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This passage of my Reverend Brother doth make it manifest, That the Paragraphs, Terms, and Phrases, which were in the first Paper, and were waved and passed by in the Composure of the Third, are look'd upon by my Brother, and as he will have us believe,
by all the Ministers, who meet at Little St. Helens, and had a Head, a Hand, and a Heart in Composing the Third, could not bear a sound sense, but were liable to be Interpreted to a sense, and sound of Ma∣lignity to the whole of the Gospel. That is to say, The Phrase of Christ's putting on the Person of Sinners; of his Answering for us the Obligations of the Violated Law of Works, the Term, Surety, and the Assertion of the Necessity of a Commutation, or Change of Per∣sons between Christ and Us, in order to Explain, and Defend Christ's Satisfaction, cannot in their Opinion bear a sound sense, but are liable to be Interpreted to a sense, and sound of Malignity to the whole of the Gospel.
This is the sense of my Reverend Brother, con∣cerning which I will only say, that tho' I think my self bound in Civility to believe what he saith of him∣self, yet I dare not be so severe as to conclude, that all my Presbyterian Brethren who meet at Little St. Hellens are in these Points of his Mind. However I desire my Reader to have Recourse unto this Passage, when He considers what I offer under the Particulars Proposed to be Examined. To the First,