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

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?

1. 1Whether not separating be prejudicial to a fundamental, viz Christs Sovereignty?Whether not separating be prejudicial to a fundamental, viz Christs Soveraignty?

2. Here you say [Matters of Worship] before it was [in Worship.] And even the word. [Worship] is taken so variously, as calls for explication, before we determine whether man may appoint matters of Worship: For if you will call [putting off the Hat] and reverent gestures, in particular, and Metres, and Tunes, and the Method and ⟨p. 116⟩words of the particular Prayer or Sermon, by the name of Worship, then man may appoint it.

3. It is an untrue supposition, and but a begging of the question, that our presence with any thing obtruded unlawfully, is a prejudice to that fundamental of the Sovereignty of Christ. All men that sin do sin against his Sovereignty: And all that obtrude any thing unlawfully, sin against it by that obtrusion. But if you obtrude a rash and passionate prayer on the people, or an erroneous or disorderly prayer, or an ill-composed Hymn or Psalm, their presence is no approbation of your error, nor denying of Christs Sovereignty.