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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doubtless the Gospel as used in English, and Preached by true Protestants, (such as the Pseudo-Bellamy in Philanax Anglicus hatefully calleth Protestants off Sincerity,) goeth not with many beyond Sea, for the same Gospel which they believe. And therefore no wonder if the Preachers of it be unpleasing to them; and he that will please them, and unite with them, must silence or oppose those that they would have to be silenced and disgraced. And some think that Union with many Kingdoms of Christians, which call themselves the Catholic Church, is much to be preferred before the Love and Concord of a hated party in our ⟨p. 23⟩Island. And as Dr. Saywell (the Master of a College and Bishop Gunnings Chaplain) saith (to prove that there is a Universal Legislative and Judicial power in the Clergy, over Kingdoms as well Persons;) [If more persons or particular Churches give offence by Heresy, Schism, &c. The CHURCH UNIVERSAL, or the rest of the Bishops may reprove them for it, and then there is no Reason why one man should be censured and many should go free, and consequently our Saviour hath established the Authority of his Church over all Christians as well particular Churches as private men: Churches of Kingdoms and Nations have a SOVEREIGNTY over them to which they must yield obedience, Isa. 60. 12. The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish: yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted, pag. 343.
Doubtless the Gospel as used in English, and Preached by true Protestants, (such as the Pseudo-Bellamie in Philanax Anglicus hatefully calleth Protestants off Sincerity,) goeth not with many beyond Sea, for the same Gospel which they believe. And therefore no wonder if the Preachers of it be unpleasing to them; and he that will please them, and unite with them, must silence or oppose those that they would have to be silenced and disgraced. And some think that Union with many Kingdoms of Christians, which call themselves the Catholick Church, is much to be preferred before the Love and Concord of a hated party in our ⟨p. 23⟩Island. And as Dr. Saywell (the Master of a Colledge and Bishop Gunnings Chaplain) saith (to prove that there is a Universal Legislative and Judicial power in the Clergy, over Kingdoms as well Persons;) [If more persons or particular Churches give offence by Heresy, Schism, &c. The CHURCH UNIVERSAL, or the rest of the Bishops may reprove them for it, and then there is no Reason why one man should be censured and many should go free, and consequently our Saviour hath established the Authority of his Church over all Christians as well particular Churches as private men: Churches of Kingdoms and Nations have a SOVERAIGNTY over them to which they must yield obedience,