A26871:211
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.
8. If they prove faithful Christians whom you thus accuse, Christ hath undertaken ⟨p. 102⟩their Justification: It is his office. And do you think to baffle him? Can he not answer you? Rom. 8. 32, 33, 35. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that will condemn them?
9. Have you not greater sins your selves than those whom you accuse? If so, you condemn your selves. Would you have God judge of them as you do? If so, do you not tell him how to judge of you, and even crave him to condemn you?
10. Doubtless you know that you are sinners: And how think you to be justified at the Bar of God? Is there any but Christ to judge and justify you? And do you think he will justify his Enemies, that hated, accused and condemned his Servants?
10. Doubtless you know that you are sinners: And how think you to be justified at the Bar of God? Is there any but Christ to judge and justify you? And do you think he will justifie his Enemies, that hated, accused and condemned his Servants?