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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.
Sect. 15. I had almost passed over a shameless falsehood, pag. 4. And that you may know I do not speak at random, particularly, when at Gloucester you preached upon [Curse ye Meroz,] and now you say you do repent: do you expect ever to be believed again?] which is a mere composition of Untruths. 1. I never preached on [Curse ye Meroz] in my life, if he mean that text, or those words: I never was at Gloucester but about one month before the Wars: in which I preached thrice or four times: of which one on a Fast, had respect to the times: which was on Ezek. 37. 3. Son of man, Can these bones live? And my business was to show the Difficulty of the reparation and reformation of a sinful lapsed Church: In which I mentioned many things, and sorts of people that would hinder it, but neither my Notes, (which I yet have by me) or memory, have any thing at all that tended unto War, or resistance of Authority. Yet if any other Sermon there, did touch the times, which I remember not, I am sure it was not on that Text which ⟨p. 16⟩I never preached on. 2. And he as falsely insinuateth that I [say I repent] of what I preached at Gloucester; so hard is it to him to speak that which is not utterly false.
Sect. 15. I had almost pass'd over a shameless falshood, pag. 4. And that you may know I do not speak at randome, particularly, when at Gloucester you preached upon [Curse ye Meroz,] and now you say you do repent: do you expect ever to be believed again?] which is a mere composition of Vntruths. 1. I never preached on [Curse ye Meroz] in my life, if he mean that text, or those words: I never was at Gloucester but about one month before the Wars: in which I preached thrice or four times: of which one on a Fast, had respect to the times: which was on Ezek. 37. 3. Son of man, Can these bones live? And my business was to shew the Difficulty of the reparation and reformation of a sinful lapsed Church: In which I mentioned many things, and sorts of people that would hinder it, but neither my Notes, (which I yet have by me) or memory, have any thing at all that tended unto War, or resistance of Authority. Yet if any other Sermon there, did touch the times, which I remember not, I am sure it was not on that Text which ⟨p. 16⟩