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

Sect. 44. E. B. p. 12. 2. Being present where those things are used in the Worship of God, which God hath not commanded, this would involve us in the guilt and contagion of them: nor do we believe (however we have your word for the contrary) the Lord will otherwise interpret it; since he hath so strictly charged us, to keep far from a false matter, and not to partake in other mens sins.

R. B. Here are two more false doctrines intimated:¹ 1. That to use things in the Worship of God which he hath not commanded (without exception) is a sin. 2. That being present where they are used,² involveth us in the guilt.

1. 18. False doctrine.
2. 29. False doctrine.

Where note, 1. That it is not Part of the Worship, but things used in the Worship, that he speaketh of. 2. That I proved the contrary to both these at large, and the man saith only that he hath my word for the contrary, and giveth not a syllable of answer to my twenty instances, and many undeniable reasons to the contrary. Doth he not either highly esteem his own reason and authority, that thinketh it should be received, if he do but say the word, without attempting to answer whats said against him: or else doth he not greatly despise his own Readers and followers, in taking them for such credulous ⟨p. 114⟩ductile souls, as will take his bare word without expecting any reason from him to confute what is said on the other side? Or is all this on presumption, that his Reader will not know what I have said? Sermon Notes, Metres, Tunes, printed Bibles (as printed) and divided into Chapters and Verses, the words of a Sermon or Prayer, the particular Method, Cups, Tables, &c. are used in the Worship of God without any particular command, or any command for this, rather than that, in cases of indifferency: And yet all these are not therefore unlawful.