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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. 17. pag. 8, With as insolent ignorance doth he feign me to make that which he calleth [Devised Worship] viz. the Liturgy to be Idolatry in my foresaid Book, and now to repent of, and oppose what I held: And all because Disp. p. 378. I say to such as they would suspend, silence, excommunicate, punish, all such as will not pray to God in the words that they impose on them; that if Reasons will not allay their impious distemper, but will domineer over mens consciences, and the Church of God, we must leave them to him, that being the Lord and Law-giver of the Church, is jealous of his prerogative, and abhorreth Idols. Remember that I spake of none but the Clergy. And is there any man that excelleth not in ignorance and rashness, that would have thought here, that it is a Form of Prayer, or Liturgy, that I call [Idols]? or that could not see at the first reading, that I call the persons only the Idols, that usurp the prerogative of God. And will this pitiful man still falsely insinuate or suppose, that all the honest Christians or Ministers of all the Parish Churches in England are such usurping imperious Idols? yea, or all the Bishops either? Even Martin himself as well as Ithacius? Thus are poor souls abused by deceivers. Yea, note that in the same disputation cited by him, I largely prove the lawfulness of Liturgies and Forms, and the necessity of them in some cases.
Sect. 17. pag. 8, With as insolent ignorance doth he feign me to make that which he calleth [Devised Worship] viz. the Liturgy to be Idolatry in my foresaid Book, and now to repent of, and oppose what I held: And all because Disp. p. 378. I say to such as they would suspend, silence, excommunicate, punish, all such as will not pray to God in the words that they impose on them; that if Reasons will not allay their impious distemper, but will domineer over mens consciences, and the Church of God, we must leave them to him, that being the Lord and Law-giver of the Church, is jealous of his prerogative, and abhorreth Idols. Remember that I spake of none but the Clergy. And is there any man that excelleth not in ignorance and rashness, that would have thought here, that it is a Form of Prayer, or Liturgy, that I call [Idols]? or that could not see at the first reading, that I call the persons only the Idols, that usurp the prerogative of God. And will this pittiful man still falsly insinuate or suppose, that all the honest Christians or Ministers of all the Parish Churches in England are such usurping imperious Idols? yea, or all the Bishops either? Even Martyn himself as well as Ithacius? Thus are poor souls abused by deceivers. Yea, note that in the same disputation cited by him, I largely prove the lawfulness of Liturgies and Forms, and the necessity of them in some cases.