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

4. That you would not say any Church of Christ is No Church, because it is not of your form or mode.

5. That you would not say, that Communion with any Church is unlawful, because their external worshipping form, is not of your fashion, or before you have proved what you say. My advice is calculated to the Union and peace of all true Churches, and not those of one form or mode alone.

5. That you would not say, that Communion with any Church is unlawful, because their external worshipping form, is not of your fashion, or before you have proved what you say. My advice is calculated to the Vnion and peace of all true Churches, and not those of one form or mode alone.

And I note it as a considerable providence of God, that I am drawn in to defend the Principles of Love and Concord in these trying times, against such an adversary as Mr. Bagshaw ⟨p. 13⟩is. It hath of late been Gods way to let us know the evil of Principles by their effects on the men that we have had to do with: As Malignant principles would not have been sufficiently distasted by us, if they had not showed themselves in malignant practices; So Dividing principles had never been sufficiently known in England, if they had not ruined a Reformation, silenced so many hundred Ministers, and laid us in the dirt, as they have done. And if the Cause of Dividers must be judged of by the defenders, I advise you to consider of these things following.

And I note it as a considerable providence of God, that I am drawn in to defend the Principles of Love and Concord in these trying times, against such an adversary as Mr. Bagshaw ⟨p. 13⟩