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A26871	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1689 (1689)	Wing B1195; ESTC R2643	73,886	164

Oaths the Oath of Allegeance and the Oath called the Covenant that by them overcame the opposition of the other Army and brought home the King. It was this that engaged the Ministers of England against both Cromwel and a Common-wealth and the Ministers were followed by most of the religious people of the land which broke the adversaries strength It was this that engaged the excluded members of the then long Parliament It was this that engaged the City of London It seems it was this that engaged Gen. Monk's Army when they say in their address to him see it in Englands Triumph for K. Charles the 2d p. 85. We hope to evince to his Majesty and all the world that we and all those that have been engaged in the Parliaments cause are his Majesties best and most real subjects and that your Excellency and the Armies under your command have complied with the obligations for which they were first raised for the preservation of the true Protestant Religion the Honour and Dignity of the King the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Property of the Subjects and the Fundamental Laws of the land I am not justifying all that I recite I doubt not but they were much mistaken But if they had then been told that shortly all the Corporation Offices and Trusts in England shall be constituted by a personal Declaration of every one that There is no obligation on any person from the Oath called the Solemn Covenant to restore the King oppose Schism or to any thing whatever the effect would have been such as makes me wonder that the Royalists as then called should be very eager to make all such declare that all these Souldiers Ministers Parliament and Citizens that restored the King as bound to it by that Oath were therein mistaken and no such obligation thence was on them Qu. 7. I need not name to you the sorry fellows out of the Jails where they lay for inhuman villanies that have been our zealous ranting tearing prosecuters And do you think such actors are an honour to your cause If it be good use good men in it Qu. 8. Why do you play your game under board and behind the Curtain If you are not ashamed of your cause openly own it Is falshood lying and dissembling beseeming them that say they are of a Church out of which none can be saved I remember when Terret alias Iohnson had seduced the eldest Daughter of the Countess of Balcarres whom they stole away and made a Nun in France and she was after askt why she did so long go to our Churches join in family worship read Protestant Books and talk against the Papists and deride them after she was a Papist her self she answered that they had leave to do all that as long as they did not openly Profess their Religion and were not detected But when once they were discovered and openly professed themselves Roman Catholicks they must then suffer any thing rather than conform to us Gods cause needeth not such jugling and lying Qu. 9. Why do you not ingenuously plead your cause against us so as may satisfy an understanding Conscience before you seek our destruction 1. Your arguings are commonly fitted only to cheat the ignorant by ambiguities and confusion and equivocal terms Your queries or methods to the French sufferers are only a formed cheat by confounding 1. Subjection to Governours and Communion with neighbour Churches 2. Communion with your Church in Christianity and Communion with its sins 3. A Catholick Church informed only by the soveraignty of Christ and a pretended universal Church informed by the soveraignty of Man a Monarch or a Church-Parliament 4. The office of keeping delivering and teaching men Gods Laws and an absolute power to Judge of their sence and to make more as a supplement to their defects obliging all the world on pain of Excommunication and Death And more such 2. Any writings which undeniably open your frauds you take no notice of nor vouchsafe to answer upon the importunity of Mr. Iohnson and divers others I have lately written 1. A reply to Iohnson 2. A small book in answer to one of your Papers to prove that we have a certainty of Christianity without Popery 3. In answer to another a small Book called Full and Easy satisfaction which is the true Religion None of them will you answer nor those before written But instead of a sober investigation of the truth some of you raise odious slanders of my life and threaten and seek my destruction I never hurt any of you as I said before nor ever perswaded any to severity against you I have long ago publickly proposed terms on which we might live together as neighbours in peace But destruction and misery are in your way that I have observed and the way of peace you have not known There are three things which alienate common Christians from you more than all other disputes 1. That you can go so openly against the plainest words of God as in blotting out the Second Commandment in notorious contradicting 1 Cor. 12. and Rom. 14 and 15. about the terms of Church Union and Communion about Latin Prayers and Worship to the ignorant denying the Cup to the Laity denying sense in Transubstantiation 2. That you befriend Ignorance so much by the said Latin Worship forbidding most to read the Scripture translated and accuse Gods Spirit of writing obscurely to cover this 3. That your Religion liveth by cruelty and blood and cannot stand without it Which at least in prudence you should hide as long as you can Or at least not design to make the ignorant and vicious Protestants your Proselytes and Agents conjunctly to ruin those whom your Consciences know to be the most Consciencious and seriously religious By which already the flock of Christ do under your Sheeps cloathings so judge of you by your fruites that if any man that is called a Protestant Clergy-man do but Write and Preach for cruelty and ruin towards serious Conscionable Christians people by this very mark do presently suspect that he is either a Papist or so near them as that he is ready to pass over to them whom he so assisteth in destructive work Qu. What must be the cure of Malignity Ans. When the heel of the holy seed is sufficiently bruised the Serpents Head must be broken 1. The War in Heaven which formerly cast down the Dragon must break the supream Serpentine Head. II. Then his Heads military on Earth will be broken I. The usurping universal Head called Ecclesiastical II. The national Serpentine Heads I. Exterior Mahometan and Heathen II. Interior called falsly Christian I. Serpentine Monarchs that War against Christ. II. Serpentine Prelates and their Patrons that fight against Christ as in his own name and by his pretended commission And all this by Christ and not by sinful means Reformation is begun à Minoritis at the lowest for personal Salvation of the Elect But a Majoritis at the Heads for publick welfare And God must raise Reforming Princes and Pastors to that end FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel Mr. Baxter's Catholick Theology Folio A Third Volume of Sermons Preached by the late Reverend and Learned Tho. Manton D. D. In two parts Folio A Hundred Select Sermons on several Texts of Fifty on the Old Testament and Fifty on the New. Folio Choice and Practical Expositions on four Select Psalms Folio Both by the Reverend and Learned Tho. Horton D. D. late Minister of St. Hellens London The true Prophecies and Prognostications of Michael Nostrodamus Physician to Henry the Second Francis the Second and Charles the Ninth Kings of France and one of the Best Astronomers that ever were Folio Sixty one Sermons Preached mostly on publick occasions whereof five formerly Printed by Adam Littleton D. D. Rector of Chelsea in Middlesex Folio The Saints Everlasting Rest or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Glory 4to The English Nonconformity as under King Charles II. and King Iames II. Truly Stated and Argued By Richard Baxter 4to A Discourse concerning Liturgies By the late Learned and Judicious Divine Mr. David Clarkson 8vo A Discourse of the Saving Grace of God. By the late Reverend and Learned David Clarkson Minister of the Gospel 8vo The Vision of the Wheels seen by the Prophet Ezekiel opened and applyed Partly at the Merchants Lecture in Broad-street and partly at Stepney on Ianuary 31. 1689. Being the Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for the great Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Slavery by His then Highness the most Illustrious Prince of Orange Whom God raised up to be the glorious Instrument thereof By Matthew Mead Pastor of a Church of Christ at Stepney 4to The Life of Faith in every State. By Rich. Baxter 4to Alderman Ashurst's Funeral Sermon 4to A Key for Catholicks to open the Juglings of the Jesuits The first part of answering all their common Sophisms The second against the Soveraignty and necessity of General Councils 4to Full and easy satisfaction which is the true Religion Transubstantiation shamed 8vo Naked Popery Answering Mr. Hutchinson 4to FINIS

and scorn And Sulpitius Severus his sharp Invective against Ithacius Idacius and the rest of the Bishops in their Synod was that in prosecuting the Priscillian Gnosticks they brought the matter to that pass that if Godly men did but fast and pray and read Scripture the Bishops made them suspected as Priscillianists even St. Martin himself Woe to them that turn the sacred Offices of Magistracy and Ministry against God that did ordain them to be used as in his name and in some representation of himself sacrilegiously blaspheming him as an Enemy to himself Shall the Throne of Iniquity have fellowship with God that frameth mischief by a Law to make sin common and allowed By this the Reader may see that there is a double History needful to the full understanding of this Book and of the nature and causes of Malignity that is 1. The History of Adam's fall and the great depravation of humane nature thence arising and the true meaning of the Enmity thence put between the Womans and the Serpents seed exemplified in the two first Brothers born into the world as also in Ishmael and Isaac Esau and Jacob and frequently mentioned by Christ and his Apostles 2. The History of the advantages that Malignity hath got in England since the Reformation and especially since the return of Charles the second This must contain the sad differences begun at Frankford in Q. Marys days the errours and extreams of both the differing Parties the by assing determinations of Q. Elizabeth the difference between the first Bishops that had been exiles and their Successors the Presbyterians provocations by over-opposing Episcopacy and the Bishops design to root them out and the making of the Canons to that end The rise of a new sort of Bishops begun in Laud Neile Howson Corbet and Buckeridge with Mountague and their growth under Buckingham against the old Churchmen The design of a Coalition with Rome and the French and English attempts thereto The interruption of this design by the first Long Parliament and the Wars The Scots forcing the Parliament that in their straits asked their help to take their Covenant The imposing that Covenant on the whole Ministry and making it a dividing Engine on pretence of Unity The Parliaments casting out with a multitude of flagitious Ministers some Doctors for being against them for the King contrary to the desires of Peace-makers The Presbyterians under Monk restoring King Charles the second The return and preferment of his Doctors and their revengeful resolutions Their design to get all Church-power and Preferment and Academick Rule into the hands of them that most hated Puritans or would endeavour their extirpation and would educate Youth in bitter prejudice and hatred of them The vulgar hatred of serious Godliness in Conformists and Nonconformists under the name of Puritans The power that a few returned Doctors had with the King and Chancellor in the dispose of Preferments and thereby to over-rule the Parliament and to procure the Acts of Uniformity Corporation Oaths Vestry and Militia Oaths and the Acts for Banishments Confinements Imprisonments Fining Ejecting Silencing and Ruining such whose Consciences pleaded Gods Law and Authority against any of their Oaths Impositions and silencing Prohibitions to preach the Gospel The great difference in the Wars I meddle not with the Cause between the Adherents and Souldiers of the K. Ch. I. and the Parliaments in point of Piety and Sobriety The Animosity and implacable heat by which the before Conquered and now Ruling Party proceeded towards the ruine of those that they took for Enemies to the Cause Civil or Ecclesiastick which they had owned The unhappiness of the then present Ministry that being young then had never medled with Wars that they must equally suffer as Enemies for fearing the Imposed Oaths Subscriptions Covenants and Practices The rejoycing of the common sort of the luxurious drunkards whoremongers and Infidels that they had got so many of the Religious into contempt and scorn and ruine The woful increase of Whoredom Luxury and Impiety and Sadducism hereupon The great numbers of Religious people who before hoped for Peace and a pious Prelacy that fell hereupon into an hatred of Prelacy and a great disesteem of the Conforming Ministry and so our Divisions are grown to a fixed factious Enmity and malice and worldly interest will hear no motions or petitions for Peace and yet madly plead all for Love and Peace while they implacably fight against them and accuse those as the Enemies of Peace who beg Peace of them and cannot obtain it This is the sum of the doleful History which this Book presupposeth But should I write it the rage would be increased The foregoing Narrative is as much as is fit for this brief Discourse which if you will you may style Acris correptio with Gildas or Planctus Ecclesiae with Alv. Pelag. Or the Groans of the Church with a late Conformable Divine It hath been cast by four years at first because it would not be endured and after in a vain hope that our Church Reformation would make such a complaint less necessary But now I perceive the Devil will be the Devil and Mankind will be born blind sensual and malignant till there be a new Heaven and Earth in which dwelleth Righteousness Come Lord Iesus August 24. 1689. The fatal Day of Silencing in England in 1662. Chap. I. A Lamentation for the case of the Deluded Malignant Militant World. § 1. THE depraved and miserable condition of Mankind hath long been the astonishing wonder of the sober and inquisitive part of the world Philosophers were puzzled with the difficult questions whence it first came and why it is no more remedied Christians are taught by the sacred Scriptures how to answer both by laying it on mans misusing of his free will supposing Gods permission of his tryal and temptations and on his resistance and rejection of remedying grace in the degree that it is vouchsaft or offered But still there are difficulties and our understandings are dark and hardly satisfied And whence ever it comes the case is doleful and we cannot but think of it with astonishment and lamentation When we saw an hundred thousand made dead corps by the London Plague 1665. it did not take off the terrour to know how it begun And when we saw the City on a dreadful flame which none could stop it cured not the general astonishment to conjecture how it was kindled or carried on No doubt but Hell it self proclaimeth that God is Holy Wise and Iust and Devils and Men are the cause of their own everlasting punishment But yet if we had a sight of it amazement and dread would overwhelm us And alas what a Map of Hell is the greatest part of Earth Hell is a place of Lying Malignant and murderous hurtful Spirits miserable by and for their wickedness And is not this in a lower degree a true description of most of the Earth § 2. Nineteen parts in Thirty

persons and closing for the future in mutual love was the only way to the Nations peace You would tempt men to think that you desire to see such days again by trying whether destroying men will tempt nature to a self-defence 2. But you have oft had it proved by Henry Fowlis Bishop Barlow and abundance more that no Protestants come near the Principles and Practices of the Papists as to King-killing and Rebellion And if yet you know not that the War began between two parties of Episcopal conformists here among the English you are unfit to judge of that which you know not And by reading Rushworth Whitlock or any true Histories of such times and matters you may be better informed As you may of their different principles if you read Iewel Bishop Bilson and Richard Hooker on one side and Mainwarning and Sibthorp on the other 3. But how few men are alive that had any hand in those miserable Wars You have oft been offered a thousand thanks if you will silence and hunt no other that are as innocent as you and more than many of of their accusers And shall thousands suffer for other mens deeds 3. What will wise men think of such a sort of men as charge multitudes in general with Rebellious and Seditious Doctrine and have accused so few of any such these twenty years that I know not of one publickly Accused Tryed and Proved guilty of all called Presbyterians in all this Land If they are guilty prove it and let the guilty suffer and not the innocent Only had I my wish I would Bar Perjury and Condemning men unheard Accus They are an unpeaceable sort of people Ans. That 's soon said Who hath these 22 two years manifested most desires of Peace They that have beg'd for it again and again Pleaded and written for it Offered their Oaths that they would obey any lawful Commands for it and do any thing which they did not believe that God forbids Or those Bishops that would not have one Form or Ceremony or needless Subscription forborn to save thousands of Ministers from being silenced and laid in Common jails nor to save many thousand of the people from suffering and to heal the divisions of the Church One would think this should be as easie a Controversy as when Soldiers are plundering the Country and the people on their knees intreating for their goods and lives to determine which of them is most against War. Accus But what need they make such a stir with their Religion What need they any more than go to Church and live obediently and be quiet Why will they be righteous over much will not less ado bring men to Heaven Why do they differ from their Neighbours and judge all carnal that be not as Scrupulous as they God is merciful and will he save none but Puritans or precise zealots Ans. Now you come to the real matter of your distast I did not meddle with the case of Nonconformity as it is a Controversy between Godly men but only as you make a pretence of it to exercise your enmity against serious Godliness and a handle to lay hold on many whom Christ will justify and save To all before said I add 1. If you think they do too much search the Scriptures and see whether it be not less than God commandeth And if so is it not God whom you accuse and reproach 2. If they do too much in obeying God why do Canon-makers impose such abundance on them as if God had not imposed enough 3. Why do you never find fault with men for being too strong too healthful too rich too great but only for being too obedient to God When Christ saith If we did all that God commandeth we must say we are unprofitable Servants we have done no more than was our duty and the best on Earth come short of duty But this which is the Core I answered before And conclude that all that be in their right wits can easilier bear all your accusations and persecutions of us as if we did too much in obedience to God than the accusation of Conscience and the displeasure of God for doing too little Which alas when we have done our best would sink us into despair had we not the merits of Christs suffering and perfect righteousness to trust to Chap. V. An humble Expostulation with the English Papists who by Information and Prosecution seek our ruine THough it be not Popery as such that I am here reasoning against the course that many Papists take in seeking our destruction giveth me cause of this humble expostulation And I speak now of no other but of them I mean 1. Those that write so hotly and ragingly to provoke Superiors to ruine us 2. Those that make a trade of being delators against us for worshiping God as we do 3. Those of them that break in upon us with greatest haughtiness and fury to take away all our goods and seek our imprisonment 4. Those that seek to ruine us by those Laws which were made against themselves 5. Those that would make Superiors believe that our Doctrine is more rebellious than theirs To these I offer a few modest questions Qu. 1. There are some among you that profess great Spirituality and strictness in Religion Serenus Cressy wrote to me commending Baker's book which he published that he forsook the Church of England because he found no Spiritual contemplation and devotion among us Such as Nerius Sales Kempis Gerson Borromaeus Renti c. are really the chief honour of your Church Much of that for which I am hated by the Enemies of serious godliness I acknowledge to Gods praise I was first chiefly awakened to by a book written by one whom Watson and others of your party grievously accuse I mean Parsons Book of Resolution corrected by Bunny True Christianity and Godliness is the same thing in all that have it Your Priest Mr. Hutchinson alias Berry writeth that the most of serious Godliness among Protestants is found among those called Puritans So that I was fain to defend the Conformists against his charge All this being so is it the Spirit of God that engageth and enrageth you with the most destructive bitterness against those men whom you confess to be the most Religious meerly because they are stiffest against your Church Government and way of worship And do you not know that it tendeth more sensibly than disputes to perswade the people whom you thus hate and prosecute that your Religion is malignant and enmity to real Godliness Qu. 2. Do you think it is prudent for you as soon as ever you get up and before you dare openly own your name and cause to begin with Malice Rage and Cruelty and that against the most religious as you say Will not this perswade the people that all is true that is said of your intended cruelty and make them fear you as so many Leopards or Wolves Will they not say if the young Serpents

can so easily sting what will the old ones do And if your infancy here begin with such destructive zeal what will you do when you are at full growth Qu. 3. You cannot be ignorant what cause to accuse your Church with Cruelty and Blood hath been given the world by your Church Laws and Practices By the Council at the Laterane under Innocent 3d the Council for damning Henrician Hereticks even Kings that claim Investiture of Bishops and those that decree the burning of all that you call Hereticks By the murder of so many thousand Albigenses Waldenses Bohemians c. By the Inquisitions more inhumane cruelties in Belgium and Spain c. By the Massacres in France and the murder of Henry III. and IV. By Queen Maries flames By the two hundred thousand murdered in Ireland And there be many among you who disown all this and say it is not from the principles of your Religion when yet General Councils approved are your Religion it self This being copiously opened as I said before by Henry Fowlis Bishop Barlow c. had it not been more prudent for you to have begun with Lenity and Love to have drawn men to think that you are better minded than to perswade them that you are of your rulers and forefathers mind and mean to imitate them Qu. 4. Have you not observed that all parties have faln by forcing multitudes to be their enemies by seeking to destroy or hurt them Most men love quietness and will live in peace if others will give them leave But when they see that they must offend others or not defend themselves it sets all their wit and power on work against their intolerable enemies There are few creatures in the world that have not some power and inclination to hurt others for their own defence The Bee hath a Sting to defend her Hive and Honey And do you not remember that your sufferings in England came most by Queen Maries flames and the Spanish Invasion and the many Treasons against Queen Elizabeth and by the Powder Plot And how the French Massacre and Murders of Kings and the horrid Inquisition set all our Parliaments against you And how the Murder of 200000 in Ireland drove many thousands into the Parliaments Army that else would not have gone And will you yet stir up all the Land to fear and hate you Qu. 5. Is it not both imprudent and unrighteous for you of all men to turn those Laws against us which were made against you and have so much slept and little troubled you You will by this call people to take notice of them that did not before For my own part as I never hurt any of you so I know not that any of the Ministers did whose ruine you endeavour We hear of none of your sufferings by any such Indeed these late years many have died as for the Plot so much talkt of But by whom did they die Was it not by the accusation and witness of Papists Were not Oats Bedlow Dugdale Turbervile Prance Dangerfield Ienison Smith alias Barry the York-shire Witnesses and the rest besides the Irish all men of your selves that came out of your own Bosoms whether the men died justly or unjustly I leave to God But sure it was men of your own selves that did it And will you be revenged for this on such Protestants that medled not in it And you should remember that you and we have a Protestant King who hath sworn all his Kingdom against all forreign jurisdiction and all endeavour of any alteration of Government in Church or state and so much abhors Popery that he hath made a law severely to punish all that shall but raise any suspicion that he is a Papist And you must in reason take heed of dishonouring and defaming him by defaming Protestants in general And sure since Queen Elizabeths days we have had no Kings whom you can justly accuse of cruelty towards you No not King Iames when the Powder Plot had provoked him if half be true that the Bishop of Ambrun saith of his conference with him or that Rushworth and others say of the Oath of the King Prince and Council for Toleration you are disingenuous if you accuse them of cruelty or rigorous severity In you Philanax Anglicus as formerly in the Image of both Churches you make all called Protestants of sincerity to be of Rebellious principles and their Religion introduced by it and yet profess that you honour the King as if you would have men doubt whether he be a Protestant of sincerity or else were as bad as you describe Had the severe Laws been executed against you especially for meer Religion no one could wonder if you desired relief But while you live quietly and Words and Paper hurt you not that I hear of to begin with so much hurtfulness to them that medled not with you will disserve your cause Qu. 6. And is it consistent with reasonable modesty to go about to make the World believe that the Protestant Doctrine is less loyal than yours Do you think your Books are invisible all your practices forgotten It is none of the business of this writing to accuse you herein of any thing but falsly accusing others and seeking to destroy us on such accusation Though you may thus deceive the ignorant that know no more of you than what you tell them that will but turn to your dishonour at last Are not your foresaid Council Canons which are your Religion visible Have not the forecited writers truly cited them and multitudes of your Doctors which may better inform men Are all the Wars of Italy Germany c. against Princes and Emperors for the Pope forgotten Was it not a Council of your Bishops that decreed that all the carcasses of those Bishops that were for the Henrician Heresy that is for the Emperors power of investing Bishops and his exemption from being excommunicated and deposed by the Pope should be digged out of their Graves and Burnt Was it not a council that deposed Ludovicus Pius How many more such acts have they done And are not your most learned Doctors allowed to publish the justification of the Popes power to excommunicate depose Kings if they deserve it in his judgment Do not your politick Writers Casuists and Divines ordinarily hold that the people give Kings their power and may take it away when they forfeit it and that tyranny is such a forfeiture And that the people should not suffer a Heretick to reign And that subjects may be absolved from their Oaths of Allegiance according to the foresaid Laterane and Greg. 7. Roman Councils But too much is said of this by many and the case is past a modest denial Even those Protestants that were in Arms for the Parliament and restored the King were so far from thinking that their Oaths of Allegiance may be dispensed with that if I knew any thing of those men and times it was principally the Conscience of two