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…

Where you called me to seriousness or diligence in my search, and I told you by what, and how many Writings, I have manifested my almost thirty years Diligence in this Controversy, and that I am now grown past more serious and diligent Studies; that I might show you what a trifling way it is, for a Man to wrangle with him that hath written so many things, to tell the World what his studies of this Point have been, and never to touch them, but to call him a-new to serious diligence: You now expostulate with me, whether you accused me for want of diligence? I talk not of Accusing, but I tell you, that I have done my best▪ and that it were a poor kind of dealing with your self, if you had written against many, as you have done against me twenty five years ago, and very often, if instead of taking any notice of your Labours, I should call you now to diligent Studies. As for your Lesson, pag. 22. that tumbling over many Books without meditation, may breed but Crudities, &c. It is very true, and the calamity of too many of the literate Tribe, who think that they have deserved Credit and Reverence, when they say the words which others, whom they would be joined with, have said before them: Want of good Digestion is a common Disease of many that never complain of it, nor feel any present trouble by it. Pag. 22, 23. You insinuate that about Retractation, which I before detected: I told you when, and where, I Suspended or Retracted the Book, ⟨p. 38⟩and for what Reasons, and you presently feign a Retractation of the Doctrine, and of about sixty Books of Retractions. It's well that pag. 23. you had the justice not to justifie your [Nec dubito quin imputatam Christi justitiam incluserit]; But to confess your Injustice, was too much: It is not your own Retractation that you are for, it seems. §. XIV. Pag. 23, 24. You talk as if my supposing that both [Justice] and [Imputation], are capable of Definitions which are not the Things, were a Fallacy, because [or] is a disjunctive; viz. When I say that the Definition of the one, or the other, is not the Thing. Do you grant it of them Disjunctively, and yet maintain the contrary of them Conjunct? Yes, you say, [Imputed Justice cannot differ from its true definition, unless, you will have it to differ really from it self]. And, pag. 34.

Where you called me to seriousness or diligence in my search, and I told you by what, and how many Writings, I have manifested my almost thirty years Diligence in this Controversie, and that I am now grown past more serious and diligent Studies; that I might shew you what a trifling way it is, for a Man to wrangle with him that hath written so many things, to tell the World what his studies of this Point have been, and never to touch them, but to call him a-new to serious diligence: You now expostulate with me, whether you accused me for want of diligence? I talk not of Accusing, but I tell you, that I have done my best and that it were a poor kind of dealing with your self, if you had written against many, as you have done against me twenty five years ago, and very often, if instead of taking any notice of your Labours, I should call you now to diligent Studies. As for your Lesson, pag. 22. that tumbling over many Books without meditation, may breed but Crudities, &c. It is very true, and the calamity of too many of the literate Tribe, who think that they have deserved Credit and Reverence, when they say the words which others, whom they would be joyned with, have said before them: Want of good Digestion is a common Disease of many that never complain of it, nor feel any present trouble by it. Pag. 22, 23. You insinuate that about Retractation, which I before detected: I told you when, and where, I Suspended or Retracted the Book,