to the Explanation of the DoErine, &c. 53 thought, I never Paid, I have fpoken and written much to the contrary. And yet to countenance himfelf in this difingenuòus procedure, befides many other untrue Reflections he adds that I infinuate, that thole whom I defcribe are Ch. rif inns that feek Righteoufnof by Faith. in Chrifl, pag. 167. I muff needs' tell my Author that my Faith in this matter is, That filch works as theft will have no influence in his Juftification ; And that the principal Reafon why I fuppofe I (ball not in my progrefs in this Difcourfe take any particular notice of his exceptions either againft the Truth or me, next unto this confideration, that theyre all trite and obfolete, and as to- what feemeth to be of any force in them will occur unto me in -other Authors from whom they are derived, is that I may not have a continual occafion to declare how forgetful he hath been of all the Rules of ingenuity, yea and of common honefiy in his dealing with me. For that which gave the oc- cafion unto this prefent unpleafing digreffion, it being no more as to the fubftance of its but that our fins were imputed unto Chrif, and that his R ghteaufnefs'is imputed unto us, it is that in the Faith whereof I am affured I (hall live and dye, though he fhould write twenty as learned Books againfs it, as thole which he hath already publifhed ; and in what fenfe I do, believe hfe things (hall be afterwards declared. And although I judge no man upon the Expreffions that fall from him in Polemical Writings, wherein on many ©ccafions they do affront their own experience and contradict their own prayers, yet as to thofe who underftand not that bleffed Com- mutation of Sins and'Righteoufnefs as to the fubftance of it, which I havé pleaded for, and the aétings of our Faith with refDe& thereunto, I fhall be bold to fay; That if the Gofel.be hi'$ it is hid to them that perifh. Sixthly, We can never Orate our Thoughts aright in this matter uniefs we have a clear Apprehenfion of, and fàtis- faétion in, the Introduction of Grace by Yeti's Chrif into they whole ..
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