A30137:168
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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But, as before I told you in general, so here I tell you again, That neither the Scriptures of God, the Promise, or Threatenings, the Life, or Death, Resurrection, Ascension, or coming again of Christ to Judgement; hath the least Syllable, or Tendency in them, to set up Your Heathenish, and Pagan Holiness, or Righteousness: ⟨p. 36⟩Wherefore your whole Discourse is but a mere abuse of, and Corrupting the Holy Scriptures, for the fastening, if it must have been, your Errors upon the Godly. I Conclude then upon the whole, that the Gospel hath cast out Mans Righteousness to the Dogs: and Conclude that there is no such thing as a Purity of Humane Nature, as a Principle in us, thereby to Work Righteousness withal. Farther, It never thought of returning us again, to the Holiness we lost in Adam: or to make our perfection to Consist in the Possession of so Natural, and Ignorant a Principle as that is, in all the things of the Holy Gospel: But hath declared another, and far better way, which you can by no means understand by all the Dictates of your Humanity.
But, as before I told you in general, so here I tell you again, That neither the Scriptures of God, the Promise, or Threatnings, the Life, or Death, Resurrection, Assention, or coming again of Christ to Judgement; hath the least Sillable, or Tendency in them, to set up Your Heathenish, and Pagan Holiness, or Righteousness: ⟨p. 36⟩Wherefore your whole Discourse is but a meer abuse of, and Corrupting the Holy Scriptures, for the fastening, if it must have been, your Errors upon the Godly. I Conclude then upon the whole, that the Gospel hath cast out Mans Righteousness to the Dogs: and Conclude that there is no such thing as a Purity of Humane Nature, as a Principle in us, thereby to Work Righteousness withal. Farther, It never thought of returning us again, to the Holineness we lost in Adam: or to make our perfection to Consist in the Possession of so Natural, and Ignorant a Principle as that is, in all the things of the Holy Gospel: But hath declared another, and far better way, which you can by no means understand by all the Dictates of your Humanity.