A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

The point of Justification is a main Article of the Christian Religion, and that which principally gives us light into (yea wherein mainly consists) the difference between the Law, and Gospel Covenant; one therefore calls it, Arti••lum […] cadentis Eccles••; and upon this account it hath been most of all battered by Satan and his Instruments, and made the apple of contention; and ball of controversy in many Ages; there is therefore need of the greater care to be well established it, and rightly ⟨p. 8⟩built upon it, and indeed I […] see how Christ can rightly be believed in unto Salvation, where this Article is either not at all known, or fundamentally mistaken:

The point of Justification is a main Article of the Christian Religion, and that which principally gives us light into (yea wherein mainly consists) the difference between the Law, and Gospel Covenant; one therefore calls it, Arti••lum 〈…〉 cadentis Eccles••; and upon this account it hath been most of all battered by Satan and his Instruments, and made the apple of contention; and ball of controversy in many Ages; there is therefore need of the greater care to be well established it, and rightly ⟨p. 8⟩built upon it, and indeed I 〈…〉 see how Christ can rightly be believed in unto Salvation, where this Article is either not at all known, or fundamentally mistaken:

I shall therefore endeavour to offer a brief Scripture account of it, and that with the greatest plainness, and accommodation of it as far as I can to the meanest capacities; and let it be attended with diligent heed, for it is our life; there is but one way for a Sinner to be Justified, and if he so mistake in that, as finally to come short of it he must fall under everlasting condemnation, therefore it infinitely concerns us to take pains with our selves that we may come to be acquainted with it.