A30137:183
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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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.
You tell us the Sum of all is, That we are Commanded to add to, our Faith, Virtue, &c. Page 35. I suppose you intend a Gospel Faith, which if you can prove Adam had before the fall, and that we lost this Faith in him; and also that this Gospel Faith is none other, but that which Originally ariseth from, or is the Dictates of Humane Nature, I will confess you have Scripture, and Knowledge beyond me. In the mean time you must suffer me to tell you you are as far in this from the mind of the Holy Ghost, as if you had yet never in all your days heard whether there be a Holy Ghost, or no.