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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
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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.
5. You will be tempted into Treason against Christ, under pretence of piety, denying his interest in almost all his Churches in the world; Even as if you should say, that the King is King of one or two Towns only in all his Kingdoms, on pretence that all the rest are not good enough to be his Subjects. I profess openly, that nothing in the world more moveth me to do what I do, than this; That there is much within me that will not suffer me without abhorrence, to think of either unchurching all Churches in the world, that use a set Liturgy (yea that use one worse than ours) or yet to hold that they should all be separated from. And had I ever Vowed and Covenanted to do this (as I did not) it had been a sinful Vow.