A30137:179
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.
2. But for Christ to take away Guilt, and the Curse, from before the Face of •ods is one thing; and to make that discovery is another.
3. Again, Christ doth not give forgiveness for the sake of that Repentance, which hath it's rise, Originally from the ⟨p. 40⟩Dictates of our own nature, which is the thing you are to prove; for that Repentance is called the Sorrow of this World; and must be again Repented of: But the Repentance mentioned in the Text, is that which comes from Christ: But,
4. It cannot be for the sake of Gospel Repentance, that the forgiveness of Sins is Manifested, because both are his Peculiar Gift.
5. Therefore, both Faith, and Repentance, and Forgiveness of Sins, are given by Christ; and come to us, for the sake of that Blessed Offering of his Body, once for all: For after he Arose from the Dead, having led Captivity Captive, and taken the Curse from before the Face of God: therefore his Father gave him Gifts for Men, even all the things that are Necessary, and Effectual, for our Conversion, and Preservation in this World, &c.