A30137:144
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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Here now let the Reader note, That the positive Precepts, declarations of the arbitrary Will of God, in things of an indifferent nature, being such, as absolutely considered, are neither good nor evil; some few SUCH (say you) we have under the Gospel, namely, that of coming to God by Christ, &c. I am the more punctual in this thing, because you have confounded your weak, Reader with a crooked Parenthesis in the midst of the Paragraph, and also by deferring to spit your intended venom at Christ, till again you had puzzled him, with your Mathematics, and Metaphysics, &c. putting in another Page, betwixt the beginning, and the end of your blasphemy.
Here now let the Reader note, That the positive Precepts, declarations of the arbitrary Will of God, in things of an indifferent nature, being such, as absolutely considered, are neither good nor evil; some few SUCH (say you) we have under the Gospel, namely, that of coming to God by Christ, &c. I am the more punctual in this thing, because you have confounded your weak, Reader with a crooked Parenthesis in the midst of the Paragraph, and also by deferring to spit your intended venome at Christ, till again you had puzzled him, with your Mathematicks, and Metaphysicks, &c. putting in another Page, betwixt the beginning, and the end of your blasphemy.
Indeed in the seventh Chapter of your Book, you make a great noise of the Effects and Consequences of the Death of Christ, as that it was a Sacrifice for sin, an expiatory, and propitiatory Sacrifice. (page 83.) Yet, he that well shall weigh you, and compare you with your self, shall find that words and sense, with you are two things; and also, that you have learned of your Brethren of old, to dissemble with Words, that thereby your own heart-errors, and the Snake that lieth in your bosom, may yet there abide the more undiscovered. For in the conclusion of that very Chapter, even is and by a word or two, you take away that glory, that of right belongeth to the Death and Blood of Christ, and lay it upon other things. For you s•y,
Indeed in the seventh Chapter of your Book, you make a great noise of the Effects and Consequences of the Death of Christ, as that it was a Sacrifice for sin, an expiatory, and propitiatory Sacrifice. (page 83.) Yet, he that well shall weigh you, and compare you with your self, shall find that words and sense, with you are two things; and also, that you have learned of your Brethren of old, to dissemble with Words, that thereby your own heart-errors, and the Snake that lyeth in your bosome, may yet there abide the more undiscovered. For in the conclusion of that very Chapter, even is and by a word or two, you take away that glory, that of right belongeth to the Death and Blood of Christ, and lay it upon other things. For you sy,