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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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As to your Seventeenth and Eighteenth Chapters, I shall say little, only I wish that your Eighteenth had been more express in discovering how far a man may go, with a notion of the truth of the Gospel, and yet perish because he hath it not in Power.
As to your Seventeenth and Eighteenth Chapters, I shall say little, onely I wish that your Eighteenth had been more express in discovering how far a man may goe, with a notion of the truth of the Gospel, and yet perish because he hath it not in Power.
Only in your Inveighing so much against the Pardon of Sin, while you seem so much to cry up Healing; you must know that Pardon of Sin is the beginning of Health to the Soul: He Pardoneth our Iniquities, and Healeth all our Diseases, Psa. 103. 3. And where he saith, by the stripes of Christ we are healed, it is Evident that healing beginneth at Pardon, and not Pardon after healing, as you would rather have it, 1 Pet. 2. 24. compare, Isa. 53. As for your Comparison of the Plaster, and the Physicians Potion, Pag. 217. I say, you do but abuse your Reader, and muddy the way of the Gospel. For the first thing of which the Soul is sick, and by which the Conscience receiveth wounding, it is the guilt of Sin, and fear of the Curse of God for it. For which is provided the wounds and Precious Blood of Christ, which Flesh and Blood, if the Soul eat thereof by Faith, giveth deliverance there-from. Upon this the filth of Sin appears most odious, for that it hath not only at present Defiled the Soul, but because it keeps it from doing those Duties of Love, which by the Love of Christ it is constrained to endeavour the perfecting of. For Filth, appears Filth; ⟨p. 74⟩that is irksome, and odious to a contrary Principle now implantin the Soul; which Principle had its Conveyance thither by Faith in the Sacrifice and death of Christ going before. The Love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge; That if one dyed for all, then are all Dead; and that he dyed for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but to him that dyed for them, and rose again,