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

Sect. 46. E. B. And we judge we have sufficient warrant from what the Apostles did in a like case, Acts 15. 24. For if they reproved such as preached up Circumcision and other Legal Ceremonies, at that day, when as the Apostles had given them no such Commandment, saying of them, that they subverted or spoiled the souls of the Disciples, then may we affirm the like of those men now, who in things equally indispensable, do act with every whit as little authority, from whom on that very account we think it our duty to separate.

Sect. 46. E. B. And we judge we have sufficient warrant from what the Apostles did in a like case, Acts 15. 24. For if they reproved such as preached up Circumcision and other Legal Ceremonies, at that day, when as the Apostles had given them no such Commandment, saying of them, that they subverted or spoiled the souls of the Disciples, then may we affirm the like of those men now, who in things equally indispensible, do act with every whit as little authority, from whom on that very account we think it our duty to separate.

R. B. 1. The authority of the King and lawful Magistrates is more about the Circumstantials of Worship (as whether Abiathar shall be High Priest, &c.) than the false Teachers was about that doctrine.

2. The Apostles do indeed declare that they sent them not to preach,¹ or not such doctrine: But that's not the thing on which they lay the great accusation, but on the false and dividing doctrine which they preached. Christ saith of one that cast out Devils in his Name, and followed him not, Let him alone; he that is not against us, is for us: And Moses wished all the Lords people were Prophets: But these false Teachers would have made the keeping of Moses Law to be necessary to salvation: And can you prove that the Minister doth so, whom I use to hear? Do all the Parish Ministers do so? Can you see no difference between one that