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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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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.
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 Fanaticisme, 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.
13. Then all that are against them will be exceedingly confirmed in all those things and ways, which I need not name unto you, and for which it is that you separate from them: And will think that your condemnation of them is but a commendation.
13. Then all that are against them will be exceedingly confirmed in all those things and wayes, which I need not name unto you, and for which it is that you separate from them: And will think that your condemnation of them is but a commendation.
14. Yea, Ministers of loose and vicious lives will be hardened by you against repentance, and will think that they are better than you, and that though they sometimes are drunk, or idle, yet they are pardoned, because you that own such greater sins, do pass for godly, and because chiefly such as you condemn them.