A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…

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.

So that here is a double Equivocation, and more than four terms: 1. [As such] speaketh (as I said) one essence in the Antecedent, and another in the Consequent. ⟨p. 95⟩