An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…

The Apostle Paul, the undoubted Author of this Epistle, tho he made use of another man, one Tertius, chap. 16. 22. for the engrossing of it, as Jeremiah did Baruch for the writing out of his Prophecies, Jer. 36. 4, 18. as he saith of himself, and that questionless most truly, in regard of the rest of his copartners in the Apostleship, that he laboured in the execution of that his Office more abundantly then they all, 1 Cor. 15. 10. so in this particular employment of labouring to instruct and edify the Churches and faithful people, not only that then were, but that are in being at this day, (for unto us are his writings now also beneficial, as-well as they were unto those that then lived, and unto whom they were directed, being intended for a more general good, Chap. 15. 4. 2. Petr. 3. 15.) by writing to them, when he could not be personally present with them, the same may not without good ground be averred. For we have twice as many more of his Epistles extant at this day, I say not, then of any one severally, but then of all his fellow-Apostles jointly put together, if that to the Hebrews at least be granted to be his, as by most it is deemed. And yet that he wrote more then have come to our hands, it seems evidently to appear. Nor do I speak of those counterfeit ones that have ben thrust out under his name, those to Seneca, which Jerome yet attributes too much unto; or that to the Laodiceans, which Stapulensis hath inserted into the body of Pauls Epistles, grounding upon a mistake and mis-interpretation