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 ...

Postscript.

REader, since the Writing of this, two things have faln out which make it a more displeasing work to me than it was be∣fore; And I am sorry that Mr. Bagshaw made it necessary. The one is, that (as the current report saith) he is again in Prison, for Refusing the Oath of Allegiance: And I naturally abhorre to trample upon a suffering person (which hath caused me to say so lit∣tle against the Armies and Sectarian miscar∣riages since their dissolution and dejection in comparison of what I did before in the time of their prosperity.) The other is, The

Printing of the Life of Mr. Vavasor Powel, which hath so many good things in it, that I fear lest the mention of his false Prophecies (extorted by Mr. Bagshaw, who first pub∣lished also his name as the Author of them) should abate their exemplary use.

But yet I must give this notice to for∣reigners and posterity, that they must not judge either of the JUDGEMENT or the SUFFERINGS of the Non-con∣formists by these mens: It is not for refusing the Oath of Allegiance that they are silenced, and suffer as they do: nor do they consent to the words which conclude the life of Mr. Powel, That since such a time he hath learnt that we must pray for our present Ru∣lers as sinners, but not as Magistrates. No man can truly say that such Doctrines as these have been proved against any conside∣rable part of the Ministers that are now cast out, or that they were deposed and silenced for such things, seeing they commonly take the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy.

And how far the ejected Ministers of Scot∣land are from the Principles of Separation, Mr. Browne a Learned Scottish Divine hath shewed in the Preface of a Learned Treatise Newly Published in Latine against Wolzogius and Velthusius, (even while he saith most against receding from a Reformation;) overthrowing the Tenents maintained by our two or three English Brownes, which former∣ly were called Brownisme. (Though the

same mans numerous reasonings against the derivation of the Magistrates Office from the Power of the Mediator, I waite for leisure to refell.)

FINIS.