A30137:270
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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Answ. To both which, a little briefly▪ God doth not use to Pardon Painted Sinners,1 but such as are Really so▪ Christ dyed for SINNERS, 2and God Justifieth the UNGODLY, even him that worketh not,3 nor hath no Works to make him Godly. Besides, Pardon supposeth Sin; now he that is a Sinner▪ is a Wicked man;4 by Nature a Child of Wrath, and as such an Object of the Curse of God, because he hath broken the Law of God. But such God Pardoneth; not because they have made themselves Holy, or have given up themselves to the Law of Nature, or to the Dictates of their Humane Principles, but because he will be Gracious, and because he will give to his beloved Son Jesus Christ the benefit of his Blood.
Answ. To both which, a little briefly▪ God doth not use to Pardon Painted Sinners,1 but such as are Really so▪ Christ dyed for SINNERS, 2and God Justifieth the VNGODLY, even him that worketh not,3 nor hath no Works to make him Godly. Besides, Pardon supposeth Sin; now he that is a Sinner▪ is a Wicked man;4 by Nature a Child of Wrath, and as such an Object of the Curse of God, because he hath broken the Law of God. But such God Pardoneth; not because they have made themselves Holy, or have given up themselves to the Law of Nature, or to the Dictates of their Humane Principles, but because he will be Gracious, and because he will give to his beloved Son Jesus Christ the benefit of his Blood.