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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.
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.
6. And moreover, it will possess you with a degenerate and false kind of Religion, consisting in sidings, and partial opinions, and obeying your selves instead of God.
7. And it will make you Satan's instruments to disturb all Churches that you join with, if you do not want occasion and temptation. For the Principles which I wrote against will let no Church be quiet where they prevail: And a Kingdom or house divided cannot stand.
7. And it will make you Satans instruments to disturb all Churches that you joyn with, if you do not want occasion and temptation. For the Principles which I wrote against will let no Church be quiet where they prevail: And a Kingdom or house divided cannot stand.