A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…

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 ⟨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 Genealogie or Chronologie it will not un-church us. This is something.

2. Well, but what is the crime that maketh our Communion unlawful? [when error is once imposed, &c.] so then (if you can speak sense) any error Imposed will do it. What if it be Imposed on the Church, to use a Translation of the Bible that hath some error in (And is there any without?) Must that Church needs be separated from? And yet the Church that used the same Voluntarily (and therefore more sinfully) is not to be separated from? What if erroneously it be imposed on the Church to meet at an inconvenient time or place? What if some flaw or error in Chronology on smaller-matters, were in their imposed Confession, which the Pastor erroneously subscribeth to? It seems an Infallible Imposing Church may be communicated with, and no other. But do you not know that there is a Ministerial as well as a Magistratical forcing Imposition? Every Pastor that speaketh as by Commission from Christ, Imposeth somewhat on the people! He Imposeth doctrine, and Method, and words in prayer, and times, places, utensils, orders, metres, tunes, as aforesaid. Must all these be separated from (that is almost all the Pastors in the World;) And is there no remedy?