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Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an…

Name: Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an…
Author: Richard Baxter

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 ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689

[14], 146, [2] p. · 37k words · Wing B1195 · ESTC R2643

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Chapter 4: Objections and false Accusations answered.

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.

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6. Do not the Imposers say that all which they add is no part of Religion, but things indifferent? And are they odious corrupters of Religion, who omit no part of Religion, but only humane indifferent things?

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7. Do you not reverence the Church for some hundred years after Christ, which imposed no Liturgies, but left every Pastor to use his own Prayers?

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8. Do you not harden the Papists that call our Religion new, and ask where it was two hundred years ago, if you make the Liturgy as now formed and imposed, our Religion, when it is not two hundred years old.

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9. The Godly Bishops of England have ever owned the other Protestant Churches, and their Communion, who have none of our Liturgies, nor any like it.

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10. If this be the odious crime, why do you never Revile or Prosecute the Atheists, Infidels, Sadducees, Hobbists, and those many thousands that seldom if ever go to any Church, or worship God publicly at all? Is the worship that Peter and Paul used worse than irreligiousness and infidelity?

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

Tho. Parkhurst

Year

1689

Size

[14], 146, [2] p.

Words

37,182

Catalogue

Wing B1195 · ESTC R2643

Text

EEBO-TCP A26871

Passages

341

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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