all free thought; for so strong a prejudice have their lusts and passions laid them under against the laws of Christ that they find themselves under a necessity of opposing the truths of Christ, upon which these laws are founded’. To help those genuinely interested in considering the evidence, he refers them to Richard Baxter’s Reasons for the Christian Religion and other apologetic works. For Matthew, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were God’s inerrant word. In the preface