§. XI. Pag. 19. You next very justy commend Method, ordering, and expressing our Conceptions, of which (you say) I seem to make little account in Comparison].
Answ. 1. Had you said, that I had been unhap∣py in my Endeavours, your Authority might have gone for Proof with many: But you could scarce have spoken a more incredible word of me, than that I seem to make little account of Method, I look for no sharper Censure from the Theological Tribe, than that I Over-do in my Endeavours after Method. You shall not tempt me here unseasona∣bly, to anticipate what Evidence I have to pro∣duce for my acquittance from this Accusation.
2. But yet I will still say, that it is not so ne∣cessary either to Salvation, or to the Churches Peace, that we all agree in Methods and Expressions, as that we agree in the hearty reception of Christ, and obedience to His Commands? So much Me∣thod all must know, as to know the Beginning and the End, from the Effects and Means, God from the Creature, and as our true consent to the Bap∣tismal Covenant doth require; and I will thank∣fully use all the help which you give me to go fur∣ther: But I never yet saw that Scheme of Theolo∣gie, or of any of its Heads, which was any whit large, (and I have seen many) which was so exact in Order, as that it was da••g••••ous in any thing to forsake it. But I cannot think meet to talk much of Method, with a Man that talketh as you