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

To Mr. Edward Bagshaw.

Having told you in my first Admonition p. 145. that if you write any more at the rates you did, I should give you the last word, as not intending to confute you, &c. I found my self in a strait ⟨p. 24⟩when I read your second—about my duty: Though you trampled admonition under your feet, and turn again and all to rend me, I ought not to take you for a Swine or Dog, and give you up as wholly hopeless, till there is no remedy: being under the command, Lev. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him! And Charity forbiddeth me to desert all those souls whom you endeavour to seduce, by denying them necessary information, and silently to suffer them to live in all the sins in which you would ensnare them. And yet I have been chidden by so many for answering your last Writing, as containing such palpable scurrility, impertinency and error, that I am afraid of wasting my time, which I might better employ; and preferring a lesser matter before a greater: And I expect you should charge me as a breaker of my promise: But of that you have your self discharged me, it being conditional [If you write at the rates you did, &c.] and but the expression of my [Intentions] which I may well alter, when your alteration calleth for it: For though you neither express Repentance, nor Amend the faults, of which I did admonish you, yet you here attempt such a Plea for separation, as you did not in your former writing, where you seemed to expect that your bare assertions should be believed; but now you pretend to more argumentation: which therefore I shall take into consideration.

HAving told you in my first Admonition p. 145. that if you write any more at the rates you did, I should give you the last word, as not intending to confute you, &c. I found my self in a streight ⟨p. 24⟩when I read your second—about my duty: Though you trampled admonition under your feet, and turn again and all to rend me, I ought not to take you for a Swine or Dog, and give you up as wholly hopeless, till there is no remedy: being under the command,