“I am very far from recanting that old discourse. I still think the doctrine it contains excellent, in the main, and very proper to be enforced, though in a more guarded manner, in a congregation of hearers violently prejudiced against the first gospel axiom.[307] Therefore, out of regard for the grand, leading truth of Christianity, and in compliance with Mr. Hill’s _earnest entreaty_ (‘Finishing Stroke,’ p. 45), I send my sermon into the world upon the following reasonable conditions: 1. That I shall be allowed to publish it, as I preached it a year ago in my church, namely, with _additions in brackets_, to make it at once a _fuller_ Check to Pharisaism, and a _finishing_ Check to Antinomianism. 2. That the largest addition shall be in favour of _free grace_. 3. That nobody shall accuse me of _forgery_, for thus adding my present light to that which I had formerly; and for thus bringing out of my little treasure of experience _things new and old_. 4. That the press shall not groan with the charge of _disingenuity_, if I throw into Notes some unguarded expressions, which I formerly used without scruple, and which my more enlightened conscience does not suffer me to use at present. 5. That my opponent’s call to print my sermon will procure me the pardon of the public, for presenting them with a plain, _blunt_, discourse, composed for an audience chiefly made up of colliers and rustics. And, lastly, that, as I understand English a little better than I did twelve years ago, I shall be permitted to rectify a few French idioms, which I find in my old manuscript; and to _connect_ my thoughts a little more like an Englishman, where I can do it without the least misrepresentation of the sense. “III. With regard to the ‘_Scriptural Essay_’ upon the rewardableness or evangelical worthiness of works, I shall just observe that it attacks the grand mistake of Solifidians countenanced by three or four words of my old sermon. I pour a flood of Scriptures upon it; and, after receiving the fire of my objector, I return it in a variety of scriptural and rational answers, about the solidity of which the public must decide. “IV. The ‘_Essay on Truth_’ will, I hope, reconcile judicious moralists to the doctrine of salvation _by faith_, and considerate Solifidians to the doctrine of salvation _by_ the _works_ of faith; reason and Scripture concurring to show the constant dependence of works upon faith; and the wonderful agreement of the doctrine of present salvation by TRUE _faith_, with the doctrine of eternal salvation by GOOD _works_.