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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
Chapter 5: An humble Expostulation with the English Papists who by Information and Prosecution see…
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Qu. 4. Have you not observed that all parties have fallen by forcing multitudes to be ⟨p. 137⟩their enemies by seeking to destroy or hurt them? Most men love quietness, and will live in peace, if others will give them leave: But when they see that they must offend others, or not defend themselves, it sets all their wit and power on work against their intolerable enemies: There are few creatures in the world that have not some power and inclination to hurt others for their own defence. The Bee hath a Sting to defend her Hive and Honey. And do you not remember that your sufferings in England came most by Queen Mary's flames, and the Spanish Invasion, and the many Treasons against Queen Elizabeth and by the Powder Plot? And how the French Massacre and Murders of Kings, and the horrid Inquisition set all our Parliaments against you? And how the Murder of 200000 in Ireland drove many thousands into the Parliaments Army that else would not have gone? And will you yet stir up all the Land to fear and hate you?
Qu. 4. Have you not observed that all parties have faln by forcing multitudes to be ⟨p. 137⟩their enemies by seeking to destroy or hurt them? Most men love quietness, and will live in peace, if others will give them leave: But when they see that they must offend others, or not defend themselves, it sets all their wit and power on work against their intolerable enemies: There are few creatures in the world that have not some power and inclination to hurt others for their own defence. The Bee hath a Sting to defend her Hive and Honey. And do you not remember that your sufferings in England came most by Queen Maries flames, and the Spanish Invasion, and the many Treasons against Queen Elizabeth and by the Powder Plot? And how the French Massacre and Murders of Kings, and the horrid Inquisition set all our Parliaments against you? And how the Murder of 200000 in Ireland drove many thousands into the Parliaments Army that else would not have gone? And will you yet stir up all the Land to fear and hate you?