A30137:172
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 you yet go on; and tell us, That this was also the Prophecy of the Angel to Joseph, (Pag. 14.) in these Words, HE (Jesus) shall save his People from their Sins. Not (say you) from the Punishment of them: although that be a true Sense too: but not the Primary, but Secondary, and implied only, and the Consequence of the former Salvation, Pag. 15.
But you yet go on; and tell us, That this was also the Phrophesie of the Angel to Joseph, (Pag. 14.) in these Words, HE (Jesus) shall save his People from their Sins. Not (say you) from the Punishment of them: although that be a true Sence too: but not the Primary, but Secondary, and implyed onely, and the Consequence of the former Salvation, Pag. 15.
Answ. Thus PEN the Quaker and you run in this, in one and the self same Spirit: He Affirming that Sanctification is antecedent to Justification, but not the Consequence thereof.
2. But what Salvation? Why Salvation? say you: First from the Filth: For that is the Primary and First Sense: Justification from the Guilt, being the never-failing Consequence of this. But how then must Jesus Christ, first save us from the Filth? You add in Pag. 16. That he shall bring in, instead of the Ceremonial Observations, a far more Noble, viz. An inward Substantial Righteousness: and by Abrogating that (namely of the Ceremonies) he shall Establish only this inward Righteousness. This is, that Holiness, or Righteousness you tell us of, in the end of the Chapter going before, that You acknowledge we had lost; so that the Sum of all that you have said, is, That the way that Christ will take to save his People from their Sins, is, First to Restore unto them, and give them Possession of the Righteousness that they had lost in Adam: And having established this in them, he would acquit them also of Guilt. But that this is a shameless Error, and Blasphemy, is apparent from which hath already been Asserted of the Nature of the Holiness, or Righteousness, that we have lost: viz. That it was only Natural of the Old Covenant, Typical: And such as might stand with perfect Ignorance of the Meditation of Jesus Christ: And now I add, That for Christ to come to Establish this Righteousness, is alone; as if he should be sent from Heaven, to overthrow, and Abrogate the eternal Purpose of Grace, which the Father had purposed should be manifested to the World by Christ: For Christ came not to Restore, or to give us Possession of that which was once our own Holiness, but to make us Partakers of that which is in him, That we might be made Partakers of HIS Holiness. Neither