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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29032	An antidote against Mr. Baxters palliated cure of church divisions, or, An account of several weighty and just exceptions against that book	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1670 (1670)	Wing B403; ESTC R22036	15,110	23

AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST Mr. Baxters Palliated Cure of Church Divisions OR An account of several Weighty and Just exceptions against that book Having a form of Godliness but denying the power from such turn aside 2 Tim. 3. 5. I would thou wert either hot or cold Rev. 3. 15. It was not an enemy that reproached me then I should have born it but it was thou mine equall my guide and my acquaintance We took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of God in company Ps 55. 12. 13. Printed in the Year 1670 A Brief account of several things to be excepted against in Mr. Baxters book Stiled The Cure of Church Divisions THe whole Design of this Book being to make such as at this day are careful to keep themselves Pure from all defilements in False Worship Odious it may well be affirmed that this was neither Seasonable nor Honest since the crying Sin this day is not Separation but Injust and Violent Persecutions which Mr. Baxter speaks very little against although it be without any Comparison a greater Sin then the other Since Separation in many Cases is a Duty which Persecutions never can be In the Preface and in other places of his book Mr. Baxter mentions with much bitterness what was formerly done in the time of the War which is in him a most unbecoming practice because First Mr. Baxter was as guilty of stirring up and fomenting that War as any one whatsoever and none ought to blame the Effects who gave rise and encouragement to the Cause Secondly There is an Act of Oblivion already past for all actions of that kind which none that pretends to an Healing Peaceable Spirit should dare to think of Violating thirdly There is daily much greater prophaneness and the consequent of Prophaneness Immorality acted by those whom yet Mr. Baxter never mentions but with Honour as if no Sins or miscarriages were to be blamed but theirs who are unable to defend themselves He speaks much against telling others of their sins in furious words and yet allows himself a great and masterly Liberty in using them For to call his brethren as he doth often in his Book Fierce self Conceited Dividers Feavorish Persons and A Dividing hot brain'd Party This argues that he little understands a Spirit of Meekness but rather that he loves all devouring words and a deceitful Tongue Ps 52. 4. But when he closeth that Paragraph with such an expression If this exhortation and advice seem injurious or intollerable to you The Lord have mercy on your Souls He useth the very same frothy and unsavoury words that others often prophane Prayer and the Name of God by and which at the best is that foolish talking or jesting which we are commanded not so much as to mention Eph. 5. 3. 4. He doth very often and needlesly insist upon many things that may tend to advance and heighten his own Reputation As It is not an unexperienced Person that speaketh this And That the disi●genious and unthankful World have had a very high opinion of him That The censures of him in his presence are as gentle as Lambs or as quickly silenced or worse as the Owles at the approach of day-light That He hath been counselled since he was silenced to compose Sermons himself and to give them in writing to some weak Minister that hath an excellent voice and Utterance and to let him preach them That It is twenty times harder to him to remember a form of words then to express what is in his mind without them That He hath been forced to rebuke an abundance he knows not how many of good people of the darker sort for their overvaluing him and his understanding That Reproofs have been patiently born from him because he was looked upon as not aiming to depress the honour of true and serious Religion These with many expressions of the like import do abundantly discover that Mr. Baxter is full of great thoughts concerning himself and out of that abundance his mouth speaks Which together with his bold and rash censure of other Ministers whom he calls ignorant empty harsh self-conceited and the like shows how little either of Christian or Moral Ingenuity he hath yet learned And if to deny our selves to 〈◊〉 of little account in our own thoughts is the first Lesson of Christianity whoever so plainly shows himself unskilled in that is most unfit to be a teacher of it to others I am sure the Scripture Presidents do instruct in another kind of modesty Prov. 30. 2 3. 2 Cor. 12 11. He reproacheth the Papists for their impossible terms of Unity and their engine of tearing dividing impositions But ought he not to have considered that this is the Case and crime of those from whom his brethren separate And when those Engines are once removed We shall quickly make it appear that we did not hold communion because we would not but rather were not suffered to do it unless we would sin by subscribing an Assert unto what we knew was sinful so that we may say in our defence what Mr. Baxter alleadgeth against the Papists we disown them i. e. The Bishops and the imposing party only as neighbour churches that never were there lawful subjects but bear our testimony against their sin That command in 2 Cor. 6. 12 13. Come out from among them and be ye separate as also Rev. 18. 6. Come out of Babilon He says are abused by abundance of ignorant professors as if they had commanded us to separate from the colder and comon sort of Christians and to come out of the Church whereof they are members this he calls a prophaning of Gods word and a gross and palpable contradicting of its plain expressions and taxeth such of Ignorance Uncharitableness and Passion It were easie to return these ill words but we will allow Mr. Baxter a Priviledge to use them and to his argument we answer That it is no prophaning but a sober and Religious Interpreting of Scripture to take the words of it which were spoken concerning one thing and by way of proportion and anology to apply them to another and therefore though the forementioned Texts do properly and directly concern only the Infidels and Idolaters there mentioned yet proporti●●●●ly they belong to others that under the Name of being Christians are guilty of the same crimes And therefore we are commanded strictly to separate from every one that is called a brother of he be covetous or a Railer or the like if any Church will receive such for their Members and notwithstanding all admonition will still retain them we are not to own such a Church as a Spouse of Christ and therefore must come out of it least we partake of her sins and if this way of arguing from Analogy be not good and safe we doubt whether Mr. Baxter hath any thing to defend Infant-Baptism with since