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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 25
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.
2. And what friendship to sin,1 and continued enmity to vigilancy and repentance do you express, when you were told an unquestionable truth, and but warned of an unquestionable danger and duty, to reject all so senslesly, and that with such false retortions. Tell your followers, 1. Is it false or true, that sufferings have their temptations as well as Prosperity; and in particular to drive us into uncharitableness and extremes from them that we suffer by? 2. Are not you and others that suffer in danger of such temptations, and sin in sufferings? 3. Should not such temptation and sin be carefully watched against? Is there any falsehood in all this? 4. And is he fit to glory in the cleansing fruit ⟨p. 65⟩of sufferings, that shall falsely say, that such a necessary warning is an inveighing against sufferings? &c. 5. Do you believe that they that turned Quakers in Prison are gainers by their sufferings? or they that lose more of their Love, than of their Liberties?
2. And what friendship to sin,1 and continued enmity to vigilancy and repentance do you express, when you were told an unquestionable truth, and but warned of an unquestionable danger and duty, to reject all so senslesly, and that with such false retortions. Tell your followers, 1. Is it false or true, that sufferings have their temptations as well as Prosperity; and in particular to drive us into uncharitableness and extreams from them that we suffer by? 2. Are not you and others that suffer in danger of such temptations, and sin in sufferings? 3. Should not such temptation and sin be carefully watcht against? Is there any falshood in all this? 4. And is he fit to glory in the cleansing fruit ⟨p. 65⟩of sufferings, that shall falsly say, that such a necessary warning is an inveighing against sufferings? &c. 5. Do you believe that they that turned Quakers in Prison are gainers by their sufferings? or they that lose more of their Love, than of their Liberties?
- 19th Crime, rejecting and slandering readful warning.