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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
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.
6. By forgetting the great difference of keeping in our own place and duty, though bad men are present, and going out of our place and duty to join with them in sin.
6. By forgetting the great difference of keeping in our own place and duty, though bad men are present, and going out of our place and duty to joyn with them in sin.
7. By forgetting that God will have all mens own wills, by Choosing, or Refusing, to have more hand in their Welfare or Misery, than other mens: And if they mischoose, the sin will be their own.
8. By forgetting that God hath not left the Church at arbitrary liberty to judge any Godly ⟨p. 4⟩or Ungodly at their pleasure; But hath given us a set Test or Rule to judge them by; which is [their sober Profession of Consent to the Baptismal Covenant; upon which the Adult and their Infants have right to Baptism; And being Baptized have Right to Church Communion in all the Acts which their Age and Understanding makes them capable of: And it is Church-tyranny to refuse such as show this Title, till they are openly proved to forfeit it, by Impenitency in gross sin after public admonition, and due means. This is the truth, and the method of Christs discipline, and the Rule of our Communion.
8. By forgetting that God hath not left the Church at arbitrary liberty to judge any Godly ⟨p. 4⟩or Ungodly at their pleasure; But hath given us a set Test or Rule to judge them by; which is [their sober Profession of Consent to the Baptismal Covenant; upon which the Adult and their Infants have right to Baptism; And being Baptized have Right to Church Communion in all the Acts which their Age and Understanding makes them capable of: And it is Church-tyranny to refuse such as shew this Title, till they are openly proved to forfeit it, by Impenitency in gross sin after publick admonition, and due means. This is the truth, and the method of Christs discipline, and the Rule of our Communion.