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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As for my Repenting, which he ignorantly and maliciously talketh of, I shall now say no more to the Reader, but this: 1. That I expect that the enemies of Repentance be enemies to me. 2. That I little regard such censures as this man, who either cannot through ignorance, or will not through malice or passion, understand plain English when he readeth it; nor know the difference between the disowning of Evil, and of Good.
Sect. 8. pag. 4. He intimateth by a Question this visible falsehood, that I said, [I thought nothing of Divinity in the cause,] so hard is it for Ignorance and rashness to speak truth. This is because I said that [I knew of no controversy in Divinity about it, but in Politics and Law.] And can one that hath ever learned to read English, and ever exercised his thoughts of such matters, be possibly so ignorant, as to think this is all one as to say, that there was nothing of Divinity in the cause? Their Controversies were, whether the Parliament had Authority to raise their Arms against the Kings will, prohibition, and opposition? And, whether the King had Authority to raise his Arms against theirs? And is this a Controversy in Divinity? Poor souls! Will you be seduced to think that Christ or Paul must decide all controversies of forms and degrees of power in Republics? Which Text is it that telleth you, that the Militia belonged to the Parliament, or what degree of power the Courts of Justice have? Did Paul, Rom. 13. tell you, whether Nero or the Senate were the higher power? Did Christ tell the tempting hypocrites, whether Caesar justly coined money in, or for Judea? But what? Hath Divinity therefore nothing to do in Law controversies? Yes surely, both about the efficient, end, and motives. Politics and Law tell us which is the highest power; And Divinity telleth us, that we must obey it, and that for conscience-sake, as being of God. Divinity telleth you, that Religious interest ⟨p. 13⟩may be the just end and motive of a War: but withal, that it must be made by those only that have just power to do it: But who hath just power, the Laws must tell us. Thus, Reader, the mans ignorance and false speaking have lengthened thy trouble.