Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

And do I after all this need to answer the Common objections, that it is mercenary and slavish, to labour for salvation? Must I be put to prove that the Apostles and Christ himself were not mercenary slaves? or that Gods Word hath not prescribed us a slavish task? Indeed if we did all for a reward distant from God, and for that alone, without any conjunction of Filial love, and expected this Reward for the worth of our work, then it might be well called Mercenary and slavish. But who among us plead for such a working.

And do I after all this need to answer the Common objections, that it is mercenarie and slavish, to labour for salvation? Must I be put to prove that the Apostles and Christ himself were not mercenarie slaves? or that Gods Word hath not prescribed us a slavish task? Indeed if we did all for a reward distant from God, and for that alone, without any conjunction of Filiall love, and expected this Reward for the worth of our work, then it might be well called Mercenary and slavish. But who among us plead for such a working.

From all this you may gather part of the Answer to your next Question: why I except against the book called, The Marrow of Modern Divinity? Because it is guilty of this heinous Doctrine. Yet further let me tell you, that I much value the greatest part of that Book, and commend the industry of the Author, and judge him a man of godliness and Moderation by his writing: And had I thought as meanly of it, as I do of Collier, Sprigs, Hobsons, and many such abominable Pamphlets that now fly abroad I should not have thought it worthy the taking so much notice of. But because it is otherwise useful, I thought meet to give you warning, that you drink not in the evil ⟨p. 277⟩with the good. And especially because the names that so applaud it, may be a probable snare to entangle you herein. And I conjecture the Authors ingenuity to be such, that he will be glad to know his own mistakes, and to correct them: Otherwise I am unfeignedly tender of depraving or carping at any mans labours. Some of these mistaking passages I will show you briefly. As page 174. Quest. Would you not have believers to eschew evil and do good for fear of Hell, or for hope of Heaven? Ans. No indeed, I would not have any believer do the one or the other: for so far as they do so, their obedience is but slavish, &c. To which end he allegeth,