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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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11. Thus he would fain bring an odium upon your selves, and cause you to go under such a character as the Munster Anabaptists, and the Familists, Quakers, and such others do: That men may say of you, that while you take on you to be stricter than others, it is but in abhorring other mens Prayers, and extolling your own; And that sin is no sin when you find it in your own ⟨p. 28⟩party, or your selves. And that Liars, and most impudent Calumniators and proud Revilers, &c. go among your selves for Godly persons, while the uprightest men that use the Common Prayer, do go for Idolaters and Ungodly. And if Satan can but get such an odious Character fastened on you, what mischievous advantage will he make of it?
11. Thus he would fain bring an odium upon your selves, and cause you to go under such a character as the Munster Anabaptists, and the Familists, Quakers, and such others do: That men may say of you, that while you take on you to be stricter than others, it is but in abhorring other mens Prayers, and extolling your own; And that sin is no sin when you find it in your own ⟨p. 28⟩party, or your selves. And that Lyars, and most impudent Calumniators and proud Revilers, &c. go among your selves for Godly persons, while the uprightest men that use the Common Prayer, do go for Idolaters and Ungodly. And if Satan can but get such an odious Character fastened on you, what mischievous advantage will he make of it?
12. For then next he will hope to bring all the Non-conformists (or the greater part while a few only are excepted) under the same Character for your sakes: That they may be all thought to be men of irrational, uncharitable, and unpeaceable principles and spirits; whose Religion consisteth but in Fanaticism, and self-conceit, and foolish condemning the things which they understand not, because their party hath done so before them. And if Satan can thus far obtain his ends, he hath laid the eggs of a world of farther sin and sufferings.