His proceed is, to transcribe some other passages, taken
out of my book here and there, in whose repetition he inserts some
impertinent exceptions; but the design of the whole is to “state a
controversy,” as he calls it, between us and them, or those whom he calleth
“they” and “we,” whoever they be. And this, upon the occasion of my
mentioning the fulness of grace, life, and righteousness that is in Christ,
he doth in these words:— P. 215, “They say that these are the personal
graces of Christ as mediator, which are inherent in him, and must be
derived from his person; we say, they signify the perfection and excellency
of his religion, as being the most perfect and complete declaration of the
will of God, and the most powerful method of the divine wisdom for the
reforming of the world, as it prescribes the only righteousness which is
acceptable to God, and directs us in the only way to life and
immortality.”