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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. 12. But pag. 6. he thinks that he talketh like a man of brains, when he inferreth, that [if they be such kind of persons as I have represented them, they ought immediately to be forsaken, and forborne, as to any acts of Church-communion] Answ. But, 1. I never said of them, that they printed, besides false Doctrines, fourscore untruths in two small Libels, as you have done, and give the world neither vindication nor repentance: And yet you, or your disciples, will not infer thus against your self. 2. Deceitful man! Did I ever lay the charge you mention, against all the honest conformable Pastors of the Parish Churches in the Land, who have no hand in any thing that you can call an imposition, or a persecution? Nay, that own not (as they think) the Diocesan Prelacy as such, but only Episcopacy in general, and Diocesans, as the Kings Officers? Did I ever lay that charge against all the Christians in the Parish Churches? No, ⟨p. 15⟩nor against all the Bishops neither. 3. And must all the Churches in a Kingdom be excommunicated or forsaken, for the cause of a few men, whom few of them ever knew or saw. This is like the Popes interdicting Kingdoms. 4. And if you separated but from the individual offenders, should it not be done in a regular way? Why go you about to blind the ignorant with such palpable fallacies as these. Is it truth, that men must be thus cheated into with errors?
Sect. 12. But pag. 6. he thinks that he talketh like a man of brains, when he inferreth, that [if they be such kind of persons as I have represented them, they ought immediately to be forsaken, and forborn, as to any acts of Church-communion] Answ. But, 1. I never said of them, that they printed, besides false Doctrines, fourscore untruths in two small Libels, as you have done, and give the world neither vindication nor repentance: And yet you, or your disciples, will not inferr thus against your self. 2. Deceitful man! Did I ever lay the charge you mention, against all the honest conformable Pastors of the Parish Churches in the Land, who have no hand in any thing that you can call an imposition, or a persecution? Nay, that own not (as they think) the Diocesan Prelacy as such, but only Episcopacy in general, and Diocesans, as the Kings Officers? Did I ever lay that charge against all the Christians in the Parish Churches? No, ⟨p. 15⟩nor against all the Bishops neither. 3. And must all the Churches in a Kingdome be excommunicated or forsaken, for the cause of a few men, whom few of them ever knew or saw. This is like the Popes interdicting Kingdomes. 4. And if you separated but from the individual offenders, should it not be done in a regular way? Why go you about to blind the ignorant with such palpable fallacies as these. Is it truth, that men must be thus cheated into with errours?