“MY LADY,—Because I think it my duty to defend the _works of faith_ against the triumphant errors of the Solifidians, some of your ladyship’s friends conclude that I am an enemy to the doctrine of _salvation by faith_, and their conclusion amounts to such exclamations as these: ‘How could a lady, so zealous for God’s glory and the Redeemer’s grace, commit the superintendency of a seminary of pious learning to a man that opposes the _fundamental_ doctrine of Protestantism! How could she put her sheep under the care of such a wolf in sheep’s clothing!’ This conclusion, my lady, has grieved me for your sake; and, to remove the blot that it indirectly fixes upon you, as well as to balance my ‘Scriptural Essay on the Rewardableness’ of the works of faith, I publish, and humbly dedicate to your ladyship, this last piece of my ’_Equal Check to Pharisaism and Antinomianism_.’ May the kindness which enabled you to bear for years with the coarseness of my ministrations incline you favourably to receive this little token of my unfeigned attachment to Protestantism, and of my lasting respect for your ladyship! “Your aversion to all that looks like controversy can never make you think that an _Equal Check_ to the two grand delusions, which have crept into the Church, is needless in our days. I flatter myself, therefore, that though you may blame my _performance_, you will approve of my _design_. And indeed what true Christian can be absolutely neuter in this controversy? If _God has a controversy_ with all _Pharisees_ and _Antinomians_, have not all God’s children a controversy with _Pharisaism_ and _Antinomianism_? Have you not, for one, my lady? Do you not check in private what I attempt to check in public? Does not the religious world know that you abhor, attack, and pursue _Pharisaism_ in its most artful disguises? And have I not frequently heard you express, in the strongest terms, your detestation of _Antinomianism_, and lament the number of sleeping professors, whom that Delilah robs of their strength? Nor would you, I am persuaded, my lady, have countenanced the opposition which was made against the ‘Minutes,’ if your commendable, though (as it appears to me) at that time, too precipitate zeal against Pharisaism had not prevented your seeing that they contain the Scripture truths, which are fittest to stop the rapid progress of Antinomianism.