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And in order to what follows, I must first desire every Reader rightly to understand the meaning and design of all that I have hitherto said. It is but to be a necessary help to the Discovery of the Truth, and the confutation of the contrary errors, and the just defence of the doctrine of Christ, and of his Churches, I solemnly protest that it is none of my design or desire, 1. To make any believe that the Difference is wider between us and the Papists then indeed it is. Nay I am satisfied that in many doctrinal points it is not so great as commonly it is taken to be by many, if not most, on both sides: as in the points of certainty ⟨p. 365⟩of Salvation, of Pardon, of Justification, of Works, of Faith; and in almost all the controversies about Predestination, Redemption, Free-will, the work of Grace, &c. The Dominicans in sense agree with the Calvinist (as they call them) and the Jesuits with the Lutherans and Arminians: and so in divers other points. The divers understanding of words among us, and the weakness and passions of Divines, and a base fear of the censures of a party, hath occasioned may on both sides to feign the differences to be much wider then indeed they are: so that when an Alvarez, a Bannes, a Gibieuf, have spoken the same things as the Protestants do, they are presently fain to pour out abundance of unworthy slanders against the Protestants, for fear of being accounted Protestants themselves. And to show their party how much they differ from us, they must feign us to be monsters, and to hold that which commonly we abhor: And some Protestants are too blame also in some measure in this kind. This unchristian dealing will gripe the conscience, when once it is awakened. Let me be rather numbered with those that are ambitious to seem as Like to all the Churches of Christ, and as much to agree with them, as honestly and possibly I may, what party soever distaste that union and agreement. And let my soul abhor the desire of appearing more distant and disagreeing then we are, what censures so ever I may incur. Our students would not so ordinarily read Aquinas, Scotus, Ariminensts, Durandus, &c. if there were not in them abundance of precious truth which they esteem. How near doth Dr. Holden come to us in the fundamental point of the Resolution of our faith? How near come to the Scotists to us in sense, about the point of Merit?

And in order to what follows, I must first desire every Reader rightly to understand the meaning and design of all that I have hitherto said. It is but to be a necessary help to the Discovery of the Truth, and the confutation of the contrary errors, and the just defence of the doctrine of Christ, and of his Churches, I solemnly protest that it is none of my design or desire, 1. To make any believe that the Difference is wider between us and the Papists then indeed it is. Nay I am satisfied that in many doctrinall points it is not so great as commonly it is taken to be by many, if not most, on both sides: as in the points of certainty