A26871:243
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.
2. As I said before, you spare those that come to the Parish Churches no more than others: The old Nonconformists wrote more against Separation than any else in England did. And yet were hated as intolerable. The reconcilers who are since made Nonconformists, did publicly offer to be Subject to Arch-Bishops and Bishops, to use the Liturgy themselves if reformed, and if it were not, yet never pleaded for separation: And yet are never the more endured.
2. As I said before, you spare those that come to the Parish Churches no more than others: The old Nonconformists wrote more against Separation than any else in England did. And yet were hated as intolerable. The reconcilers who are since made Nonconformists, did publickly offer to be Subject to Arch-Bishops and Bishops, to use the Liturgy themselves if reformed, and if it were not, yet never pleaded for separation: And yet are never the more endured.
2. But who is it that they separate from? Do they not profess Union and Communion with the whole Catholic Church on Earth? What separation do you mean? Is it their Local absence? And are not you such Separatists from all the world, saving the Assembly where you meet? One cannot be in two places at once.
2. But who is it that they separate from? Do they not profess Union and Communion with the whole Catholick Church on Earth? What separation do you mean? Is it their Local absence? And are not you such Separatists from all the world, saving the Assembly where you meet? One cannot be in two places at once.
Or is it that they dislike somewhat in ⟨p. 113⟩your Forms of Worship? so they may in others Forms, with whom yet they profess Communion: And in what is it that they show dislike or separation? They hold Communion with you as Christians, and as reformed from Popery: They separate not from Papists as Christians: And from you it is only for that which you say is no part of your Worship or Religion, but things indifferent; which they think to be sin. And are those Separatists from your Church, who only separate from that which is no part of your Church or Worship?