A30137:156
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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Answ. 1. Then may a Man have the Grace of God within him; Yea, the Grace and Mercy of the New-Covenant, viz. Faith, and the like, that yet remaineth under the Curse of the Law; and so hath yet his Sins untaken away from before the Face of God: For where the Curse is only suspended, it may stand there: Notwithstanding, in Force against the Soul. Now, let the Soul stand accursed, and his Duties must stand accursed: For, First, the Person, and then the Offering must be accepted of God.1 God accepted not the Works of Cain, because he had not accepted his Person: ⟨p. 34⟩But having first accepted Abel's Person, he therefore did accept his Offering.2 And here it is said, that Abel Offered by Faith: He believed that his Person was accepted of God, for the sake of the promised Messiah; and therefore believed also that his Offering should be accepted.
Answ. 1. Then may a Man have the Grace of God within him; Yea, the Grace and Mercy of the New-Covenant, viz. Faith, and the like, that yet remaineth under the Curse of the Law; and so hath yet his Sins untaken away from before the Face of God: For where the Curse is onely suspended, it may stand there: Notwithstanding, in Force against the Soul. Now, let the Soul stand accursed, and his Duties must stand accursed: For, First, the Person, and then the Offering must be accepted of God.1 God accepted not the Works of Cain, because he had not accepted his Person: ⟨p. 34⟩But having first accepted Abel's Person, he therefore did accept his Offering.2 And here it is said, that Abel Offered by Faith: He belived that his Person was accepted of God, for the sake of the promised Messias; and therefore believed also that his Offering should be accepted.