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the Content"; *>( tlio Rook were unsonnd. and Derogatory, both to thFjus^"<br />
tJcc <strong>of</strong> God and the Grace <strong>of</strong> Christ, which heinj published in EnRland<br />
niitjht add to the heap <strong>of</strong> many errors and Heresies already too much<br />
ahonndinp. and this Book being published under the name <strong>of</strong> a New<br />
Enplish Gentleman, niifiht occasion many to think that New Kngland<br />
also concurred in the allowance <strong>of</strong> such Exorbitant Aberrations: <strong>The</strong>y<br />
therefore judped it meet, not to stay till the Elders could be gathered<br />
together but whilst the Ship yet stayed, to declare their own judgment<br />
against the Book, and to send a Copy <strong>of</strong> their Declaration to England by<br />
the Ship, then ready to depart: Had the Te<strong>net</strong>s therein seemed to them<br />
to be matters, either <strong>of</strong> doubtful disputation, or <strong>of</strong> small moment, we doubt<br />
not. they would either not at all have declared themselves against the<br />
Book, or if they had. they would have stayed for some opportunity <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
consultation with the Elders: but some <strong>of</strong> the Te<strong>net</strong>, seemed to<br />
them so directly to shake the Fundamentals <strong>of</strong> Religion, and to wound<br />
the vitals <strong>of</strong> Christianity, that they being many <strong>of</strong> them well versed both<br />
in Dogmatical and Controversial points <strong>of</strong> Divinity, thought it their duty<br />
to pr<strong>of</strong>ess their Orthodox faith against all destructi>e Paradoxes, and<br />
dangerous Innovatiotis vented from amongst ourselves; for according as<br />
they believe, they do also pr<strong>of</strong>ess (as ourselves likewise do.) That the<br />
()bent-s,<br />
is the matter <strong>of</strong> our Justification; and the Imputation <strong>of</strong> our sins to Christ<br />
(and thereupon his suffering the sense <strong>of</strong> wrath <strong>of</strong> (}od upon him for our<br />
sin) and the Imputation <strong>of</strong> his obedience and sufferings are the formal<br />
cause <strong>of</strong> our Justification and that they that do deny this, do now take<br />
away both these, both the matter and the form <strong>of</strong> our Justification (.as this<br />
Book doth) and take away also our Justification, which is the life <strong>of</strong> our<br />
souls and <strong>of</strong> our Religion, and thereftVre called Justification <strong>of</strong> life.<br />
Rom. 5.18. .\s for the Notion which you conceive he decli<strong>net</strong>h.
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