1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers!

In an era of outrage, even [or perhaps especially] among Christians, Baxter provides a timely and characteristically direct [i.e. red hot] reproof of anger, hatred, and of a militant [as he calls it] "us versus them" perspective on people. For Baxter, this has its root in the original narrative of Cain and Abel . . . an early iteration of the truism that all wars are civil wars and all murder is fratricide, and all anger is, in the eyes of Scripture, heart-murder.  Baxter, Richard. 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 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, who earnestly beseecheth all Enemies, Scorners, Opposers, and Persecutors of serious Obedience to God, not to refuse to small a matter as the Reading this short u