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

Reader, since the Writing of this, two things have fallen out which make it a more displeasing work to me than it was before; And I am sorry that Mr. Bagshaw made it necessary. The one is, that (as the current report saith) he is again in Prison, for Refusing the Oath of Allegiance: And I naturally abhor to trample upon a suffering person (which hath caused me to say so little against the Armies and Sectarian miscarriages since their dissolution and dejection in comparison of what I did before in the time of their prosperity.) The other is, The ⟨p. 189⟩Printing of the Life of Mr. Vavasor Powell, which hath so many good things in it, that I fear lest the mention of his false Prophecies (extorted by Mr. Bagshaw, who first published also his name as the Author of them) should abate their exemplary use.

REader, since the Writing of this, two things have faln out which make it a more displeasing work to me than it was before; And I am sorry that Mr. Bagshaw made it necessary. The one is, that (as the current report saith) he is again in Prison, for Refusing the Oath of Allegiance: And I naturally abhorre to trample upon a suffering person (which hath caused me to say so little against the Armies and Sectarian miscarriages since their dissolution and dejection in comparison of what I did before in the time of their prosperity.) The other is, The ⟨p. 189⟩Printing of the Life of Mr. Vavasor Powel, which hath so many good things in it, that I fear lest the mention of his false Prophecies (extorted by Mr. Bagshaw, who first published also his name as the Author of them) should abate their exemplary use.

But yet I must give this notice to foreigners and posterity, that they must not judge either of the JUDGEMENT or the SUFFERINGS of the Non-conformists by these mens: It is not for refusing the Oath of Allegiance that they are silenced, and suffer as they do: nor do they consent to the words which conclude the life of Mr. Powell, That since such a time he hath learnt that we must pray for our present Rulers as sinners, but not as Magistrates. No man can truly say that such Doctrines as these have been proved against any considerable part of the Ministers that are now cast out, or that they were deposed and silenced for such things, seeing they commonly take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.