A30137:153
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.
But (say you) the Actual removing of our Guilt is not the necessary and immediate Result of his Death, Pag. 91.
Answ. Yea, but it is, from before the Face of God; and from the Judgement and Curse of the Law; For before God the Guilt is taken away, by the Death and Blood of his Son, immediately, for all them that shall be saved; else how can it be said we are Justified by his Blood;1 He hath made Peace by his Blood; He loved us, and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood, and that we are Reconciled to God by the Death of his Son; which can by no means be: If notwithstanding, his Death and Blood, Sin in the Guilt, and Consequently the Curse that is due thereto, should yet remain in the sight of God.2 But what saith the Apostle? God was in Christ Reconciling the World to himself; not Imputing their Trespasses unto them. Those that are but Reconciling, are not yet Reconciled: I mean, as Paul, not yet come aright over in their own Souls by Faith: Yet to these he imputeth not their Trespasses: Wherefore? because they have none: or because he forgiveth them as they Believe and Work: Neither of both; but because he hat, First, made his Son to be Sin for them; and laid all the Guilt and Curse of their Sin upon him; that they might be made the Righteousness of God in him. Therefore even because by him their Sin and Curse is taken off, from before the Law of God; therefore, God for the sake of Christ, seeketh for, and beseecheth the Sinner to be Reconciled: That is, to believe in, and embrace his Majesty.
Answ. Yea, but it is, from before the Face of God; and from the Judgement and Curse of the Law; For before God the Guilt is taken away, by the Death and Blood of his Son, immediately, for all them that shall be saved; else how can it be said we are Justified by his Blood;1 He hath made Peace by his Blood; He loved us, and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood, and that we are Reconciled to God by the Death of his Son; which can by no means be: If notwithstanding, his Death and Blood, Sin in the Guilt, and Consequently the Curse that is due thereto, should yet remain in the sight of God.