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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 40
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. 40. E. B. p. 11. [If Persecutors are not to be communicated with, nor such as have consented to our silencing (which you also allow) (though I could wish you had proved it better than by the obscure & disputable example of Martin) then I think very few, if any of the Parish-Ministers, but must even upon that account also be separated from; since either by open consent, or else by an Undoing and Pernicious silence they have all made themselves guilty of that grievous sin: There being but little difference in the sight of God, between the persecuting Brethren our selves, and (by not sharply reproving it) seeming to approve of it in others.
Sect. 40. E. B. p. 11. [If Persecutors are not to be communicated with, nor such as have consented to our silencing (which you also allow) (though I could wish you had proved it better than by the obscure & disputable example of Martin) then I think very few, if any of the Parish-Ministers, but must even upon that account also be separated from; since either by open consent, or else by an Vndoing and Pernicious silence they have all made themselves guilty of that grievous sin: There being but little difference in the sight of God, between the persecuting Brethren our selves, and (by not sharply reproving it) seeming to approve of it in others.
R. B. 1. Your repeated mistake of my [allowing] that which I only meddle not with, 1but exclude from the question; or oppose not, I pass by. 2. Every one that is by remote consequence guilty of our silencing doth not consent to it. Otherwise You, and I, and all the silenced Ministers in England do consent to it. For he is blindly impenitent that will deny that we are any way guilty of it.