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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 58
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. 58. E. B. So that in effect you do resolve the Credit of the Holy Scriptures into ⟨p. 141⟩the truth of Church-history—which words are so contrary to the true Protestant doctrine—so fully agreeing with the doctrine of the Jesuits, &c.
R. B. 1. As to agreeing with the Jesuits fully,1 &c. all that know their Writings, know it is an untruth. 2. True Protestants usually say the same things that I do. Though you may meet with some few like your self that do not. 3. I have fully opened in the Preface to the 2d. Edit. &c. of my Saints Rest, how ambiguous that word [Resolving into] is, and how far your saying is true or false. He that enquireth what Laws are in force in England, must distinguish of these two Questions, 1. Which are the Laws? which are the Statutes in force? what words are false Printed, and what right? what Copies most perfect? And, 2. What Authority are these statutes of?
- 136th Untruth.
The Authority of them is all resolved into the Authority of the King and Parliament. But we that are not so wise as you,1 must be beholden to various Copies, Records, Printers, Lawyers, to know which are the Statutes in force? and whether any words be falsely Printed; And if we find so many hundred various Readings as be in the Bible, we cannot know in every one which is right▪ and which is wrong, by the bare inspection of the Book it self.