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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.
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,1 no Lord, no Teacher, no Saviour of the Church; no Intercessor for it in the Heavens? And do you not then dethrone him, and deny him indeed to be the Christ? What, a Head without a Body? A King without a Kingdom?
1. If Christ had then no Church (as he had not, if the Essential degeneration was Vniversal) then he was no King of the Church on Earth,1 no Lord, no Teacher, no Saviour of the Church; no Intercessor for it in the Heavens? And do you not then dethrone him, and deny him indeed to be the Christ? What, a Head without a Body? A King without a Kingdom?
- 1Mr. William's doctrine.
2. So you will make all Gods Promises of his Churches perpetuity, as built on the Rock, against which Hell Gates should not prevail, and of being with them to the end of the world, &c. to be false and fail. And if the whole Church failed, and the Promises made to it, what particular soul can trust Gods Promises.
3. If all the Church apostatized, how shall we know that Apostates did not corrupt all the Copies of Scripture that are come down to us?