Chapter 3
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CHAP. IV.
An Admonition to that part of the Church which is inclined to Mr. Bagshaw's Errors.
An Admonition to that part of the Church which is inclined to Mr. Bagshaw's Errours.
Sect. 1. Were it not my present Duty to Tell the Church, I should take it to be as inconvenient as unpleasing, to open Mr. Bagshaw's sins. But as Christ did it by the Pharisees, yea, and Peter himself; and as Paul in his Epistles, did it by many; so I think it is now become my duty, though he and his believers be displeased by it. I shall but desire the impartial sober Readers, that have perused his Writings and mine to judge.
Sect. 1. VVEre it not my present Duty to Tell the Church, I should take it to be as inconvenient as unpleasing, to open Mr. Bagshaw's sins. But as Christ did it by the Pharisees, yea, and Peter himself; and as Paul in his Epistles, did it by many; so I think it is now become my duty, though he and his believers be displeased by it. I shall but desire the impartial sober Readers, that have perused his Writings and mine to judge.
1. Whether so great Ignorance as he discovereth in himself, be not scandalous in a Preacher of the Gospel.
2. Whether such dangerous errors in Doctrine, against the very foundations of our faith, with many other proved against him, make him not an unsafe Guide for souls? And give not incomparably greater occasion for renouncing him as an Heretic, to such as are apt to take such occasion, than most called Heretics in the ancient Churches gave.