Vindiciæ legis

Master Burton also in his Book against them affirmeth, they divided all that made up the body of the Church of England into Hogs or Dogs: Hogs were such that despised justification, living in their swinish lusts; Dogs such, who sought to be justified by their works. He tells of one of their disciples, that said, Away with this scurvy sanctification; and that there is no difference between godly here, and in their state of glory, but only in sense and apprehension. Many other unsavoury assertions are named by those Authors, but these may suffice to give a taste of their opinions; for it is elegantly spoken by Irenaeus, in such falsehoods as these are, lib. 2. c. 34. adversus Haereses. We need not drink up the whole sea, to taste whether the water be salt; but, as a statue that is made of clay, yet outwardly so gilded, that it seemeth to be gold, if any man take a piece of it in his hand, and discover what it is, doth make every one know what the whole statue is: so it is in this case.

Master Burton also in his Book against them affirmeth, they divided all that made up the body of the Church of England into Hogs or Dogs: Hogs were such that despised justification, living in their swinish lusts; Dogs such, who sought to be justified by their works. Hee tells of one of their disciples, that said, Away with this scurvie sanctification; and that there is no difference between godly here, and in their state of glory, but only in sense and apprehension. Many other unsavoury assertions are named by those Authors, but these may suffice to give a taste of their opinions; for it is elegantly spoken by Irenaeus, in such falshoods as these are, lib. 2. c. 34. adversus Haereses. We need not drink up the whole sea, to taste whether the water be salt; but, as a statue that is made of clay, yet outwardly so gilded, that it seemeth to be gold, if any man take a piece of it in his hand, and discover what it is, doth make every one know what the whole statue is: so it is in this case.

For my part, I am acquainted with them no other ways but by their Books which they have written, and in those every error is more warily dressed then in secret. There I find, that sometimes they yield the Law to be a rule of life, yea, they judge it a calumny to be called Antinomists; and if so, their adversaries may be better called Antifidians. And it cannot be denied, but that in some parts of their Books there are wholesome and good passages; as in a wood or forest, full of shrubs and brambles, there may be some violets and primroses: yet for all this, in the very places where they deny this assertion as theirs, they must be forced to acknowledge it. The Author of the Assertion of Free-grace, who doth expressly touch upon these things, and disclaims