Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants…Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants…

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 ⟨p. 190⟩unintelligent Head, (to that sense): And as Mr. J. Humphrey tells Dr. Fullwood, (in his unanswerable late Plea for the Conformists against the charge of Schism) pag. 29. [So overly are men ordinarily wont to speak at the first sight, against that which others have long thought upon]; that some Men think, that the very jingle of a distinction not understood is warrant enough for their reproaching that Doctrine as dangerous and unsound, which hath cost another perhaps twenty times as many hard studies, as the Reproachers ever bestowed on that Subject.

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