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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.
Ans. Now you come to the real matter of your distaste: I did not meddle with the case of Nonconformity as it is a Controversy between Godly men, but only as you make ⟨p. 133⟩a pretence of it, to exercise your enmity against serious Godliness, and a handle to lay hold on many whom Christ will justify and save. To all before said I add,
Ans. Now you come to the real matter of your distast: I did not meddle with the case of Nonconformity as it is a Controversy between Godly men, but only as you make ⟨p. 133⟩a pretence of it, to exercise your enmity against serious Godliness, and a handle to lay hold on many whom Christ will justify and save. To all before said I add,
1. If you think they do too much, search the Scriptures, and see whether it be not less than God commandeth? And if so, is it not God whom you accuse and reproach?
2. If they do too much in obeying God, why do Canon-makers impose such abundance on them, as if God had not imposed enough?