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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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8. You will be drawn from true spiritual worshipping of God; and your worship and Church-communion will be corrupted: Instead of holy and heavenly Sermons, Prayers, praises, &c. you will be infected with a contending and envying passion, and puffed up with the conceit of your own judgments, and grow zealous for your personal opinions, and your parties, and turn your preaching and praying into a strain that savoureth of this disease, and defile them with unsounder passages for your errors or divided interests, than any can be found in the Common Prayers which you shun.
8. You will be drawn from true spiritual worshipping of God; and your worship and Church-communion will be corrupted: Instead of holy and heavenly Sermons, Prayers, praises, &c. you will be infected with a contending and envying passion, and puffed up with the conceit of your own judgments, and grow zealous for your personal opinions, and your parties, and turn your preaching and praying into a strain that savoureth of this disease, and defile them with unsounder passages for your errours or divided interests, than any can be found in the Common Prayers which you shun.
9. And if you be thus overcome, it will heinously aggravate your sin, that you will do all this as a part of your Religion, and so will father it all on God, as if such doing pleased him, and proceeded from his spirit, and were commanded by his word. And as Matth. 12. it is made the unpardonable sin to blaspheme the Holy Ghost, by ascribing his Miracles to Satan, so though it be pardonable, you should easily see that it cannot be small, to say that those things which are pleasing to the Devil, and proceed from his will, and malicious suggestions, are pleasing to God, and proceed from his spirit and word.
10. By these means Satan would make your Churches to do his work against the Lord whom they profess to worship, and and to be the very Nests where PRIDE and IGNORANCE shall breed their like, and shall cherish sinful Love killing principles and passions, and animosities against your brethren: And so your Assemblies will be acted too much by his suggestions, and become his Work-houses, while you think that they are serving God; and mens wisdom will be earthly sensual, and diabolical, when they verily think it is from above,