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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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Answ. Here are two differences pretended. 1. Reader, Is there in the first any shadow of the truth at all? Yet are there some men that such words will take with, contrary to the common sense of mankind; As if it were not the Papists only that can believe against all common sense. What reason can he give why one that is present is not as free to join, or not to join in heart, with any passage in the Common Prayer, as in a free prayer of the Minister? I do seriously wonder what made the man speak these words. When the Minister prayeth freely, I may in heart either join with him, neglect him, or dissent: And what hinders me from doing so at Common-Prayer? He saith, I must join in that form, or none at all. True; And so must I when the Minister either prayeth freely, or in a stinted form of his own. You must join in that or none at all for that time. I told him of old Mr. Fen, (a zealous Non-conformist at Coventry) that would say Amen loud to every Prayer of the Liturgy, save that for the Bishops: Did he not use as much liberty here as he could have done at free prayer?
Answ. Here are two differences pretended. 1. Reader, Is there in the first any shadow of the truth at all? Yet are there some men that such words will take with, contrary to the common sense of mankind; As if it were not the Papists only that can believe against all common sense. What reason can he give why one that is present is not as free to joyn, or not to joyn in heart, with any passage in the Common Prayer, as in a free prayer of the Minister? I do seriously wonder what made the man speak these words. When the Minister prayeth freely, I may in heart either joyn with him, neglect him, or dissent: And what hinders me from doing so at Common-Prayer? He saith, I must joyn in that form, or none at all. True; And so must I when the Minister either prayeth freely, or in a stinted form of his own. You must joyn in that or none at all for that time. I told him of old Mr. Fen, (a zealous Non-conformist at Coventry) that would say Amen loud to every Prayer of the Liturgy, save that for the Bishops: Did he not use as much liberty here as he could have done at free prayer?
2. And for fore knowledge, he passeth by all the answer I oft gave to that objection, and singeth over the same song again. Fore-knowing what will be said, doth more enable me to know what clause to forbear my consent to, than in sudden Prayer not foreknown. And what if by his constant custom I foreknow, that John Simpson, Randal, John Goodwin, Saltmarsh, Dr. Crisp, Can, Johnson, Blackwood, or any other tolerable