A30137:182
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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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. Ephes. 4. 6, 7, 8.
This Text therefore, with all the rest you bring, falleth short of the least show of Proof, That the great Errand for which Christ came into the World was—to put us in Possession of the Holiness that we had lost.
This Text therefore, with all the rest you bring, falleth short of the least shew of Proof, That the great Errand for which Christ came into the World was—to put us in Possession of the Holiness that we had lost.
Your Third Chapter is as Empty of the Proof of your Design, as that through which we have passed: there being not one Scripture therein Tited, that giveth the least intimation, that ever it entered into the Heart of Christ to put us again into Possession of that Holiness which we had before we were Converted: for such was that we lost in Adam.
Your Third Chapter is as Empty of the Proof of your Design, as that through which we have passed: there being not one Scripture therein Tited, that giveth the least intimation, that ever it entred into the Heart of Christ to put us again into Possession of that Holiness which we had before we were Converted: for such was that we lost in Adam.