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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.
3. Not using the rest of the Liturgy is a Negation, and no Act at all, and therefore no act of worship, and therefore no unlawful act, no more than silence is: He that is silent, and he that omits the rest of the Liturgy, worships not God by using it; but he doth nothing contrary to it, or forbidden by it.
4. If Peter and Paul were unknown in England, and worshipped God but as they did on Earth, would you therefore call them Rogues or Rebels, or lay them in the jail? Did they worship God in an odious, intolerable manner? Did the Holy-Ghost by them write an infallible Rule for all things necessary in Religion? and yet are they unsufferable rogues that worship God but according to that rule?
4. If Peter and Paul were unknown in England, and worshipt God but as they did on Earth, would you therefore call them Rogues or Rebels, or lay them in the jail? Did they worship God in an odious, intolerable manner? Did the Holy-Ghost by them write an infallible Rule for all things necessary in Religion? and yet are they unsufferable rogues that worship God but according to that rule?
5. Are they wiser men than they that have made us another rule or worship? or have they more of Gods Spirit, and more authority in religion?