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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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Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? show me the Tribute money: And they showed him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this Image and Superscription? They say unto him Caesars. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods. I hope Mr. Bagshaw will neither say, that Christ here plainly decided the controversy intended by the ⟨p. 12⟩questioners; nor yet deny but he seemeth to do it, so far as silenced his adversaries then, and as putteth Expositors hard to it now, to understand his meaning: (See Dr. Hammond on the words.) And I am in some hope yet, that as foul-mouthed as he is, he will not call Christ a Liar, or dissembler, or a favourer of Tyranny, or a Coward; that would say any thing to escape sufferings; But rather of the two think that he is not deceived, who thinketh his own way somewhat like to the Murderous-Tempting-Hypocrites in the Text.
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Iesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? shew me the Tribute money: And they shewed him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this Image and Superscription? They say unto him Caesars. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods. I hope Mr. Bagshaw will neither say, that Christ here plainly decided the controversie intended by the ⟨p. 12⟩questioners; nor yet deny but he seemeth to do it, so far as silenced his adversaries then, and as putteth Expositors hard to it now, to understand his meaning: (See Dr. Hammond on the words.) And I am in some hope yet, that as foul-mouth'd as he is, he will not call Christ a Lyar, or dissembler, or a favourer of Tyranny, or a Coward; that would say any thing to escape sufferings; But rather of the two think that he is not deceived, who thinketh his own way somewhat like to the Murderous-Tempting-Hypocrites in the Text.