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

And, 18. Let me ask you one question more; Is it necessary to Salvation that men be able to read? Hath God promised it to all or most that shall be saved? Faith cometh by hearing, as the most ordinary way of old: And he that will Preach the Gospel to most Nations under Heaven, must Convert more than can read, or but a few. And if you Preach the Gospel to a Congregation that cannot read, do you recite all the various readings in the Hebrew and Greek to them? If not, can they judge of that they never heard? If you do, are they ever the wiser as to know of themselves ⟨p. 145⟩which of them is the right?

19. But if you say that you suppose not only Grace but great Learning and Study to discern these things, how cometh it to pass that the most Learned, Studious and Godly men do still so much differ about the various Readings? (as Lud. Capellus, Usher, Heinsius, Bootius, De Dieu, and others.) And how come the Churches in the Ages next the Apostles to leave out so many Books of the Canon as many of them did, while others received them? And Luther, Althamar and others, to set no more by James's Epistle than they did? And so many Godly men long, and yet, to receive much of the Apocrypha?

19. But if you say that you suppose not only Grace but great Learning and Study to discern these things, how cometh it to pass that the most Learned, Studious and Godly men do still so much differ about the various Readings? (as Lud. Capellus, Vsher, Heinsius, Bootius, De Dieu, and others.) And how come the Churches in the Ages next the Apostles to leave out so many Books of the Canon as many of them did, while others received them? And Luther, Althamar and others, to set no more by James's Epistle than they did? And so many Godly men long, and yet, to receive much of the Apocrypha?