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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. 9. Why do you not ingenuously plead your cause against us, so as may satisfy an understanding Conscience, before you seek our destruction? 1. Your arguings are commonly fitted only to cheat the ignorant by ambiguities, and confusion, and equivocal terms; Your queries or methods to the French sufferers, are only a formed cheat, by confounding, 1. Subjection to Governors, and Communion with neighbour Churches. 2. Communion with your Church in Christianity and Communion with its sins. 3. A Catholic Church informed only by the sovereignty of Christ, and a pretended universal Church informed by the sovereignty of Man (a Monarch or a Church-Parliament.) 4. The office of keeping, delivering and teaching men Gods Laws, and an absolute power to Judge of their sense, and to make more as a supplement to their defects, obliging all the world on pain of Excommunication and Death: And more such.
Qu. 9. Why do you not ingenuously plead your cause against us, so as may satisfy an understanding Conscience, before you seek our destruction? 1. Your arguings are commonly fitted only to cheat the ignorant by ambiguities, and confusion, and equivocal terms; Your queries or methods to the French sufferers, are only a formed cheat, by confounding, 1. Subjection to Governours, and Communion with neighbour Churches. 2. Communion with your Church in Christianity and Communion with its sins. 3. A Catholick Church informed only by the soveraignty of Christ, and a pretended universal Church informed by the soveraignty of Man (a Monarch or a Church-Parliament.) 4. The office of keeping, delivering and teaching men Gods Laws, and an absolute power to Judge of their sence, and to make more as a supplement to their defects, obliging all the world on pain of Excommunication and Death: And more such.
2. Any writings which undeniably open your frauds, you take no notice of, nor vouchsafe to answer upon the importunity of Mr. ⟨p. 144⟩Johnson, and divers others; I have lately written; 1. A reply to Johnson. 2. A small book in answer to one of your Papers, to prove that we have a certainty of Christianity without Popery.