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Answ. How easy is it to challenge the Titles of Orthodox, Wise, or good Men to ones self? And who is not Orthodox, himself being Judg? But it seems with him, no Man must pass for Orthodox that is not in so gross an error of his Mind, (if these words, and not many better that are contrary must be the discovery of it) viz. That will not say, that in sensu forensi, God esteemeth Men to have done that which they never did. The best you can make of this is, that you cover the same sense, which I plainlier express, with this ill-favoured ⟨p. 189⟩Phrase of Man's inventing: But if indeed you mean any more than I by your sensus forensis, viz. that such a suffering and meriting for us may, in the lax improper way of some Lawyers speaking, be called, [Our own Doing, Meriting, Suffering, &c.] I have proved, that the Doctrine denied by me, subverteth the Gospel of Christ.

Answ. How easie is it to challenge the Titles of Orthodox, Wise, or good Men to ones self? And who is not Orthodox, himself being Judg? But it seems with him, no Man must pass for Orthodox that is not in so gross an error of his Mind, (if these words, and not many better that are contrary must be the discovery of it) viz. That will not say, that in sensu forensi, God esteemeth Men to have done that which they never did. The best you can make of this is, that you cover the same sense, which I plainlier express, with this illfavoured ⟨p. 189⟩Phrase of Man's inventing: But if indeed you mean any more than I by your sensus forensis, viz. that such a suffering and meriting for us may, in the lax improper way of some Lawyers speaking, be called, [Our own Doing, Meriting, Suffering, &c.] I have proved, that the Doctrine denied by me, subverteth the Gospel of Christ.

Reader, I remember what Grotius (then Orthodox, thirty years before his Death) in that excellent Letter of Church-Orders, Predestination, Perseverance, and Magistrates, animadverting on Molinaeus, saith, How great an injury those Divines, who turn the Christian Doctrine into unintelligible Notions and Controversies, do to Christian Magistrates; because it is the duty of Magistrates to discern and preserve necessary sound Doctrine, which these Men would make them unable to discern. The same I must say of their injury to all Christians, because all should hold fast that which is proved True and Good, which this sort of Men would disable them to discern. We justly blame the Papists for locking up the Scripture, and performing their Worship in an unknown Tongue. And alas, what abundance of well-meaning Divines do the same thing by undigested Terms and Notions, and unintelligible Distinctions, not adapted to the Matter, but customarily used from some Persons reverenced by them that led the way? It is so in their Tractates, both of Theology and other Sciences; and the great and useful Rule, Verba Rebus aptanda sunt, is laid aside: or rather, Men that understand not Matter, are like enough to be little skilful in the expressing of it: And as Mr. Pemble saith, A cloudy unintelligible stile, usually signifieth a cloudy