A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…

I Know there is in Holiness a contrariety to sin; and Heaven and Hell must finally show the difference for ever: And to reconcile them is as unpossible, as to reconcile Light and Darkness. I know that it is the endeavour of every faithful Minister of Christ, to make this difference plainly known, and in Doctrine and Discipline to separate the precious from the vile; and to make ungodly men know that they are ungodly, and to give to each their proper portion, and to keep the Churches as clean as they can by lawful means. I know that the ruin of this purging and differencing Discipline, is a great part of the lamentable ruin of the Churches, ⟨p. 2⟩and occasioneth that scandal to the Mahometans and Heathens, because of the wicked lives of Christians, which is one of the greatest hinderances of their conversion: And that all Christians should use their utmost skill and power, to recover Religion to its primitive Purity and Splendour, and Discipline to the most effectual regular exercise. And I know that in mens private converse there must be a great care what company we converse with, and especially whom we make our familiars. And that to be indifferent, and to intimate an equality or likeness of the godly and the wicked, in doctrine, communion, and familiarity, is a notable sign of an ungodly person. And upon these accounts, I know that when persons are newly recovered from ungodliness themselves, they are very much inclined to fly from the company of such, as far as their safety doth require: And by this inclination and their ignorance, they are frequently tempted to go further from them in Church communion, than God alloweth them to do, and instead of separating from them in their sin, to separate from them in their duty; and to separate from the Churches of Christ in his true worship, because of the mixture and presence of the bad.

I Know there is in Holiness a contrariety to sin; and Heaven and Hell must finally shew the difference for ever: And to reconcile them is as unpossible, as to reconcile Light and Darkness. I know that it is the endeavour of every faithful Minister of Christ, to make this difference plainly known, and in Doctrine and Discipline to separate the precious from the vile; and to make ungodly men know that they are ungodly, and to give to each their proper portion, and to keep the Churches as clean as they can by lawful means. I know that the ruine of this purging and differencing Discipline, is a great part of the lamentable ruine of the Churches, ⟨p. 2⟩