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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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I might Enlarge; but enough of this; Only here I add, that the Wonders and Miracles, that attend the Gospel, were wrought, and are Recorded, to persuade to Faith in Christ By Faith in Christ, men are Justified from the Curse, and Judgement of the Law. This Faith worketh by Love, by the Love of God it brings up the Heart to God,1 and Goodness; but not by your Covenant, not by Principles of Humane Nature, but of the Spirit of God; not in a Poor, Legal, Old Covenant, Promiseless, Ignorant, Shadowish, Natural Holiness, but by the Holy Ghost.
I might Inlarge; but enough of this; Onely here I add, that the Wonders and Miracles, that attend the Gospel, were wrought, and are Recorded, to perswade to Faith in Christ By Faith in Christ, men are Justified from the Curse, and Judgement of the Law. This Faith worketh by Love, by the Love of God it brings up the Heart to God,1 and Goodness; but not by your Covenant, not by Principles of Humane Nature, but of the Spirit of God; not in a Poor, Legal, Old Covenant, Promiseless, Ignorant, Shadowish, Natural Holiness, but by the Holy Ghost.
- 1Ezek. 61.
I come now to your Seventh Chapter; but to that I have spoken briefly already, and therefore here shall be the shorter.
In this Chapter you say, that to make Men Holy was the Design of Christ's Death.