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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 1: A Lamentation for the case of the Deluded, Malignant, Militant World.
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§ 3. Our Kings Dominions are the best and happiest Nations on Earth. Here is most Knowledge of the Truth, and most proportionably that truly Love it, and live in a holy obedience thereto, and fain would live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness, honesty and sobriety: But, alas! they must be contented with their own personal uprightness and reward, and the peace of their Consciences in Gods acceptance. But with men there seemeth to be no hopes of common Wisdom, Piety, Love and Peace.
We are all baptised with one Baptism; we all profess to be the servants of one God, and the faithful followers of one Christ, and to believe in one Holy sanctifying Spirit, and to believe the same Canonical Scriptures as the Word of God, indited by that Spirit; and to be of one Holy Catholic Church, which is all the Members of Christ on ⟨p. 4⟩Earth; and to hold the Communion of Saints: We mostly in England and Scotland agree in the Protestant Reformed Doctrine, and Sacraments; Our concord in profession is so great, that if some men had not devised some Oaths, Professions, Covenants, Practices and Knacks, and Engines of their own (which they dare not say, God made) to become the matter of our unavoidable dissent, they could hardly have known how to pretend any difference in religion among us, and hell would scarce have found any Cloak for malicious accusations, enmity and discord.
We are all baptised with one Baptism; we all profess to be the servants of one God, and the faithful followers of one Christ, and to believe in one Holy sanctifying Spirit, and to believe the same Canonical Scriptures as the Word of God, indited by that Spirit; and to be of one Holy Catholick Church, which is all the Members of Christ on ⟨p. 4⟩Earth; and to hold the Communion of Saints: We mostly in England and Scotland agree in the Protestant Reformed Doctrine, and Sacraments; Our concord in profession is so great, that if some men had not devised some Oaths, Professions, Covenants, Practices and Knacks, and Engines of their own (which they dare not say, God made) to become the matter of our unavoidable dissent, they could hardly have known how to pretend any difference in religion among us, and hell would scarce have found any Cloak for malicious accusations, enmity and discord.