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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 16
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.
Sect. 16. E. B. p. 5. You—hug and embrace the Traitor.1 For you greatly commend that absurd tool, The humble Petition and Advice which was Cromwells Instruments of Government; And you say of it, A more excellent Law hath not been made, for the happiness of England concerning Parliaments, at least since the Reformation.]
Sect. 16. E. B. p. 5. You—hugg and embrace the Traytor.1 For you greatly commend that absurd tool, The humble Petition and Advice which was Cromwells Instruments of Government; And you say of it, A more excellent Law hath not been made, for the happiness of England concerning Parliaments, at least since the Reformation.]
- 111th and 12th Falsehood and Calumny.
R. B. Here is no proof at all of your false accusation, but the addition of two more falsehoods, one expressed, and the other intimated. 1. That I hugged and embraced the Traitor. Let the Reader judge by what I have truly said. 2. That I greatly commend the Instrument of Government, as making the change and setting up of Cromwell to be Protector, when you could not easily choose but know, that he that will but open my Book where the words are which you cite, may presently perceive your fraud and falsehood, and that I say not a word to commend or approve of that Instrument as such, or as making the change, or as setting up Cromwell, or a Protector, but only for this one thing, that it excluded Atheists, Blasphemers, Anti-Scripturists, Cursers, Swearers, Drunkards, Deniers of Sacraments, Prayer, Magistracy and Ministry, &c. from being Parliament men. And is not this fallacy a dicto secundum quod ad dictum simpliciter, a notorious cheat, and falsehood? Is this to approve the setting up of Cromwell to be Protector? Do you think by such a rate of Reasoning as this is, to be accounted a wise & faithful Teacher?