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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 76
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. 76. E. B. p. 21. It is not a lessening of your Reputation that I mainly aim at: much less at the advancing of my own upon the ruin of yours. But I thought the truth of Christ worth my vindicating: And when I saw that your name did stand in the way of it—The whole design of this Letter is (as to others) to persuade all to look upon you, not only as a fallible, but a mistaken man—
Sect. 76. E. B. p. 21. It is not a lessening of your Reputation that I mainly aim at: much less at the advancing of my own upon the ruine of yours. But I thought the truth of Christ worth my vindicating: And when I saw that your name did stand in the way of it—The whole design of this Letter is (as to others) to perswade all to look upon you, not only as a fallible, but a mistaken man—
R. B. I have long ago done wondering that such men as you can deliberately choose and use such means, when once they have dared to entitle God and his Glory to their false doctrines: For what is it that they will not think lawful to do for God and Truth? If some serve him by killing his servants, no wonder if others do it by slandering them, and persuading all to separate from them: And if they say [Rom. 3. 7. If the Truth of God hath more abounded through my Lye unto his Glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?] But God and Truth may be better served by Truth. But falsehood must by falsehood be upheld. But Sir my Reputation is at your service for an honester use; but seeing it was but for the destruction of Christian Love and Peace that you designed to make a stepping-stone of it, try whether you be not slipped beside it into the dirt.