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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

cherish this presumption in himself and say to others Stand by I am holier than thou Or as the Pharisee I thank thee Lord that I am not as this Publican Though yet all that will be saved must greatly differ from the ungodly and must with thankfulness own Gods grace § 5. Nor 5. Do I mean any unlawful practice which on the pretence of Godliness may be done whether unjust censures backbiting unwarrantable separations from others divisions disobedience to Authority Sedition Rebellion c. These are all contrary to Godliness and true Religion Christ is the strictest condemner of them and Godliness the best cure If any Godly or Religious person be guilty of any one of these 1. It cannot be as known and in a predominant degree 2. And it is his Disease as a Leprosie to a man and not his Godliness § 6. But by GODLINESS I mean only the serious Consent to and Performance of the Covenant which we made with God in our Baptism That we seriously believe that there is One only God of most perfect Power Knowledge and Goodness our Creator Maintainer Governour and End whom we must Obey and Serve and Love above all Creatures whatsoever and that he is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him and will give everlasting blessedness to the faithful and everlastingly punish the ungodly That we seriously believe that Iesus Christ is the Redeemer and Saviour who Teacheth Ruleth Pardoneth Sanctifieth and Saveth all true penitent Believers who is our Intercessor Head and Iudge That we seriously believe that the Holy Ghost indited and sealed by his Gifts and Miracles the Doctrine and Writings of the Prophets and Apostles now recorded in the Scriptures and that he is sent from the Father and the Son to Regenerate Sanctifie Comfort and Strengthen those that shall be saved And that we seriously consent to Love and Obey God our Father Saviour and Sanctifier as his Creatures Subjects and Children in these Relations that we may be pardoned and saved by him And that we be willing to forsake the Devil and his Works and the World and Flesh so far as they would tempt us to break this Covenant against God and our Obedience and Salvation And lastly That we seriously or sincerely though not perfectly endeavour in our lives to keep this Covenant preferring God in our Love and Obedience and our Hopes of Life everlasting before all the pleasures and treasures of this World and resisting the temptations of the Devil World and Flesh which would turn us from him and from our Obedience and Hope And that we truly though not perfectly trust God and our Redeemer for the Heavenly Glory which he hath promised 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 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 Prophanation of holy things All Perjury false Vows and fathering falshoods upon God or his Words and rash Swearing and Unreverent using of Gods Name and turning his worship into a lifeless form And according to the fourth Commandment that we worship God publickly in solemn assemblies and devote the Lords day to holy exercises that we search the Scriptures pray for what God hath promised or commanded Meditate and Confer of holy things and celebrate the Sacraments in the Communion of Saints And so according to the second Table that we honour and obey our Parents and as far as their right of Government reacheth all other that God sets over us And dishonour them not nor obey Civil Ecclesiastical or Domestical Usurpers against them That we do our best to save our neighbours Life and Bodily welfare against Murderers or Usurpers and hurt no mans life or health either violently or by Iezabels pretence of Justice That we keep our Senses Thoughs Affections Passions and Actions from all unchastity and immodest lasciviousness That we wrong no man in his estate but to our power help them That we avoid all Injustice Lying false Witness false Judgment and Oppressive Unrighteous Government And promote Truth and Justice to our power And lastly that we love our Neighbour as our selves and take his welfare and his sufferings as our own and do as we would have others do by us and covet not to draw from him to our selves So that he that pretendeth to love God and Godliness and obedience to Christ and yet loveth not such a life as this he lieth or says he knows not what And he that hateth men or opposeth them for any one of all these duties for reading or hearing Gods Word for praying for things promised for holy Conference and Meditation for sanctifying the Lords day for desiring a Shepherd and not a Wolf for abhorring prophaneness and other great sins doth thereby declare that it is so much of Godliness or Obedience which he abhorreth and it is through Ignorance doubtless if he seriously love and practise the rest of Gods Commands § 7. II. By Malignant Enemies of Godliness 1. I do not mean every one that hath any backwardness to any duty which he overcometh in the practice Nor every one that is guilty of some omissions The spirit is willing and the flesh is weak § 8. 2. I mean not those that are Godly in the main so far as they can know but through education or otherwise are ignorant of some Integral Truths or Duties and have an opposing contentious Zeal against them by mistake and by factious company are taught therefore to speak evil falsly of those from whom they differ I hear some revile all even with terms of enmity and unchristian threatnings yea seeking their ruine who do not swear say and practise all that is required to English Conformity I do not conclude them therefore Malignant Enemies of Godliness if they live soberly righteously and godlily in their way and prefer God before Men Heaven before Earth the Soul before the Body and a Holy life before the pleasures and profits of the flesh If they are uncharitable against all that are not for Diocesans Lay-Chancellours Excommunications Symbolical Crossing of Children as a Covenanting sign of Christianity and all the rest I wish them more Charity but

in a schism and in sin That the Ministerial power is not the gift of Man but only of Christ who by the Charter of his recorded Word giveth the power and the obligation to that person who is duely chosen and called thereto As the Kings Charter giveth the power to the Mayor of a Corporation duly qualified and chosen that the ordainers are but partly Judges of due qualification and partly Ministerial Investers and not at all the Donors of the Power that ordination is for order sake needful when it may be had to keep men from being Judgers of their own sufficiency But order being only for the thing ordered as the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath is not necessary against the end That there is no necessity that a Superior must ordain but as the Colledge of Physicians Philosophers c. make Physicians Philosophers as approved so may equals in the Ministry Do not Bishops make or consecrate Bishops If this were not so who makes the Pope If he did not pretend that his power is given him immediately from Christ he must grant that there are some men above him to give it him and so he is not the Soveraign If they say that the power of Popes and Kings is given by the whole body the Church he is then no Pope for it 's known that three parts of the Christian World are against him If he will say None are the Church but those that are his party any sect or rebels may say the like and appropriate authority to themselves Nothing more cheateth the ignorant than ambiguous words and confusion And explaining those words and needful plain distinction would save the writing of many volumes and would make truth easily meet the seeker and unravel all the spider Webs of deceivers Do but well use these few distinctions and all Popery vanisheth into smoak 1. Distinguish between a Catholick Church as headed by Christ This we are all members of and a pretended Catholick Church headed by the Pope or any men This is another Church as to the denominating form having another informing unifying head And this is it which we deny 2. Distinguish visibility Christs Church is so far visible as to have a Head who was visible on Earth is visible in Heaven and will visibly come to Judgment and visibly reign for ever It hath visible Laws Protection and Officers The subjects bodies and their profession are visible And it is no farther visible no not as to the Souls or real faith of the subjects The Papists Church hath an Usurping Visible Humane Head on earth 3. Distinguish of Baptism and Ordination as into Christs Catholick Church and done by Papists as Christians And as into the Popes Catholick Church and done by Papists as Papists 4. Distinguish of Subjection and Communion We owe Communion when we owe no Subjection and where men have no right to be our Governours 5. Distinguish between Communion in Christianity and that in Essentials Integrals or Accidents and Communion in errours and corruptions or defects We have Communion with Papists and all Christians in Christianity if they be Christians indeed But we renounce Communion in the errours and sins of them and all others as far as we are able to avoid them All Christians have Union and Communion in the Essentials of Christianity No Christians have Union and Communion in all the Integrals on Earth all being imperfect But the more such Union and Communion the better No Christians have or ought to have Communion in all the Accidents All should avoid Communion in sin 6. Distinguish between Communion of Hearts Communion of Profession and Communion in Local presence We have Heart Communion in one Essential Faith Hope and Love with all true Christians on Earth We profess all one Faith in the Essentials We have nearer Communion or fuller with the Reformed Churches which are soundest in the Integrals than we have with the more faulty and corrupt But we have Local presence but in one place at once and we ought to avoid Local presence where we cannot have it without sin though we have Communion in Faith Love and Profession with the same men If a Reformed Church will not admit our Local presence without subscribing some one untruth we must be absent when we may be present with a worse Church which excludeth us not by any such Imposition 7. Accordingly distinguish of Separation We separate not at all from Union or Communion with Papists as they are Christians or as they hold any Truth But 1. We separate from Subjection and Obedience to them which we never owed them or any other Church 2. We separate from Communion with their Church as it is a Policy informed by an Usurping Humane King or Head. 3. We separate from all their sins so far as we know them 4. We deny Local presence in their Mass-worship because of the sin imposed on us both before it and in it 5. We are uncapable of Communion in all accidents or mutable indifferent things Understand and use well these few plain distinctions and you need little more to answer all the Papists And I fear not to add that were the Papists in my power as I never did I never would use any inhumanity or cruelty towards them yea I would use no Offensive but only Defensive force against them nor hurt one of them further than they made it necessary for the Defence of the Land or those whom they would hurt I knew not till a Book called The Liberties of England lately told me how many very severe Laws are against them I am no Judge of the times that they were made in nor of their occasions But I think that of late they have done more hurt than good For 1. Some of them seem too severe 2. Some I cannot prove to be justifiable viz. Those which would compel them to come to our Sacramental Communion when many a good Minister would not receive them if they came And that which excommunicateth them that never were of our Communion And that which layeth the Excommunicate as such in prison c. 3. It greatly tendeth to misinform Forreigners who seeing these Laws think they are all put in Execution and so believe those that tell them that the Catholicks here are under constant Cruelties and frequent Martyrdoms whenas I never in all my life knew of one Papist that suffered so much for his Religion as I have done my self within these few years past though my sufferings are so small as to be no meet matter of very great complaint 4. These Laws being a continual danger to them should there be Governours that would execute them doth put them on continual plotting and striving against them Sufferings or great dangers put men by fear upon self-defence and the utmost endeavours for deliverance who would be more quiet if they found themselves in safety and though their Clergy would be still plotting the recovery of the Papal power to