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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 26
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. 26. E. B. p. 8. You should have spared the dead,1 and not disturbed the dust of my fellow prisoner Mr. Powell, by reproaching his memory with so abusive and disgraceful a mention of him, as if he were a false Prophet, and acted by a deluding Spirit: For you lay to his charge, that many years ago, he prophesied of some things which we do not yet see fulfilled.
Sect. 26. E. B. p. 8. You should have spared the dead,1 and not disturbed the dust of my fellow prisoner Mr. Powel, by reproaching his memory with so abusive and disgraceful a mention of him, as if he were a false Prophet, and acted by a deluding Spirit: For you lay to his charge, that many years ago, he prophesied of some things which we do not yet see fulfilled.
- 111th Crime Excusing false prophesying to the dishonour of Gods Spirit.11th Crime Excusing false prophecying to the dishonour of Gods Spirit.
R. B. 1. Though it was printed since his death, it was written before ever I heard ⟨p. 68⟩of his death, and I think many Weeks before he dyed. 2. You made it in a manner necessary to me to convince you by some instance that was near enough for your observation; and do you blame me when you have done? 3. I named not Mr. Vavasor Powell; but only your Companion and fellow Prisoner; and its like you had more than one, and few could know that it was he: But you have disgraced him by naming him. 4. I called him not a false Prophet; but warned you not thus to abuse Gods people, and bring reproach upon Religion, by fathering rashnesses and deceits on the Spirit of God? And have you so little sense of the honour of God and Religion, as to be angry at that! Alas Sir, what would you have said if I had told you how common this was in the Army? To set up and pull down, do and undo, own and disown, as by the Spirit of God? If I should have told you of the sad Instances of Mr. Erbury, Mr. Saltmarsh, Mr. Dell, Mr. William Sedgwick, (who as from God wrote one Week to the Army against their putting the King to death, and the next or same Week wrote to them quite on the other side; and that set London by a Prophecy or Vision on looking for the day of judgement on a set day,) to say nothing of abundance such; besides Mrs. Hutchinson in New England, and the Ranters and Quakers in our days. Can you have any love to souls, and any zeal for God and for Religion, and not be grieved to think that Gods