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

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.

Reader, I will conclude also with an Admonition as my Accuser doth; As thou lovest Christianity, Scripture and thy soul, take heed of those Ignorant destroying-defenders of the Scripture, who would tell the Infidel world, that they may continue Infidels till we can prove, that the Scripture alone by its own light, without humane Testimony, History or Tradition, will bring it self to all mens hands without mans bringing it, and will translate it self, without mans translating it, or in the original tongues will make all English men, and all that cannot read at all, to understand it; or being translated will tell you sufficiently which is the true translation; and where the Translator failed; or will tell you among many hundred divers Readings which is the right, and which Copy is the truest, and