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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.
11. Those that dwell near godly Christians and should know them, are more unexcusable for their malice and slanders than foreigners and strangers are. Men of another land or age may be deceived by lying fame or history. But you that are their Neighbours are without excuse. I speak for none but persons fearing and obeying God: And you might easily have known that they are neither Fornicators, Drunkards, Perjured, swearers, Liars, Oppressors, Thieves, nor suffer for any such crimes as these.
11. Those that dwell near godly Christians and should know them, are more unexcusable for their malice and slanders than forreigners and strangers are. Men of another land or age may be deceived by lying fame or history. But you that are their Neighbours are without excuse. I speak for none but persons fearing and obeying God: And you might easily have known that they are neither Fornicators, Drunkards, Perjur'd, swearers, Liars, Oppressors, Thieves, nor suffer for any such crimes as these.
12. And if they are as wicked as you say, ⟨p. 103⟩why do you not prosecute them for such wickedness? What are the French Protestants now prosecuted and ruined for? Have any Judicatures proved them guilty of any such crimes against God or Man? Or is it not only for worshipping God contrary to the Kings and Prelates Laws? And how is that? As Christs Apostles did: They refuse nothing in Gods worship which God commanded, or any of Christs Apostles used, or any Churches in their days or long after. And did the Apostles offer God so odious a worship as deserved hatred and destruction? When Daniels Enemies designed his ruin, they said, Dan. 6. We shall find no matter against this Daniel except it be concerning the Law of his God; And so they got a Law made against praying to any God but the King for a certain time. Daniel must be cast to the Lions for breaking the Kings Law: The poor flies deserve death for coming into the Spiders Web: But did not the venomous Worm Spin it of purpose out of her own Bowels, or condensate air, to take and kill the flies by craft? In England there are many that worship God as the French Protestants do, and no better than Christs Apostles did: If this be their horrid wickedness that makes them unworthy to live out of Prison, say so, and pretend no other. But if it be Heresy, false Doctrine, Perjury, Fornication, Robbing, Treason, Sedition