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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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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.
And to prevent the Calumny of Papists, and the mis-information of Posterity, I add, that besides one hot-headed, honest young man (Mr. Brown) I hear of no Non-conformable Minister in England that openly owneth Mr. Bagshaw's […], or secondeth him in his defence of the Love killing Principles of unlawful Separation; Which, with the other evidences of quietness and patience in the private assemblies of these times, I take to be a marvellous thing, considering mens great and manifold temptations, which in time I hope God will abate.
And to prevent the Calumny of Papists, and the mis-information of Posterity, I add, that besides one hot-headed, honest young man (Mr. Brown) I hear of no Non-conformable Minister in England that openly owneth Mr. Bagshaw's 〈…〉, or secondeth him in his defence of the Love killing Principles of unlawful Separation; Which, with the other evidences of quietness and patience in the private assemblies of these times, I take to be a marvellous thing, considering mens great and manifold temptations, which in time I hope God will abate.