1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers! Congregational very usable and stable with

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The Midnight Capture

The present letter published in The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge

Later in Charles Buck

1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers! Congregational very usable and stable withIn 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,