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

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.

1. 1Whether all the Parish Ministers consent to persecution.

3. You do but cover one open sin with another;¹ even separation with uncharitable slander of many hundred godly Conformable Ministers, whom you accuse of this consent. I know scarce any one of my acquaintance whom I take for a faithful diligent Pastor, and whom I persuade men to hear, but they are grieved at the heart for the silencing of so many and such. I hear some complain of it privately, and some lament it publicly, and earnestly pray that God would restore them; But I never heard one of them own it.

3. You do but cover one open sin with another;¹ even separation with uncharitable slander of many hundred godly Conformable Ministers, whom you accuse of this consent. I know scarce any one of my acquaintance whom I take for a faithful diligent Pastor, and whom I perswade men to hear, but they are grieved at the heart for the silencing of so many and such. I hear some complain of it privately, and some lament it publickly, and earnestly pray that God would restore them; But I never heard one of them own it.

1. 1Slander.