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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 48
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Sect. 48. E. B. To which I add only this, that however the presenting our bodies at a Worship which we do not inwardly approve of, may render us excusable, and justify us among men, yet we are sure it will not in the sight of God who hates hypocrisy—
Sect. 48. E. B. To which I add only this, that however the presenting our bodies at a Worship which we do not inwardly approve of, may render us excusable, and justiste us among men, yet we are sure it will not in the sight of God who hates hypocrisie—
R. B. Though you confound,1 I must distinguish the essentials of the Worship from the circumstances, and outward imperfections in the manner. I do inwardly approve of the matter or substance of the Worship which I join in, in the main; and labour to pray with my heart when I join in the Common-prayer; ⟨p. 121⟩though I consent not to the whole Method, nor to the defects. And when I hear a man in free prayer use confusion, disorder, unseemly words,2 and when I hear one man drop the error of an Arminian, or a Lutheran, another of an Antinomian, another of an Anabaptist, another of a Separatist, &c. in his prayer, I do not inwardly approve of that error or disorder, any more than of the defects of forms: And yet if it were hypocrisy to be present, I would join with no man living. Can all your hearers inwardly approve of all that you say, if you preach and pray but as you write? If they can, its time to pity them. And are they Hypocrites else for joining with you?