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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.
Two ways are by some proposed: First that all the Conscientious worshippers of God in the Kingdom, should bring their judgments to a full conformity, in every particular to their rulers: Whenas first they cannot tell us who these must be: some say to the King or Law? Some say to the Bishops in a National Convocation: Others ⟨p. 27⟩say, to the foresaid foreign universal Sovereignty of General Councils, (with the Patriarchs.) If the first be the way, what Kingdoms must it be in? Is it no where but in Britain? Or also in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland? And must there be as many Religions as Kings and Laws will make? And how far must this go? And where must we stop? Must Kings choose us a God? Or choose whether we shall have any God, any Christ, any Bible, any worship of God, and so any Heaven?
Two ways are by some proposed: First that all the Consciencious worshippers of God in the Kingdom, should bring their judgments to a full conformity, in every particular to their rulers: Whenas first they cannot tell us who these must be: some say to the King or Law? Some say to the Bishops in a National Convocation: Others ⟨p. 27⟩say, to the foresaid forreign universal Soveraignty of General Councils, (with the Patriarchs.) If the first be the way, what Kingdoms must it be in? Is it no where but in Britain? Or also in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland? And must there be as many Religions as Kings and Laws will make? And how far must this go? And where must we stop? Must Kings choose us a God? Or chuse whether we shall have any God, any Christ, any Bible, any worship of God, and so any Heaven?
If it be the Bishops that must be the common rule of our Religion, what Countries and Ages doth this rule serve for? Was it the rule where Princes and Prelates were Arians, or Nestorians, or Eutychians, or Monothelites, or Papists? Is it the rule now in France, Spain, Italy, &c. Or was it so in the Popes Catholic Church, from An. 700 till the Reformation.