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 am not disparaging your understanding, otherwise than you may so call the vindicating of needful truth: Nor did I ever presume to offer you my Tutorage: You speak all this with too much tenderness. But that which I have written almost all my Books of Controversy against, is this making the Way to Heaven more difficult and be wildering, than the Scriptures make it. Therefore it is that I have persuaded Men to lay less stress on arbitrary humane Notions: But the question ⟨p. 52⟩is now, whether it be your Course or mine, that is guilty of this? Are Logical Definitions the necessary Way to Heaven? Doth the Scripture sufficiently reveal such Definitions to all? Do all ordinary Believers by the use of the Scripture, know how to define? Do not Logicians make true defining one of the surest signs of clear and accurate knowledge? Why should you and I dispute thus about Matters of Fact? I know by the principles of Conformity, that your Judgment is not like to be narrower than mine about the state of determinate Individuals: I suppose you would take as many to the Lords Supper as Believers, as I would, and absolve as many, and pronounce as many saved at Burial. Let you and I call but a dozen of the next Families together, and desire every Man and Woman of them, to give you a Definition of Justification, (out of the hearing of the rest) and if they all give you a true definition, and one definition, I will write a Retractation. I know you not; but by your now telling me, of your understanding of the duties of Pastors and People, I may suppose that you have been a Pastor, (else—). And if so, that you have had personal conference with most (if not all) of your Flock. If you have found them all such able concordant Definers of Justification, you have had a more learned Flock than I had. I doubt your Learned Scholars could not do it, till they met with some such Elijah or Aristotle, as you! Yea, let us take only such as by their Lives we commonly judg truly Godly Christians: And if all these give you one and a true definition of Justification, then do you tell them that Defining is no such difficult work, but ordinary Christians ⟨p. 53⟩may and do attain it, and I that make it difficult, make the way to Heaven difficult, for Defining is the way to Heaven: But if not one of many Score or Hundred (till you teach them anew) do give you a true and the same Definition;

I am not disparaging your understanding, otherwise than you may so call the vindicating of needful truth: Nor did I ever presume to offer you my Tutorage: You speak all this with too much tenderness. But that which I have written almost all my Books of Controversie against, is this making the Way to Heaven more difficult and be wildring, than the Scriptures make it. Therefore it is that I have perswaded Men to lay less stress on arbitrary humane Notions: But the question