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

1. Justification is loudly talked of, by men that know not, or never tell you what the word signifieth, or what the thing is: They never tell you whether they mean making Righteous Efficiently, or making Righteous Constitutively, or making Righteous Instrumentally, or only Virtually, absolutely or conditionally; or only a Dispositive Reception of it as a gift; or Esteeming one Righteous or Justifying by Apology, by Witness, by Evidence, or by Decisive Sentence of the Judge, or executively using one as Righteous; Or many of these Conjunct, and which. Or if they name one sense, they give us quite another when they are put to define it. Mr. Bradshaws little Book is too big for their brains; because the distinctions are so many when others by distinction and clear explication make the Controversies intelligible, (as is excellently done by many) they understand them not, or despise distinction, and still mouth out the ambiguous word Justification, as if they would end Controversies as a Bell Ringeth by Sound and Noise: When Paul saith, 1 Cor. 14.7, 8. That even things without life must give a distinction in the Sounds as ⟨image 12⟩Harp and Trumpet, or else who can know what is Piped or Harped, or can prepare himself to the Battle? So we unless we utter words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? But we speak into the air, v. 9. But confusion and ambiguity are not instructive, but deceitful to the simple.

1. Justification is loudly talkt of, by men that know not, or never tell you what the word signifieth, or what the thing is: They never tell you whether they mean making Righteous Eff•ciently, or making Righteous Constitutively, or making Righteous Instrumentally, or only Virtually, absolutely or conditionally; or only a Dispositive Reception of it as a gift; or Esteeming one Righteous or Justifying by Apology, by Witness, by Evidence, or by Decisive Sentence of the Judge, or executively using one as Righteous; Or many of these Conjunct, and which. Or if they name one sence, they give us quite another when they are put to define it. Mr. Bradshaws little Book is too big for their brains; because the distinctions are so many when others by distinction and clear explication make the Controversies intelligible, (as is excellently done by many) they understand them not, or despise distinction, and still mouth out the ambiguous word Justification, as if they would end Controversies as a Bell Ringeth by Sound and Noise: When Paul saith,