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

Some more I had to say to you, but you may find it in the Preface to these Disputations. I only add, that if indeed it be true which you write to that Honourable person, to whom you dedicate your Labours, viz. That the Subject of your Discourse is so excellent and necessary to be known; and that He who is Ignorant of the Object and Office of Faith, doth neither know what he believeth, nor how he is justified; I should think it is high time, that you call your Understanding once more to an account, and review the Fabric that you have built on a qua justificans not understood, or upon a specificative quatenus, where there is no such thing: And if you think me unfit to be hearkened to in this, (as being one of the men of perverse minds that there you mention,) its more worthy your industry, to seek the advice of the learned Oxford Divines herein, then ⟨p. 320⟩that they should be sought to approve and midwife such a Book into the world: and its likely that their Charity will provoke them to be serviceable to you in this: though I hear that their Discretion forbade them the other, For all men are not so easily whistled into a Christs-Church contention against the Truth and Church of Christ, as 'Dr. K. and one or two Confidants, that living in a cold and s•eril Country, are less substantive, and more adjective, then Innocents and Independents use to be.

Some more I had to say to you, but you may find it in the Preface to these Disputations. I only add, that if indeed it be true which you write to that Honourable person, to whom you dedicate your Labors, viz. That the Subject of your Discourse is so excellent and necessary to be known; and that He who is Ignorant of the Object and Office of Faith, doth neither know what he believeth, nor how he is justified; I should think it is high time, that you call your Ʋnderstanding once more to an account, and review the Fabrick that you have built on a qua justificans not understood, or upon a specificative quatenus, where there is no such thing: And if you think me unfit to be hearkned to in this, (as being one of the men of perverse minds that there you mention,) its more worthy your industry, to seek the advice of the learned Oxford Divines herein, then ⟨p. 320⟩that they should be sought to approve and midwife such a Book into the world: and its likely that their Charity will provoke them to be serviceable to you in this: though I hear that their Discretion forbad them the other, For all men are not so easily whistled into a Christs-Church contention against the Truth and Church of Christ, as 'Dr. K. and one or two Confidents, that living in a cold and seril Country, are less substantive, and more adjective, then Innocents and Independents use to be.