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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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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 ⟨p. 22⟩Opinionist, will put his opinion into his Prayers? Doth not that make them in this all one with an imposed prayer, as to fore-knowledge? And when I fore-know that the Matter of the Liturgy (used on the Lords days by the Minister and people) is sound, this fore-knowledge maketh it not evil in the use.
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 custome I foreknow, that Iohn Simpson, Randal, Iohn Goodwin, Saltmarsh, Dr. Crisp, Canne, Iohnson, Blackwood, or any other tolerable ⟨p. 22⟩Opinionist, will put his opinion into his Prayers? Doth not that make them in this all one with an imposed prayer, as to fore-knowledge? And when I fore-know that the Matter of the Liturgy (used on the Lords dayes by the Minister and people) is sound, this fore-knowledge maketh it not evil in the use.
Sect. 28. When I gave him no less than twenty Queries containing plain evictions of the falseness of his Doctrine about the Scriptures, his answer is, that he will answer them, when I have satisfied him that I sinned not greatly in raising such mists and doubts: and when I give him security that I will not ask him as many more. Reader, Is not this man an easy disputant; Did you ever know any that answered all with less ado, than so silly a reason, Why he should not answer it?