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…

and that somewhat often, and some excepting against the Book, he craved their animadversions, and promised to suspend the Book till it were corrected; and purposely wrote a far greater Volume in explication of what was dark, and defence of what was wrongfully accused, and many other Volumes of full defence: No man answereth any of these: but after twenty years, or thereabout, (though I protested in print against any that would write against the Aphorisms, without regard to the said Explications) you publish your Confutation of part of those Aphorisms, and that with most notorious untruth, charging me to deny all Imputation of Christs Righteousness, ⟨p. 75⟩when I had there profest the Contrary, and taking no notice of any after-explication or defence, and paralleling me with Bellarmine, if not with Heretics or Infidels (for I suppose you take the deniers of all Imputation to be little better.) This Book you publish without the least provocation with other quarrels, dedicating it to that R. Rd. B. who first silenced me; (as if I must go write over again all the Explications and Defences I had before written, because you (that are bound to accuse me) are not bound to read them:) and this you do against one that at that time had been about 13 years silenced, ejected, and deprived of all Ministerial maintenance, and of almost all his own personal Estate, desiring no greater preferment than leave to have preached for nothing, where is notorious necessity, could I have obtained it, sometimes laid in the common Jail among Malefactors, for preaching in my own house, and dwelling within five miles of it: after fined at forty pound a Sermon for preaching for nothing; looking when my Books and Bed are taken from me by distress, though I live in constant pain and languor, the Constable but yesterday coming to have distrained for sixty pound for two Sermons; hunted and hurried about to Justices at the will of any ignorant— Agent of— that will be an Informer, and even fain to keep my doors daily locked, if it may be to save my Books a while: Yet the exciting of wroth by public Calumny against one so low already, and under the persecuting wrath of your friends, was no fault, no injustice in you at all! (nor indeed did I much feel it.)

and that somewhat often, and some excepting against the Book, he craved their animaversions, and promised to suspend the Book till it were corrected; and purposely wrote a far greater Volumn in explication of what was dark, and defence of what was wrongfully accused, and many other Volumns of full defence: No man answereth any of these: but after twenty years, or thereabout, (though I protested in print against any that would write against the Aphorisms, without regard to the said Explications) you publish your Confutation of part of those Aphorisms, and that with most notorious untruth, charging me to deny all Imputation of Christs Righteousness,