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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 20
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4. And all the rest of my sin in this business, which I know not of particularly, I do Implicitly and Generally Repent of; and daily beg of God (as I have done these twenty four years and more) to give me a particular Conviction of them, and not to suffer me to live or dye in any impenitence, but so far to acquaint me with all my great and public sins, that I may openly confess them, and give others warning to avoid the like. This is the Repentance, which upon your invitation I profess.
4. And all the rest of my sin in this business, which I know not of particularly, I do Implicitly and Generally Repent of; and daily beg of God (as I have done these twenty four years and more) to give me a particular Conviction of them, and not to suffer me to live or dye in any impenitence, but so far to acquaint me with all my great and publick sins, that I may openly confess them, and give others warning to avoid the like. This is the Repentance, which upon your invitation I profess.
If you quarrel with it as not instancing in particulars enow, I answer you, that as in the Revocation of the Book which you accuse, I thought it best to Revoke the whole, (though not as Retracting all the doctrine of it,) because if I had named the particular passages, some would have said I had mentioned too few, and some too many, and few would have been satisfied; so is it in the present Case.
6. As to your Defence of me heretofore, 1. You know I never desired it of you, nor gave you thanks for it. For though you took my part, you understood not my Cause, and therefore in the main deserted it. 2. I am not at all ambitious of such an Advocate, 1. Whose Defence was then judged by all that I heard speak of it, to be commendable ⟨p. 54⟩only for boldness, and a handsome Epistolary Style, having little of Judgement or argumentative strength: 2. Whose errors and faults will disgrace the Cause which he defendeth: 3. Who can blow hot and cold, and when his passion and erroneous interest requireth it, can change hands, and take up his adversaries work, and do the same thing in the main, which he accused. Threaten me not with so desirable a desertion.