A30137:195
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.
Answ. If you can prove that any of these Promises were made to the Holiness that we had lost, or that by these Promises we are to be Possessed with that Holiness again; I will even now lay down the Bucklers. For albeit, The time will come when the Saints shall be absolutely, and perfectly Sin-less; yet then shall they be also Spiritual, Immortal, and Incorruptible; which you cannot prove Adam was, in the best of his Holiness, even that which we lost in him.
The Threatenings you speak of (Pag. 35.) are every one made against Sin, but not one of them to drive us into a Possession of that Holiness that we had lost: Nay, contrariwise, he that looks to, or seeks after that, is as sure to be Damned, and go to Hell, as he that Transgresseth the Law; because that is not the Righteousness of God, the Righteousness of Christ, the Righteousness of Faith, nor that to which the Promise is made.
The Threatnings you speak of (Pag. 35.) are every one made against Sin, but not one of them to drive us into a Possession of that Holiness that we had lost: Nay, contrariwise, he that looks to, or seeks after that, is as sure to be Damned, and go to Hell, as he that Transgresseth the Law; because that is not the Righteousness of God, the Righteousness of Christ, the Righteousness of Faith, nor that to which the Promise is made.
And this was manifested to the World betimes, even in that day when God drove the Man and his Wife out of Eden, and placed Cherubins, and a Flaming Sword in the way by which they came out, to the end, that by going back by that way, they might rather be Killed and Dye, then lay hold of the Tree of Life, Gen. 3.
And this was manifested to the World betimes, even in that day when God drove the Man and his Wife out of Eden, and placed Cherubines, and a Flaming Sword in the way by which they came out, to the end, that by going back by that way, they might rather be Killed and Dye, then lay hold of the Tree of Life,