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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 69
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Sect. 69. E. B. And because many Professors of Christianity are ignorant and injudicious, do not think that therefore you do well to call Christians,1 considered as Christians so. These are evident and apparent Sophisms which abound in your last Treatise.
- 141. Untruth, notorious.
R. B. These are deliberate written words: And if all this be the mere fiction of your brain; If I have not one syllable that hath any such importance; Nor one word in my Books have the least show of such a thing; Nay, if the clean contrary be most openly ⟨p. 157⟩and plainly expressed in them, and yet rather than confess your former falsehood, you fear not before God and man to second it with this most immodest additional forgery, which hath no Cloak, let your Reader judge, and let your Conscience judge at last, whether Repentance was your duty. He that saith Christians considered as Christians are ignorant, injudicious, &c. layeth his charge on Christianity, more than on the men: Had you no way to hide your former falsehood, but by this impudent forgery that I speak against Christianity it self? Had not Repentance been a better reparation of your prostituted honour, than this.
R. B. These are deliberate written words: And if all this be the meer fiction of your brain; If I have not one syllable that hath any such importance; Nor one word in my Books have the least shew of such a thing; Nay, if the clean contrary be most openly