A26871:256

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.

[ Earlier:253–268 of 341

:253p. 116–117

Accus. If men will not obey Church Governors and Laws, they are Rebels, and unfit for Christian Society. If every man shall follow his own fancy, what Order will there be? Do not ⟨p. 117⟩all Churches require obedience to their Orders?

Accus. If men will not obey Church Governours and Laws, they are Rebels, and unfit for Christian Society. If every man shall follow his own fancy, what Order will there be? Do not ⟨p. 117⟩all Churches require obedience to their Orders?

:254p. 117

Ans. 1. The Church hath One Universal King, who hath made Universal Laws for all; which must be first obeyed, and against which no man hath power. And yet his own Laws have things necessary to all, in which they must unite, and Integrals and Accidents which all know not, in which they must bear with one another. No man understandeth all the Bible: And are many Laws and Books more necessary than Gods?

:255p. 117

2. Whoever depraveth the necessary points of Religion by his own fancies, should be rejected. But all men living err in many lesser things.

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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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