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

And believe not these men till they can name you one man that ever knew before some man told him, by the Book alone whether Esther and the Canticles were Canonical, and the Book of Wisdom and Pauls Epistle to the Laodiceans Apocryphal; and knew what was the sense of the Original Text, and what Copies, and Readings, and Translations were true, and what false? Yea or that knew these particular Books were the same that the Apostles wrote, without alteration, till some one told it them?

And believe not these men till they can name you one man that ever knew before some man told him, by the Book alone whether Esther and the Canticles were Canonical, and the Book of Wisdom and Pauls Epistle to the Laodioaeans Apocryphal; and knew what was the sense of the Original Text, and what Copies, and Readings, and Translations were true, and what false? Yea or that knew these particular Books were the same that the Apostles wrote, without alteration, till some one told it them?

Would not that man reduce the Church into less than one single person, who would have no man believe the Scripture, nor take it for Gods word, till he can do it without any help of man, or humane History, or Testimony or Tradition? But of this I put him twenty Questions before.

It shall now suffice to tell you this much of the plain truth, that such furious false Teachers as shall take the foresaid course may not utterly subvert your faith.