An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…

Quest. Hath the Doctrine of the Imputation of Christs Righteousness for our Justification, been the Doctrine of our Church, and the prime Doctors of it?

Answ. The Papists indeed call it with a jeer, Putative Righteousness. And 'tis storied of a Popish Bishop, lighting accidentally on that place, Rom. 4.6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth Righteousness without Works, &c. threw away the Book in great displeasure, and said, O Paul! an tu quoque Lutheranùs factus es? O Paul art thou also become a Lutheran? 'Tis observed by […] Conforming Minister, that the Apostle Paul mentions this grace of Imputed Righteousness ten times in the 4th chapter to the Romans; and Bishop Andrews in his most excellent Sermon on that Scripture, Jehovah Justitia nostra, His na•• shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness; and B• Downham, in his Treatise of Justification, strongly asserts it: And the Doctors of the Chair for […] long time, have taught the same Doctrine. So that now I should think that Doctor, though in the Chair, to be besides the Cushion, that teaches otherwise.

Answ. The Papists indeed call it with a jeer, Putative Righteousness. And 'tis storied of a Popish Bishop, lighting accidentally on that place, Rom. 4.6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth Righteousness without Works, &c. threw away the Book in great displeasure, and said, O Paule! an tu quoque Lutheranùs factus es? O Paul art thou also become a Lutheran? 'Tis observed by 〈…〉 Conforming Minister, that the Apostle Paul mentions this grace of Imputed Righteousness ten times in the 4th chapter to the Romans; and Bishop Andrews in his most excellent Sermon on that Scripture, Jehova Justitia nostra, His na•• shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness; and B• Downham, in his Treatise of Justification, strongly asserts it: And the Doctors of the Chair for long time, have taught the same Doctrine. So that now I should think that Doctor, though in the Chair, to be besides the Cushion, that teaches otherwise.