A30137:104
A defence of the doctrine of justification, by faith in Jesus Christ
A defence of the doctrine of justification, by faith in Jesus Christ: showing, true Gospel-holiness flows from thence. Or, Mr. Fowler's pretended design of Christianity, proved to be nothing more then to trample under foot the blood of the Son of God and the idolizing of man's own righteousness. As also, how while he pretends to be a minister of the Church of England, he overthroweth the wholesome doctrine contained in the 10th. 11th. and 13th. of the Thirty Nine Articles of the same, and that he falleth in with the Quaker, and Romanist, against them. By John Bunyan.A defence of the doctrine of justification, by faith in Jesus Christ: shewing, true Gospel-holiness flows from thence. Or, Mr. Fowler's pretended design of Christianity, proved to be nothing more then to trample under foot the blood of the Son of God and the idolizing of man's own righteousness. As also, how while he pretends to be a minister of the Church of England, he overthroweth the wholesom doctrine contained in the 10th. 11th. and 13th. of the Thirty Nine Articles of the same, and that he falleth in with the Quaker, and Romanist, against them. By John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Without these three, there is no such things as Gospel holiness in Man, as before I have also hinted at. But now as there is none of these three found in your description of inward Holiness; so neither can you, or other, by all your inclinations, either to those you call first principles of natural reason, or the dictates of humane nature, obtain or fetch into the Soul, the least dram of that which is essential, to that which is indeed according to the Gospel description of inward Gospel holiness: as will further be manifest in this that followeth.
Without these three, there is no such things as Gospel holiness in Man, as before I have also hinted at. But now as there is none of these three found in your discription of inward Holiness; so neither can you, or other, by all your inclinations, either to those you call first principles of natural reason, or the dictates of humane nature, obtain or fetch into the Soul, the least dram of that which is essential, to that which is indeed according to the Gospel description of inward Gospel holiness: as will further be manifest in this that followeth.
1. The holy Ghost is not obtained by your description, that consisting only in principles of Nature, and in putting forth it self in acts of Civility and Morality. When the Apostle would convince the bewitched Galatians, that your Doctrine which was also the Doctrine of the false Apostles, was that, which instead of helping forward, did hinder, and pervert the Gospel of Christ; he applieth himself to them in this manner. This only would I learn of you; 1Received you the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of Faith? By the works of the Law, that is, by putting of your principles into practice, Nay, may I not add, by putting of your principles into practice, by a more bright, and clear rule, then in the beginning of your description is inserted by you; for the Law as written and engraven in stones, with the addition of all the Mosaical precepts,2 was a more ample, and full discovery of