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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 97
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R. B. Here are three more visible untruths in point of fact, 1. That I argue against the Divine Authority of the Scripture; yea or the self-evidencing either; which I have written for at large in three several Treatises. 1. In the 2d Part of my Saints Rest. 2. In a Book called the Unreasonableness of Infidelity. 3. In my Reasons of the Christian Religion, most fully: but never wrote a word against it. 2. That I do with my industry and cunning labour to overthrow our foundation: Hath this man written more for the foundation than those three Books? 3. That I deny any certainty but what may be gathered from the truth of History: For which he citeth not one word in which I ever said so, nor can: But the contrary is legible in the forecited Volumes, at large.
As to the matter of his Accusation I will not here write another Book, to tell men what I have written in the former: Read my own words, even those he accuseth, and my Treatise for the Christian Religion, and judge as you see Cause; But for them that will believe him to save them the labour of reading it in my own Books, as if another man were liker to tell rightly what I have written than the Books themselves, I leave them to judge, and do ⟨p. 185⟩as they are, and as such men lead them.
And how far Tradition or History, or Humane aide and Testimony is necessary to our Reception of the Scripture, I have long ago opened at large in the Preface to the second Part of my Saints Rest, and showed you that Dr. Whitaker, Chemnitius, Davenant, Rob. Baronius and other Protestants usually say the same that I do, and that otherwise by casting away such subordinate means, Proud-ignorance and peevish wrangling will cut the throat of faith it self, and undermine the Church of God.
And how far Tradition or History, or Humane aide and Testimony is necessary to our Reception of the Scripture, I have long agoe opened at large in the Preface to the second Part of my Saints Rest, and shewed you that Dr. Whitaker, Chemnitius, Davenant, Rob. Baronius and other Protestants usually say the same that I do, and that otherwise by casting away such subordinate means, Proud-ignorance and pievish wrangling will cut the throat of faith it self, and undermine the Church of God.