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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 55
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. 55. E. B. p. 17, 18.1 [The former non-conformists held Arminianism so fundamental and dangerous an error, &c. But you do not only speak favourably of it, but also Proudly tell us that you are confident, not one of many hundreds, who speak against Communion with Arminians, do understand what Arminianism is—As if—plain Christians could not easily come to know it.
Sect. 55. E. B. p. 17, 18.1 [The former non-conformists held Arminianisme so fundamental and dangerous an errour, &c. But you do not only speak favourably of it, but also Proudly tell us that you are confident, not one of many hundreds, who speak against Communion with Arminians, do understand what Arminianisme is—As if—plain Christians could not easily come to know it.
- 1Boasting Ignorance.
R. B. 1. As under Church-tyrants all is Schism, which contradicts their Schism, so with some men all is Proudly spoken which contradicteth their Pride, and supposeth them to be but half as ignorant as they are.
R. B. 1. As under Church-tyrants all is Schisme, which contradicts their Schisme, so with some men all is Proudly spoken which contradicteth their Pride, and supposeth them to be but half as ignorant as they are.
2. Were all the Non-conformists of one mind about Arminianism? Was not Arminius himself against Prelacy and Ceremonies? and many of his followers? Who were the great Antiadiaphorists in Germany, but Iliricus, Amsdorsius, Gallus and other Lutherans? Is not Mr. Dury a Non-conformist who hath forty years laboured to bring the Lutherans (who are as far from us as Arminius) and the Calvinists to Communion?