The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…

Reader, the Author of the following objections is Mr. Stephen Lob: I had thought not to have named him, till I saw but Yesterday his Books of Free Grace, which I never before heard of, though it was printed almost ten year ago: It is so considerable a confutation of Antinomian errors that I commend it to thy reading. And being my self in great pain expecting death, and like to write in these Controversies no more, that I have once more as a Speculator or Watchman blown the Trumpet to warn men of the danger of the Other Gospel that subverteth the Gospel of Christ, I have this Peace of Conscience that the blood of the seduced will not be required at my hands. And if that M.S. of Mr. Stone of New-England which Mr. Lob so praiseth, may by him be yet recovered, I entreat his endeavour: In which I cannot doubt but Mr. Increase Mather will assist him, tho his name be prefixed among the twelve. And I commend to some honest Bookseller to reprint Mr. Thomas Welds History of the New-England Antinomian Libertinism, it being out of press. And I hereby entreat Mr. William Manning of Suffolk (if living) to Print the excellent Treatise of Justification of his which I have long ago read. And Mr. Samuel Clerk (Author of the Annot.) to Print ⟨p. 74⟩his sound Treatise (which I long ago read) on the same Subject. And though my own Judgment be for the Imputation of Christs Passive, Active, and Habitual righteousness, dignified by the Divine as the full and the sole meritorious cause of all Grace and Glory, as making up the condition of his Mediatorial Covenant imposed on him by God; Yet I entreat the Learned Reader to peruse the Writings of those great Divines that are for the Imputation of the Passive only (Ursine, Olevan, Paraeus, Scultetus, Wendeline, Beckman, and the rest, with Camero, Placaeus, and all that party of famous French Divines who all effectually confute the false sense of Imputation of the Active Righteousness which Mr. Bradshaw confuteth with many others (as if we had done it by Christ, and were our selves the Subjects of it, and are justified by that Law that condemneth us.) Jan. 20. 1690. R.B.