A30137:289
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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And whereas you tell us, Pag. 124. That the Devils themselves have a large measure of some of the Attributes of God, as Knowledge, Power, &c. though themselves are unlike unto him.
In this you most Prodigiously Blaspheme.
Your Thirteenth Chapter is to show, That our Saviours preferring the Business of making Men Holy, before any other, witnesseth, that this is to do the best Service to God.
Your Thirteenth Chapter is to shew, That our Saviours preferring the Business of making Men Holy, before any other, witnesseth, that this is to do the best Service to God.
But still respecting the Holiness, you have in your first Chapter Described, which still the Reader must have his eye upon, it is false, and a slander of the Son of God. He never intended to Promote, or Prefer, your Natural Old Covenant, Holiness, viz. that which we had lost in Adam, or that which yet from him, in the Dregs thereof, remaineth in Humane Nature; but that which is of the Holy Ghost, of Faith, of the New Covenant.