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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
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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?]
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. Nye thought not so, when he wrote for such hearing publick 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?]
4. Most that I speak of did enter into the Ministry in the Presbyterian or Independent way heretofore, and do but continue on the terms which I dissent from as well as you. How then can you say they unduly enter into the Ministry?
4. Most that I speak of did enter into the Ministry in the Presbyterian or Independent way heretofore, and do but continue on the terms which I dissent from as well as you. How then can you say they unduely enter into the Ministry?