An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

Ans. Is it the Name [Worthiness] or the meaning that displeaseth you? If the Name, read Luke 20. 35. and 21. 36. Acts 5. 41. 2 Thess. 1. 5, 11. R•v. 3. 4. Matth. 8. 10, 11, 13, 37, 38. and 22. 8. 1 Cor. 11. 27, 29. Eph. 4. 1. Col. 1. 10. 1 Thess. 2. 12. and see whether God use not the same Phrase. And as to the Sense, one Writer understands what he saith better, and another worse, and several men may have several Senses; but they mostly seem to mean, That holy Obedience is in the very nature of it so pleasing to the most holy God, as rendereth it apt to be the matter of that Condition on which his Covenant promiseth to reward us, the Imperfection being pardoned, and we and our Works accepted, upon the Redemption wrought by the Merits of Christ, and upon his Intercession, and presenting them to God. And is this to be denied by any Christian? Doubtless there is something in the very Nature of Divine Faith, Love, and Obedience, which maketh it fitter to be accepted and rewarded, than Infidelity, Hatred of God, and Sin, or Rebellion. Speak Christians, is it not so? And yet it is from God's Promise and mere Bounty only, that our Right to the Reward resulteth, though the material Aptitude be in the qualification to which that promise is made: All this is plain and sure.

Ans. Is it the Name [Worthiness] or the meaning that displeaseth you? If the Name, read Luke 20. 35