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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. 19. His next subject, where he saith that [I argue against the Divine and self-evidencing authority of the holy Scripture] is one of the visiblest lies that ever I saw written by a ⟨p. 17⟩man: When I had not only said the contrary, but told where I had voluminously proved it, to give me not a word of sense in answer, but write as if he had never read my reply. Being to Tell the Church, I must desire them to consider, Whether a more Impudent studied Lye, impenitently insisted in, after a double detection, without an answer, was ever presented to their view? And, whether they can name me a Christian Writer in the world more infamously self-stigmatized with this vice? The rest that he writeth of it, I cannot persuade my self to tire the Reader with an answer to. Only I note that he citeth Mr. Hildersham's words, with the false intimation that I contradict them, while the same worthy man is both applauded by him, and suppositively taken for a Patron of Idolatry, as one that persuadeth men not only to come to Church and Common-prayer, but to come to the beginning. False speakers do thus ordinarily contradict themselves.
Sect. 19. His next subject, where he saith that [I argue against the Divine and self-evidencing authority of the holy Scripture] is one of the visiblest lyes that ever I saw written by a ⟨p. 17⟩man: When I had not only said the contrary, but told where I had voluminously proved it, to give me not a word of sense in answer, but write as if he had never read my reply. Being to Tell the Church, I must desire them to consider, Whether a more Impudent studied Lye, impenitently insisted in, after a double detection, without an answer, was ever presented to their view? And, whether they can name me a Christian Writer in the world more infamously self-stigmatized with this vice? The rest that he writeth of it, I cannot perswade my self to tire the Reader with an answer to. Only I note that he citeth Mr. Hildersham's words, with the false intimation that I contradict them, while the same worthy man is both applauded by him, and suppositively taken for a Patron of Idolatry, as one that perswadeth men not onely to come to Church and Common-prayer, but to come to the beginning. False speakers do thus ordinarily contradict themselves.