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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 62
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Sect. 62. E. B. And indeed Sir, that I may confess a secret to you, this very passage of yours I looked on as so conceited and singular, and many years ago it gave me so great offence, that I threw away your Book upon it, and never would read it over, as not thinking it possible that one who erred in the very entrance in so plain a truth, was able to instruct me in any thing that was worth my knowing.—
Sect. 62. E. B. And indeed Sir, that I may confess a secret to you, this very passage of yours I looked on as so conceited and singular, and many years agoe it gave me so great offence, that I threw away your Book upon it, and never would read it over, as not thinking it possible that one who erred in the very entrance in so plain a truth, was able to instruct me in any thing that was worth my knowing.—
R. B. 1. The Book was written about twenty one or twenty two years ago, and you are a Young man yet: You surely begun very early to be past possibility of being taught any thing by such as I. Is this only to declare your humility? or that you speak evil of the Books which you never read? and that you are the fittest man to be the accuser of them?
R. B. 1. The Book was written about twenty one or twenty two years agoe, and you are a Young man yet: You surely begun very early to be past possibility of being taught any thing by such as I. Is this only to declare your humility? or that you speak evil of the Books which you never read? and that you are the fittest man to be the accuser of them?
2. It may be there was some early antipathy between our judgements. For I will confess such another secret to you, That about twelve years ago a Latin small discourse came to my hand as famed to be yours, against the Species of Monarchical Government, and the arguments against Monarchy in it seemed to me such poor injudicious slender stuff, that (though I did not as you cast away the Book till I came to the end) it was one occasion of my writing the twenty Arguments against