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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.
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.
2. As for your not believing me, no men are so hardly brought to believe the truth from others, as they that are conscious of ordinary falsehood from themselves.
2. As for your not believing me, no men are so hardly brought to believe the truth from others, as they that are conscious of ordinary falshood from themselves.
3. I think I could prove their sin as effectually as you can: But must we separate from all sinners? or from all that sin in their entrance into the Ministry? And why not as well from all other sins of equal greatness? Do you warn all others not to hear your self? Or do you yet take your self to be no sinner? or no great sinner? What if the Presbyterians think the Independents way of entrance to be undue? And the Independents think so of the Presbyterians? And both of the Anabaptists? and the Anabaptists of them both, &c. Must they all therefore warm all men not to hear each other? Mr. Nigh thought not so, when he wrote for such hearing public Ministers. Is it fit for the Author of two Books of Calumnies and bold Untruths, besides false Doctrines and other Crimes, to say [Their sin is great, &c. and therefore we both forbear our selves, and warn all others not to hear them?]