( 35 ) &ine of Imputed Righteoufnefs, even Bellarmine in one feule owneth it : And whether our fenfe be found I pro- yoke you to try particularlybyyour perufal of my own Writings on that Subjeft, efpecially a late Yreatife of [ Righteoufnefs and Imputation, j and aTrea- tile called [ Catholick Theologie: ] In which if there be nothing whichyou dare or can confute, judge whe- ther your meer derifion of [Imputative Righteoufnefs] be not delufory : If _you dare fay, thatyou truft not to chrifts Sacrifice, and :meritorious per/eel rghteoufnefs, as procu- ring you pardon and life, (pus ad Impunitatem Regnum Clelorum,) enjoy your felfconfidence while you can. But if you fay in this ac we, then make publick Confetlion of the injury of your reproach of fuch Imputed Righte.' oufnefs, as you trufl your falvation upon your felt I imagine you will fay, that myjudgment is no certain fignificationof the judgment of the Puritans for I am fingular, and therefore what I fay in there Books is no proofofthe fenfeof the Non-conforming Puritans. But, t, my judgment of their fenfe is as good as yours. a. Do you know of any one Nonconformifl that hath publifh. ed any diifent to what I have written ? (Dr. Tully was a conformi(l.) 3. You profefs (before) to borrow the name [Puritan] from thePrelatifls. And I have this to fay for my Authority indeclaring the fenfe of Puritans, that one or more (whofegenius is of kin to the Roman, but far lefs mild than yours) who are Prelatical or fuper-Prelatical, have about 17 years ago (being Mailers of that Lan- guage)branded mewith the Nameof[Plirtm putus Purita- nus, & qui totem Puritanifmum totesfpirat.] (The Pfeudo- Tilenibs 'hath juil the fame flile as the lateUnmasker ofthe Presbyterians,, who .revileth model!, judicious, pious, and peaceable 7. corbet, and in the moil ingenious flrain or E 2 wrath
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