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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 38
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.
If Universities were as unlawful as many Separatists judge them, yet Dr. Goodwins Church, e. g. in Oxford might have been part of the University, and yet a true Church, and to be disowned as part of the University, and yet not as a Church.
If Vniversities were as unlawful as many Separatists judge them, yet Dr. Goodwins Church, e. g. in Oxford might have been part of the University, and yet a true Church, and to be disowned as part of the University, and yet not as a Church.
If you were a member of an unlawful Society, Army, Church, &c. You may be disowned as a member of that Society, and yet not as a Christian, or as a Man.
Now would not the Boys laugh at you if you should reason thus: An usurped Heathenish Kingdom or Common-wealth, as such is unlawful, and not to be communicated with; A Classical Church as such is not to be communicated with; An University as such is not to be communicated with: Therefore such or such a particular Church as such is not to be communicated with, which is a part of that Kingdom, that Classis, that University! E. B. a Christian is a member of a Society which is not to be owned: Ergo E. B. a Christian as such is not to be owned. What more apparent than that the consequent should be but this? Therefore such a Church should not be owned, as it is a Part of such a Kingdom, Classis, University, &c. which is all accidental to the Church.
Now would not the Boyes laugh at you if you should reason thus: An usurped Heathenish Kingdom or Common-wealth, as such is unlawful, and not to be communicated with; A Classical Church as such is not to be communicated with; An University as such is not to be communicated with: Therefore such or such a particular Church as such is not to be communicated with, which is a part of that Kingdom, that Classis, that University! E. B. a Christian is a member of a Society which is not to be owned: Ergo E. B. a Christian as such is not to be owned. What more apparent than that the consequent should be but this? Therefore such a Church should not be owned, as it is a Part of such a Kingdom, Classis, Vniversity, &c. which is all accidental to the Church.