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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.
To conclude Readers,1 mark here by this reason how few you must hold communion with in the Land or in the world, if you will be the Disciples of Mr. Bagshaw; Away from Conformists and Non-conformists that ⟨p. 100⟩have [sharply reproved] persecutors. This is the way to be able to guess at the names and numbers of those that by his rule you must Communicate with.
- 1Narrow Communion.
5. But what if they have sharply reproved this one sin? you cannot prove that they themselves have done so by all other sins: Even you your self have left some unreproved: And will not the want of the sharp reproving of other sins as well as of persecution, make your communion with such unlawful?
6. But at the worst; not reproving can be but a particular sin? And it is not every particular sin that maketh Communion unlawful.