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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 35
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Sect 35. E. B. 2. You allow that we are not to have Communion with Persecutors,1 nor with such as have consented to our silencing.
- 132d & 33d Untruths.32d & 33d Untru•hs.
R. B. I never wrote such a word, but only told you it was none of our question, and that I did not affirm it, and that it is none of the thing that I am persuading men to. And yet with this intimation pag. 9. that neither your selves nor I do avoid. Communion with all persecutors; seeing most Parties have been guilty of it. The Common-wealths men persecuted me and others, so far as to make Orders to Sequester us, for not taking the Engagement, and for not keeping their Fasts and Thanksgivings for the Wars against Scotland; And yet I am not so rigid as to refuse communion with all that did it, or consented to it. My old special friend did persecute Mr. Sam. Fisher and Mr. Blake, when he turned them both out of Shrewsbury, from their Churches, labour, dwellings and maintenance, even when the Plague was begun and the people doubly sensible of their loss. And yet I refused not all Communion with such as did it. Its like you know who persecuted Mr. Caughton, Dr. Drake, Mr. Nalton, Mr. Arthur Jackson, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jenkins, &c. and Mr. Love and Gibbons; And yet who scrupleth Communion with them? Again I tell you, I mention not these for reproach, ⟨p. 91⟩but only to set us in the impartial sense of the question.