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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 18
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Sect. 18. E. B. Sir could you say all this of him then,1 and do you think your partial friends can justify you now, when you compare him to the Tyrant Maximus, and make him in effect to be nothing else, but a Murderous and a bloody Usurper?
Sect. 18. E. B. Sir could you say all this of him then,1 and do you think your partial friends can justifie you now, when you compare him to the Tyrant Maximus, and make him in effect to be nothing else, but a Murderous and a bloody Vsurper?
- 113th & 14th falsehood.13th & 14th falshood.
R. B. Here is two Falsehoods, one expressed, and the other implied. 1. That expressed is, that I make him in effect to be nothing else but a Murderous, &c. when I never denied any thing that was good in him; but have publicly, and in Print warned our Lawful Governors, that they tempt not the people to dislike them, by undoing any good which he did. 2. The implied falsehood, that I speak worse of him now, than I did heretofore. Whereas the truth is, that I spake in the time of his own Usurpation I am confident twenty times against him, for once that I have spoken ⟨p. 48⟩since his death: Not that I changed my opinion of him; but that it is so cross to humane nature, to insult over even malefactors in their sufferings, especially when we suffer with them (though by them) and when their adversaries need no instigation, that I have not been able to judge it my duty, to speak of that very evil, which I and others suffer by: But have been hardly put to it these eleven years, between the thoughts of open disowning those sins of self-exalting Usurpers that have confounded us, and a loathness to increase the sufferings of those that are underfoot. And this last prevailing, I have greatly by it displeased my Superiors: And yet lest I should harden men in impenitency, having gently mentioned these Crimes, it displeaseth such as are most obliged to repent. And how strangely doth this man despise his Readers, while he again maketh it such a thing in me,