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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 24
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Sect. 24. E. B. p. 7.—[Because you dare not own any hazardous and persecuted truth;1 and you find it far easier in your Notional Divinity to recant all that formerly you were convinced of, than to bring your heart to a willingness for Martyrdom.]
- 124th Falsehood, and a calumny repeated.
R. B. 1. You spake of danger before; you now add Persecution and Martyrdom, intimating that this is such a persecuted point; which as far as ever I heard (who live in the same Land, and have as hard thoughts of persecution as many others have) there is not any thing true in your intimation. Name the Law that is against the Opinion of the desirableness of a holy Government of all the world? Name the person that ever suffered for that Opinion? Though those that will resist or pull down Governors, because they take them (justly or unjustly) to be ungodly, may suffer for it. Again therefore to imply danger of Martyrdom, for that which no man (that ever I heard of) suffered for, and to feign the avoiding of that danger, to be the Chief Cause of my recanting or changing my mind or words, which I never recanted or changed, is a monstrous course of fiction and temerity.
R. B. 1. You spake of danger before; you now add Persecution and Martyrdom, intimating that this is such a persecuted point; which as far as ever I heard (who live in the same Land, and have as hard thoughts of persecution as many others have) there is not any thing true in your intimation. Name the Law that is against the Opinion of the desirableness of a holy Government of all the world? Name the person that ever suffered for that Opinion? Though those that will resist or pull down Governours, because they take them (justly or unjustly) to be ungodly, may suffer for it. Again therefore to imply danger of Martyrdom, for that which no man (that ever I heard of) suffered for, and to feign the avoiding of that danger, to be the Chief Cause of my recanting or changing my mind or words, which I never recanted or changed, is a monstrous course of fiction and temerity.