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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 70
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. 70. E. B. Do not love to jumble absurd and insignificant Phrases together: as to say [A defective, faulty, true Church.]
R. B. Reader, if thou expect that he should tell thee, the absurdity or insignificancy of any one of all these words, thou must not put him to so much condescension, but take it on his word, or rest unsatisfied. Whether Defective, or faulty, be insignificant words, or whether no True Church be defective and faulty, if you believe him, perhaps you may hear in his time.
Sect. 71. E. B. To mention a Political, Spiritual, Constitutive Head.
R. B. More wisdom still! which of these is the non-sense?1 Is it that the Pope pretendeth to be a Political Head? Consult. D. Lud. Moulins Jugulum Causae, and all Goldastus his three Volumes, with Chamier, Rivet, Whitaker, Blondel, and all that write against him. Or is it that he claimeth to be a Spiritual Head or Governor? Then all his own defenders and all our opposers of him wrong him, till Mr. Bagshaw came to reform this language: Or is it because he claimeth not to be the Constitutive Head of the Church? Ask all those Papists that say it is Essential to a member of the Church to be subject to the Pope. Reader, Is not this man uncharitable, that will neither give us his leave to use our old words, nor teach us better; but intimate that we speak nonsense, and he can speak better if he would! We have hitherto been used to call a Governed Church a Political Society, as distinct from a mere concourse or community of Christians. And why not? if [Greek or Hebrew] come from [Greek or Hebrew]: And if God hath prepared for them a City, whose God he is not ashamed to be called,