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One sheet for the ministry against the malignants of all sorts
One sheet for the ministry against the malignants of all sorts by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevil Simmons, 1657
One Sheet for the Ministry, Against the Malignants of all sorts.
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.
19. It is the Devils own part that these Malignants act: For it is he that is the great enemy of Christ and the Saints, and he that is the accuser of the Brethren, which accuseth them before God day and night: And is not this the work of Quakers, Drunkards, Papists and all Malignants? But the Lord will rebuke them, and be the glory of his servants, Zach. 3. 1, 2. [He showed me Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan: The Lord rebuke thee O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem.]
19. It is the Devils own part that these Malignants act: For it is he that is the great enemy of Christ and the Saints, and he that is the accuser of the Brethren, which accuseth them before God day and night: And is not this the work of Quakers, Drunkards, Papists and all Malignants? But the Lord will rebuke them, and be the glory of his servants, Zach. 3. 1, 2. [He shewed me Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan: The Lord rebuke thee O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem.]
20. These Malignants do most of them condemn themselves; for they honour the ancient Ministers of Christ that are dead, even while they oppose and hate the present that are living, who are the nearest imitators of their Doctrine and life that are on earth! The name of Peter, and Paul, and John they honour, and some of them keep holy-days for them. And at the same time hate and reproach those that preach the same Doctrine, and that because they tread in their steps. They honour the names of Austin, and Chrysostom, and Hierom, and other Ancients: and hate those that preach and live as they did. They speak honourably of the Martyrs that were burned to death for the Doctrine of Christ; and at the same time they hate us, for doing as they did. What difference between the calling, doctrine and lives of those martyred Ministers, and these that are now alive? O wretched hypocrites, do you not know that these Apostles, Fathers and other Ministers, did suffer in their time from such as you, as we now do and more? Hear what Christ saith to such as you,