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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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And saith A. Bishop Laud (in Dr. Stillingfleet's defence of him, p. 540. [It doth not follow, because the Church may err, therefore She may not Govern. For the Church hath not only a PASTORAL Power, to Teach and Direct, but a PRAETORIAN also, to control and censure, &c. And for external obedience to General Councils when they err, [Consider whether it be not fit to allow a General council that honour and privilege which all other Great Courts have: Stillingfleet, p. 534.]
And saith A. Bishop Laud (in Dr. Stillingfleet's defence of him, p. 540. [It doth not follow, because the Church may err, therefore She may not Govern. For the Church hath not only a PASTORAL Power, to Teach and Direct, but a PRETORIAN also, to controul and censure, &c. And for external obedience to General Councils when they err, [Consider whether it be not fit to allow a General council that honour and priviledge which all other Great Courts have: Stillingfleet, p. 534.]
So that instead of a Council of equals for concord (as Princes use for peace with their neighbours,) We have an Universal Sovereign Court set up with Praetorian Power, to make binding Laws, and pass Judgment to all the Christian World, and (say some) They are Schismatics that obey not these Universal Laws, and obedience to them, and suppressing all forbidden Assemblies for Gods worship is the only way to Christian concord.
So that instead of a Council of equals for concord (as Princes use for peace with their neighbours,) We have an Vniversal Soveraign Court set up with Pretorian Power, to make binding Laws, and pass Iudgment to all the Christian World, and (say some) They are Schismaticks that obey not these Vniversal Laws, and obedience to them, and suppressing all forbidden Assemblies for Gods worship is the only way to Christian concord.