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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
12. Doth he not fix upon you by such Libels as these, an odious reproach? As if he would persuade the world, that you that he writeth to, are so partial, so blind, so false to truth, and to your own souls, and such pernicious enemies to peace, as that you will receive that which is thus falsely said to you, without ever reading what is said on the other side, or against all the evidence that contradicteth it, and will believe all these visible untruths of his, without any proof, upon the bare report of so rash a man.
12. Doth he not fix upon you by such Libells as these, an odious reproach? As if he would perswade the world, that you that he writeth to, are so partial, so blind, so false to truth, and to your own souls, and such pernicious enemies to peace, as that you will receive that which is thus falsly said to you, without ever reading what is said on the other side, or against all the evidence that contradicteth it, and will believe all these visible untruths of his, without any proof, upon the bare report of so rash a man.
13. Whether following such men and ways as this, is not the likeliest way in the world, not only to increase the reproach of the Non-conformists, and make them all thought of, as we do of the Quakers, and so to continue severities against them as a company of furious unsociable persons; but also to harden men into a contempt of Religion it self.
13. Whether following such men and wayes as this, is not the likeliest way in the world, not only to increase the reproach of the Non-conformists, and make them all thought of, as we do of the Quakers, and so to continue severities against them as a company of furious unsociable persons; but also to harden men into a contempt of Religion it self.
14. Doth not God permit such a Champion of the Cause of Division, thus criminally to miscarry, that you may see that you are not better than those you separate from? You blame