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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 14
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Sect. 14. E. B. p. 4. You—ask me many malicious and ensnaring questions.1
- 19th Falsehood.
R. B. That's another Falsehood: They were not malicious: And another crime, to take him for malicious, who calleth sinners to necessary repentance, in a time of Judgements, with words of love.
R. B. That's another Falshood: They were not malicious: And another crime, to take him for malicious, who calleth sinners to necessary repentance, in a time of Judgements, with words of love.
Sect. 15. E. B. In your Writings you do highly approve of that which was the worst part of the change, the setting up of Cromwell to he Protector?
R. B. This also is notoriously false,1 as my Writings which have no such word, and as those that I conversed with know. Indeed Oliver Cromwells first Troop did under their Officers hands invite me to be their Pastor, which I refused as dissenting from the way into which I saw them entering, and not willing to leave my peaceable habitation at Coventry, where I had the society of very many worthy Ministers, and leisure for my Studies, and was out of the heats of War: And after he expostulated with me himself for refusing his desires: But the very first hour that I went to his Army, which was after Naseby fight, he having notice of my words and intentions, from a friend of his of the Coventry Committee, I was entertained by the jeers of his most intimate friends, as one that came forsooth to Reclaim the Army, and save the Kingdom, &c. And in a year and half's time while I stayed among them, he would never once speak to me; nor was I ever at his Quarters, but kept at a distance as one of their adversaries, and those that I had interest in were discountenanced for my sake. And had not a sudden bleeding brought me very near to death, and separated me from the Army, about the very day that they had their first open Consultation, for the following Treasonable Changes which they made, I had hazarded my life upon their displeasure, in the contradicting them, and drawing off as many from them as I could, at the time when many did desert