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I Had noted how they plead for present attained perfecti∣on much from that Scripture, 1 John 4. 17. As he is, so* 1.1 are we in this world. This R. F. saith nothing to in its place, nor can he justly hold up any plea from hence for that which the Apostle intends not by the words, or against the exposition I gave of them, which was this, That the Apostle speaks onely of the sincerity of our love, manifested like to Christs, in a single, plain, sound-hearted way, that we may
have boldness in the day of judgement. [As] notes not here equality, but quality and likeness, (as Matth. 5. 48. and often in Scripture.) It is arrogancy to think, and con∣tradiction to say, that, as Christ was without sin, so are we in this world; when we speak of Sanctification, which is that under debate. Afterwards * 1.2 he calls my exposition wresting and twisting, and by windy words, of no force, he would maintain the corrupt gloss, of being without sin as Christ was, as may appear in the following Section.
•• John 4. 17. vindicated.
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