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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 2: Whom I mean by Godly Persons, and whom by Malignant Enemies to Godliness.
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Chap. II. Whom I mean by Godly Persons, and whom by Malignant Enemies to Godliness.
§ 1. BY GODLINESS I do not mean, 1. Any Superstition, or making Religions, or Religious Duties which God never made, and extolling these, and the Party that are for them. God hath made us Religious work enough: Could we do that well, we need no more. Religion, so far as it is made by men, is no Religion, but a contradiction or equivocation; for Religion is our Obligation and Duty to God, and Conscience of it. Could I be for Superstition, or more Religion than God hath made us, I might be for all the New Religions of Rome, Franciscans, Dominicans, Carthusians, Jesuits, Oratorians, and all the rest: And I might be for their Works of Supererogation, their Massings, worshipping Bread, Angels, dead Saints, Images, their Pilgrimages, Relics, and all their pretended Traditions and Councils, their new made ⟨p. 42⟩Church-Laws; and I should know no end.
§ 1. BY GODLINESS I do not mean, 1. Any Superstition, or making Religions, or Religious Duties which God never made, and extolling these, and the Party that are for them. God hath made us Religious work enough: Could we do that well, we need no more. Religion, so far as it is made by men, is no Religion, but a contradiction or equivocation; for Religion is our Obligation and Duty to God, and Conscience of it. Could I be for Superstition, or more Religion than God hath made us, I might be for all the New Religions of Rome, Franciscans, Dominicans, Carthusians, Jesuits, Oratorians, and all the rest: And I might be for their Works of Supererogation, their Massings, worshiping Bread, Angels, dead Saints, Images, their Pilgrimages, Relicks, and all their pretended Traditions and Councils, their new made ⟨p. 42⟩Church-Laws; and I should know no end.