A26871:278
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
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2. But suppose they lately change their judgments, (as many no doubt have) you that think it is for the better are strange Christians that reproach men for repenting and amending. Do you call them to Church and reproach them for not coming, and seek to ruin them for it, and now accuse them for coming? Doth not this show that some men desired the present Impositions, not for concord of all, but to drive some away, lest they should come in, and the land have concord? And doth not this show what men we have to do with; and that it is somewhat else than non-conformity which such men hate? Your Justice is ⟨p. 125⟩[Come to Church, or lie in Jail as Schismatics: And if you come you are perfidious rogues.] Whether they do or do not, all's one to such judges: who have some other hateful matter in their Eye.
2. But suppose they lately change their judgments, (as many no doubt have) you that think it is for the better are strange Christians that reproach men for repenting and amending. Do you call them to Church and reproach them for not coming, and seek to ruin them for it, and now accuse them for coming? Doth not this shew that some men desired the present Impositions, not for concord of all, but to drive some away, lest they should come in, and the land have concord? And doth not this shew what men we have to do with; and that it is somewhat else than non-conformity which such men hate? Your Justice is ⟨p. 125⟩[Come to Church, or lie in Iail as Schismaticks: And if you come you are perfidious rogues.] Whether they do or do not, all's one to such judges: who have some other hateful matter in their Eye.
Obj. But their doing it just now to keep their Charter, and keep from suffering, proveth that they are perfidious Rogues.