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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 52
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. 52. E. B. p. 15. [So that more may be said for separation now (when whole Churches are out of order and corrupt) than could be at that time when corruption had infected only particular members.]
R. B. 1. Is it now come to that? Is it the number corrupted that must decide the case? Who can tell where to find this Proteus? sometime it is the mixture of holy and unholy: sometime it is not bare corruption without Imposition: And now it is the numbers corrupted, (whole Churches:) And in the next sentence—you shall see ⟨p. 134⟩what? 2. Is the whole Church any thing besides the particular members? Is there any other matter? or any form besides the Relation of the particular members? 3. I challenge you if you can to prove any corruption in the Churches in question, which is not consistent with the essence? I know not so much error or harm, in the people of the Church that I now join with, where I live, as Paul chargeth on the Corinthians or Galatians: (Though I suppose the primitive Ministry and gifts more excellent than any of ours.)
R. B. 1. Is it now come to that? Is it the number corrupted that must decide the case? Who can tell where to find this Proteus? sometime it is the mixture of holy and unholy: sometime it is not bare corruption without Imposition: And now it is the numbers corrupted, (whole Churches:) And in the next sentence—you shall see ⟨p. 134⟩what? 2. Is the whole Church any thing besides the particular members? Is there any other matter? or any form besides the Relation of the particular members? 3. I challenge you if you can to prove any corruption in the Churches in question, which is not consistent with the essence? I know not so much errour or harm, in the people of the Church that I now joyn with, where I live, as Paul chargeth on the Corinthians or Galathians: (Though I suppose the primitive Ministry and gifts more excellent than any of ours.)