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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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By which already the flock of Christ do (under your Sheeps clothings) so judge of you by your fruits, that if any man that is called a Protestant▪ Clergy-man, do but Write and Preach for cruelty and ruin towards serious Conscionable Christians, people by this very mark do presently suspect that he is either a Papist or so near them as that he is ready to pass over to them, whom he so assisteth in destructive work.
By which already the flock of Christ do (under your Sheeps cloathings) so judge of you by your fruites, that if any man that is called a Protestant▪ Clergy-man, do but Write and Preach for cruelty and ruin towards serious Conscionable Christians, people by this very mark do presently suspect that he is either a Papist or so near them as that he is ready to pass over to them, whom he so assisteth in destructive work.
Qu. What must be the cure of Malignity?
Ans. When the heel of the holy seed is sufficiently bruised, the Serpents Head must be broken. 1. The War in Heaven which formerly cast down the Dragon, must break the supreme Serpentine Head. II. Then his Heads military on Earth will be broken. I. The usurping universal Head called Ecclesiastical: II. The national Serpentine ⟨p. 146⟩Heads. I. Exterior; Mahometan and Heathen. II. Interior; called falsely Christian: I. Serpentine Monarchs, that War against Christ. II. Serpentine Prelates and their Patrons, that fight against Christ as in his own name, and by his pretended commission.
Ans. When the heel of the holy seed is sufficiently bruised, the Serpents Head must be broken. 1. The War in Heaven which formerly cast down the Dragon, must break the supream Serpentine Head. II. Then his Heads military on Earth will be broken. I. The usurping universal Head called Ecclesiastical: II. The national Serpentine