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A27032 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 ... Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1671 (1671) Wing B1400; ESTC R16242 98,253 234

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for leisure to refell FINIS ERRATA IN the Contents Page 2. Sect. 24. for meant r. recant Sect. 5. p. 5. after and adde into Epist p. 4. l. 27. for that r. and. p. 41. l. 2. r. writings shew p. 43. l. 22. for quod r. quid p. 86. l. 15. r. and by Mr. Eliot p. 93. l. 12. for confirmed r. confined p. 100. l. 1. r. have not p. 105. l. 21. for designe r. deigne p. 120. l. 9. for your r. their p. 146. blot out the two first lines repeated p. 181. l. 16. for occasions r. accusations less litteral errours are past by BUT I have one thing more to Advertise the Reader of that I was too blame to believe Mr. Bagshaw in his recitation of my own words in his pag. 5. where he saith that of Cromwell himself though he dyed in his sinful Usurpation without manifesting any repentance I give this Saint-like Character in my Pref. to the Army The late Protector did prudently piously c. exercise the Government Having noted that I spake against Oliver a few leaves distant I too rashly believed Mr. Bagshaw that this passage was spoken of him too But upon perusal I find it is most notorious that I spake it of his Son when the Army had brought him to a resignation which any man may see that will peruse the place Hereafter therefore I will not so hastily believe so common a in what he writeth of the most visible subject of my self or others 1st False Doctrine 1st Falsehood in fact Second false Doctrine Third false Doctrine Second Falshood 1. Crime A slander of many hundreds 3. Falshood 2. Crime Justifying or excusing sin under Judgements 3. Crime Taking a Call to Repentance for a heinous wrong 4th False Doctrine 5th False Doctrine 4th Visible Falshood 5th Visible Falshood 4th Crime Impudent Calumny 6th 7th falshoods 8th Falsehood 9th Falsehood 10th Notorious Falshood and a Calumny 11th and 12th Falsehood and Calumny 5th Crime Calumniating insinuation My word to the Army heretofore 13th 14th falshood 6th Rash Calumny 15th Falsehood 7th Self-condemning calumny 16th 17th 18th 19th and 20th visible falshoods 21st Falsehood implyed 22d Falsehood implyed 8 Self confutation Calumny 23d Falsehood 24th Self-d●clared falshood 24th Falsehood and a calumny repeated 25th and 26th Falsehoods 9th Crime rejecting and slandering readful warning 10th Crime Self-denying 11th Crime Excusing false prophecying to the dishonour of Gods Spirit 12th Crime Paralleling false Prophecies with the Prophets words in Scripture 13. Crime Scrip●ures eluded 14 Crime Duty reproached and scandal made a duty Of Pride The Reasons of my publick Communicating 27 28. 29. Visible untruths 15. Crime Impudency in calumniating Of Justification 16 Crime Resisting and reproaching other mens labours for the service of God and the good of souls with confidence in notorious falsehood Of much writing The Case of separation Self-condemnation 30th and 31st visible Untruths 32d 33d Untru●hs Blind sophistry and palpable fallacy How a Parish Church is or is not part of a Diocesane Church The same fallacy with an untruth Whether a Parish Minister be but a servant to the Diocesane Whether all the Parish Ministers consent to persecution Slander Of reproving sharply the sins of others Narrow Communion Mr. Bagshaw obligeth me to reprove him sharply left I be guilty of his sin All sinners are not to be separated from 6th False doctrine 34th Falshood and slander 35th Falshood 7. False doctrines at lest implyed Q. 1. Whether it is an indispensible duty to maintain all our Christ●an liberty or what Luke 14. 18. Isa 61. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 19 20 21. Act. 18. 26. 2 Tim. 2. 26. 2 Cor. 3. 17. Heb. 2. 14 15. Gal. 4 3 9. Romans 8. 15 2. Iohn 8 31 36. Romans 6. 16 18 22. Q. 2. Whether there be no way but separation to preserve our Christian liberty 8. False doctrine 9. False doctrine Whether not separating be prejudicial to a fundamental viz Christs Soveraignty The Case Acts 15. Acts 15. against the Sparatists Mr. Bagshaw's too loose communion with all Hereticks that impose not His own Imposing Of approving what we joyn in Whether he be an Hypocrite who joyneth with any manner of Worship which he approveth not Self-contradiction Whether no Church may be communicated with that is not such as Christ called and designed it to be When a Church is to be separated from for approving sin 10. F. doctrin 11. Dreadful false doctrine Read and fear the tendency of separation Mr. William's doctrine More of the Causes of separation Boasting Ignorance 12. False doctrine and pernicious 36th Untruth Whether the true Reading and uncorruptness of particular Texts be sufficiently known by the light of the Scripture alone A lame deceitful recital and 17. Crime Cruel judging millions unknown without a Call 18. Crime Justifying a falshood while you openly your self detect it 37. Untruth implyed 38. 39. Untruths implyed 40. Untruth implyed 41. Untruth notorious Wisdom and humility in the dark Phil. ●● 26. 42. Untruth 43. Untruth 44 Untruth 1. Untruth of Mrs. 2. Untruth 3d Untruth 4th Untruth 5th Untruth 1st Untruth 2d Untruth 3d Untruth 4th Untruth See Jer. 28. 6. 5th Untruth 6th Untruth 7th Untruth 45th Untruth by E. B. A new sort of Honesty Envy and partiality Superstition * 46th Untruth * 47th Untruth * 48th Untruth The self-evidencing light of Scripture what it is
should find the Evidences of Gods favour and acceptance in the life of Faith and Love and Holiness do lamentably quiet themselves instead of these with being members of such strict societies as profess even a separating conspicuous holiness 20. Lastly But one of the greatest snares of all is that men cannot bear the Censures of those that are inclined to Separation And therefore rather than be accounted and called by them Formalists Temporizers Carnal or such like they will do as they do and turn their zeal into partial and unjust censures of the persons words and outward Modes and Circumstances of Worship of those that they dissent from These and such other causes of Dividing inclinations I did upon the special necessities of the Churches and some of my own acquaintance lay open in a Book called the Cure of Church Divisions which made a great noise as water powred upon the flames But though some upon misunderstanding and some by guilt and interest muttered much against it I never had a word against it privately or publickly in writing by way of Confutation of any thing in it save only a Libell of one that now calleth himself Edward Bagshaw a man that I am not acquainted with though I have seen and spoken with him and though to my trouble when his fancy led him that way he unskilfully wrote for me against the Bishop then of Worcester I greatly rejoyce that in these times of tryal so few of the Non-conformable Ministers are by sufferings and passions hurried into the dividing extream If injuries or interest would excuse any sin I think there are few Ministers in England who have more inducements to the angry separating way than I have But shall I therefore wrong the Truth and Church of God and my own and others souls God forbid Brethren it is none of my meaning to disoblige you from your ancient faithful Ministers Nor yet to perswade you to hear any insufficient or intolerable man much less to commit your souls to the Pastoral care of such a person nor yet to prefer a worse before a better who may upon lawful terms be enjoyed But the things that I perswade you to are these 1. Not to entertain false uncharitable dividing principles in your minds which will break the peace of all societies 2. If you differ about Infant Baptism Indepencie Common prayer or such like that yet you will not think your differences oblige you to deny Communion to all you differ from 3. That if you are so sinfully partial that you cannot joyn in the same Churches you would yet live charitably and peaceably in several Churches 4. That you would not say any Church of Christ is No Church because it is not of your form or mode 5. That you would not say that Communion with any Church is unlawful because their external worshipping form is not of your fashion or before you have proved what you say My advice is calculated to the Vnion and peace of all true Churches and not those of one form or mode alone And I note it as a considerable providence of God that I am drawn in to defend the Principles of Love and Concord in these trying times against such an adversary as Mr. Bagshaw is It hath of late been Gods way to let us know the evil of Principles by their effects on the men that we have had to do with As Malignant principles would not have been sufficiently distasted by us if they had not shewed themselves in malignant practices So Dividing principles had never been sufficiently known in England if they had not ruined a Reformation silenced so many hundred Ministers and laid us in the dirt as they have done And if the Cause of Dividers must be judged of by the defenders I advise you to consider of these things following 1. How many notorious false doctrines he hath delivered 2. How many other notorious Crimes in two Libells he hath committed In special let every sober person judge whether Ignorance Temerity Pride and high self-conceitedness with malignant unconcealed calumny do not only defile but even constitute or make up his Books 3. What bitter enmity is here exprest against the Principles of Love and Vnity and Concord and Peace and Sobriety it self 4. How many score notorious untruths he shamelesly publisheth in these two Libells 5. How much he fighteth against Repentance and so with gross Impenitency aggravateth all his crimes 6. How like his own Spirit is to that which he accounteth the Spirit of imposition and persecution And how vehement he is against the same persons as such are and as impudently slandereth them and as bitterly and professedly designeth to make them odious But he that professeth to make another odious thereby disableth himself from doing it 7. Whether ever in all your lives you saw two Libells written against another which do not only perform but even attempt so little and next to nothing at all to give any answer to the Books he writes against Read mine and read his and I defie any thing but madness it self or blind partiality or wickedness to make any man think that he hath confuted what I have written I confess I admire at the mans insensibility that doth not perceive how much he hath done by pretending an Answer and giving none or worse than none to make his cause or himself contemptible Can any man in his wits think that he hath confuted the Principles of Concord which I laid down in my Directions 8. Whether such a man as this do shew himself wiser than Dod Hildersham Ames Baine and all the old Non-conformists according to the importance of his boast or whether he give us cause to believe that God hath revealed more to him than to them while he himself can no better reveal it unto others 9. When I had set down at least thirty three Vntruths which he deliberately dared to write and publish did you ever read such a pittiful vindication He hath not spoken to any considerable number of them And of those few that he speaketh to try if you can find any one of which he cleareth himself And yet he professeth not repentance for any one of them Nay to open his Impenitency he professeth falsly that I cannot justly charge him with any of them and addeth in the last Libell forty eight palpable Vntruths more Just like one that being accused of swearing should forty eight times swear that he never sware 10. How far he proceedeth in his separation and how far he would draw poor unstable souls It is not only from the Conformists and the Parish Churches that he would have you separate and all in the whole world that are worse than they but also from all the Non-conformists in England that are not better than I as his concluding Advertisement fully telleth you All of my mind and measure are unworthy of the communion of this humble tender credible man 11. What means is there left in the world to