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 ...

THE Contents.

• A Preface to those that are inclined to Principles of Church Division and Sepa∣ration; containing twenty causes of that sin, and some Notices of Mr. Bagshaw's two Libells.
• To Mr. E. B. the grounds on which I go in dealing with him.
• Why I answer him contrary to my former purpose.
• Sect. 1. Of calling him Brother: of a middle way.
• Sect. 2. Whether every untruth be a lye?
• Sect. 3. Of Scripture perfection.
• Sect. 4. Of the design of my Book.
• Sect. 6, 7. Whether calling Dividers to

• Repent, &c. be to make them o∣dious?
• Sect. 8. Whether all they whose sin brings Judgements, must be hated of all and killed?
• Sect. 9, 10. Whether I disclaimed any Activeness in the first War?
• Sect. 15. Whether I approved of setting up Cromwell to be Protector? and such like?
• Sect. 20. My Repentance published at Mr. E. B. his invitation, in four parts. Of Mr. E. B. his former defence of me against the then Bishop of Wor∣cester.
• Sect. 21, 22. Of Christs Temporal Reign, and my judgement of it.
• Sect. 24. Whether I meant it, because I dare not own any persecuted truth.
• Sect. 25. Whether I inveigh against suf∣ferings▪ —Of sufferers temptations.
• Sect. 26, &c. His sinful excuse of Va∣vasor Powells three publick false Prophecies.
• Sect. 29, &c. His (wholsome) accusati∣on of me as proud, 1. For saying that I publickly communicated: 2. For saying that many have written against me, that expect clean contraries from me. 3. For writing many Books.
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• ... Sect. 31. Of his accusation in general about Justification.
• Sect. 33. Of the stating of the Question about separating principles.
• Sect. 34, &c. Many of his misreports about my stating it.
• Sect. 38. His first Reason for separa∣tion examined, viz. because every Parish Church is part of a Diocesane Church. How far that is true or not.
• Sect. 39. His second Reason, that a Pa∣rish Minister is but a servant to the Diocesan.
• Sect. 40. His third Reason: Because Parish Ministers consent to silencing and persecution, by open consent or pernicious silence? Whether there be little difference between persecuting, and not sharply reproving it?
• Sect. 41. His fourth Reason; that Pa∣rish Ministers enter sinfully, and by a solemn Oath renounce their Christian liberty. All sinners, or sinful enterers not to be separated from.
• Sect. 42. May not a true Church be cal∣led Defective and faulty.
• Sect. 43. His further Reasons. 1. That we know not how else to preserve our Christian liberty. Whether all Chri∣stian

• liberty must be maintained? and how?
• Sect. 44. 2. Whether to be present where things are used in Gods Worship which he commanded not, be a sin?
• Sect. 45. 3. Whether if we separate not we sell the truth about Christs Sove∣raignty?
• Sect. 46. His reason from Acts 15. re∣torted.
• Sect. 47. He taketh not Corruption and Error as such without Imposition to be a sufficient ground of separation. How he is himself an Imposer.
• Sect. 48. The charge of Hypocrisie for joyning in what we approve not?
• Sect. 49. That Christ called and de∣signed not his Church to be impure and mixt, considered.
• Sect. 50. How far a Church is to be se∣parated from, for abetting sin.
• Sect. 51. His grand answer to the ex∣ample of Church-pollutions in Scri∣pture, that they were setled as to Of∣ficers and Ordinances rightly, and so had a power to keep themselves clean, &c. considered. What Power Mini∣sters have now. Whether the Ages following the first, did fall into an Vniversal Innovation, and degenera∣tion

• in the Essentials of Order and Doctrine, and Antichristianism? and so Christ had no Church, and was no Christ? Whether Mr. E. B. be a Seeker, and separate from all Chur∣ches, as well as from all Parochial?
• Sect. 52. Whether the necessity of sepa∣ration because of the said Vniversal degeneration in Essentials continue still, because we are reformed from Antichristianism but in some points?
• Sect. 53. He granteth that neither Cor∣ruption barely, nor Imposition barely is a ground for just separation. But Imposing Error with a strong hand, &c.
• Sect. 54. His vain answer, intimating that he is wiser herein than the Old Non-conformists.
• Sect. 55. Of Arminianisme, whether so pernicious as to exclude from com∣munion—
• Sect. 56. Of Free will and its power to receive—
• Sect. 57. His ignorant calumny against me about Scripture perfe∣ction.
• Sect. 58. Twenty Questions to him about various Readings and Copies, &c.
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• ... Sect. 59. Of the Possibility of salvation for some called Papist?
• Sect. 61. His former untruth that by [Flesh] I affirmed was only meant the sensitive Appetite, defended by him by reciting my words which ex∣presly confute his calumny.
• Sect. 62. The Reason rendred by Mr. E. B. why he cast away my Book of Rest, and refused to read it, and yet is the Judge of it; And my account of my dissent long ago from his Latin slender Discourse against Monarchy.
• Sect. 63. His report of Mr. Herles, and Mr. Cawdrys words against my Saints Rest.
• Sect. 67, &c. Many more of his Vn∣truths.
• Sect. 74. More of his ignorant Calumny about Scripture perfection.
• Sect. 75, 76, &c. More of the Nature of his Defences and Accusations.
• Sect. 80. Five Vntruths delivered by the Letter published by him, as written by a woman of Worcester; with my sense of her case.
• Sect. 81, &c. Seven Vntruths published by him in his Brother Brownes Let∣ter; and the Confutation of their Calumnies.
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• ... Sect. 94. Mr. E. B. his new sort of Dishonesty charged on me, because (he saith) I have access to the Li∣censers and Press.
• Sect. 95. Whether it be culpable Vanity to write on the Sabbath after Dr. Owen (as he thought.)
• Sect. 97. His calumny of my Atheisti∣cal arguing against the Divine and self-evidencing authority of the Scri∣ptures—and as one of the worst sort of Hereticks, that under the no∣tion of being a Christian and a Prote∣stant do with my utmost industry and cunning labour to overthrow the Foundation, and therefore am to be Rejected of all—The case opened, and the weak warned to take heed of them that would ignorantly draw them to be Infidels, by subverting Christianity, while they think them∣selves the chief or true defenders of it.