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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

perswade a Drunkard a Liar and Prophane swearer an Atheist to Repent he liveth quietly out of the Jail though he repent not But if a man repent not when he cannot of judging that God forbids such humane inventions and impositions in Religion take him Jaylor He that will not be for our humane Offices Ceremonies and Impositions shall not be of our Church And when we have cast him out we 'll say He separateth and if he be not of our Church he shall be in Jail As if the Church and the Jail would hold all the land except his sin be such a Peccadillo as Atheism Sadduceism Bestiality Hobbism Popery Man-slaughter Adultery Drunkenness Swearing c. not aggravated by the crimes of breaking the Canons in point of conformity Or if many thousands cannot or will not come within the Doors of the Parish Church so they will go to no unlicensed preacher nor worship God in House or Church at all they live quietly out of Prison But if the mote of an Oath or Ceremony scrupled be in their eye that eye must be pulled out if the mote cannot or else the whole body be cast into their Hell. And if the Preacher be but a Candidate of Domination his way is oft to call to the Magistrate to execute the Law upon such as dare presume to worship God openly till they hold all such imposed Oaths Covenants Professions and Practices to be lawful He is to make his auditory believe that such men are dangerous intolerable persons and that their meeting to worship God and learn their duty is to cherish Sedition Heresy and Schism and that Rebellion is in their hearts and that the Preachers that even to a thing indifferent are not of their mind and obedience are deceivers and factious and it is no sacriledge but a duty to forbid them to preach the Gospel If the People dare not trust the Parson Vicar or Curate of the Parish be he what he will whom a Patron chooseth for them with the Pastoral Ordinary conduct of their Souls or if he Preach not at all if they go to the next Parochial conformist for the Sacrament he is to be driven home and used as disobedient Through the great mercy of God while the Bible is Licensed a Preacher in England knoweth not how to spend his hour if he say not somewhat for Faith and Godliness Love and Peace And when they come down none are so hated by some of them as those that believe and do to their utmost what they for fashion sake perswaded them to believe and do Their neighbours who have not a word with the Priest of any thing but this World nor read a chapter or put up a prayer in their families these are good and quiet neighbours But if any seriously prepare for their everlasting state and mind their Salvation above the World especially if he pray without-book and dislike the ignorance and scandalous lives of sorry Priests these are the dangerous troublers of the land away with them and give us those that trouble us not with the talk of God and of death and Heaven or Hell of Scripture or of Conscience and that scruple nothing that we would have them say or do If such pray it is but in hypocrisy If they go to hear any other Preacher it is in faction If they speak any words to God which are not written down for them to read they sawcily prate to God and speak but nonsence If they be earnest as knowing what they pray for they do but whine and cut faces and speak through the Nose or are a pack of groaning Hypocrites It is confest that the spirit of Adoption and Supplication is Gods Gift and that this Spirit taught the Bishops and Convocation in what words to pray to God But if the most holy or learned man besides them pretend to it and think that any may pray by the Spirits help but the Convocation there are reverend men that will deride that Spirit or that prayer I would at least they would let men pray by reason and the sense of their Souls necessities as a Child will beg pardon of an offended Father if they will not give them leave to pray by that Spirit which all must live by that will be saved Physicians use their patients with some humanity and will not say to him that saith My stomach cannot take down this Potion I shall cast it up You shall take it or die or go to Prison Or if one say This Pill is bigger than my Throat can swallow They will rather say It shall be made less than they will cut his Throat wider to get it down And sure the reason is because the Law doth make them Physicians to none but Volunteers and give them no compelling power If it did I know not what inhumanity they might come to For I will not believe that there is any thing in Divinity which tendeth to make men more inhumane than Physicians I have seen Iews and others that will eat no swines flesh And I have known many that a tast of Cheese would cast into a swound near death And I never knew any say you shall eat this or die Nor that ever motioned the making of a Law that all men should be imprisoned or forbidden all other meat who refused to eat Swines-flesh for fear of tolerating Jews But we have Priests too many that will say Take every Oath Promise or Ceremony required of you or preach not nor worship God openly at all Take me for your Pastor or you shall have none Hear me or hear no man Receive the Communion from me or from none Deny not the lawfulness of a Ceremony or be Excommunicate § 4. And is it now any wonder that the people say as they are taught And these are lessons easilier learnt than a Catechism or the Creed or the meaning of Baptism How quickly can a man learn to call his Neighbour Whig or Tory Or to hate a Godly man or in a Tavern or Ale-house to scorn them or drink and curse to their confusion and to say I hope to see them all hang'd or banished out of the Land As a Priest that knows not what Divinity or the Priestly Office is may before he taketh many degrees attain the ability learnedly to call his Godly Neighbours Schismaticks or Hypocrites or worse So no doubt a few such Sermons if not a Tavern can quickly teach them that never knew what Religion is yea that can scarce speak sense to revile the wisest and best men as if they were sinners against the true Religion if they will be serious in any true Religion at all § 5. O sinful O miserable Land Who kindled all the hellish flames of thy malignity and mad divisions And who continueth them and for what What cloven foot hath entred and expelled concord What Spirit ruleth thee Were it the Spirit of Christ it would be for healing Love and Concord It would set men on studying