1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers! Commentary friend and co-laborer with Baptist

friend and co-laborer with Baptist pioneer

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1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers! Commentary friend and co-laborer with BaptistIn 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,