weapons, which by his own confeffion muft have been fnatched out of Satan's hands, and join a cry against them, which had been fo often raised againít himself, whilft he was a ftrenuous afferter of the doctrines of that church in which he had the honor of being ordained a minister. And yet when I do but caft my eyes over the excellent difcourfe from which I have made the foregoing fhort extracts, I can inftantly forget all the hard fpeeches and reproachful n mes, which he has fo unjustly and illiberally poured out against us, and do esteem him very highly in love for his (quondam) works fake; especially as I have been well informed, that this very fermon, the day it was delivered, was made the means of converting two papifts, who providentially came into the church, to the true proteftant faith. God grant that his four checks may never have the direct contrary effect, by being made instrumental to the perverting any proteftants to the faith of Rome.

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P. 9. 1. 8. after prejudice add a comma. P. 14. after the word communication make the reference with a [D] and not with †. P. 22. note, l. 11. after the word apostle, instead of a full point, make a point of interrogation. P. 23. 1. 26. note, for every man has naturally two principles in him, read, every man that is born into the world has two principles in him.

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LTHOUGH I obferved, p. 26, that the time would fail me, were I to pretend to enumerate the many grofs mifreprefentations you have given of our doctrines, throughout your laft piece; and to point out the very unfair manner in which you have quoted my five Letters, and the interpolations you have made in them: yet upon a re-perufal of your Logica Genevenfis, I was fo ftruck with the unkindness and, I must beg leave to fay, the basenefs of the following paragraph, which you have put into my mouth, and marked with commas (as if it were really a quotation from my five Letters, though not a fyllable of it is to be found there) that I cannot help adding a few lines by way of obfervation upon it. Your words are thefe.

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Before I was acquainted with the truth, I ima"gined that fin would difhonor God, and injure me; but fince the preachers of finifhed falvation "have opened my eyes, I fee how greatly I was "mistaken. P. 106."

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Soon after this in the next page, you fay "I need not tell you, honored Sir, that I am indebted to you for all the doctrines and most of the expref"fions of this dangerous confeflion of faith. If any

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one doubts of it, let him compare this creed and "the letters together. Some claufes and fentences “I have added, not to misrepresent and blacken, but "to introduce, connect, and illuftrate your fenti"ments. P. 107."

Now under pretence of introducing, connecting, and illuftrating my fentiments, you have given us a most injurious and cutting fneer against the preachers of finished falvation, who are all brought up as teachers of the two following doctrines.

Ift. That fin does not difhonor God.

2dly. That it doth not injure the believer.

And both of thefe doctrines I am introduced as an abettor of, whereas they are directly oppofite to my own fentiments, and to thofe of all the preachers of free grace that ever I heard; for though we firm

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ly believe that God can and doth over-rule even fin itfelf for good, yet we as firmly believe that it brings the higheft difhonor upon his government, yea, that it is the only thing whereby he is difhonored; and that although it will not deprive a believer of his heavenly inheritance (because the pay ment for fin is made, and the poffeffion itself purchafed) yet we know that it will greatly INJURE him by robbing him of his comfort and of his communion with God; and therefore it may as reafonably be afferted that the felon who robs his neighbour on the highway does not injure him, unlefs he also take away his life, as that fin does not injure a believer, because it will not deprive him of that everlasting life, which is the free gift of God in Jefus Christ.

But you fay, that you have not added these words to mifreprefent and blacken my fentiments.No! for what other end then have you introduced them, when I abhor not only the expreffions but the doctrines they contain, and when I have not fpoken the leaft word, fyllable, or tittle, that tends to authorize the citation you have forged, yea, when you know in your own confcience that I never meant or intended any fuch thing? Oh! Mr. Fletcher, I am indeed grieved to find you fo difingenuous, but it only confirms what I have advanced, p. 40. However (you say) "if any one doubts of it, let him compare this creed and the Letters together.' So fay I, and therefore conclude with the following exact quotation from thofe letters, by which the reader will be much better able to judge, than from thofe mangled fcraps you have brought, what ground you had fo peremptorily to make the foregoing affertions.

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"No thanks to fin, if the LORD over-rule it for "the good of his people. It is ftill the abominable thing which his foul hateth; and whatever may "be his fecret will, we are to keep close to the "declarations of his own written word, which bids "us to refift fin even unto blood. Whofoever can "delight himself in fin, under the perfuafion that "GOD will make it work together for his good, is

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"under a moft powerful delufion of the devil. Such an one is indeed accomplishing God's decree; but "he carries a dreadful mark in his forehead, that "fuch decree is, that he shall be punished with everlafting deftruction from the prefence of the LORD. "Sin is directly contrary to the new nature of a believer, to that incorruptible feed which re"maineth in him, and therefore he cannot fin because "be is born of God; that is, the new man, the "regenerate part, cannot fin. It is not I, (fays the "Apoftle) but fin that dwelleth in me. Yea, fo great "an averfation is there between the love of fin and "the new creature, that he esteems the pofition, "let us fin that grace may abound, as the most dam"nable doctrine that ever fteamed out of the bot"tomlefs pit of hell: and though grace and falvation is all his fong, yet he knoweth that the "grace of GoD, which bringeth falvation, teacheth us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lufts, we fhould live foberly, righteously, and godly in this préfent world."

Now let me requeft the reader to reconfider the pretended quotation beforementioned, and I think his heart muft rife with a generous indignation, mixed with an holy compaffion, to fee a man who is pleading for fuch fuperlative degrees of holiness, and crying out Antinomianifm, Antinomianifm, against all the Chriftian world, defcend to the poor illiberal arts of forgery and defamation, in order to blacken his opponents, and to establish his own pernicious principles.

But though we heartily deteft any fuch diabolical affertions, as that fin neither dishonors God, nor injures the believer, yet I think we have too much reason to fuppofe that the author of Logica Genevenfis thoroughly adopted thefe fentiments, otherwife would pay a little more regard to the voice of commandment which faith, THOU SHALTY BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINSг NEIGHBOUR..

I need not tell you, Sir, that there is not in the world for whom I had an higher regard, whom I had a better opinion, than I had of Y