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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 53
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. 53. E. B. 1[For it is not, as I said before, Corruption barely, no nor Imposition barely, that is a sufficient ground for any to separate (For where some lesser errors are held but not Imposed; or, where only necessary things are imposed, we shall not forbear Communion.) But when error is once imposed, and by a strong hand forcibly maintained (notwithstanding all admonitions and endeavours of reformation,) here we must separate or consent to sin.—
Sect. 53. E. B. 1[For it is not, as I said before, Corruption barely, no nor Imposition barely, that is a sufficient ground for any to separate (For where some lesser errours are held but not Imposed; or, where only necessary things are imposed, we shall not forbear Communion.) But when errour is once imposed, and by a strong hand forcibly maintained (notwithstanding all admonitions and endeavours of reformation,) here we must separate or consent to sin.—
- 1More of the Causes of separation.
R. B. Better and better: Here it is granted that neither Corruption barely, nor Imposition barely, will justify separation. But by Corruption and Imposition barely seemeth to be meant such formaliter quoad actum, without including the degree of the matter. For it is expounded of [Lesser errors] held and not Imposed; or of necessary things Imposed. So that if it be Imposed on us to Worship ⟨p. 135⟩God, it will not prove us no Christians: we are beholden to you for this clemency. And if we should mistake a point of Genealogy or Chronology it will not un-church us. This is something.
R. B. Better and better: Here it is granted that neither Corruption barely, nor Imposition barely, will justifie separation. But by Corruption and Imposition barely seemeth to be meant such formaliter quoad actum, without including the degree of the matter. For it is expounded of [Lesser errours] held and not Imposed; or of necessary things Imposed. So that if it be Imposed on us to Worship