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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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20. And if you take this sinful dividing course, you will make more Papists, and such others as you your selves, most fly from and disclaim, than almost any other way could do. Nothing that I know of in the world, doth so strongly tempt some sober conscientious men, to think Popery necessary for the Concord of the Churches, and a violent Church Government necessary to our Peace, as the woeful experience of the errors and schisms, the mad and manifold Sects that arise among those that are most against them. Thousands have been made Papists in England, Scotland, and Ireland, within these twenty years, that have been driven from us by our shameful Sects; yea, many of the Sectaries themselves, when they have run themselves through as many Sects as they could try. I am persuaded that Mr. Bagshaws Libels are as powerful writings to cross his own desires, and turn many from Non-conformity, and others unto Popery, as most that have been published in this age. Multitudes that read them will say, Here you see the spirit of Non conformity (though I have proved it a calumny:) Others will say, You see how mad men grow when they unite not with the Catholic Church, and live not under a strict Church Government.
20. And if you take this sinful dividing course, you will make more Papists, and such others as you your selves, most fly from and disclaim, than almost any other way could do. Nothing that I know of in the world, doth so strongly tempt some sober consciencious men, to think Poperty necessary for the Concord of the Churches, and a violent Church Government necessary to our Peace, as the woful experience of the errours and schisms, the mad and manifold Sects that arise among those that are most against them. Thousands have been made Papists in England, Scotland, and Ireland, within these twenty years, that have been driven from us by our shameful Sects; yea, many of the Sectaries themselves, when they have run themselves through as many Sects as they could try. I am perswaded that Mr. Bagshaws Libels are as powerful writings to cross his own desires, and turn many from Non-conformity, and others unto Popery, as most that have been published in this age. Multitudes that read them will say, Here you see the spirit of Non conformity (though I have proved it a calumny:) Others will say, You see how mad men grow when they unite not with the Cathalick Church, and live not under a strict Church Government.