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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 51
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.
5. But the Core of your erroneous reasoning is behind; you say, they were—without any Universal innovation or degenerating in those Essentials of Order as well as doctrine which they fell into in the ages after, &c. An Universal degenerating in the Essentials even of Doctrine and Order too, is a big and a sad word: And the time pointed at by you being so early, if I can understand you, you do (as the Seekers) unchurch the universal Church of Christ. For if it Degenerated Universally in the Essentials of doctrine, it Universally apostatized from Christianity: For where any Essential part is lost, the Essence ⟨p. 131⟩and just Name is lost.1 And I beseech you, let not rashness or passion blind you to over-overlook the dreadfulness of this Doctrine.
5. But the Core of your erroneous reasoning is behind; you say, they were—without any Vniversal innovation or degenerating in those Essentials of Order as well as doctrine which they fell into in the ages after, &c. An Vniversal degenerating in the Essentials even of Doctrine and Order too, is a big and a sad word: And the time pointed at by you being so early, if I can understand you, you do (as the Seekers) unchurch the universal Church of Christ. For if it Degenerated Vniversally in the Essentials of doctrine, it Vniversally apostatized from Christianity: For where any Essential part is lost, the Essence ⟨p. 131⟩and just Name is lost.1 And I beseech you, let not rashness or passion blind you to over-overlook the dreadfulness of this Doctrine.
- 111. Dreadful false doctrine. Read and fear the tendency of separation.
1. If Christ had then no Church (as he had not, if the Essential degeneration was Universal) then he was no King of the Church on Earth,