A26901:126
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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26. Moreover, it is one of Satan's plots upon you, to prepare for the reproach of the Non conformists, when greater necessity shall drive them to the Parish assemblies and Communion. Do not you make any doubt of it, but that if the wrath or rigour of superiors should bring them to the same condition, as the old Non-conformists were, the most of the present Non-conformists would come to the Parish Churches, even in Common Prayer and Sacraments as they did. And you are preparing reproach for them, that they may then be called Changelings, who forsake their former principles and cause.
26. Moreover, it is one of Satans plots upon you, to prepare for the reproach of the Non conformists, when greater necessity shall drive them to the Parish assemblies and Communion. Do not you make any doubt of it, but that if the wrath or rigour of superiours should bring them to the same condition, as the old Non-conformists were, the most of the present Non-conformists would come to the Parish Churches, even in Common Prayer and Sacraments as they did. And you are preparing reproach for them, that they may then be called Changelings, who forsake their former principles and cause.
27. And verily you will keep up the Papists hope, that by an universal Toleration they may at last come in on equal terms with you, or by connivance be endured as much as you. And if they be equal in England with you, their transmarine advantages will make them more than equal, notwithstanding their disadvantages in their Cause, and in their contrariety to Kingly interest (which Henry Fowlis hath in folio most fully and unanswerably laid open.)
28. And though God in mercy hath at present given us a King that owneth the Protestant Cause, so resolvedly, as to make a Law ⟨p. 32⟩