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

But these and many such mistakes are to be opened in their proper place.

That which I here intend is (not a confutation of this or that writer, but) to give them a breviate of my own Judgment, who will not read what I have largely written in many books long ago▪ pretending that the length of the books is their reason; and yet have not so much conscience as to suspend their censures, no nor their back-biting, false accusations of that which they have not leisure to understand or read; They judge hard cases which they never digested by any answerable Study; and Scruple not Judging and Slandering per•ons unheard.

Corrupting the Gospel, and so excellent a Subject as the Doctrine of Grace, and of the Office and Merits and Judgment of Christ, and so of Christianity it self, is a matter that conscience should more tenderly fear, than wearing a Surplice, or kneeling at the Sacrament, or communicating with a Church that useth the Common-Prayers. To think those ⟨image 13⟩unworthy of their Communion that use such Ceremonies or forms of prayer, and at the same time to profane so high a part of the name of God, as is his Grace in Christ, and his Justifying, Governing and Saving works, and this (quoad verba) by corrupting it even in Essentials, and then to defame as erroneous those that are not as Ignorant and Erroneous as themselves, and to foment malice and error and Sects by such lying defamations: This is a Nonconformity which I earnestly desire that no man that loveth Christ, or Free grace, or the Church or his own Soul; may ever take for his duty or his honour, or rashly as a sequacious admirer of any mistaken leader be ever guilty of: What is straining at a Gnat and swallowing a Camel, if this be not? And of how ill a constitution is such a blind and partial conscience?