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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 45
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Sect. 45. E. B. Lastly, Whatever pretences may be used, for the keeping of Peace, yet (to speak strictly so as to satisfy Conscience) Peace is but ill bought, if we must purchase it at so dear a rate as the loss of truth: And this Truth concerning the sole Sovereign Power of our Lord Christ in appointing all matters of his Worship—is a point so necessary to be maintained, and so utterly inconsistent with the supposing that any thing is to be obtruded which he hath not commanded, that we dare not allow our selves in the practice of any thing which may prejudice that fundamental.
Sect. 45. E. B. Lastly, Whatever pretences may be used, for the keeping of Peace, yet (to speak strictly so as to satisfie Conscience) Peace is but ill bought, if we must purchase it at so dear a rate as the loss of truth: And this Truth concerning the sole Soveraign Power of our Lord Christ in appointing all matters of his Worship—is a point so necessary to be maintained, and so utterly inconsistent with the supposing that any thing is to be obtruded which he hath not commanded, that we dare not allow our selves in the practice of any thing which may prejudice that fundamental.
R. B. 1. How oft have I answered that saying about selling Truth for Peace, 1and must hear it again in the old confusion without any notice of what hath been said. See my Treatise of Infant Baptism on that point particularly. Do I fell thirty three Truths, when I read thirty three untruths in your Writings? Do I sell Truth, if I should hear you preach or pray erroneously, and impose your confused prayers on the people? or impose this or that Metre or Tune on them in singing of Psalms?