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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 23
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. 23. E. B. p. 7. Sir I have been very curious to enquire into the doctrine of the Fifth Monarchy,1 and most of my Converse is with those that do in Faith expect, and in Patience wait for such a time; and I never knew any of them, (however they are mis-represented) carry the notion further than you have already done.
- 124th Self-declared falsehood.24th Self-d•clared falshood.
R. B. 1. And are you a man then that is fit to make such a stir to divide the Churches, and to account your self wiser than all the Old Non-conformists in those matters, when all your curious Enquiry into an open matter of fact (what so many persons hold) could do no more to save you from mistaking it? If you never read what lrenaeus, Lactantius and others of old held? If you never read what is written by Mr. Mead, Dr. Twice, Mr. Archer, &c. Did you never read any Pamphlets within these thirty years that say more? Did you, that converse so much among such, never hear, what I that so seldom converse with them have heard so oft, and seen offered me in Writings, that I might have procured the ⟨p. 61⟩Printing of them? Do you believe that none of the Levellers, or those whom Oliver Cromwell suppressed under the name of Fifth Monarchy men, held no more? Did Venner and his company think you hold no more?
R. B. 1. And are you a man then that is fit to make such a stir to divide the Churches, and to account your self wiser than all the Old Non-conformists in those matters, when all your curious Enquiry into an open matter of fact (what so many persons hold) could do no more to save you from mistaking it? If you never read what lrenaeus, Lactantius and others of old held? If you never read what is written by Mr. Mead, Dr. Twisse, Mr. Archer, &c. Did you never read any Pamphlets within these thirty years that say more? Did you, that converse so much among such, never hear, what I that so seldom converse with them have heard so oft, and seen offered me in Writings, that I might have procured the