A26871:250
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.
Obj. But the Church and Canon bid them repent of that their wicked error, and publicly confess it, and so come in.
Obj. But the Church and Canon bid them repent of that their wicked errour, and publickly confess it, and so come in.
Ans. 1. Is a mans Judgment absolutely in his power? Can a man believe a thing to be a wicked error merely because the Canon saith so? He that can believe what his list, believeth nothing truly. If this Belief be necessary to Church Communion, and to escape damning Schism, it is necessary to ⟨p. 115⟩Salvation: Why then is it not in the Creed, Ten Commandments or Bible? Do you call them the things Indifferent, and then call it a wicked error to hold them sinful? Is not this to make it necessary to Salvation or Communion, to have so much Learning or Knowledge, as to-know all Indifferent words and things in the world to be indifferent, which men will impose? I would all Church-Members with your and others knew all necessary things. Do you believe in your heart that all, or half the Parishioners do know these things to be lawful, or understand any more of them than those that think otherwise? when thousands cannot answer a necessary question of the Creed or Catechism; nor know who Christ is, and how he saveth us?
Ans. 1. Is a mans Judgment absolutely in his power? Can a man believe a thing to be a wicked errour meerly because the Canon saith so? He that can believe what his list, believeth nothing truly. If this Belief be necessary to Church Communion, and to escape damning Schism, it is necessary to ⟨p. 115⟩Salvation: Why then is it not in the Creed, Ten Commandments or Bible? Do you call them the things Indifferent, and then call it a wicked errour to hold them sinful? Is not this to make it necessary to Salvation or Communion, to have so much Learning or Knowledge, as to-know all Indifferent words and things in the world to be indifferent, which men will impose? I would all Church-Members with your and others knew all necessary things. Do you believe in your heart that all, or half the Parishioners do know these things to be lawful, or understand any more of them than those that think otherwise? when thousands cannot answer a necessary question of the Creed or Catechism; nor know who Christ is, and how he saveth us?