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The church told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaw's scandals and warned of the dangerous snares…
The church told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaw's scandals and warned of the dangerous snares of Satan now laid for them in his love-killing principles with a farther proof that it is our common duty to keep up the interest of the Christian religion and Protestant cause in the parish churches, and not to imprison them by a confinement to tolerated meetings alone / by Richard Baxter ...
London : s.n., 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. If he prevail with you, he will draw you into the guilt of all those sins of his own fore-mentioned, by your approbation & consent. And how great an addition will that be to your load?
2. It would draw you to the entertainment of all those Love-killing, Malignant, and Dividing Principles, which I cast down, and he sets up. And you little know what an evil it is, to have an understanding so blinded, and a heart so defiled.
3. By this means that true universal Love to Godly men and Christians as such will be destroyed: And when you should bear Gods Image, who is Love it self; you will be made like Satan, the enemy of God and Love: And instead of loving your neighbour as your self, you will take your neighbours, yea, Christs members, for your enemies.
4. And as Love is the fulfilling of the Law, so your death of Love will be the death of all your true obedience, and lead you to the breach of every Law. You will deny all the acts of Love in word or deed to others that you owe them to; you will censure, you will backbite freely, you will receive false reports, and vend them again to others. And Christ may say to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least (mark the least) of these my brethren, you did it not to me.