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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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Sect. 6. He again repeateth his most palpable untruth, in comparing me in the wars with [any one whomsoever] passing over my answers, [adding, that Generals or Parliament would have signified little, had they not had such Chaplains] when I had told him, (and he durst not deny it) that the Armies were raised, before I ever spake to Parliament man or Officer, or ever preached to them; yea, two years before I was in the Army, whither I went with an open profession to dissuade them from the changes which they made: my judgment forsaking their Cause in 1644. when their Commission at the New-modelling left out [For the King] which before had run [For the defence of the Kings person, &c.] and the rest of their intentions evidently to me appearing. Till then, in Coventry Garrison, I did speak all that which in the Book cited by him I expressed. Nor did I ever say, I did but little, as he vainly intimateth.
Sect. 6. He again repeateth his most palpable untruth, in comparing me in the warrs with [any one whomsoever] passing over my answers, [adding, that Generals or Parliament would have signified little, had they not had such Chaplains] when I had told him, (and he durst not deny it) that the Armies were raised, before I ever spake to Parliament man or Officer, or ever preached to them; yea, two years before I was in the Army, whither I went with an open profession to disswade them from the changes which they made: my judgment forsaking their Cause in 1644. when their Commission at the New-modelling left out [For the King] which before had run [For the defence of the Kings person, &c.] and the rest of their intentions evidently to me appearing. Till then, in Coventry Garison, I did speak all that which in the Book cited by him I expressed. Nor did I ever say, I did but little, as he vainly intimateth.
Sect. 7. Pag. 3. By a false representation of my Repentance, (whether ignorantly or maliciously) he would insinuate, that I Repent of Good as well as of Evil; or else that such as he, and his adherents the Separatists, have none of that sort of culpability to repent of; or else that they disclaim so inglorious a thing as Repentance is, and will stand to their sins at Death and Judgment, ⟨p. 11⟩