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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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15. Yea, (which will be a doleful mischief) you will afford matter for every carnal Preacher to make a Sermon of, against those that go for strict and godly, and to persuade the people that all that profess much strictness, are but such as you, and that hypocrisy is the cover for their sins, which are worse than other mens. Thus, while the word Puritan (as Fanatic now) was first taken up to signify an error (a conceit of self-perfection, &c.) at last it grew that which Mr. Robert Bolton hath so often told the world, a word of scorn in wicked mens mouths, against all that truly feared God. And thus while you fly from all the Parish Assemblies, as defiled, you will be the men that will make them far worse, when some Pulpits will be made Stages, on which the Actors may set forth all those Religious men, that in any thing dissent from them in a ridiculous and odious dress, to the derision and loathing of the auditors.
15. Yea, (which will be a doleful mischief) you will afford matter for every carnal Preacher to make a Sermon of, against those that go for strict and godly, and to perswade the people that all that profess much strictness, are but such as you, and that hypocrisie is the cover for their sins, which are worse than other mens. Thus, while the word Puritan (as Fanatick now) was first taken up to signifie an errour (a conceit of self-perfection, &c.) at last it grew that which Mr. Robert Bolton hath so often told the world, a word of scorn in wicked mens mouths, against all that truly feared God. And thus while you fly from all the Parish Assemblies, as desiled, you will be the men that will make them far worse, when some Pulpits will be made Stages, on which the Actors may set forth all those Religious men, that in any thing dissent from them in a ridiculous and odious dress, to the derision and loathing of the auditors.
16. By which means thousands of ignorant people will be ⟨p. 29⟩tempted into a contempt of piety it self, and their conversion wonderfully hindered: And prejudice will make them turn from that way with scorn and obloquy, which should save them. O how many thousands have in England formerly been hindered from true repentance, by hearing strict Religious people both talked and preached against, as hypocrites, and a sort of proud self-opinioned men!