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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 78
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Sect. 78. E. B. If you will still go on, and under pretence of writing for Love, do what you can to keep up a mixed, disorderly, persecuting and imperfect Church-State, leaving us no hope nor possibility of reformation—
Sect. 78. E. B. If you will still go on, and under pretence of writing for Love, do what you can to keep up a mixed, disorderly, persecuting and imperfect Church-State, leaveing us no hope nor possibility of reformation—
R. B. 1.1 This is another implied Untruth, that I keep up a persecuting Church-State, when I have written so much more than you against it: yea, that I do what I can to do it; as if you thought that we can do no more evil than we do, and our power were as small to sin as you make it to be to good. But you will find at last that separating from Churches for mixture, and imperfection, and such disorder as we have now in question, and to cloak this with slandering the honest Conforming Ministers with Persecution, who lament it in ⟨p. 165⟩others, and never practise it (though I am not one that take them to be blameless) this will prove a greater hinderance to Reformation than a sober peaceable Christian conversation will be.
R. B. 1.1 This is another implyed Untruth, that I keep up a persecuting Church-State, when I have written so much more than you against it: yea, that I do what I can to do it; as if you thought that we can do no more evil than we do, and our power were as small to sin as you make it to be to good. But you will find at last that separating from Churches for mixture, and imperfection, and such disorder as we have now in question, and to cloak this with slandering the honest Conforming Ministers with Persecution, who lament it in