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

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.