A30137:117
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
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But there is one, thing more in this description, or rather effect thereof, which I shall also inquire into: And that is saying, As it was the errand of Christ to effect our deliverance out of that sinful state we had brought our selves into: so to put us again into possession of that holiness which we HAD LOST. page 12. The proof of this position is now your next business: that is, if I understand your learning, the remaining part of your book, which consisteth of well nigh 300 pages, is spent for proof thereof; which I doubt not but effectually to confute with less then 300 lines. Only first by the way, I would have my reader to take notice that in this last Clause. [to put us again into possession of that holiness which we had lost] is the sum of all this large description of his holiness in the foregoing pages: that is, the holiness and righteousness that Mr. Fowler hath been describing; and adds, that Christs whole business when he came into the world was, as to effect our deliverance from sin; so to put us again in possession of that holiness which we had lost. The holiness therefore that here he contendeth for, is that, and only that which was in Adam before the fall, which he lost by transgression; and we by transgressing in him. A little therefore to inquire into this, if perhaps his reader and mine, may come to a right understanding of things.
But there is one, thing more in this description, or rather effect thereof, which I shall also inquire into: And that is saying, As it was the errand of Christ to effect our deliverance out of that sinful state we had brought our selves into: so to put us again into possession of that holiness which we HAD LOST. page 12. The proof of this position is now your next business: that is, if I understand your learning, the remaining part of your book, which consisteth of well nigh 300 pages, is spent for proof thereof; which I doubt not but effectually to confute with less then 300 lines. Onely first by the way, I would have my reader to take notice that in this last Clause. [to put us again into possession of that holiness which we had lost] is the sum of all this large description of his holiness in the foregoing pages: that is, the holiness and righteousness that Mr. Fowler hath been describing; and adds, that Christs whole business when he came into the world was, as to effect our deliverance from sin; so to put us again in possession of that holiness which we had lost. The holiness therefore that here he contendeth for, is that, and onely that which was in Adam before the fall, which he lost by transgression; and we by transgressing in him. A little therefore to inquire into this, if perhaps his reader and mine, may come to a right understanding of things.