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…

I have not only since SUPPRESSED that Book which did offend them, but also laid by those Papers of Universal Redemption, which I had written, lest I should be further offensive, &c.] In my Apology else-where I have such-like Passages, ever telling Men that [It was the first Book I wrote in my Unexperienced Youth; that I take the Doctrines of it to be sound and needful, save that in divers places they are unskilfully and incautelously worded. (As the Word [Covenant] is oft put for [Law,] &c.) And that ⟨p. 12⟩I wrote my Confession, and Disputes of Justification, as an Exposition of it; and that I Retracted, or Suspended, or Revoked, not the Doctrine, but the Book, till I had Corrected it, and did disown it as too unmeet an Expression of my Mind, which I had more fully expressed in other Books. And is not this plain English? Doth this warrant a Wise and Righteous Man, to intimate that I accuse him of writing against that Doctrine of Justification which I Recanted, and to call for the What, and Where, and When? Yea, and tell me, that I [refer you to a small Book] when instead of referring you to it, I only blame you for referring to that alone, when I had said as before? When many Divines have published the first Edition of their Works imperfectly, and greatly corrected and enlarged them in a Second (as Beza his Annotations, Polanus his Syntagma, and many such) all Men take it for an Injury for a Neighbour twenty years after, to select the first Edition to confute as the Author's Judgment: Much more might I, when I published to the World, that I Suspended the whole Book, and have these twenty four years hindered the Printing of it; professing that I have in many larger Books, more intelligibly and fully opened the same things. Yea, you fear not pag. 23. to say, That I tell you of about 60 Books of Retractations, in part at least which I have Written]; when never such a word fell from me. If I say, That one that hath published his Suspension of a small Book written in Youth, not for the Doctrine of it, but some unfit Expressions, and hath since in all-most thirty Years time, written about sixty Books, in many or ⟨p. 13⟩most of which is somewhat of the same Subject, and in some of them he fuller openeth his Mind;

I have not only since SƲPPRESSED that Book which did offend them, but also laid by those Papers of Ʋniversal Redemption, which I had written, lest I should be further offensive, &c.] In my Apologie else-where I have such-like Passages, ever telling Men that [It was the first Book I wrote in my Ʋnexperienced Youth; that I take the Doctrines of it to be sound and needful, save that in divers places they are unskilfully and incautelously worded. (As the Word [Covenant] is oft put for [Law,] &c.) And that