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

42. Is it no greater Mercy and Grace, to make us like our Saviour in Holiness, and Gods Image, and the Divine Nature, than not? Are Christ's Graces his dishonour?

43. Is it not a vile abuse of his Grace, to contemn it, because it is our own? And to take Righteousness to stand against Free Grace, if it be but our own? And to pervert Pauls Words, that accounted as dung his own Righteousness, which he sets in competition or opposition to Christ, calling it that Righteousness which was of (Moses) Law; when at the same Word, he sets against it a Righteousness also made his own, which is by the Faith of Christ. Could Christs Righteousness Justify us, if it were not in some kind of Causality (meritorious, material, or formal) made our own: Can an Accident of another Subject be an Accident of us? And will not distinct personality continue to Men, as well as to Angels for ever? We abhor the thoughts of any Righteousness that is of our own possessing or working, otherwise than as given and wrought in us, by the Merits of Christ, and the Free Gift of undeserved Grace; or any that must not by the same Divine Power and Grace be continued. And all that pretendeth to the least part of the Office or Performance ⟨p. 71⟩of Christ; but only what he freely giveth, and which advanceth the Honour of his Merits and Love, and tendeth to Please and Glorify God, and attain the designed End of Redemption and Salvation.

AS to the Twelve Names that are prefixed to the Book, I leave it to themselves, to speak their own Cause: Only I can say, that one of them taketh the Words, if meant, as they are written (and indeed inculcated) to overthrow Christianity, and Humanity. And I doubt not, but some of the rest are of the same mind, and had not read the Book, or the Preface, so as to know what was in them.