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A26901 The church told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaw's scandals and warned of the dangerous snares of Satan now laid for them in his love-killing principles with a farther proof that it is our common duty to keep up the interest of the Christian religion and Protestant cause in the parish churches, and not to imprison them by a confinement to tolerated meetings alone / by Richard Baxter ... Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1672 (1672) Wing B1226; ESTC R1907 28,184 36

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THE CHURCH TOLD OF Mr. ED. BAGSHAW's SCANDALS AND Warned of the dangerous snares of Satan now laid for them in his LOVE-KILLING PRINCIPLES WITH A farther proof that it is our common duty to keep up the interest of the Christian Religion and Protestant Cause in the Parish Churches and not to imprison them by a confinement to tolerated meetings alone By RICHARD BAXTER A Militant Servant of Christ for Faith Hope and Love Unity Concord and Peace against their contraries on both extremes LONDON Printed in the Year MDC LXX II. ERRATA PAge 13. l. 32. for Amareduci r. Amazedness p. 25. l. 6. for Care r. Cure l. 13. for impertinently r. impenitently p. 31. l. 12. for Perry r. Peury p. 33. l. 2. r. up by some l. 3. dele the. l. 13. r. live l. 38. for unmeasurably r. unanswerably THE CHURCH TOLD OF Mr. BAGSHAW's SCANDALS And warned of his Dangerous Snares THE SVMME 1 Cor. 5. 6. Your glorying is not good Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump Rom. 3. 8. Let not us do evil that good may come whose Damnation is just Jam. 1. 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the Righteousness of God Jam. 3. 6 8 9 13 14 15 16. The tongue is a fire a world of iniquity So is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell The tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meckness of wisdome But if ye have bitter zeal envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the truth This wisdome descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devillish For where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work Rom. 16. 17 18. Now I beseech you brethren mark them which cause Divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them But not the Churches or the innocent for their sake For they that are such serve not the Lord Iesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Act. 20. 30. Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perv●rse things to draw away disciples after them 1 Cor. 11. 19. For there must be also heresies or sects among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you Matth. 22. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not But Iesus perceived their wickedness and said Why tempt ye me ye hypocrites shew me the Tribute-money Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Matth. 17. 26 27. Then are the Children free Notwithstanding lest we should offend them Rev. 22. 15. For without are dogs and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye Psal. 15. 2 3. Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacles who shall dwell in thy holy hill He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth evil to his neighbour nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour Christs own Doctrine and Practice Luke 4. 16. As his custome was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read John 18. 20. I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the Synogogue and in the Temple whither the Iews alwayes resort and in secret have I said nothing Mark 1. 44. Shew thy self to the Priest and offer for thy cleansing ... Matth. 23. 2. 3. The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe observe and do but do not ye after their works for they say and do not what they were see in the rest of the Chapt. Mat. 7. 1 2 3 4. Iudge not that ye be not judged For with what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye measure it shall be measured to you again And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thy own eye TO THE CHURCH AND TO POSTERITY CHAP. I. HAd I seen as I have done the spring multiplication growth and fruits of Dividing Principles Dispositions and Practices in these Kingdomes not being totally innocent therein my self in my unexperienced youth Had I seen so much bloud shed so many Governments overturned and so many Ministers openly reviled abused ejected silenced and so many damnable heresies risen up and all this done in the Name of God Had I my self been one of them that have been cast out of my publick Ministry and maintenance with about 1800 more at once and seen the pittiful case of too many Congregations in the land and all this as the fruit of former Church-Divisions obstinately continued twenty years to look no farther and the new effect of the same spirit still working in both extremes I say Had I seen and felt all this and yet taken the spirit the principles and practises of Division in one side or other for a virtue or a little sin I had been guilty of such horrid wilful blindness as every Christian's soul should hate And had I seen what strong temptations are lately given to propagate these evils and what advantage Satan hath got by the malignity of some to increase the bitter censoriousness of others and to pull down the good old principles of Concord on pretence that now the case is changed Had I seen the fruits of Gods indignation against a self-destroying people in Londons plague and dreadful flames and in our present Church-convulsions Had I seen what visible dangers are over us of a condition yet worser than all this Had I seen how many thousand honest Christians are in danger of being sinners or sufferers by this evil I say had I stood by and seen all this and held my tongue and let men sight like Dog and Bear and not interposed a word of counsel or controulment to the wasting fire I had been guilty of an obduratious self-saving and perfidious silence unbeseeming the Ministry or the Christian name Having therefore begun long ago to publish my Testimony and Council against the Dividing-evils in 1660 fore-seeing the critical day and danger I took the liberty of the season once more to discharge my Conscience though with slender hopes and to reason and even beg for Peace that had it been possible as much as in us lay we might have lived peaceably with all When those opportunities and hopes were gone and some glimmering once and again since vanished one side having