Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an…

§ 11. But again, what is it that maketh so many of the Laity serve the Popish Prelates universal claim, or keep up the destructive enmity and divisions of the Christian World? A stranger would think that it were chiefly caused by some great contrariety of real Interests, or that one party adhered to some principles or practices, which were really hurtful to the others rights? While both were serious for Christianity. But it is become by long experience notorious, that all the Christian Worlds calamitous divisions are principally from the old enmity between the Woman's and the Serpents Seed, and that all is but the Prosecution of that which their first Patriarch Cain began: exemplified after in the discrimination of the Children of men and the Sons of God, and in Esau and Jacob, Ishmael and Isaac, and so down to the days of the ⟨p. 38⟩Apostles: And, saith Paul, As he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the spirit; even so it is now. Among us it is notorious, that if we knew how to cure men of the radical Enmity of the flesh against the spirit, and of a carnal minds averseness to God and serious Godliness, the rest of our differences were never like to continue our Wounds and cruel Factions.

§ 11. But again, what is it that maketh so many of the Laity serve the Popish Prelates universal claim, or keep up the destructive enmity and divisions of the Christian World? A stranger would think that it were chiefly caused by some great contrariety of real Interests, or that one party adhered to some principles or practices, which were really hurtful to the others rights? While both were serious for Christianity. But it is become by long experience notorious, that all the Christian Worlds calamitous divisions are principally from the old enmity between the Womans and the Serpents Seed, and that all is but the Prosecution of that which their first Patriarch Cain began: exemplified after in the discrimination of the Children of men and the Sons of God, and in Esau and Iacob, Ishmael and Isaac, and so down to the days of the ⟨p. 38⟩Apostles: And, saith Paul, As he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the spirit; even so it is now. Among us it is notorious, that if we knew how to cure men of the radical Enmity of the flesh against the spirit, and of a carnal minds averseness to God and serious Godliness, the rest of our differences were never like to continue our Wounds and cruel Factions.