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

I thought it meet to have recited many hundred Texts of Scripture, which they directly contradict, which good Men should rather believe than them: But if the Reader will peruse my Confession, he will find it there done already.

And I thought it necessary to commend the good Lives of many of them (excepting the Schism and Unrighteousness that Faction doth involve them in) lest the Grossness of their Verbal Errors, which come from unskilfulness in Words and Methods, should tempt many to judge of the Men by their Words, and Opinions; and should harden the malignant to justify all their hard Censures and Usage of the Non-Conformists for their sakes. And yet Mr. Crispe is one of my sharp Censurers, for charitably excusing Men from lesser Errors than his own (while he falsifieth my Words about our difference with the Papists.)

And I thought it necessary to commend the good Lives of many of them (excepting the Schism and Ʋnrighteousness that Faction doth involve them in) lest the Grosness of their Verbal Errours, which come from unskilfulness in Words and Methods, should tempt many to judge of the Men by their Words, and Opinions; and should harden the malignant to justifie all their hard Censures and Ʋsage of the Non-Conformists for their sakes. And yet Mr. Crispe is one of my sharp Censurers, for charitably excusing Men from lesser Errours than his own (while he falsifyeth my Words about our difference with the Papists.)

I have said oft, and long ago, that I cannot be so hardened against God's miraculous Judgments in New-England, on Mrs. Hutchison and Mrs. Dyer, and the Case of their Governor, and Mr. Wheeler, recited by Mr. Weld, in his Book, called, The Rise and Fall of Antinomianism in New-England, as to despise those with the Scripture, to bear Satan seeming an Angel of Light or Righteousness. I once more counsel them that are prejudiced against my Writings, to read Mr. Bradshaw (an Independent) of Justification, Mr. Truman's Grand Propitiation, Ant. Watton de Reconciliatione, Mr. Gataker against Saltmarsh, and on Lucius and Piscator. Ben. Woodbridge (the first Graduate of the New-England College,) Mr. Thomas Warren, Mr. Hotchkins, Mr. Gibbons of Black-Fryers, his Lecture at Giles, Placeus in Thes. Salmuriens. Testardus, Codurcus; but above all, Vinc. le Blanks Theses; and the Bremen Divines, S. Charles Wolsley of Justification, and the foresaid Book of Mr. Weld a New-England Congregational-man: The Subject of which, I suppose two or three of the Twelve Epistlers (the two Mr. Mathers, if not Mr. Chancy also) will give you a truer Account of, than Dr.