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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. 25. The next and last is, when he had said that [It is not corruption barely, nor imposition barely, that is a sufficient ground for any to separate; I had no rag to cover his [barely] with, but charitably to interpret him, as meaning by barely [the Quatenus, or the Act formally as such, without taking in the greatness of the matter of that corruption or imposition: that is, That it is not Corruption formally, as Corruption, but the greatness of the matter corrupted; Nor Imposition formally, as an Act of Imposition, but as an imposition of some ill or unsufferable thing: I could not have put sense on his words by any other interpretation: Yet doth he so disdain my kindness, and to have so much sense imputed to him, that he pronounceth the sentence that [I and the Schools may call these distinctions, but indeed they are nothing but Learned Nonsense. And if the Reader be not yet convinced that PRIDE is the Father, and IGNORANCE the mother of our errors, contentions, divisions, scandals and confusions, he shuts his eyes here against a most convincing instance.
Sect. 25. The next and last is, when he had said that [It is not corruption barely, nor imposition barely, that is a sufficient ground for any to separate; I had no rag to cover his [barely] with, but charitably to interpret him, as meaning by barely [the Quatenus, or the Act formally as such, without taking in the greatness of the matter of that corruption or imposition: that is, That it is not Corruption formally, as Corruption, but the greatness of the matter corrupted; Nor Imposition formally, as an Act of Imposition, but as an imposition of some ill or unsufferable thing: I could not have put sense on his words by any other interpretation: Yet doth he so disdain my kindness, and to have so much sense imputed to him, that he pronounceth the sentence that [I and the Schools may call these distinctions, but indeed they are nothing but Learned Nonsence. And if the Reader be not yet convinced that PRIDE is the Father, and IGNORANCE the mother of our errours, contentions, divisions, scandals and confusions, he shuts his eyes here against a most convincing instance.
Sect. 26. p. 15. For saying upon the invitation of his Sophistry, that I am persuaded if Christ came personally and visibly to demand it, the King would yield up his Crown to him; Instead of defending his error, which this reason did detect, he only sentenceth me to be like the Mockers that deride the promise of his coming.