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

Will Christian• easily believe, that our Saviour came to deliver us •rom sin• by making himself worse […] becoming the greatest ha•er of God a•d G•••ness, the greatest Infidel, Atheist, Blasphemer Murderer, Adulterer, Liar, Thief, &c. in all the World, and consequently like the Devil, hated of God, and having a Hell in himself? All Christians believe that our sins were laid upon Christ as to their penalty, that he was Vicarius poenae, that he suffered for us, the just for the unjust, to reconcile us to God, and that he was made for us, a Sacrifice for sin, that we might be healed by his stripes, and washed in his Blood. But what Christian can believe Dr. Crispe and his Sectaries, that Christ took not only the punishment and guilt (reatum poenae) but all the very sins themselves of all the Elect, habitual and actual, privative and positive, of omission and commission, and so really became the most wicked man in all the World; and that lie saveth us from sin, by becoming a thousand times worse himself, than any of us; when it cannot be proved that any one Devil had so great a hand in mans sin, as to make all our sins his own? And Dr. Crispe well vindicateth God from false Imputation of that sin ⟨p. 4⟩to Christ, which was not his: But it is by Blasphemy, making that his, which was never his, even the very sins of all the Elect. 3. And do you think any Soul that hath the Spirit of God, and readeth and believeth the Scriptures can believe this Dr. that no sin can possibly hurt the Elect, because they are fully saved already by Christ? And that it is against Christ and his Grace, to intend our Salvation, or any good to our selves by any Duty we do, or to look to be ever the better for praying, obeying, believing, but must do all only in thankfulness, and for the good of others. 4. Do you think that a man (not to say a Christian) can believe that the torments of the Stone, Gout, Colic, Convulsion, &c. are no hurt, or no castigatory Penalty? And that it is no hurt or punishment for an Elect Person to be under decays of Holiness, increase of Sin, prevalency of Temptations, the terrors of God, and loss of his Consolations, and fears of Death: He that can believe all this, may believe Transubstantiation against all the senses of mankind.