A26901:129
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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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.
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 publick 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.
30. There is another reason that sticks much with me, as knowing what silly peevish souls are employed in against themselves, but I will add no more.
Brethren, I have discharged my conscience; Some will hear: I will bear the censures and obloquy of the rest. Your sins are no more lovely to me, than the sins of other men; nor no more merciful to England: We all suffer by and for such sins as I have reproved. I am one of the sufferers, and therefore should have leave to speak. I am long ago engaged in the cause of Concord, Love, and Peace, and will not betray it for the shadow of Purity, nor for the pleasing of any party whatsoever; Though no duty when such is to be omitted, nor any sin committed for Peace.