Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

For what you say of contradicting Dr. Downam• and Mr. Pemble; I answer, 1. Though they differ between themselves in the point of Justification, and one hath wrote a confutation of the others Doctrine, yet you will never show me wherein this speech of Dr. Ward doth contradict either of them. Indeed if Dr. Ward had determined whether he meant common Dispositions or special, perhaps he might have contradicted one of them, they do so far differ themselves. For you know Mr. Pemble not only in his Vindic. Grat. but even in the place you cite (pag. 42.43.) takes those Acts to be of special Grace, or a part of Sanctification, which most Divines do judge to be preparatory thereto. And for my part, I judge as Mr. Pemble, if you take but that point in to qualify it, which I have asserted Treat. of Rest, second Edit. part 3. cap. 11. that the sincerity of Grace as saving▪ lieth not in the bare nature of the Act, but in the prevailing degree which Morality may specify, then I say as Mr. Pemble, pag. 43. that these Virtues which are (many of them by our Divines) reckoned as Dispositions to Regeneration, are if they be true, the main parts and fruits of Regeneration.

For what you say of contradicting Dr. Downam• and Mr. Pemble; I answer, 1. Though they differ between themselves in the point of Justification, and one hath wrote a confutation of the others Doctrine, yet you will never shew me wherein this speech of Dr. Ward doth contradict either of them. Indeed if Dr. Ward had determined whether he meant common Dispositions or special, perhaps he might have contradicted one of them, they do so far differ themselves. For you know Mr. Pemble not only in his Vindic. Grat. but even in the place you cite (pag. 42.43.) takes those Acts to be of special Grace, or a part of Sanctification, which most Divines do judge to be preparatory thereto. And for my part, I judge as Mr. Pemble, if you take but that point in to qualifie it, which I have asserted Treat. of Rest, second Edit. part 3. cap. 11. that the sincerity of Grace as saving▪ lyeth not in the bare nature of the Act, but in the prevailing degree which Morality may specifie, then I say as Mr. Pemble, pag. 43. that these Vertues which are (many of them by our Divines) reckoned as Dispositions to Regeneration, are if they be true, the main parts and fruits of Regeneration.