The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

the End they do it for is to fly from the Wrath to come, to pacify Conscience, and to seek for Righteousness as it were by the works of the Law. What follow unto the same purpose he omits, and what he adds as my words are not so, but his own, ubi pudor, ubi sides? That which I affirmed to be a part of an evil End when and as it makes up one entire End by being mixed with sundry other things expressly mentioned, is singled out, as if I had denied that in any sense it might be a part of a good End in our Obedience, which I never ⟨p. 53⟩thought, I never said, I have spoken and written much to the contrary. And yet to countenance himself in this disingenuous procedure, besides many other untrue Reflections he adds that I insinuate, that those whom I describe are Christians that seek Righteousness by Faith in Christ, pag. 167. I must needs tell my Author that my Faith in this matter is, That such works as these will have no influence in his Justification; And that the principal Reason why I suppose I shall not in my progress in this Discourse take any particular notice of his exceptions either against the Truth or me, next unto this consideration, that they are all trite and obsolete, and as to what seemeth to be of any force in them will occur unto me in other Authors from whom they are derived, is that I may not have a continual occasion to declare how forgetful he hath been of all the Rules of ingenuity, yea and of common honesty in his dealing with me. For that which gave the occasion unto this present unpleasing digression, it being no more as to the substance of it, but that our sins were imputed unto Christ, and that his Righteousness is imputed unto us, it is that in the Faith whereof I am assured I shall live and dye, though he should write twenty as learned Books against it, as those which he hath already published; and in what sense I do believe these things shall be afterwards declared. And although I judge no man upon the Expressions that fall from him in Polemical Writings, wherein on many occasions they do affront their own experience and contradict their own prayers, yet as to those who understand not that blessed Commutation of Sins and Righteousness as to the substance of it, which I have pleaded for, and the actings of our Faith with respect thereunto, I shall be bold to say, That if the Gospel be hid it is hid to them that perish.

the End they do it for is to fly from the Wrath to come, to pacifie Conscience, and to seek for Righteousness as it were by the works of the Law. What follow unto the same purpose he omits, and what he adds as my words are not so, but his own, ubi pudor, ubi sides? That which I affirmed to be a part of an evil End when and as it makes up one entire End by being mixed with sundry other things expresly mentioned, is singled out, as if I had denied that in any sense it might be a part of a good End in our Obedience, which I never