A30137:211
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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neither could either the Devil, the whole World, or the Law, find any Deceit in his mouth. But by being under the Law, and walking in the Law; by that Spirit which was the Lord God of the Law, he not only did always the things that pleased the Father, but by that means in mans Flesh; he did perfectly accomplish, and fulfil, that Law which all Flesh stood Condemned by. It is a Foolish, and an Heathenish thing, nay worse, to think that the Son of God should only, or specially, fulfil, or perfect the Law, and the Prophets, by giving more and higher Instances of Moral Duties, then were before expressly given (Pag. 17.) This would have been but the Lading of men with heavy Burdens. But ⟨p. 47⟩know then, whoever thou art that Readest, that Christ's Exposition of the Law, was more to show thee the Perfection of his own Obedience, then to drive thee back to the Holiness thou hadst lost. For God sent him to fulfil it, by doing it, and dying, to the most sore Sentence it could Pronounce: not as he stood a single Person, but common, as Mediator between God and Man; making up in himself the breach that was made by Sin, betwixt God and the World. For,
neither could either the Devil, the whole World, or the Law, find any Deceit in his mouth. But by being under the Law, and walking in the Law; by that Spirit which was the Lord God of the Law, he not onely did always the things that pleased the Father, but by that means in mans Flesh; he did perfectly accomplish, and fullfil, that Law which all Flesh stood Condemned by. It is a Foolish, and an Heathenish thing, nay worse, to think that the Son of God should onely, or specially, fullfil, or perfect the Law, and the Prophets, by giving more and higher Instances of Morral Duties, then were before expresly given (Pag. 17.) This would have been but the Lading of men with heavy Burthens. But ⟨p. 47⟩know then, whoever thou art that Readest, that Christ's Exposition of the Law, was more to shew thee the Perfection of his own Obedience, then to drive thee back to the Holiness thou hadst lost. For God sent him to fullfil it, by doing it, and dying, to the most sore Sentence it could Pronounce: not as he stood a single Person, but common, as Mediator between God and Man; making up in himself the breach that was made by Sin, betwixt God and the World. For,