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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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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⟩against any that shall report him inclined to Popery, England hath no promise that it shall be so for ever: And if we should ever have a King more indifferent in his Religion, do you know what a temptation it would be to him, to pull down the Protestant Religion, if he found it but in corners, under a connivance, and found it under the reproach of such crimes as B•gshaw's books contain? It were the next way to procure the fatal word, Down with them even to the ground; Though I know we have the greater security against this, because Popery is so much against Princes interest, and is the delivering up the Kingdom in part to a foreign power.
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⟩against any that shall report him inclined to Popery, England hath no promise that it shall be so for ever: And if we should ever have a King more indifferent in his Religion, do you know what a temptation it would be to him, to pull down the Protestant Religion, if he found it but in corners, under a connivance, and found it under the reproach of such crimes as B•gshaw's books contain? It were the next way to procure the fatal word, Down with them even to the ground; Though I know we have the greater security against this, because Popery is so much against Princes interest, and is the del•vering up the Kingdome in part to a foreign power.
29. In a word, Satan is playing by Mr. Bagshaw no lower a game, than by turning all the people from the Parish assemblies, (while there are not in England (had they liberty […] Ministers enow to supply the tenth part of the Church••) to […] the generality of them to live like open Atheists, that give God no public worship at all; and so to extinguish knowledge, Christianity, and all Religion, in most of the Land. These things I see, and because I see them I do as I have done.