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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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Secondly, Moreover, the Knowledge of this giveth a man to understand this Mystery, That Christ and himself are united in one: For Faith saith, If our Old man was Crucified with Christ, then were we also Reckoned in him, when he hanged on the Cross, I am Crucified with Christ: 1All the Elect did Mystically hang upon the Cross in Christ. We then are Dead to the Law, and Sin, First, by the Body of Christ, Rom. 7. 4. Now he that is Dead is free from Sin; now if we be dead with Christ, we Believe that we shall live with him, knowing that Christ being raised from the Dead, Dyeth no more, Death hath no more Dominion over him; for in that he dyed, he dyed unto Sin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God: Likewise reckon your selves also dead unto Sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. This also Peter doth lively Discourse of, Forasmuch then (saith he) as Christ hath suffered for us in the Flesh, Arm your selves likewise with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the Flesh hath ceased from Sin, 1 Pet. 4. 1, 2. By which Words he Insinuateth the Mystical Union, that is between Christ the Head, and the Elect his Body; Arguing; from the Suffering of a Part, there should be a Sympathy in the whole: If Christ then suffered for us, we were (even our Sins, Bodies and Souls) reckoned in him, when he so suffered. Wherefore, by his sufferings, the Wrath of God for us is appeased, the Curse is taken from us: For as Adam by his acts of Rebellion, made all that were in him Guilty of his Wickedness; so Christ by his acts, and doings of Goodness, and Justice, made all that were reckoned in him ⟨p. 56⟩good, and Just, also: But as Adam's Transgression did First, and immediately Reside with, and remain in the Person of Adam only, and the Imputation of that Transgression to them that sprang from him; so the Goodness, and Justice, that was accomplished by the Second Adam, First, and Immediately Resideth in him, and is made over to his also, by the Imputation of God. But again, As they that were in Adam, stood not only guilty of Sin, by Imputation, but Polluted by the Filth that Possessed him at his fall;
Secondly, Moreover, the Knowledge of this giveth a man to understand this Mistery, That Christ and himself are united in one: For Faith saith, If our Old man was Crucified with Christ, then were we also Reckoned in him, when he hanged on the Cross, I am Crucified with Christ: