1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers! Commentary Philippians 3

Philippians 3

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The Re-Action of a Revival upon Religion: A Sermon preached before the Convention of the Congregationalist Ministers of Massachusetts

1689 RICHARD BAXTER. On the Evil of Anger and Malignity in Christians and Especially in Ministers! Commentary Philippians 3In 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,