A26871:266
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.
5. Dare any man of Self-knowledge and Conscience say, that all your Worship is not more faulty, than is the omission of a Form or Ceremony? Will not all the world be forbidden to worship God, if all as ⟨p. 121⟩bad as this be forbidden? And how many worshippers of God, think you, will be left in England, if all must give over that have greater faults than the omission of a thing called but Indifferent?
6. As to what you talk of Passive Obedience, though the phrase be a contradiction, yet the thing meant is a mere cheat of one that hath devised that absurd phrase: And calls Omissive Obedience by the name of Passive; Omitting an Action is not suffering. Daniel was forbid to pray, and the Apostles to preach: They would not yield this Omissive Obedience, but they yielded that which is commonly called Passive. They patiently suffered.
6. As to what you talk of Passive Obedience, though the phrase be a contradiction, yet the thing meant is a meer cheat of one that hath devised that absurd phrase: And calls Omissive Obedience by the name of Passive; Omitting an Action is not suffering. Daniel was forbid to pray, and the Apostles to preach: They would not yield this Omissive Obedience, but they yielded that which is commonly called Passive. They patiently suffered.
7. Do you not know that about two hundred thousand in and near London cannot come within the doors of the Parish-Churches, (nor hundreds hear that can crowd in;) shall all these be made Atheists, or taken for Rebels if they will not forbear to worship God?
7. Do you not know that about two hundred thousand in and near London cannot come within the doors of the Parish-Churches, (nor hundreds hear that can croud in;) shall all these be made Atheists, or taken for Rebels if they will not forbear to worship God?