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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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Having therefore begun long ago to publish my Testimony and Council against the Dividing-evils; in 1660 fore-seeing the critical day and danger, I took the liberty of the season once more, to discharge my Conscience, though with slender hopes, and to reason, and even beg for Peace; that had it been possible as much as in us lay, we might have lived peaceably with all. When those opportunities and hopes were gone, (and some glimmering once and again since vanished,) one side having discharged me from speaking to them any more, and God I think discharged me at present, I saw nothing more to be attempted but with the other; whose duty for Concord and Christian Love (after many years silence) I opened in a Treatise called The Cure of Church-Divisions: But yet would not publish it without an Addition of the Duty of those Pastors that most complain against separation, lest I should exasperate their minds against those that I instructed, and should tempt them to overlook their own miscarriages. But more of this then I there adjoined, it could not be expected that the Licenser should pass.
Having therefore begun long ago to publish my Testimony and Council against the Dividing-evils; in 1660 fore-seeing the critical day and danger, I took the liberty of the season once more, to discharge my Conscience, though with slender hopes, and to reason, and even beg for Peace; that had it been possible as much as in us lay, we might have lived peaceably with all. When those opportunities and hopes were gone, (and some glimmering once and again since vanished,) one side having discharged me from speaking to them any more, and God I think discharged me at present, I saw nothing more to be attempted but with the other; whose duty for Concord and Christian Love (after many years silence) I opened in a Treatise called The Cure of Church-Divisions: But yet would not publish it without an Addition of the Duty of those Pastors that most complain against separation, lest I should exasperate their minds against those that I instructed, and should tempt them to overlook their own miscarriages. But more of this then I there adjoyned, it could not be expected that the Licenser should pass.
The only man that rose up against this Writing with furious indignation, was Mr. Edw. Bagshaw, a man that had before