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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 47
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 47. E. B. By two Arguments you labour to defend your irregular way of Communion: 1. That in the Primitive Churches there were many corruptions, which the Apostle writes against, but doth not advise any because of them to separate. But I answer—It is not ⟨p. 119⟩corruption or error barely considered as such, that we account to be a sufficient ground of separation: But the Imposing of that error with on high hand, and making a submission to it (at least in our practice and outward observance) the very condition of Communion: This we say, is a thing which necessitates us to make a separation.
R. B. Mark that you distinguish not of Corruption or Error, 1nor except any, but what is Imposed. And when I had answered all this so fully, why will you deign to confute a Book, while you disdain to take notice what it saith?
- 1Mr. Bagshaw's too loose communion with all Heretics that impose not.Mr. Bagshaw's too loose communion with all Hereticks that impose not.
1. Who would have thought that you are so much looser in your communion than we are? I will separate from that Church which in the essential matter (Pastor, or all the flock) after admonition retaineth such Corruption and Error, as is directly contrary to any essential point of Christianity, though they impose it not on others: But by these words it seems, as scrupulous as you are, you would not separate from Heretics or Ungodly ones, if they do not Impose their Heresy and Impiety!