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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. 5. Is it not both imprudent and unrighteous for you of all men to turn those Laws against us, which were made against you, and have so much slept, and little troubled you? You will by this call people to take notice of them, that did not before. For my own part, as I never hurt any of you, so I know not that any of the Ministers did, whose ruin you endeavour. We hear of none of your sufferings by any such. Indeed ⟨p. 138⟩these late years many have died as for the Plot so much talked of. But by whom did they die? Was it not by the accusation and witness of Papists? Were not Oats, Bedlow, Dugdale, Turbervile, Prance, Dangerfield, Jenison, Smith, alias Barry, the York-shire Witnesses, and the rest besides the Irish, all men of your selves, that came out of your own Bosoms? whether the men died justly or unjustly I leave to God; But sure it was men of your own selves that did it. And will you be revenged for this on such Protestants that meddled not in it?
Qu. 5. Is it not both imprudent and unrighteous for you of all men to turn those Laws against us, which were made against you, and have so much slept, and little troubled you? You will by this call people to take notice of them, that did not before. For my own part, as I never hurt any of you, so I know not that any of the Ministers did, whose ruine you endeavour. We hear of none of your sufferings by any such. Indeed ⟨p. 138⟩these late years many have died as for the Plot so much talkt of. But by whom did they die? Was it not by the accusation and witness of Papists? Were not Oats, Bedlow, Dugdale, Turbervile, Prance, Dangerfield, Ienison, Smith, alias Barry, the York-shire Witnesses, and the rest besides the Irish, all men of your selves, that came out of your own Bosoms? whether the men died justly or unjustly I leave to God; But sure it was men of your own selves that did it. And will you be revenged for this on such Protestants that medled not in it?
And you should remember that you and we have a Protestant King, who hath sworn all his Kingdom against all foreign jurisdiction, and all endeavour of any alteration of Government in Church or state, and so much abhors Popery that he hath made a law severely to punish all that shall but raise any suspicion that he is a Papist. And you must in reason take heed of dishonouring and defaming him, by defaming Protestants in general.