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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
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 8
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.
Sect. 8. E. B. p. 3. If in separating— our sin is so great, that the place where we live cannot be held innocent, but must suffer from the hand of God for our sakes, we are certainly a people who deserve to be hated of all, and the Confiscations, Imprisonments and Deaths, which some of us have already felt, are no longer to be bewailed and grieved for as ⟨p. 35⟩persecutions of the innocent, but rather to be rejoiced and gloried in as due punishments—
Sect. 8. E. B. p. 3. If in separating— our sin is so great, that the place where we live cannot be held innocent, but must suffer from the hand of God for our sakes, we are certainly a people who deserve to be hated of all, and the Confiscations, Imprisonments and Deaths, which some of us have already felt, are no longer to be bewailed and grieved for as ⟨p. 35⟩persecutions of the innocent, but rather to be rejoyced and gloried in as due punishments—
R. B. Such stuff may go down with those that will swallow all that seems to lift them up. But 1. It was not separation from forms of Worship only or chiefly that I spake of. 2. None of us are absolutely Innocent, but only comparatively, and secundum quid. 3. Here are two false Doctrines more implied.1 The first is, that they that so sin as is here described, deserve to be hated of all: For though secundum quid so far as we are sinners we are loathsome, and deserve to be hated, yet the same person being in Christ and pardoned, and having the Spirit and Image of God, is amiable: And therefore the Phrase must follow that which is predominant in them: And according either to fitness or custom of Speech, you cannot without falsehood say, that they deserve to be hated of all; whom all are commanded specially to Love. Did David deserve to be hated of all, because his numbering the people brought the plague? Yea, or Aaron that made the Golden Calf? Do you consider what you write? How that thus you make all or most, or very many of Gods Servants, such as deserve to be hated of all? For how few are they who do not so sin, as that [the place where they live cannot be held innocent, but must suffer from the hand of God for their sakes.] For Chastisements are threatened to them, and to the societies that they defile? And they are chastened of God, that