A30137:159
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. Had you said the Manifestation of it is kept from us; it might, with some Allowance, have been Admitted▪ But yet the Revelation of it in the Word, which in some Sense may be called a Manifestation thereof, is first Discovered to us by the Word: Yea,1 is seen by us; and also believed as a truth Recorded; before the Enjoyment thereof be with comfort in our own Souls.
Answ. Had you said the Manifestation of it is kept from us; it might, with some Allowance, have been Admitted▪ But yet the Revelation of it in the Word, which in some Sence may be called a Manifestation thereof, is first Discovered to us by the Word: Yea,1 is seen by us; and also believed as a truth Recorded; before the Injoyment thereof be with comfort in our own Souls.
But, you Proceed and say, Therefore was the Death of Christ Designed, to Procure our Justification, from all Sins past, that we might by this means be Provoked to become New Creatures.
Answ. That the Death of Christ is a mighty Argument to persuade with the Believer, to Devote himself to God, in Christ, in all things, as becometh one that hath received Grace, and Redemption, by his Blood, is True: But that it is in Our Power, as is here Insinuated, to become New Creatures, is as Untrue. The New Creature,