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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 41
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. 41. E. B. Lastly, admitting there are some worthy and able men, among the Parish Ministers (which for my own part I believe never a whit the more because you affirm it) yet this we must say, that their sin is great in submitting to so undue a way of entering into the Ministry; and therefore we both forbear our selves, and warn all others not to hear them; because we cannot think our Lord Christ ever sent such to Preach in his name, who directly and by a solemn Oath have renounced their Christian liberty under pretence of Preaching Christ; and are indeed nothing else (as to the whole discharge and exercise of their office) but servants of men—in consistent with being servants of Christ.
R. B. 1. Either you think there are some worthy able men among them, or you do not. If you do, why should you be so malignant as to question the assertion of it, and so loth to grant it? If you do not, how unfit is so false and malignant an accuser of the brethren,1 to be the conductor of souls, or the Historian of the age, that will not know a thing so public and notorious.
R. B. 1. Either you think there are some worthy able men among them, or you do not. If you do, why should you be so malignant as to question the assertion of it, and so loth to grant it? If you do not, how unfit is so false and malignant an accuser of the brethren,1 to be the conducter of souls, or the Historian of the age, that will not know a thing so publick and notorious.
- 1All sinners are not to be separated from.