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

I wonder that it is not so with all that think praying, hearing, reading, meditating, and Sacraments do no good: And all from a sottish Exposition of [Do this and live,] as if forbid doing any thing that ⟨image 84⟩we may live: And from an Unchristian Conceit that Christ giveth us all that •e decreeth or purchaseth, as soon as the Price is paid: And that because he freeth us from the Law •f Works, and of Innocency, he maketh us lawless; or is a Kin• that hath no Laws, or Laws that are neither the Measure of Duty or Judgment, the keeping of which is no subordinate Righteo•• ness in tantum; because it is n•t as Christ's, a purchasing Price, and justifieth not primarily n•r in totum: Or as if Christ commanded and •ave a Righteousness which is no Righteousness; and that because all justifying is not making Righteous, therefore making Righteous is no Justifying, nor any part of it. Its a shame to stay to cite many ••xts •gai•st these men, where the whole Bible, but especially all Christ's own Preaching, and Parables, are so expressly against them, that I admire with what face th•se men profess to believe the Scripture. And I w•n•er not that some of them say, that all the w••tt•• Word is a Covenant of Works, a•d o•ly the Spirits i•wa•d Work is the Covenant of Grace: And wh•n they tell us (as Crispe, p. 242. Vol. 1. Ed. 1.) That for any hurt that such sins can do us, it is not possible, for Christ hath made satisfaction. I wonder why they preach against that which doth no hurt; and why they excommunicate men for sin; and why they scruple Perjury, Liturgies, Parish-Communion, or any Point of Conformity; yea, why some of them will suffer rather than conform, when it is impossible for any sin to hurt them: Why do your hearers pay you for Preaching against a harmless thing? Why make you so much Complaint against Unreformeness? Sin doth God no hurt; it doth not the Elect any hurt by your Doctrine; for Christ hath satisfied and born all: And the Reprobate are uncapable of good, for want of satisfaction for them. I pray you do not speak out this Doctrine to the World: