TO CHAP. IX.

TO CHAP. IX.

TO his 9th Chapter, I shall not need to return any large Reply. Let him read over my words again, which he examineth, and answereth in this Chapter, and they may serve for a just Reply unto his Answer, so far as it is needful.

TO his 9th Chapter, I shall not need to returne any large Reply. Let him read over my words againe, which he examineth, and answereth in this Chapter, and they may serve for a just Reply unto his Answer, so farre as it is needfull.

Only let me touch a Passage, or two. When he saith, That after the first manifestation of the countenance of God, reconciled in the blood of Christ unto his soul, it hath been with him, as with one whom he saith, I told him off, his Questions, and Troubles have not been concerning his Reconciliation, and Peace with God, but concerning Sanctification, &c.

Onely let me touch a Passage, or two. When he saith, That after the first manifestation of the countenance of God, reconciled in the bloud of Christ unto his soule, it hath been with him, as with one whom he saith, I told him off, his Questions, and Troubles have not been concerning his Reconciliation, and Peace with God, but concerning Sanctification, &c.

I would it might please the Lord to persuade his heart, that, that one of whom I spake to him, was but one to whom the Lord ⟨p. 58⟩dispensed himself in that manner; and he a man, though he suffered much, and wrote much, yet no where magnified his sufferings, nor vilified the Authors of his sufferings: A man that cleaved to the Ordinances, and Saints of God, and not willing to manifest his dissent from his Brethren, no not there where he did dissent, as willing to attribute more to the judgements of other servants of God, then to arrogate to himself.