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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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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!
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 f••merly been hindred from true repentance, by hearing strict Religious people both talk'd and preached against, as hypocrites, and a sort of proud self-opinioned men!
17. And the common people will learn quickly to overgo the Preachers, and will make the Godly in streets and Ale-house; their common scorn: And Satan will have almost as many Preachers to make Piety odious, and hinder mens repentance, as there be wicked men. As when the Preacher by a Puritan heretofore meant a Non-conformist, the ignorant rabble expounded and applied it, of all that were not such as they.
18. And by this means the Devil hopeth to disaffect and exasperate many Learned men that differ from you, to turn the strength and reputation of their parts and learning, to make you contemptible and vile. Bishop Overall, Whitgift, Mountague, &c. were very learned men: but exasperation set their parts and pens in that military strain, as was not pleasing to their Antagonists: As it did Mr. Hooker's and many more, who by Love and meekness, and a peaceable familiarity (without sin) might have been disarmed. I need not go beyond Sea, to tell you how the Learned Jos. Scaliger was exasperated to revile the Puritans by Mr. Lidiate's opposition (vid. Praef. ad Cam. Isagog.) nor to mention Salmatius, Grotius, or any others there; nor to look back as far as Erasmus, much less to many, (too many) of the ancient Bishops and Doctors of the Church.