A30137:205
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.
Your Discourse therefore of the Life and Conversation of the Lord Jesus, is none other then Heathenish: For you neither Treat of the Principle (his Godhead) by which he did his Works; neither do you in the least, in one Syllable, Aver the First, the main and Prime Reason of this his Conversation; only you Treat of it so far, as a mean Man might have considered it. And indeed it stood not with your Design to Treat a right with these things: For had you Mentioned the First, though but once, your Babel had tumbled about your Ears: For if in the Holy Jesus did dwell the Word, One of the Three in Heaven; or if the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, was Truly, Essentially, and Naturally God; then must the Principle from whence his Works did Proceed, be better then the Principle from whence Proceeded the Goodness in Adam; otherwise Adam must be God and Man. Also you do, or may know that the self same act may be done from several Principles: And again, that it is the Principle from whence the act is done, and not the bare doing of the act, that makes it better or worse Accepted, or not in the Eyes either of God or Men.
Your Discourse therefore of the Life and Conversation of the Lord Jesus, is none other then Heathenish: For you neither Treat of the Principle (his Godhead) by which he did his Works; neither do you in the least, in one Sillable, Aver the First, the main and Prime Reason of this his Conversation; only you Treat of it so far, as a mean Man might have considered it. And indeed it stood not with your Design to Treat a right with these things: For had you Mentioned the First, though but once, your Babel had tumbled about your Ears: For if in the Holy Jesus did dwell the Word, One of the Three in Heaven; or if the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, was Truly, Essentially, and Naturally God; then must the Principle from whence his Works did Proceed, be better then the Principle from whence Proceeded the Goodness in Adam; otherwise Adam must be God and Man. Also you do, or may know that the self same act may be done from several Principles: And again, that it is the Principle from whence the act is done, and not the bare doing of the act, that makes it better or worse Accepted, or not in the Eyes either of God or Men.
Now then to show you the Main, or Chief Design of the Life and Conversation of the Lord Jesus.