A30137:185
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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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.
You tell us the Sum of all is, That we are Commauded to add to, our Faith, Vertue, &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 Origianally 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.
Add to your Faith. The Apostle here lays a Gospel Principle, viz. Faith in the Son of God: which Faith layeth hold of the forgiveness of Sins, alone for the sake of Christ: Therefore he is a great way off, of laying the Purity of the Humane Nature, the Law, as written in the heart of natural man, as the Principle of ⟨p. 41⟩Holiness; from whence is produced good Works in the Soul of the Godly.
Add to your Faith. The Apostle here lays a Gospel Principle, viz. Faith in the Son of God: which Faith layeth hold of the forgiveness of Sins, alone for the sake of Christ: Therefore he is a great way off, of laying the Purity of the Humane Nature, the Law, as written in the heart of natural man, as the Prenciple of ⟨p. 41⟩Holiness; from whence is produced good Works in the Soul of the Godly.