⟨p. 101⟩speak for themselves, and give the reason of their actions? and were they proved insufficient? Or were they condemned unheard? Or was Gods Word derided and taken for no reason?