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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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There are three things which alienate common Christians from you more than all other disputes. 1. That you can go so openly against the plainest words of God (as in blotting out the Second Commandment, in notorious contradicting 1 Cor. 12. and Rom. 14, and 15. about the terms of Church Union and Communion; about Latin Prayers and Worship to the ignorant, denying the Cup to the Laity, denying sense in Transubstantiation).
2. That you befriend Ignorance so much, by the said Latin Worship, forbidding most ⟨p. 145⟩to read the Scripture translated, and accuse Gods Spirit of writing obscurely, to cover this.
3. That your Religion liveth by cruelty and blood, and cannot stand without it: Which at least in prudence you should hide as long as you can; Or at least not design to make the ignorant and vicious Protestants, your Proselytes and Agents conjunctly to ruin those whom your Consciences know to be the most Conscientious and seriously religious.
3. That your Religion liveth by cruelty and blood, and cannot stand without it: Which at least in prudence you should hide as long as you can; Or at least not design to make the ignorant and vicious Protestants, your Proselytes and Agents conjunctly to ruin those whom your Consciences know to be the most Consciencious and seriously religious.