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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.
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.
This is plainly, distinctly and fully what I mean by Godliness or Holiness: And such are the persons (though all imperfect, and of divers degrees) which I call Saints or Godly: He that feigneth me to mean any thing else, doth but abuse himself and me: If there be none such, there are no Christians, and all the Word of God is vain.
But every Duty commanded by God is a part of the matter of our Obedience and Religion, viz. As according to the first Commandment to take God for our God, to be absolutely Obeyed, Loved and Trusted, and to renounce all Idols, and neither to Obey, ⟨p. 45⟩Love or Trust our selves or any creature before him; So also according to the second Commandment, to renounce all scandalous symbolizing with Idolaters, in the outward worship of God in their sinful way; especially by Images, and other appearances of Idolatry: And that we worship God, according to his Word.
But every Duty commanded by God is a part of the matter of our Obedience and Religion, viz. As according to the first Commandment to take God for our God, to be absolutely Obeyed, Loved and Trusted, and to renounce all Idols, and neither to Obey, ⟨p. 45⟩Love or Trust our selves or any creature before him; So also according to the second Commandment, to renounce all scandalous symbolizing with Idolaters, in the outward worship of God in their sinful way; especially by Images, and other apearances of Idolatry: And that we worship God, according to his Word.
And according to the third Commandment, that we avoid all Profanation of holy things; All Perjury, false Vows, and fathering falsehoods upon God or his Words, and rash Swearing and Unreverent using of Gods Name, and turning his worship into a lifeless form.