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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 1: A Lamentation for the case of the Deluded, Malignant, Militant World.
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These and such other are the subjects of our News-books, which have broken the poor Booksellers, who were wont to live by selling Books of Learning, and of practical Divinity. And too many Preachers are fain to be short as well as formal in their Sermons for Christian Love, because they spend so much time in Preaching up hatred and destruction. Were there but any Art that could devise any Engine that could reach the heart, and turn it into the hatred of those that never did them wrong (as they say some Philtres and Charms will make men mad with Love;) Or if any Apothecary had an effectual Medicine against brotherly Love▪ I doubt these would become the most accustomed Shops and prosperous Trades in all the City: But for want of such, some Pulpits, Printers Booksellers, Clubs, Drinking-houses, and Play-houses (to pass by fouler) must serve the turn. But if God have not mercy on the Land by restraining them, Gunpowder-makers, Gun-smiths, Sword sellers, Soldiers, Swearers and Executioners, will swallow up most other Trades in the Land. It's worth enquiry whether in foresight of this, they set not their Sons to such Trades as these, or Apprentices to such ⟨p. 18⟩Lawyers as are best at preparative Accusations, and have learnt Tertullus's Art: Or to such Schools and Tutors as can teach them the Learning of Zedekiah, and the four hundred Prophets, 1 King. 22.
These and such other are the subjects of our News-books, which have broken the poor Booksellers, who were wont to live by selling Books of Learning, and of practical Divinity. And too many Preachers are fain to be short as well as formal in their Sermons for Christian Love, because they spend so much time in Preaching up hatred and destruction. Were there but any Art that could devise any Engine that could reach the heart, and turn it into the hatred of those that never did them wrong (as they say some Philters and Charms will make men mad with Love;) Or if any Apothecary had an effectual Medicine against brotherly Love▪ I doubt these would become the most accustomed Shops and prosperous Trades in all the City: But for want of such, some Pulpits, Printers Booksellers, Clubs, Drinking-houses, and Play-houses (to pass by fouler) must serve the turn. But if God have not mercy on the Land by restraining them, Gunpowder-makers, Gun-smiths, Swordsellers, Souldiers, Swearers and Executioners, will swallow up most other Trades in the Land. It's worth enquiry whether in foresight of this, they set not their Sons to such Trades as these, or Apprentices to such