For what remains of his discourse, so far as I am concerned
in it, it is made up of such expositions of some texts of Scripture as
issue, for the most part, in a direct contradiction to the text itself, or
some express passages of the context. So doth that of Gal. iv. 4, 5, which he first
undertakes to speak unto, giving us nothing but what was first invented by
Crellius, in his book against Grotius, and is almost translated verbatim out
of the comment of Schlichtingius
upon the place; the remainder of them corruptly Socinianizing against the
sense of the church of God. Hereunto are added such pitiful mistakes, with
reflections on me for distinguishing between obeying and suffering (which conceit he most profoundly disproves by showing that one
may obey in suffering, and that Christ did so, against him who hath written
more about the obedience of Christ in dying, or laying down his life for
us, than he seems to have read on the same subject, as also concerning the
ends and uses of his death; which I challenge him and all his companions to
answer and disprove, if they can), as I cannot satisfy myself in the
farther consideration of; no, not with that speed and haste of writing now
used: which nothing could give countenance unto but the meanness of the
occasion, and unprofitableness of the argument in hand. Wherefore, this
being the manner of the man, I am not able to give an account unto myself
or the reader of the misspense of more time in the review of such
impertinencies. I shall add a few things, and conclude.