A30137:120
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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Thirdly, The holiness and righteousness that was in (and that we lost by) Adam before the fall; was such as stood in, and was to be managed by his natural perfect compliance with a covenant of works. For, Do not this sin and die, were the terms that was from God to Adam. But Christ at his coming ⟨p. 25⟩brings in another, a better a blessed Covenant of Grace; and likewise possesseth his Children, with the Holiness, and Privileges of that Covenant; Not with Adams heart nor Adams mind; but a new Heart, a new Spirit, a new Principle to act by; and walk in a new Covenant. Therefore the Holiness that was in Adam before, or that we lost in him by the Fall, could not be the Holiness that Christ at his Coming made it his great or only business to put us in possession of.
Thirdly, The holiness and righteousness that was in (and that we lost by) Adam before the fall; was such as stood in, and was to be managed by his natural perfect compliance with a covenant of works. For, Do not this sin and die, were the terms that was from God to Adam. But Christ at his coming ⟨p. 25⟩brings in another, a better a blessed Covenant of Grace; and likewise possesseth his Children, with the Holiness, and Priviledges of that Covenant; Not with Adams heart nor Adams mind; but a new Heart, a new Spirit, a new Principle to act by; and walk in a new Covenant. Therefore the Holiness that was in Adam before, or that we lost in him by the Fall, could not be the Holiness that Christ at his Coming made it his great or onely business to put us in possession of.
Fourthly, The Holiness that was in Adam before, and that we lost in him by the Fall, was such as might stand with perfect ignorance of the Mediation of Jesus Christ: For Christ was not made known to Adam as a Saviour, before that Adam was a Sinner; neither needed he at all to know him to be his Mediator, before he knew he had offended.1