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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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As for your saying, That Calvin, Peter Martyr, Musculus, Zanchy, and others, did not question, but that God could have Pardoned sin, without any other Satisfaction, then the Repentance of the Sinner. page 84, It matters nothing to me, I have neither made my Creed out of them, nor other, then the Holy Scriptures of God.
As for your saying, That Calvin, Peter Martyr, Musculus, Zanchy, and others, did not question, but that God could have Pardoned sin, without any other Satisfaction, then the Repentance of the Sinner. pag• 84, It matters nothing to me, I have neither made my Creed out of them, nor other, then the Holy Scriptures of God.
But if Christ was from before all Worlds ordained to be the ⟨p. 30⟩Saviour, then was he from all Eternity so appointed and prepared to be: And if God be, as you say, infinitely, page 136. and I will add, Eternally, just; how can he Pardon without he be presented with that Satisfaction for Sin, that to all points of the highest perfection doth answer the Demands of this Infinite, and Eternal Justice? unless you will say, that the Repentance of a Sinner is sufficient to answer whatever could be justly demanded as a Satisfaction thereto; which if you should, you would in consequence say, that Man is, or may be in himself, just, that is, equal with God; or that the sin of Man was not a transgression of the Law that was given, and a procurer of the Punishment that is threatened, by that Eternal God that gave it. (But let me give you a Caution, Take heed that you belie not these men) Christ cries, If it be possible let this Cup pass from me. 1If what be possible: why, that Sinners should be saved without His Blood. Ought not Christ to have suffered? Christ must needs have suffered, not because of some certain Circumstances; but because the Eternal Justice of God, could not consent to the salvation of the Sinner, without a Satisfaction for the Sin committed. Of which more in the next; if you shall think good to reply.