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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yet do I solemnly profess that to my utmost remembrance, I never in my life did venture upon, or manage one dispute by word or writing, through a confidence in my own ability to make good what I undertook, but in a confidence of the goodness of my Cause, and of the great advantage which the evidence of plain truth doth give to any man of good reason to defend it, even against the cunningest Sophister that shall oppose it.
Sect. 3. And now I shall add my Admonition to you, as not being quite ignorant of Satan's Wiles, to tell you what a snare is laid for you all in Mr. Bagshaw's Writings; and as one that hath no interest, but Christs and the Churches to ⟨p. 26⟩move him to it, to tell you how great the danger is, if you swallow the bait.
Sect. 3. And now I shall add my Admonition to you, as not being quite ignorant of Satans Wiles, to tell you what a snare is laid for you all in Mr. Bagshaw's Writings; and as one that hath no interest, but Christs and the Churches to ⟨p. 26⟩move him to it, to tell you how great the danger is, if you swallow the bait.
1. If he prevail with you, he will draw you into the guilt of all those sins of his own fore-mentioned, by your approbation & consent. And how great an addition will that be to your load?